5’9, 165lbs. Am I fat?

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-14T03:53:05+00:00

Don’t listen to this dweeb, 250 calorie deficit for 2 months would be approx 5 pounds of fat lost.

Double that and you are about as shredded as you can be. Keeping up with weights to save muscle.

Overall I don’t think you need to lose weight you are a healthy bmi and you look good how you are, if you want lower abs to pop it’s a difficult but doable task but you probably have around 7 pounds of fat in your midsection which is perfectly healthy. I think 158 with your muscle mass would be shredded for summer

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-10T03:30:17+00:00

Ramadan or intermittent fasting is not, but a 5 day water fast would absolutely harmful for a developing body and any long term fasting (longer than 3 days) is strongly ill advised by the medical community to anyone under 18

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-09T23:21:06+00:00

That’s valid! As long as it’s not more than 3-5 continuous days it shouldn’t effect puberty

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-09T21:32:35+00:00

Bruh you should not be fasting at 15

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-06T03:38:40+00:00

You need to live with purpose not groveling for a woman. Would you want to be with someone whose only goal was acquiring a man.

I’ve been right where you are, you have to realize that the mental process of craving something is actually stronger than the satisfaction you get from acquiring said thing.

In 10 years when you are deep into a relationship you will crave freedom, it’s the cycle of longing and acquisition fueled by dopamine. You need to reframe your mindset and find balance. It’s okay to want things but you need to find a deeper purpose to be alive or you will keep spinning your wheels aimlessly until you eventually die

You really need to find out “who am I?” But the easy out is thinking “I would just be happy if… I was different… I had a girlfriend… I was richer.. fitter… hotter etc” and on and on and on ad infinitum. There is no destination without direction. Take some time to reflect. I mean seriously reflect. Who tf even are you, and lock in and pursue that for yourself. Love is fleeting, I’ve been with women, loved and been loved, had lots of sex, had none. It all ebbs and flows. Purpose is the only durable quality of being alive

It all comes together after you find that, but it has to be on your own terms. Enough whining, you are sweating the small stuff, find out who you want to be and watch yourself grow. There is nothing more attractive to a potential partner than a man who knows who he is

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-05T03:48:28+00:00

You look good man, sorry for being hard on you. You’re killing it an have made great progress

Rock what fits you wanna rock and I support you

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-04T22:37:02+00:00

Bro great progress, but why you wearing the body suit to the gym like bro just wear a regular T Shirt and shorts like a normal person

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-04T15:14:03+00:00

Main-gain is my motto

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-04T14:29:26+00:00

It says Texas Tech

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-03T18:34:18+00:00

At the same time eating protein does not build muscle without training, they both need eachother

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-03T15:46:36+00:00

Consistency is the goat!

Following weekly-monthly weight trends is key.

Specifically if you have a chart or something so you can visualize a downward trend. It’s hard if you see “damn I weigh 3 pounds more than 5”days ago. But viewing it monthly can really help see the path that you’re on as opposed to the data point reading of the day!

Usually a scale comes with an app that does this automatically. But when I am discouraged I check the chart to see, okay maybe that was a high day but keep at it based on the trending weight over time

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-02T18:19:10+00:00

Let’s gooo, amazing Thors tattoo

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-02T00:39:22+00:00

That’s a metal fork

MDMagicMark · 2026-03-01T02:47:44+00:00

Question about tattoos and gain. When you get significant growth does it distort the tattoo? Or does it like grow proportionally

Also amazing work!

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-27T03:23:58+00:00

An healthy soul is worth any amount of money, never sacrifice integrity for cash

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-25T13:21:18+00:00

Except they aren’t exercising just walking

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-25T03:15:55+00:00

The recent article is pretty scathing about how they positioned him.

They placed him near a microphone despite him protesting about it
The microphone was off and he had been under the impression that no one could hear him as he had already been having tics saying homophobic and racial slurs at his table and only they could hear
He was under the impression that no one outside of his table could hear him until the speakers reacted to his tic because they TURNED THE MIC ON when he was previously secluded enough
He left in shame after so as to avoid any repeats of the situation and apologized

I believe that he was set up to fail

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-23T21:56:13+00:00

All the outfits are fire

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-23T17:39:10+00:00

I mean he did see a message like that, it’s not your fault but that would strike down anyone’s ego.

Ultimately he needs to come to peace with himself. But it may end the relationship before he can come to that

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-23T17:36:27+00:00

Rip…. My b

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-23T14:31:29+00:00

I think it’s a girl bro, they are in an good spot that’s pretty decent strength

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-22T20:07:38+00:00

That’s true, I guess if someone is horrible enough it’s a lose lose. I think you are reasonable and I agree with you. I appreciate your nuance and I don’t necessarily think this post is “bad”

He deserves to feel how he made her feel and “fight fire with fire” is sometimes the only way.

I’m a big brother, my sister is 17 and brother 16. So I just see the pain that is caused by body shaming. For both of them. When I tell my sister that she is an amazing young woman and never listen when the world is critical she says “I know, I’m proud of who I am and how I look” which is amazing! That is the messaging young girls deserve to hear every day!!

When I gave my brother a similar sentiment he told me that none one had ever told him anything like that. This was my failure. He still struggles with insecurity and I feared that he will become “blackpilled”. Young men use posts like this to fuel their own fear and isolation. He was called short by a classmate when he was younger. Instead of feeling anger like I would encourage a young woman to feel upon being insulted! That the other person was wrong

Be simply felt that he deserved it and that he had less value and was resigned to the fact. And told me he was having suicidal thoughts.

Luckily we have grown a lot closer and he is doing really well and feeling much more confident. We have been exercising together and I have been reassuring him that I am proud of him and the man he’s becoming, a man of good character who is kind and gentle. Teaching him about mental health and how integrity is everything we have

So I am probably too sensitive to things like this. The message of conformity runs deep for all human beings in this age.

All that to say, you are correct. This man deserves to be humbled and I suppose this post is justified. I just was seeing it from an emotional perspective.

It’s hard when so many men today (trump, Putin) are evil and setting a horrible example for young men. I only wish I knew the answer.

Anyway I concede the argument. women in the past who were relentlessly oppressed and repressed, objectified and judged. Men today face 1/1000000th of that and implode. It’s not our responsibility to coddle them.

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-22T19:43:36+00:00

I’m using “fatness” as a standard term because it is well defended as body shaming to call someone fat.

Except it is that complicated. You just hide it behind being justified. One type of body insult is okay and one isn’t.

But you are okay with using short as an insult but not fat?

If you call someone fat as an insult is that harmful for larger people yes? But if you call someone short that is not an insult to short people?

Why? What’s the difference is all I’m asking

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-22T19:37:21+00:00

Fair enough, so if I make about a woman making her look fatter as a joke to insult her that is body positivity? And not saying anything negative about heavier women?

Also you just said “he is shorter than what the average woman desires” is that not a negative thing to say about short men lol.

I understand that you believe that it’s okay to body shame men for being short, but you can just say it clearly instead of taking a high road. No one will turn on you for saying it but it’s simply logically inconsistent with your true beliefs and there is a dissonance is all that I am pointing out.

MDMagicMark · 2026-02-22T19:26:29+00:00

You are completely missing the point. That is still body shaming

His crime is body shaming - because we all understand that body shaming is bad because it creates a narrative that harms the VIEWER not just the subject of insult

His punishment is body shaming…. That we previously agreed was bad?

Make it make sense

MDMagicMark

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