• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    When I was a teen in highschool… I was in a weightlifting gym class and I did soccer. When is get home, for a snack if have a party pizza (or two). Probably went through a carton of milk myself. God my mom was so pissed. I was probably half or grocery budget alone for a few years

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      I had a project to track my calorie intake for a few weeks when I was 15. It was over 7000 calories a day.

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      I’ve got a cousin like you – football club all day every day. Ate like a wolf and ran it all off within an hour.

      Then he quit football and chonked up because he didn’t know how to reduce his food intake

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        Oh man, that hits home… just before COVID hit, I was doing 5k’s and got injured. And I didn’t transition to a lower calorie intake to adjust to the lower physical activity. Just as I was starting to get back into the gym… COVID landed and the gym was closed. Now, I’m a fat bastard. But trying to work on that.

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          I mean I think it happened to all of us. I used to cycle 30km a day before COVID, and then once work became fully remote, I just started hibernating for winter and never stopped.

          Also a fat bastard, but I live in the hope that it’s nothing that a gym can’t fix. Here’s to 2026, friend!