Anyone else believe that browsing Veeky Forums and other lifting sites for a long time has given them body image issues?

yes because my body image is hot now that it's seriously becoming an issue.

can't help myself from flexing whenever I see a mirror.

>body image issues
it's not a body image issue if you really are a scrawny faggot.

100% caused body dysmorphia.

All my friends ask if I'm roids, I think I look small.

Can see abs, think i'm fat

Never in my life have I considered my height an issue 5'9 until I came on here to realize i'm one of the chosen kings of manlets.

Truly a humbling experience.

Did you buy your Veeky Forums access pass yet? Mines about to expire.

>5'9
>King of the Manlets
More like a Baron

I'm not sure but at 6' 205lbs I still feel tiny.

I'm the same height as you and 130lbs. I hate you.

Kick a man while he's down?

Damn son just eat. I never even bulked, been a slow ride of a slight surplus.

No, but by browing Veeky Forums and starting doing exercise I gave a lot of people body image issues.

You're always down, how else could I kick you?

just throwing salt on an open wound?

I legitimately have body dysmorphoc disorder and its fucking terrible. Have had it since I was a little kid and still have it now at 21. I was always the kid swimming with a shirt on. For my senior trip in high school we went to a lake and I was the only one who didn't go swimming because I was ashamed of my body. The fun house mirror comparison is a very real thing. I take medicine and see a psychiatrist for it. I've seen my teflection in public thinking it was another person and thought it was a skinny rail and then realized it was me and the image basically changed inbetween my double take from a lanklet to an obese loser. I have a bmi of 22. I'm 6' and 160 lbs. It makes me struggle a lot with diet and exercise because I always want to change what I'm doing based on perceptions and reality and because I always see that same overweight sick person it makes it difficult to see progress I do make so I always end up dropping my routine as far as diet and exercise go. I dropped from 186 to 155 in less than 3 months and never saw the difference and it made me hate myself. I've struggled with depression for a long time and this is only one of the reasons for it but it is a real bitch to deal with.

Point being, BDD is a real bitch, and if coming to fitness forums and image boards makes you feel body image issues its probably not that and its ok to feel like you aren't there yet. You are working hard for a reason. But notice the progress you have made and understand your goals. Don't let your goals become unattainable. Know what you want and make sure its measurable and realistic. If you want to look better in the mirror and thats your only goal in fitness, you'll never get there. All the progress you make will only make you want to go farther and that will push your goal farther away and you'll always have those issues like I do. Understand what you want and how to achieve and how to know when you are getting close. Let your progress show itself and feel good for it

For sure. I saw this guy in my high school who was build like a wall yet his girlfriend told another class I was in (psychology) that he sometimes felt so little and they would spoon and console each other because she felt huge on the other hand (she was tiny). He would say "baby do you think I'm small" once in awhile while having a hard time going through a doorway.
This is also the guy I saw at the gym once who stood at the entrance to the guys locker room for 10 minutes and tried to get in but kept letting others pass while getting agitated. He would just step back and look pissed and then try again and then let another guy pass. Another time he missed his bus stop because he kept letting others get out and then IN while step dancing around with a frown.

lol... fake natties have deluded u all

Didn't read LoL

>This is also the guy I saw at the gym once who stood at the entrance to the guys locker room for 10 minutes and tried to get in but kept letting others pass while getting agitated. He would just step back and look pissed and then try again and then let another guy pass. Another time he missed his bus stop because he kept letting others get out and then IN while step dancing around with a frown.

wat

Reminder that you can only make it by leaving Veeky Forums

tbqh I actually feel better about my body, except my height.

Shit m8, thanks

It's true. If I didn't feel disgusted I would laugh.

Yes, I'm easily a 7/10 for my area and fit would have me believe that I'm a 4/10 on my best days.

But thinking I am a 4/10 is what will make me a 10/10, so I wouldn't want to have it any other way.

Its for 5

Yes and no.

I look at the fucking mirror all the time even tough I'm DYEL with a pretty good body by mass standards, but I strive for a lot more and I think a REAL MAN should look like a greek god.

This is what a real man should look like

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Same here, I do also feel bad about my height now, and I'm 6'1.25 (yes, now I include the .25), thanks Veeky Forums.

>skele
>goal is ottermode
>wander here from /g/ 2 years ago
>achieved perfect otter
>not satisfied until I can hide a fridge behind me

it's odd, when l look at myself in a mirror l look like shit
But at the gym there are mirrors reflecting mirrors and if l see a reflection of my reflection l look pretty good

looks like someone straight out of gay porno

Yes. People say I have big arms and I'm muscular but I don't see it.

I'm still far from my ideal body.

>Spend more time looking at my pictures of goal male physiques and comparing myself to them than I do fapping.

KILL ME

You have a pretty decent physique judging by this picture, but you have to put on some muscle mass before I would consider it "good". But good work mate.

m8...

I look nowhere near that, that would be my ideal body.

