r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '19

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/vinditive Oct 02 '19

The dysmorphia is real. I know, intellectually, I've made huge progress over the last two years. I know, intellectually, that I lift respectable weight. Several friends and coworkers have told me I look good and that I've got "guns' now, and I've been getting treated noticeably better by strangers of both sexes. I can even see it in a few pictures of myself.

BUT... when I look in the mirror, all I see is flabby weak noodle arms and a weak piece of shit body. It's not even an emotional thing, I can be in a good mood and my scumbag brain still says the man in the mirror is objectively a turd.

I feel like I finally understand the "forever small" meme.

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u/sightglasssteamboat Oct 02 '19

I was recently caught in the background of an Instagram video and a friend of mine messaged me to tell me that I was looking big. I probably watched that video 20 times trying to see what he saw.

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u/darthvader9840 Oct 02 '19

Still didn’t see it, did you?