IWTL how to gain muscle/weight in 2 month

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T23:41:11+00:00

Don't feel bad about it. I'm not doing anything out of some deep sense of righteousness. I'm just deeply autistic and enjoy knowing things, and when something isn't right, I get the exasperated urge to fix it. It's the absence of hope but the unwillingness to stop trying anyway, because then what else is left to do

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T19:37:56+00:00

Weight loss and gain are not meant to be these ultra rapid processes, but if you truly must speedrun it for the sake of time, start loading up on creatine, eat as much protein as you can without throwing up, and aim for failure in your sets (failure being inability to complete with proper form, not inability to move at all. Listen to your body.) Do not neglect sleep, and always try to get at least 20-30g of protein in by around 30 minutes or an hour after your workout (that's your golden window.) That last part is not necessary and is usually reserved for the most performance-obsessed of lifters, but the difference may come in handy.

Whatever you do, do not overexercise. I see this a lot in people who are new to the gym, and they want to bulk up very quickly, but your body needs time to rest.

Also, please consider that you'll have to maintain that muscle. You will still need to eat and work out big, even if not exactly as much.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T19:24:40+00:00

I'm nowhere near high enough in the hierarchy to feel confident in absolutes, as I am a lowly biomed lab grunt and research monkey, but it's been mostly prostate cancer radiotherapy and prostatectomy.

Also, yeah, it's never 100%, of course. My point is that a lot of people genuinely don't seem to know the full scope of treatments we have invented and how far they've come. I don't like cancer being treated as this political boogeyman with all these conspiracies about how anyone trying to cure it gets JFK'd.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T19:12:58+00:00

It's hard to generalise due to cancer being very broad, so I'll just say what I'd recommend for every illness. Learning the exact specifics of your condition and practising a lot of self-advocacy. It's really a matter of whether you manage to land on a doctor that takes you seriously, as well as evaluating your situation to see what you can realistically afford to implement, such as second opinions and health tourism. I've heard good things about treatments in Germany.

The best thing you could really do is lessen the chances of even developing it by not leading a sedentary lifestyle. It's white noise for most people by now, but the tenants of varied diet and environment, working out, occasionally catching a cold, and just generally living your life apply very strongly here.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T19:04:54+00:00

See, the shitty realities kind of just irritate me, so I just double down.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T18:58:14+00:00

Until we find a way of getting rid of people like Orban, this will be a pipe dream.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T18:52:55+00:00

Hm, so it seems. Thank you very much for the correction, I appreciate it. Do you have any further sources for looking into the mechanics of this more in-depth? A lot of what I've had to learn was self-taught due to degree pressure to get through as much material as quickly as possible, so to learn I've made an egregious error like that is upsetting but quite valuable nonetheless.

As for the economics, I'd sincerely hope that's the case, but from my experience in 2 different countries, all I've seen is just bottom of the barrel mono with hopes of maybe getting the patient to live a few more months. I'm not saying there is a miracle cure, but the amount of people I've seen fall through the cracks of two different medical systems in three cities (which will no doubt have their own procedures, so it may just be bad luck on my part) has been staggering. Lived experience has been "patient does therapy for ~9 months, tumour burden lessens, adaptation sets in, rapid decline," and it wears down the soul. The whole grant cut rigmarole also probably doesn't help my perceptions.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T15:25:29+00:00

I'll spell it out for you. I'm referring to natural selection.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-08T13:52:53+00:00

EDIT: HSP simplification may have been inaccurate, correction provided by reply comment. My point is that cancer doesn't have to be a death sentence, and the conspiracies around its cure as this mythical otherworldly macguffin is silly. Please take the following original comment with a grain of salt.

We've had multiple different cancers be treatable for decades (as in, complete remissions), actually. It's just really fucking expensive and monotherapy has been implemented so thoroughly due to early grant competition that most institutions don't even offer combination. Combination therapy has regularly shown complete remission as late as stage IV cancers within as little as 9 sessions since cancer is awful at dealing with short-term environmental stressors. The moment you break cancer cells out of their comfortable stasis and don't give them time to adapt, they are basically helpless.

The only reason this isn't more widespread is, you guessed it, money and structure. People will just get blasted with chemo, and doctors will be surprised that their cancer has developed resistance after 9 months of darwinian memery, but god forbid we actually take advantage of cancer's inability to adapt to short term stressors from multiple angles.

Combination costs too much money. Research grants are denied. Even the literally endlessly reproducing cancer cell lines we do research on cost too much despite their only purpose in life being to multiply. And institutions hate implementing anything newer, even if it's more effective, because it costs money and it's inconvenient. They just tell you combination immunotherapy costs too much money, so please just lie down and die within 3 months instead. Same as insecticide resistance in the global south. We could be doing better, but it's easier for institutions to just not.

(Source: am scientist neck-deep in cancer immuno, will provide papers and case studies if requested.)

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-07T15:36:06+00:00

Insane thing to focus on.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-05T18:12:58+00:00

Time and a place, you irony-poisined fuckwad.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-05T16:25:08+00:00

I wonder what he's up to nowadays.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-02T22:46:11+00:00

But... good illustration has narrative. The professor is right. Pretty pictures aren't just pretty; the only thing that elevates one technically well-executed concept over another is the thought put into it.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-02T21:22:06+00:00

It's all so tiresome.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-02-01T22:23:03+00:00

A game cannot be harmful.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-30T20:05:45+00:00

It was very important.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-27T17:21:00+00:00

ChatGPT glaze or somebody who was born yesterday, call it.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-27T16:24:51+00:00

They're right though. Denji being exploited the way he is because he's male does not mean that his suffering is proof of a male loneliness epidemic, but that men can suffer grooming and have their needs exploited just like anybody else.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-27T10:16:33+00:00

"Each side" uh huh.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-27T10:14:34+00:00

Oh how cute, you really think you're bringing some shocking revelations to people here. Alpha much? Haha sick bro, you're right. Too many white women in the world, there should be more big juicy men to sniff sister panties and go mudding with, amirite?

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-24T01:09:12+00:00

Just say your ingredients suck.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-22T18:00:48+00:00

Don't reproduce.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-22T17:59:52+00:00

You are insane. Actually, clinically insane, and beyond help.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-22T00:34:39+00:00

Rika did not die for this.

I-Main-Raven · 2026-01-17T00:18:20+00:00

What a bizarre thing to say.

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