>He thinks he's a 10/10

Close but not quite.

Get a grown up haircut

Get help

Yes.
I never cared for manlets in the past but now I can't hel but smile when I see them.
I was benching next to this 5' tall dude and watched as his full ROM was about a foot.
He was pretty strong for a dwarf I'll give him that.

I think it's the whole "Emotion clouds judgement" thing.
When you're working hard to change your body you REALLY REALLY want to see the changes, so much so that it becomes confusing. "Am I seeing what's there, or just what I want to see?"

Nothing worse than I had before lifting OP

>Get called "muscles" by colleague at work
>When I look in the mirror I'm dyel by Veeky Forums standards

I don't even know anymore

Kek, easy bait.

happened to me to by some irish twink at work hahahahahahahahah

jelly?

>he can't read at a 3rd grade level.

This may be the single largest cause of male body dysmorphia in modern society.

What a calm somber feels expression. I can't imagine what it's like to be so calm while lifting so much.

I look at posture, which is pretty poor in a lot of people. At least it reminds me to work on mine throughout the day.

picture should be a skelly seeing a skelly in the mirror and imagining op picture.

Same height and weight. We're never gonna make it are we.

Wow thought I was alone.

Anyone else going to kill themselves if they don't hit 1/2/3/4 and atleast ELITE level on Symmetic Strength by the year 2020?

Lol if you think Veeky Forums or anything like bb.com misc, fitmisc, ukmuscle, getbig etc are bad you should try consistently lurking lookism for even a week

People treat body dysmorphia like its a problem, but I've never seen a person with dysmorphia who looked like shit.

Body image issues is literally just a liberal code-word for realistic

You MIGHT have legit body dysmorphia. Just saying. That body is "made it" otter mode.

That there cold hard shot of reality.

It's all over boyo~

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Just LOL @ not having an 8x6 in 2016

Time to visit Gandy boyo~

>Veeky Forums
i thought it was for 5

savage

>inb4 coping powercels claim looks don't matter

>implying your body matters at all
lmao fucking gymcels

>can only make it by leaving Veeky Forums*

This place is

>total timesink
>makes you cynical
>makes you think in memes
>makes you judgmental
>exposes you to way too much pornography
>is an unhealthy substitute for real social interaction
>is addictive as fuck

Besides an occasional laugh this place is a complete waste of time. Once you learn about the basics there is no point in sticking around. It's the same threads every day and it's like that on every board. Why am I here again?

fug, brah

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Il just whisper grow grow grow,yput asshole your 6ft,you don get to have body dysmorphia

I've "left" Veeky Forums a few times now but I always end up giving it a quick look out of curiosity and get sucked right back in by what little new content there is plus nostalgia

Same thing here, except that I never even got myself to leave Veeky Forums. I always said tomorrow, tomorrow.

On

Fuck, you're right

well 1st thing to give you body image issues is this fucking society so by the time youre 12 you have those

omfg when you think about it, those all are true

man up and meme up

OR

GTFO

Mate, it's for a single
Then it's for 5
The 2/3/4/5 for singles
Then do it for 5.
If you can do that for 5 at a healthy bf%, no more can be asked of you. You have made it. Even doing it for singles is good enough for shorter people

>2pl8 press for 5
All of those other things are achievable and fairly easy, especially deadlift and squat.

That press on the other hand is insanely difficult.

It wouldn't be all of those things if it didn't have some merit. It does challenge your standard normie perceptions quite a bit. I wouldn't be where I am in life right now without Veeky Forums. Made quite a few friends on this site, had experiences, read stories, played games.

Yeah, it's a timesink. For a good reason. It shaped my personality considerably.

>have baggy clothes from when I was a fat teen
>tfw I've been trying to refill the shirts and pants with muscles instead of fat
>tfw I will never feel truly accomplished until I have done that
>tfw friends and family had been constantly telling me that I look big enough
Next person to say that I'm big gets the ol' knuckle sandwich.

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>stopped weighing myself
>stopped checking myself out shirtless

You can tell i lift in clothes, but i go to the gym for fun and to get stronger. The numbers and reflection in the mirror are just spooks.

I know all the insecure closet homos will make fun of me, but i encourage everyone to do it for a month, won't harm anything. Then go back to weighing yourself and flexing in the mirror like a gay porno if you want

I know it can end up unhealthy for some, but for most the amount of 'body issues' we get is the same as 'music issues' or 'art issues' for musicians trying to improve and artists trying to improve. No one gives musicians shit for thinking they aren't as good as the could be at their instrument and always striving to improve.

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wtf i hate Veeky Forums now

Press was the first of my lifts to reach that.

Are you just a pair of massive shoulders with legs?

It's almost like people are different and progress differently senpai. What a strange and obscure concept that everyone isn't identical

same. 5'11" (180 cm), and I'm constantly aware of being shorter or taller than people I'm with.

>Spooks

Into the trash you go Stirner faggot