Has anyone gone down the slippery slope of trying to get too lean?

One worry of being too lean is the loss of pride with not being as mesomorphic as dedicated gym rats. However, when you are lean and nice looking, you tend to be easy going as well as well received by most, or at least able to maneuver and navigate around nicely. However, when you have strength and big muscles, people are constantly giving hate over jealousy, it makes things worse actually. Being lean is another wavelength, because it is a beautiful look, you ride that positive energy. Old people and young alike have a positive bias towards you. People compliment you randomly. I won’t lie, big muscles get their own attention but it’s always subtle and almost taken for granted. It is more gratifying, in this respect, being leaner than having big muscles, unless you are a top 1% tall and big giant nobody can ignore. Because strength and muscle is generally common and or unrecognized. Intelligence and technical skills are also underrecognized but that’s an aside.

Another worry of being too lean is cold and illness. This doesn’t apply if you live in warmer regions.

Given this analysis, the favor is heavily accumulated towards being lean.

If you have the right diet, you will effortlessly have under 10% bodyfat (men) without having to restrict calories and will retain the exact lean muscle mass to perform best for the imposed demands. In addition, you will have stable mood and psychology, life becomes an effortless flow: "Carniflow".

YMMV wrote:

If you have the right diet, you will effortlessly have under 10% bodyfat (men) without having to restrict calories and will retain the exact lean muscle mass to perform best for the imposed demands. In addition, you will have stable mood and psychology, life becomes an effortless flow: "Carniflow".

You're the last person to give advice on "the right diet." Please, just go away...

You get lean through diet not training. You run to get faster.

If you run fast you will look fast. End of story.

Don't be prideful. There will always be someone leaner.

Eat healthier, not less.

i definitely fell down that slope when i first started running just over 2 years ago. i was about 175 pounds and knew running would make me lose weight, plus i started to enjoy it. i was CONSTANTLY watching calories and running so much without eating anything after just determined to lose more weight. it's easy to get fixated on when you start to see results and how simple (in theory) it is to do. i ended up getting down under 120 pounds and was just a malnourished and sickly looking guy. once i realized i needed more food to train harder to actually get better and faster, i let it all go. i've been hovering around 130-135 for a year or so now.

Not me!

toomuch wrote:

YMMV wrote:

If you have the right diet, you will effortlessly have under 10% bodyfat (men) without having to restrict calories and will retain the exact lean muscle mass to perform best for the imposed demands. In addition, you will have stable mood and psychology, life becomes an effortless flow: "Carniflow".

You're the last person to give advice on "the right diet." Please, just go away...

Another nobody posts a nothing.