Protein's BAD mmmKAY?!!?!?

[Burning_Inside]

So here I was sittin in the break room at work yesterday...

Opening up my bag containing my bottles of whey, water, and whole grain bread slices while 5 of my co workers watched..

Yeah you know where this is going by now don't you...

I immediately start getting picked on, with questions being asked about why I eat that stuff, why it's the same thing for lunch every day, why I eat just plain whole grain bread slices...

I do my best to explain the facts of dieting and bulking and maintenance calories and explain that I'm dieting.

I then get told I'm going to look like a holocaust victim, that I'm stupid because all I eat is carbs all day(WTF?!), that if I want to lose fat I should be lifting instead, etc etc. I do my best to explain the macronutient profile to no avail

Then some laid back new guy opens his mouth and says "Yeah protein's bad".

And that just about did it.

The rest of his words were drowned out in a sickening sea of noise that was formed as the rest of the co workers voices made more and more comments and jokes and cracks about my diet and exercise habits. At this time, I was in what can only be described as a vertigo of unbridled fury. My vision clouded. I heard nothing. I felt odd. I was anxious. Was this death?

I was numb. I saw red. I felt warm

I still remember the look on the older guy's face right before my body erupted onto a crimson avatar of burning death.

I had snapped. The fury of hell hath come forth and posessed my form to wreak vengeance on those who would ridicule and mock my dieting habits. I knew one day this day would come. I feared this day. Until now. Releasing all this anger...and seeing those poor fools' faces light up with horror as they try to run...then seeing their eyeballs pop from the heat...Their faces melt...Their jaws fall off as the muscles desintegrate from their frame, leaving their empty skulls there perched on their torsos for a brief instant to pass a hollow, lifeless gaze towards "me", before they fell to the ground in a smouldering heap of charred calcium...It was bliss. My soul was burning inside of me. And I feared it no more.
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OK well all of that was true up until the transformation part of course.

I love having people who know jack squat about nutrition and exercise tell me my diet and exercise habits are foolish. Makes me hate people even more than I do now.

 

[Burning_Inside]

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[Roadblock]

I got a lot of that shit in the beginning but when I started to grow they stopped talking shit about my habits, only a few jokes now and then but I don´t mind. Some of them are even funny

 

[c-sharp minor]

My co-workers idea of a meal consists of a bag of chips, a chocolate bar all washed down with a sugary coke. Yum Yum

I actually get compliments regarding what I am eating at work. People are constantly asking if they can try my food. They should know to stay away from a dieting bb'ers food if they don't want to be part of the main course.

 

[The Shadow]

I get that type of crap from guys in the GYM...always ragging on me about "drinking" my meals..


That's ok - when I cut down I stay covered up until I am around 8% or lower - then I wear shorts and a tank-top when I train. THen EVERYONE wants to know the secret - I tell them to practice drinking their meals....

 

[casavant]

That's weird. Nobody gives me shit about what I eat in the break room. I've only gotten complements on my eating habits and questions on what they need to do to lose fat or get bigger. But most people just keep their mouths shut and mind their own business.

 

[cure]

That's weird. Nobody gives me shit about what I eat in the break room. I've only gotten complements on my eating habits and questions on what they need to do to lose fat or get bigger. But most people just keep their mouths shut and mind their own business.

true. I find my family and co-workers changing their bad eating habits also.

 

[decem]

can i ask a question and get a serious answer?

what's your stats? bf%, weight, height, meas?

this is where i'm going with this... if you're over 15-18% body fat and/or have little muscle.. then i can see why they'd be so confused as to why you're eating that way.... since you're not getting any results..

 

[Whiskey]

haha, hey, try having a set of parents that think that you are too big as it is and shouldn't gain anymore weight. I am only 210-215 lower bf, and all I have to say is turn that finger around!! At least my higher weight isn't in the form of a gut. bastards, have to lov'em though


Whiskey

 

[Robert Jan]

Im far away from looking impressive and i have to deal with stupid shit like this on a daily basis.

 

[Mysterio]

Tell them if they would like some.

 

[duritz]

I like how everyone always asks me to set them up on a diet so they can look like me. HA! i would never waste my time. These people are so lazy that they would stick to the diet for like an hour and then quit. And they wonder why i tell them I want money to write them out something. Time is money. I actually worked with burning_inside for a bit and i can attest that no one that works there is in shape at all or knows anything about exercise. I had 5 or 6 people tell me they wanted me to set them up on a diet and I was like, "yeah ok sure" and it was left at that. They don't realize it takes more than the information to get in shape. it takes the desire and discipline to put that diet to use.

 

[Burning_Inside]

can i ask a question and get a serious answer?

what's your stats? bf%, weight, height, meas?

this is where i'm going with this... if you're over 15-18% body fat and/or have little muscle.. then i can see why they'd be so confused as to why you're eating that way.... since you're not getting any results..

I'd probably say I'm at 16% now. I don't know what you mean by not getting any results. In the past 5 weeks I've dropped a little over 2 inches around my belly button. No results, naw I don't think so.

I started lifting about 5 years ago, (the first year or so was spent fucking around trying the latest programs in the magazines and not eating anythign all day). After I somewhat got my shit together, I went from 6'3" 170 lbs at about 25% bodyfat (I had no muscletone whatsoever and like 13 inch arms for example)to right now 210 16%. At my best when I was real real strict, which was about 3 years ago, I was around 200 lbs and 10-11%. I could actually see my abs.

My body right now reflects my depression and therefore lack of tact when it came to my eating habits and workouts for the past few years. I don't look bad at all, (however not Elite, heh) but I'd say a little above average. My strength is shitty (not that I care too much about it) However, I'm getting back on track. I'm getting as lean as I can till the abs come back better than ever, and then I'm bulking up from there. I was always a fat kid, and I never totally escaped the fat either. I hold fat easily it seems so that's what I get for slacking off. But sometimes shit happens you can't help it.

 

[decem]

. I don't know what you mean by not getting any results.

i mean.. if people see you going overboard in your eating habits.. mapping out every single calorie and such.. and they don't see any change in your body.. or don't see you as having a good body.. then of course they're gonna be like "why would you do that? why eat all healthy and stuff.. it's obviously not doing anything for you (<-- ok.. they might not SAY the last part.. but they mean it)."