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Muscle you gain cannot be lost; I don't think atrophy would have been that significant after a week, but you never know. If it's about size, do bodyweight exercises like push ups during the day to get your pump up until you can go to the gym

Well, that's sorta true, but sorta not true. While muscle cells themselves aren't lost (unless you go like a month without food or some extreme shit), your muscles can still lose mass if you don't train regularly. However training up muscle cells that are already there is a lot easier than forming new muscle cells, which is why it's a lot easier to get *back* to shape than it is to *get* to shape.

Same is true for fat cells btw, fat cells don't dissapear even though you lose fat, they just get smaller (That's a very non-scientific explanation, but it works).

Oh, I forgot that this thread exists. It's your fault RomTom.

So yeah, it's been about a month and half since I've starting lifting again after a two year long "break". I didn't have a choice really. My brother flew over to visit me on his vacation and he's been pestering me to get back every time I called him. Bodybuilding is not just a fetish for him you see, it's also his second job. We both got a membership to the closest gym to my apartment. Fun place, lots of awesome and polite juice heads. I couldn't afford the membership nor the protein shakes (which is one of the reasons I stopped) so he bought everything for me! T^T

It's frustrating when you look at the weights you used to lift while the vague image of what you looked like is constantly on your mind, then you try to start with 40lb, then realize you could barely lift 25lb. The most difficult part was the food. I dislike meat, and I don't enjoy eating chicken everyday. I also barely ate three meals, or got the minimum amount of nutritions my body needed every day. So every meal my 198lb meat loving brother cooked was difficult to get down at first. Now I get hungry every two hours.

On the first month, I've used almost double the weights I've used the week before. Now I can comfortably bench press 100lb with dumbbells. Stopped smoking, and I feel a lot better, mentally and physically. Though I'm not sure if want to continue. I can't tell if got back to lifting weights because it's something I want or just to humor my brother. It's an expensive and time consuming lifestyle/hobby.

Oh, I forgot that this thread exists. It's your fault RomTom.

So yeah, it's been about a month and half since I've starting lifting again after a two year long "break". I didn't have a choice really. My brother flew over to visit me on his vacation and he's been pestering me to get back every time I called him. Bodybuilding is not just a fetish for him you see, it's also his second job. We both got a membership to the closest gym to my apartment. Fun place, lots of awesome and polite juice heads. I couldn't afford the membership nor the protein shakes (which is one of the reasons I stopped) so he bought everything for me! T^T

It's frustrating when you look at the weights you used to lift while the vague image of what you looked like is constantly on your mind, then you try to start with 40lb, then realize you could barely lift 25lb. The most difficult part was the food. I dislike meat, and I don't enjoy eating chicken everyday. I also barely ate three meals, or got the minimum amount of nutritions my body needed every day. So every meal my 198lb meat loving brother cooked was difficult to get down at first. Now I get hungry every two hours.

On the first month, I've used almost double the weights I've used the week before. Now I can comfortably bench press 100lb with dumbbells. Stopped smoking, and I feel a lot better, mentally and physically. Though I'm not sure if want to continue. I can't tell if got back to lifting weights because it's something I want or just to humor my brother. It's an expensive and time consuming lifestyle/hobby.