How do you former fatties get over the mental block of bulking? >Spend years fighting against your own ravenous appetite, denying yourself food, counting every calorie, and basically having to fight your own body every single day just to stop being an obese fuck >Finally manage to lose the weight after God knows how much effort and self-denial >Still don't even look particularly good, just halfway decent with that weirdly soft, bulbous look >Apparently you need to bulk to look decent WHAT? You're telling me that after spending years teaching myself to eat LESS, fighting the urge to eat more at every opportunity, and living in constant fear of putting the weight back on, I'm now supposed to deliberately reverse course? Eat MORE? On PURPOSE? Watch the number on the scale that I've spent years desperately trying to bring down start climbing again? And somehow trust that this time it'll magically make me look better instead of turning me back into the fat fuck I spent half my life trying to escape? I understand the logic of building muscle intellectually, but emotionally it feels like being told to walk straight back into a burning building I barely managed to crawl out of. I just can't get into it. Even the thought of deliberately gaining weight makes my stomach turn. How do you get past this?

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