4/24/23
Man I have it easy!
At 290lbs I keep getting compliments, and you know what – as I continue to work, with all the stairs climbed carrying boxes, and continue to train with the kettlebell – I expect both bodyweight and aesthetics to be acceptable when my physical performance is what I consider acceptable.
I have this realization that ; it might be at a higher bodyweight than I’d expected.
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I continue to eat with the appetite, and having to admit the bonkers things I do are only maintenance level calories – you’ll find me eating dessert every day after dinner, which alternates between steak, chicken breast, frozen pizza, and breaded chicken.
At some point a cashier is gonna ask me how many whoopie pies I eat weekly.
It’s a big guy badge of honor to have a grocery store cashier(s) view you as a regular.
I’ll never forget one looked at me one day and said “where’s the grape juice”, she having noticed I always bought many half gallons of the stuff – it at the time being part of my “trying not to starve mover’s diet”, then part of the forever dirty bulk.
Mover’s diet is, right now, the aforementioned dinners, copious quantities of milk, and the new england exclusive the whoopie pie.
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I’d never had a whoopie pie til late elementary school when we moved to new england.
I very much remember being in elementary school, and putting one down before dinner, and my mom occasionally allowing me two.
The one I just ate says 740 calories.
It makes me wonder…
How many calories did I eat as a growing child!
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The first summer I worked as a mover, me desperately trying to hold onto bodyweight – I’d eat eight corn dogs every night alongside half a gallon of milk, and a liter of soda.
A teenage (at the time, I work with him again now…he’s 25) coworker – 5’8″ ish, back then only 130lbs or so was aghast “eight corn dogs every night – I’ll eat two, maybe three if I’m real hungry”, and I think back to being eight years old and eating five or six pretty regularly.
So as a growing kid, one destined to be pretty big in both height and weight – I was out eating normal sized teenagers.
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I get it now – that’s why many times growing up the adults around me were amazed at the calories I’d put down.
Because this little kid (then pretty large middle schooler) was easily out eating all the adults.
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Some of the biggest dudes I know have similar experience, as well as the force feed experience at 17yo – where they, myself included, decided to get big whatever it took, dirty bulking with caution thrown to the wind.
If I inadvertently got from ~265lbs to 290lbs, yeah – I could eat my way to 308lbs.
But would I want to powerlift that heavy?
And would I be willing to structure life in a way so as to weigh that much.
Factoring health completely out of the equation, one is far more easily fed at a lighter bodyweight.
Once you’re a certain size you’re going to have a different relationship with food than most…
You’re gonna either meal prep or be at the grocery store daily/close to it, and really milk makes 5000 calories so much easier to consume.
The fat of america drink soda.
A good deal of the xxl powerlifting and strongman crowd drink milk.
xxl – keith anderson
which interestingly came out when I was about to enter middle school
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All that said ; training is skewing kettlebell now.
-J