^ & ^^

I myself fought against the alcohol intake stopping gains (or really losses) for a few years. When I quit I quickly dropped weight without even limiting my diet. If you are serious about your health can't recommend stopping enough--especially at your intake. It's hard the first month and gets hard again month 3 to month 4 depending on how heavy a drinker you are (your body rebalancing the GABA-A receptor) which makes you more susceptible to anxiety (and for me coffee).

On GLP-1s, some studies put lean mass loss at 25-40% of total loss. He's probably not eating enough protein to preserve muscle during the rapid caloric deficit these drugs create. 125g/day is probably under-doing it. Just accounting to our accelerating age, into our 50s, you really need to preserve as much lean mass as possible unless you want your kids to pick you up off the bathroom floor at 80 because you can't sit upright on the toilet.

Stop drinking and eat more protein (and fiber like rwoody said).

5/22/2026 4:23:49 PM

But if he's not working out won't he lose muscle mass anyway?

5/22/2026 4:31:44 PM

It's a matter of degree. 30% of weight lost vs 15% with higher protein intake.

Quote :

"a sedentary person at ~0.8 g/kg loses roughly twice as much lean mass per pound dropped as someone at 1.2–1.6 g/kg"

5/22/2026 4:41:23 PM

Good to know

5/22/2026 4:43:00 PM

Fiber i should be pretty good on, between low carb tortillas and keto bread. Apple has 4-5g, protein bar has 10, v8 has 3, blurberries and strawberries also

5/22/2026 7:03:01 PM

Working on my diet now. Everything constant except dinner. Without dinner, 108g protein, 43.5g fiber, 1325 calories.

5/25/2026 12:38:25 AM

Anyone do low reps when lifting? Heard its like better for building strength and like better stimulus for muscles. I tried today but kept finding that i was doing 8-10 reps on the increased weights. Its like how do you know what weight you can do 5 of?

6/11/2026 6:37:05 PM

So what are we doing for triceps these days. I finally got the courage to go to the cable section of LA Fitness

I was doing





A majority on reddit clowned the first machine, some liked it though. I always liked it cause i'd feel the burn real good

Tried cable overhead extensions, liked them ok. Makes my shirt ride up showing my gut lol

Anyways, i know 3 heads so like one exercise per head or what?

[Edited on June 29, 2026 at 12:51 PM. Reason : I heard 2 best are close grip bench and skullcrushers. Not enthusiastic about either of them]

6/29/2026 12:48:29 PM

Second machine looks more like a dip simulator probably better just to do assisted dips if you have it

I personally do bar push downs (don't like how rope feels on shoulder) and rope over head extensions

At our age/level, doing what you're doing and focusing on what you like versus what is perfect or optimal is probably better imo

6/29/2026 10:00:17 PM

What about delts? I do lateral raises for side delts, reverse pec dec flys for rear delts, and can't decide if i want to do shoulder press or if front delts get enough action with other exercises.

Rope extensions i am going to do again. Never liked pushdowns with a rope either, but I think cause I could lift more with the bar

6/29/2026 11:33:01 PM

I do very little delt work personally, just a set of lat raise and shoulder press on chest day and a couple sets of prints rows on back days (which probably are a waste)

[Edited on June 30, 2026 at 12:05 AM. Reason : E]

6/30/2026 12:03:30 AM

Can you post a pic or link to prints rows exercise, nothing coming up on google

6/30/2026 12:09:30 AM

Dang just past 30 min, can't edit...i just saw this...probably one of the best laughs i've had in a while

6/30/2026 12:45:50 AM

What a grink how tf did that end up prints


Upright rows

6/30/2026 6:24:00 AM

Those always hurt my shoulders, even going back to hs days when my shoulders weren't messed up yet. But i probably held bar too close and came too high

6/30/2026 8:39:09 AM

Yea the internet says they can be bad for your shoulders, I like them so I do then.

6/30/2026 9:57:30 AM

I think that was another grink as you call it

Anyways full body didn't really work out. Was just too much. Even upper/lower is kind of exhausting.

Right now upper is 1 chest, 2 tris(2 pictured above), 2 bicep(preacher and incline db), 2 delts(reverse pec dec, lat raises), 3 back(chest supported bentover rows, lat pull, and close grip seated rows...legs is hack squat, stiff leg deadlifts, abductors, leg curls, leg extensions, calf raises. Did hip thrusts last time, def felt it next day.

Want to tweak triceps as mentioned above, prob add another chest when arms catch up. If I could commit to 6 days of lifting a week i'd just go back to push/pull/legs. Kinda nice having having 7 days to get 4 days of lifting in, do cardio the other 3

Def agree what you said above about doing what you like vs what is optimal...same thing with veggies. Kale is optimal but romaine lettuce is more enjoyable

6/30/2026 12:14:40 PM

Should say I like them so I do them

6/30/2026 1:30:47 PM

found out ive had fatty liver for probably a decade, which is probably why no matter how in shape i am, ive always had a belly. fixed that and im down 25lbs with no belly. best physical appearance since needing to take gym for a grade every semester

god only knows what i did to my lifespan for however long i had it and all the symptomatic diseases

7/6/2026 5:05:32 PM

nice. how'd you end up figuring it out and what'd you have to do to fix it?

7/6/2026 5:28:12 PM

Yeah same question here. I was diagnosed with stage 2(alcoholic hepatitis) like 5 years ago. Haven't drank since june 1. Feel like i'm not losing weight still, but i am exercising literally every day for last 23 days

7/6/2026 6:30:27 PM