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The worst part is balancing time. Working 8 hours a day, cooking for myself, taking care of my kid, studying for a certification for work, making sure my dog is fed and taken outside enough throughout the day, sleeping 8 hours, etc. 
I can eat boring ass broccoli and chicken all day. But balancing all the above mentioned stuff in 24 hours? Shiiii
I love eating (former fat boy) so I love that part of lifting.
The downside is that food costs a fuck ton now >

Funny, for me it's the other way around. I only exercise because it allow me to eat as much as I want. >

Same here. I love good food. But if I don't exercise for a week and eat what I eat now, I can't wear my jeans 🤣 >

You have to exercise and eat less. The pain is the price you have to pay. Or something. >

The cost is hell, too.
I was averaging $7 - $12/meal eating at home (pre-inflation) because of the amount of protein I was taking in (roughly 100g/day) while varying my sources so I didn't get bored.
But damn if the results weren't good (going to get accused of exaggerating here, but my biceps grew 3/4" within my first 5 weeks of strength training).
Eventually, though, it was the cost of all that protein-rich food that forced me to quit. And I too was also hangrier than usual! >

Lol no >

I mean I’m anorexic so I have to agree with you by default. >

Wow yea so you have no idea. If I hit the weights to hard I’ll easily eat 6,000 to 7,000 calories the next day, no exaggeration. and I’m lean. It’s crazy >

I exercise to gain weight, but I get conflicted about how much I have to eat to make gains. There’s folk out there right now struggling to heat or eat etc… I also find it a massive waste of time cooking all the time. >

Meal prep. Devote some free time to just cooking up a big batch of food for the week, store it in containers, and then throw it in the freezer. >

It's so hard to explain too cause people who don't relate cant understand >

Boo hoo, you get to eat a lot of delicious food while getting fit, however do you endure? >

Definitely unpopular, I’ve had a pretty good diet these past couple years and when I go on bulks in the winter I needed to eat around 4000 calories a day and it was awful, mainly cause I mainly eat fish and poultry so most of my calories came from oils nuts and beef jerky to reach the goal 
Didn’t do it this year though, it was awful enough last year. 
Maybe next year >

I sorta agree, but for different reasons, without working out i eat about 3000 to 4000 calories a day, with working out even more, and I, as a 20 year old living on his own....have a hard time affording that especialy with the big inflation over here where i live. >

Well thats on you, the average person needs 2000 a day and youre eating double that on days you arent working out. >

Yeah because i am hungry a lot, it isnt like im getting fat, i just stay the same, i once dieted for a month, all i did was going down to 200p calories a day and i lost 10 kg in a month.
But OP gave his opinion, and so did I, guess what, this sub is about opinions, so yeah it on me, and im giving my opinion based on my experience >

Boohoo cry about it fat boy, but 4000 calories per day is way too much for anyone that isnt a profesional athlete. Do you eat whole sticks of butter or something because theres no way to maintain a healthy life style while eating 6 meals worth of food per day. >

Again, im not fat, at all, i just have an insane metabolism, so i dont really put on weight. And no i indeed dont eat very healthy either. >

I jist looked at your pictures and you are 100% lying. You are way too scrawny to eat 4000 per day. Its literally impossible for you to eat that many, regularly exercise, and still have 0 muscle mass. Thats just not the way calories work, you either use them or they become fat. >

1 i dont regularly excersise, i get about 10000 steps a day and i have work, thats it, again, just a very fast metabolism. I currently dont eat 4000 a day, i changed up a lot of things in life and with that my diet changed a bit and now atm im eating about 3000 to 3500 a day. Also, i dont necceceraly ( sorry never figured out how to spell that word, struggle with it everytime) eat a lot of food, just a lot of calories. >

Yeah youre completly lost on what youre talking about. Food amount doesnt do anything, calories are what makes you gain weight. Also you said you eat ravenously when you exercise, I simply do not believe that you are eating way over 4000 calories.