Seriously, its not that serious..lol. i appreciate your comments and was kidding about the scale thing. But i do take this **** serious as many others do. Im simply wondering how many weigh all their food and count macros vs going on the feel. Thanks!
Its not that serious? so you turn down dinners and social gatherings because you don't want to miss a meal or fear you will eat 2-3g of fat over a meal and not hit your macros (just a statement not being 100% serious but you get the point)
Ok, in 3 years if you look back and you missed your macros on 2 days out of the 365 days you lived in 2014 are you going to get fat?
Are you going to get a 10,000$ paycheck because you hit your macros?
Are you going to be the next greatest thing in the fitness industry for hitting macros for so many X or Y days?
Think about that in the big picture for a second.
Do you really see yourself putting everything on a scale the rest of your life and turning down friends, family members, and social gatherings in the future? you going to weigh out your wedding cake too when you get married too?
It is not healthy, bodybuilding is not healthy in general. A lot of people get eating disorders off tracking calories and macros consistently, they lose friendships and friends and families because they rather weigh their food or get in a workout. They start to schedule their life around their gym time and their meal times and negate other aspects of their social life, their jobs, their friends, and other things or hobbies they may have because they are looking at the clock for the X or Y hour to eat their next meal.
There is plenty of research and real life experience to show you both of these examples, and yet people continually fall into this trap. not saying you are that, but still none of us are going to be the next jay cutlet unless we start injecting ourself full of fluids and oil's. None of us are going to make a living off weighing our food, for us to pass up time with friends, family and social events is just ludicrous. Those may be memories you may never get back as you grow up, and you may lose things you wish you could take back because you had to eat that 100g of rice and 200g of chicken before going "Catabolic" bro.
Many people have fallen victim to counting calories so close that it can lead to health problems, organ failure, and also may lead to HRT or TRT due to undereating for prolonged periods of time or very low fat intakes (again not saying you do, just stating about IRL) and what this can do to some people who are so wrapped out tracking everything to a T.
While that is great, and it does aid our goals and physiques in the gym which we work hard for. We have to remember this is only going to be a "Hobby" for us as we grow up, and its just something we do for fun. Just like if we went hunting, or went fishing. We will never get paid, we do it to have fun, put a smile on our face, or maybe pass some stress we have on our shoulders.
