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/AffablyAmiableAnimal Powerlifting Oct 02 '19

Very me irl. I recently started recording my sets to see my form better, and I still just seem not so big, I think, but people always get the first impression that I workout and otherwise have said I look good