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.

 

[ohashi]

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

If you're improving your body, you're a bodybuilder. Don't have to compete to live the life, man.

 

[anthrax]

If you're improving your body, you're a bodybuilder. Don't have to compete to live the life, man.

So true

yo start your BBer life in the kitchen then in the gym and eventually in bed

 

[faller]

The two things I get hell for are not drinking and giving sleep a priority. I think people are used to my eating habits by now. A lot of the crap people give you is because they are jealous. You have people who haven't been to the gym in years, nor have said "no" to cake in twice as long. Oddly enough, people love to watch others fail. It's sick, but makes them feel better about their own short comings.

 

[coldblue1955]

yes it's much better for me now.

 

[thefren]

My friends deal with it too. When i'm in school, i leave class because i need to drink a protein shake or a meal, and they're fine with it. Once a chick saw me eating cottage cheese with fruit and thought it was the nastiest thing. but that didn't mean she won't talk to me because of it. mostly everyone I know, know I work out.

it feels good in a way to know people notice your body changes that you make. some people also get some motivation and want to make some body changes as well. I think that's another thing about healthy people. once other people see you, they want to reach that level. You don't even need to say a word and they'll begin their own diets. I always try to help people. But I no longer tell anyone to hit the gym (cuz they won't listen and they like being told what to do then it gets annoying). but it feels great once you hear them say I am starting to workout and I'm on a diet.

I begin another quarter this coming week, and I've seen size changes in my body for the past 3 weeks. people at work have noticed these changes as well. I like it, because it shows me that I've been working hard to make my gains. although some people don't realize how hard it is to eat so much sometimes, which sux.

 

[theoak01]

I have had it affect somewhat,a few friends tried to do what I was and train with me etc,but non lasted through the first week ,now Im so busy with school and my girl that I see my friends a few times a month anyways which is good that way I dont get loaded alot,but I admit during winter break I get to drinking quite a bit,the rest of the year I hardly touch the shit

 

[JKurz1]

Not one of my friends outside the gym trains, eats, live like I do...sure they give me shit and will tease me with "cmon...one big mac...", etc...but we're all used to it......if that's the only thing they got me on, I'm good to go.....funny thing is, when there IS a diet, training, etc question, guess who they come crying to??? "Jeff, I need to rip up for vacation..." LOL......

 

[anthrax]

Oddly enough, people love to watch others fail. It's sick, but makes them feel better about their own short comings.

People are jealous
They don't like when other people succeed in doing something they are not able to manage

 

[Griz1]

Most of the folks I work with have been dead silent about it. Maybe they are afraid of cutting down what I've been doing.

I KNOW that behind my back they DO make jokes about "mr-fuckin-healthy, muscle-head, etc." But that's O.K. cause behind their backs I just call them fat bastards....hehehe

It does get in the way that I eat constantly. Hard to get stuff done like that. Try having a meeting at work and "shake" a bottle of powder and water without disturbing everyone in the room. Or alternately excusing yourself every 1/2 hour to go piss. Catered lunch meeting suck too. Not much choice and meanwhile your trying to cram protien.
"O.K. who the hell ate all the meat off this platter?" <slink away>
As if I can get by on a couple of finger sandwiches and tiny bowl of soup.
"Gee, do you guys mind if I break out a 1/2 a chicken?"

 

[thefren]

I don't know if this is out off topic, but I feel bad for those people who workout 7 days a week and their bodies don't change much due to over training. what a shame.

 

[ohashi]

Actually, most people who are in the gym 7 days a week don't work anywhere hard enough to overtrain.

 

[juve]

I don't know if this is out off topic, but I feel bad for those people who workout 7 days a week and their bodies don't change much due to over training. what a shame.

It's not overtraining that impedes them in their quest for size/strength; generally people who go to the gym 7 times a week regard it as a place for socializing rather than working out.

And people who make jokes about my eating habits make me mad pissed, especially those that are obese, unhealthy and unattractive - I wanna feed them glass so as to rid the genepool of their sloth and gluttony

 

[granby140]

balancing you life with everythign is the key.

 

[thefren]

It's not overtraining that impedes them in their quest for size/strength; generally people who go to the gym 7 times a week regard it as a place for socializing rather than working out.

And people who make jokes about my eating habits make me mad pissed, especially those that are obese, unhealthy and unattractive - I wanna feed them glass so as to rid the genepool of their sloth and gluttony

True as well juve. At my gym there is always a couple people, particularly guys, on cell phones. Such as yesterday night. It wasn't chest day for me, but all bench presses were being used, and sure as fucked I'd be pissed. this dude was on one of the benches, but sat his ass talking on the cell phone. I think that's fucked, and honestly I don't know if they think they look cool or wtf! pisses me off.

 

[bran987]

chocolate & cookie drawer

It's funny

Every day here at work at least 2 or 3 times throughout the day this old lady walks around the office handing out either cookies or chocolate - insisting that I take a piece.

I say "MMMMMMMM looks good! Can't wait to eat this as a snack!"

Then as soon as she walks away I open up my drawer with empty plastic baggies from my lunches and put the crap in a baggy.

I have like 10 baggies full of chocolate and cookies in a drawer she would shit if she saw. Then I think damn that's 15,000 calories of pure crap that everybody else ate that I didn't eat.

No wonder everybody's so fat

 

[anthrax]

And people who make jokes about my eating habits make me mad pissed, especially those that are obese, unhealthy and unattractive - I wanna feed them glass so as to rid the genepool of their sloth and gluttony

usually they're just lying to themselves

they know you're true but they don't have the balls to workout and diet like you

Pathetic