Lolpingu
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So I'm one of the unfortunate people who have had very unhealthy eating habits up until a certain point, and have (somewhat) recently decided they want to look good, and didn't have a body worth a damn when they did.
So I started working out, and have been lifting 4 times a week over the last 6 months (pyramid, mostly), before which I never considered fitness a requirement for a stable well-being.
As a result of a combination of previously poor eating habits, unsuccessful cutting (I tried to starve myself with a daily sub-1000 calorie intake for a couple of months, we all know how that turned out) and bulk-less lifting (I held the foolish belief that it's possible to lose fat AND gain muscle with noticable results) over said 6 months, I have an oddly shaped torso that's not fat, not buff and not skinny - it's a humiliating mixture thereof. I'm pretty sure this is what they call "skinnyfat". While I do think the lifting I've been doing HAS given my torso a bit of a more "manly" shape, it's still being violated by evil pockets of fat which my previous "non-self-aware self" has foolishly accumulated over the years.
From here, I'm fairly inconclusive as to where I should take my body - judging by the pictures I posted, should I swallow my pride and go on a bulk, which probably means I'll have even more fat to cut later on, and that It's gonna be a while until I can feel comfortable with taking my shirt off, or should I cut, and get a decent-looking base for bulking, but push the bodybuilder chest and abs farther away?
So I started working out, and have been lifting 4 times a week over the last 6 months (pyramid, mostly), before which I never considered fitness a requirement for a stable well-being.
As a result of a combination of previously poor eating habits, unsuccessful cutting (I tried to starve myself with a daily sub-1000 calorie intake for a couple of months, we all know how that turned out) and bulk-less lifting (I held the foolish belief that it's possible to lose fat AND gain muscle with noticable results) over said 6 months, I have an oddly shaped torso that's not fat, not buff and not skinny - it's a humiliating mixture thereof. I'm pretty sure this is what they call "skinnyfat". While I do think the lifting I've been doing HAS given my torso a bit of a more "manly" shape, it's still being violated by evil pockets of fat which my previous "non-self-aware self" has foolishly accumulated over the years.
From here, I'm fairly inconclusive as to where I should take my body - judging by the pictures I posted, should I swallow my pride and go on a bulk, which probably means I'll have even more fat to cut later on, and that It's gonna be a while until I can feel comfortable with taking my shirt off, or should I cut, and get a decent-looking base for bulking, but push the bodybuilder chest and abs farther away?