BBing & everyday's life

[anthrax]

I have already posted this thread on the Chat forum but I want to know your opinion too....

Has your BBing way of living ever interfered with your daily activities ?

Does your eating habits prevent you from having a "regular social life" ?

Have you ever been fed up by friends since you don't drink(much) alcohol ?

Have you ever been warned that you're spending too much time in the gym (or in the kitchen, or on EF !) instead of seeing friends ?

Any troubles at work because you are sometimes really tired (after heavy squats days) or too big (you frighten away customers ;-) ) ?

 

[ohashi]

My friends and family don't like it when I don't eat junk. Often, I can't make certain social engagements because I'm at the gym. However, my real friends deal with it.

 

[jenscats5]

My friends stopped inviting me out to lunch cuz they say I "eat weird things."

One guy at work checks out my arms all the time to see how big they are.

Other people at work say they've never seen a woman eat so much & so often but be as thin as I am. But they say it snidely.

 

[Tom Treutlein]

People like that suck.

Like Ohashi, the real friends stick by you. None of them ever abandoned me or anything but I am stuck eating or lifting a lot of the time, rather than going out. I sort of like it, though. The weights, my body, and the food can't betray me. My close friends like to come along, actually. My girlfriend enjoys watching me, and will often do any assignments she has for school while I workout.

 

[obiwan9962]

some of the people at work critique and comment
some have been on atkins and know what i am doing
my boss snidely makes comments about all the fat i consume
meanwhile he slowly adopt some of my eating habit (he's still a pig)
i guess he cannot agrue with the 6.5 inches i lost around my waist

 

[boscoe wilson]

All my girlfriends think what I'm doing is a rediculous waste of time and call me vein.

 

[JuicePimp]

I have already posted this thread on the Chat forum but I want to know your opinion too....

Has your BBing way of living ever interfered with your daily activities ?]

Yup]

Does your eating habits prevent you from having a "regular social life" ?]

All the time. So much of eating out is social any most people just dont get it. (Thats why they are obese and I am not )

Have you ever been fed up by friends since you don't drink(much) alcohol?

I have pretty much given it up completely now and yeah, people dont understanding. Drinking is the one thing that people feel they should try and make you do. If they are eating chinese food and you say I dont want it, find, they dont care, but if they are drinking beer and you say no it is always "c'mon, just one bro"

Have you ever been warned that you're spending too much time in the gym (or in the kitchen, or on EF !) instead of seeing friends ?

Get this from the wife all the time.

Any troubles at work because you are sometimes really tired (after heavy squats days) or too big (you frighten away customers ;-) ) ?

Nope dont get this one, but then, I am out of work until July it looks like, so not the best help on this question.

 

[calveless wonder]

Initially it caused me to be almost a hermit...fuckin sucked. Rushing home to make food, not going out because i didn't want to drink. But after awhile you figure out your priorities. My social life has always been a big part of who i am, but so is bodybuilding now. You have to find a happy median. Making your meals in advance and planning ahead is HUGE! I tupperware everything and take it with me...whether a chick's house or a friend's house or even going out.

I now drink every once in awhile now and you know what? It makes almost no difference!! as long as you don't drink all the time and/or get shit faced.Take a protein bar or shake with you if you're concerned about protein and drink it before you drink and when you sober up.

Bodybuilding should be your # 1 hobby, but there's no reason to neglect friends, family and the like.


Most good friends will understand the not drinking thing. The others...well, look at them. The people telling you to drink look like shit.

I know my main problem is my family. They constantly say i eat too much and that it can't possibly be healthy to consume that much food (even though i am nice and lean). I get the steroid accusations left and right...especially after being a fuckin twig all my life.

The work thing can be annoying...Especially if you're a professional. Being a bodybuilder on an office environment makes you an easy target, especially if you're young...and you know how people love to talk. I've had bosses flat out accuse me of juicing with no evidence whatsoever.
Sigh..the things we have to deal with

 

[anthrax]

Actually those people who don't "understand" you because you don't eat and drink alcohol like the average Joe are so narrow minded that they don't deserve your friendship

 

[Synpax]

No. Didn't have a social life before, don't now, don't care. Besides, I didn't drink before I started lifting either, so among my contemporaries that was something I dealt with before and didn't make a difference. At worse now at business meetings when I whip out my baggie of oats and flax oil or whatever I get a puzzling question, but no one cares.

And I'm not a BBer, just trying to gain muscle/get stronger/look better.