u/DangerousBee4116

Shaking like a Chihuahua on crack and the form needs improvement. But hey, I did it ☺️

Personally I'm about to give up that goal, and just focus on my strength.

A little background, I'm 35, I'm short af at 5'5 and I have an effective training age of about 12-13 months. I mean, I've owned a gym membership for about 2 years, but I've been real shit when it comes to consistency.

My numbers are decent, I do 46.25kg x 6 in weighted dips (102lbs), and 20x4 in weighted pullups (44 lbs), those are my two main lifts.

It seems that no matter what I do diet wise, my body has decided that 67-70kg (147-154lbs) is the weight it's comfortable at, and it fights me tooth and nail to stay that way.

I've tested eating 1800 calories every day for about 2 months without really getting that much leaner, and the strength progression slowed down, but it didn't stop completely, and I didn't lose any strength nor muscles (I think). I've also tried doing 2.2k calories for 2 months, strength shot up, but I didn't really get any fatter either, weight stayed the same, but were more often at the higher end of my normal variation.

I feel like I have to go extremely low when it comes to my caloric intake to shed bf at this point, and doing that affects me negatively in other ways, cognitively, energy wise and mood in general.

What do you guys think? Am I stuck unless I starve myself, or is there a way to "fix" this?

It just happens so often, you try to do some sidequesting, the quest ask you to defend, escort or kill x amount of enemies, and then ONE of the fuckers glitches into a goddamn wall so you have to reset.

Happened like 4 times on this damn quest alone.

Loving the game, but this shit is starting to legit piss me off.

I'm tired boss.

Getting closer and closer to my goal of hitting my own bw (147lbs) for reps.

I've been doing weighted calisthenics for a year and a couple of months now, and it's been pretty effective as a stress reducing tool, and has otherwise been a game changer for my psyche. Progress been a bit slow, as I am in a slight caloric deficit, but I'm still adding weight.

Starting with it is probably somewhere in my top 5 of constructive and positive life decisions ☺️

This turned out pretty dope I think 😊

Now, i try not to generalize, and of course i know that not all short men, or even the majority think like this. But I'm not going to lie and say that it doesn't affect me. I'm noticing that I'm slowly losing empathy and growing disdain for the "minority" group that I myself am a part of.

It's getting hard for me to take short men's struggles seriously, especially regarding dating when a lot of them have this mindset.

They say that they aren't an incel space, and the mods ban and remove comments and posts with such lingo, but if this shit isn't that, then what the fuck is? Removing the words doesn't take away the ideology.

Seriously, fuck that sub.