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[Optimized Life]

11 hours ago, Optimized Life said:

So the gym & getting ripped just 1 of those achievable and tangible things I can earn & flex  

By "Flex" I dont mean literally showing off. 

I mean that the visual result, and the obvious persistence and discipline speaks for itself, and virtually every mentally healthy person respects that. 

It's fundamentally just about being human

Setting a difficult and uncommon achievement as a goal, then fucking achieving it, and people respect it.

That feels GOOD, its fun, there's not much else to fucking say. It's not stage orange or blue or whatever

It's simply just human condition. 

Certain personality types are wired to achieve things and get respect and admiration.

And the gym is one of the few things that requires a small amount of resources (but a ton of resourcefulness) that universally elicits respect, admiration and attraction from others, and thank god for that. Imagine if having money was the only thing anyone respected or praised people for, 1 reason for this is with the gym you cannot fake the work ethic, you cannot steal your body, you cannot scam it from others, you cannot (*Well lol a lot of guys do take steroids but : 1. A LOT Of people can differentiate between a steroid vs natty these days and 2. the aura difference is massive, steroid bitch doesnt get the aura benefits from the gym because he knows he cheated himself and is destroying his body on the inside. Steroid also massively increases psychosis risk, and even "mild" PEDs (which everyone online wants to fucking normalise and justify these days) have a cascade risk of weird side effects, but the worse one not being acne or natural T suprresion, but psychosis risk. Why did connor murphy lose his fucking head? PED aftermath + psychedelics. Both on their own are a russian roulette, but combining them, fuck that

And a lot of people don't realize how much work actually goes into truly mastering the gym, I mean truly percise maxed out aesthetic physique, no PEDS, cutting to 11% bodyfat, not destroying joints, not bulking or going powerlifter, scheduling it all to fit with work, many people go gym, 99.9% of men do not go all in on it. I genuinely believe the rare people who go in on it virtually ALWAYS get rich eventually after, because 99.9% of peoplle, including on self improvement forums, do not actually have any work ethic, but also that's ok, this is for ambitious people, im not trying to force my personality on others, I actually respect Frame, i respect a fat person if they genuinely wnat to be fat, they just decided they love food, love cake, love beer ect.. and their life, their job, their mid girlfriend is good enough and they're happy, I fully respect that. 

Honestly I LOVE Food, I fuckig love to eat, i could so easily get fat af, I just happen to love ambition more, its just a rare weird conicndence im like this, evolution didnt even design humans to be ambitious, only to conserve energy and just survive. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Optimized Life

[Optimized Life]

On 07/12/2025 at 7:03 AM, Optimized Life said:

Satisfaction index is non proportional to calorie/sugar count, have to understand this. 

It's not that you need 2,000 calories of 250 grams of sugar junk

Its that you need to eat something that satisfies & satiates you > Which is more than just the mouth taste, its the walk, the nice area u buy the food ect.. 

perhaps that thing has 20 grams of sugar and 700 calories, so be it. 

My point is the satisfaction rarely requires actually poisoning yourself. 

For example, I had a kitkat the other day, and felt zero satisfaction after. 

Then when I had this pizza, I felt a ton of satisfaction and no desire to snack for a while, the pizza also had much less added sugar and chemicals, just bread, vegetables and meat, cheese & sauce = Perfect "cheat". 

11.12.25 

I've realized this semi applies to caffiene too. 

(Although caffiene is directly physically addictive, causes physiological (physical and cognitive) withdrawal symptoms, and true cold turkey is bordeline impossible for anyone who doesnt have a holiday booked ... I can significantly reduce the Actual MG total content consumed daily, without losing, even gaining satisfaction itch scratched/psychological micro comfort/routine ect.. through a mix of hot decaf lattes, 1 coke zero ect.. maybe 1-2 pieces of dark chocolate if its a clean brand. 

Its the psycholgoy of walking to the caffe, getting a decaf, i can even trick my brain that this simply is a normal coffee & use placebo as well

P.s : Pizza is only a 1 day per week max thing for me, high carbs simply does not fit with hitting 11% bodyfat. Max 100-150 per day average currently. 

Edited 51 minutes ago by Optimized Life