Wondering if anyone in Greek life can attest, am probably gonna rush in the coming days. Pretty big dude still losing weight, just wondering if there are chill frats on campus accepting fat dudes. More so wondering which frats actually care about weight and which don’t.
I’m currently at about the half way point of my weight loss and just did the math for the maintenance I will need to maintain once I hit my goal and to achieve that I’ll have to just keep eating what I am now forever. The problem is I know I can’t maintain this, food is bland if not straight up gross, every day is grilled or air fried chicken, pork or fish and some kind of greens or starch as a side, but none of it fills my appetite. I usually have to make myself eat now, and even then it usually doesn’t work. In fact, the reason I think I’m losing weight so fast is because half my week can end up just being a fast. Most of the time, I genuinely would rather go hungry than waste time making food I only find passable. I’ve tried different recipes and things, but they’re either slightly less bland or take far too much time to make. I already spend two hours a day with the gym, I can’t afford another one to two for food. The only thing in my diet I like currently is that I eat steak one day of the week, but within a few months even that will have to stop as my deficit drops. So how do I cope with the fact that food is now just another one of life's burdens instead of something I look forward to at the end of the day?
Recently I have had something very weird start happening to me. For about 3-4 days my weight will be normal (290lbs currently) then randomly plummet down to 280 give or take, then after another 3-4 days launch back up. It’s been happening for a few weeks now and I’m weirded out. We have four scales, two for each bathroom, a broken one, and one I plan to take to my new apartment. All show this change, three being digital and one not, even the broken one that shows me at 240 shows me dropping to 230 then back up. My body has always lost weight weirdly, I’ll usually stay at the same weight for months then randomly shed ten pounds over a week, but it’s never done this? I haven’t changed my diet at all, the only thing I’ve changed is that I basically doubled my cardio, but that shouldn’t be doing this..? Anyone have any similar experiences?
Mostly what the title says. I'm worried that I wont have the best social skills due to me not being able to make any friends during middle or high school and having very socially reclusive parents, but am going into a field where being social is required. I think fraternity life will help build those skills a lot during college, but I know I need a baseline to rush, any tips?
Sorry if this gets posted here every other day, but I’ve wanted to be a marine for a long time. To be one of the few and the proud, for the boy to become the man, yada yada all the advertising slogans even though I know that’s what they are. It’s just always been something I’ve wanted, something that would toughen me up that I’d semi enjoy doing while in it. Normal civilian jobs seem too boring, law enforcement lacked the social aspects and community that the military has, it could let me see more of America and the world instead of being trapped in this small town for twenty more years. It’s just seemed like the right fit for me, but now? I just feel like joining is immoral. I know the US is always fighting shitty wars for shittier reasons, but under Trump I feel like it’s so much worse and I don’t want to be apart of a war fought to keep Israel happy or to conquer other nations. Am I thinking too much into this? Could I just wait till his term is over and see how the next president is? If I do truly end up not enlisting what then? This has been my dream since I was a freshman and started learning about them after seeing them at career day. Hell just hearing mention about people in the military gets me so jealous and the thought of not being able to enlist is genuinely eating at my mental health. I just feel like I have no one to talk to for advice on this, any advice would be appreciated.
I should start by saying I made a very similar post, but included without The Bible, but everyone assumed I was trying to call them idiots for believe or trick them somehow so I’m broadening my question. Firstly, I am not trying to attack your beliefs or religion or convince you away from it, I am genuinely just curious and trying to better understand others and my own thought process.
If you use the Bible please don’t say I should believe in it because a verse told me to, I personally need logical reason to believe, not blind faith. I would prefer no personal anecdotes since YOUR personal experience with god is not a reason I should believe. Perfectly valid for you, but not for me
As for me, I have always been between Christianity and Atheism. Recently I feel as though I am falling more towards atheism with the understanding that religion is a way of coping with death and a way for primitive civilizations to explain natural phenomena they didn't know about yet and it doesn’t help that most major religions I bring these questions up to seem to get furious and push me away. It would explain why god doesn't interact with the earth anymore, why evil people can now run rampant without punishment, etc. It just feels like without the Bible, there's no reason to believe in him. Prayer doesn't connect the majority of people to him, there's little evidence of him in the world outside of scripture, and there's multiple reasons for why it would make more sense for him to be made up. So for my fellow more logical based theologians, why don't believe in god?