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Advice from an ex-gym bro who used to hyper-diet
Being health-conscious should be applauded. But the line between dedication and obsession is a thin one.
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If pursuing fitness is purely a path of self-improvement, we need to place more value in progress and less in a warped sense of perfection.
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Swarnabho Sarkar
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I am a former gym bro. I used to be obsessed with putting on muscle and managing my diet to supplement the heavy lifting I did at the gym. I would meticulously track the macronutrients for every bit of food I consumed throughout the day.
When I looked at a plate of food, all I saw was the number of grams of protein it represented. I even went to the extent of staying up at night waiting for my dinner to digest so that I could stuff myself with high-protein, low-carb bread to hit my daily protein quota. If I failed to do that, I would berate myself and refuse to sleep.
