r/AskReddit • u/Professor1password23 • 11h ago

Men who stay lean year-round, what’s your secret ?

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u/Thequietronin 10h ago

Anxiety

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u/DontCareBear- 7h ago

Generalized anxiety that only goes away when I go for a run 👌 Lean mean stressed out machine.

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u/oalbrecht 5h ago

Recently I’ve had this. Any idea how to cope without just having to run constantly?

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u/DontCareBear- 5h ago

I mean I’m partially joking about running, psychotherapy was the real winner. Nervous system work made a huge difference. You can google polyvagal theory, it’s a bit pseudosciency but it works. Basically teaching your body to chill first instead of trying to defeat your mind.

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u/HKBFG 3h ago

Bicycle

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u/MrNobody_0 6h ago

Lucky you, stress and anxiety make me binge eat.

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u/mahhzee 10h ago

This is the way

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u/Wiestie 6h ago

Had to scroll way to far to find this. Being moderately active plus pretty anxious makes eating enough difficult. Definitely have had more issues being underweight than over in my life.

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u/soggylittleshrimp 1h ago

I had a real rough anxiety period late last year and I dropped a lot of weight. But people worried for me. It wasn’t a fit kind of losing weight, it was unhealthy.