Physiological Side Effects of Extreme Leanness

And you have to be willing to accept, man, I'm going to have to eat a shit sandwich because it sucks. But at that point, you may have to, you may have to say, well, my metrics are going to have to be shit. I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to accept that my thyroid hormone is going to go in the shitter. My testosterone is going to go into the shitter. Estrogen digestion is going to go in the shitter. My sleep's going to go to shit. My hair is going to stop growing and it may even start falling out. I'm going to get dry, scaly skin. My fingernails aren't going to grow and they're probably going to get brittle. This is all part of getting ridiculously super lean, leaner than the body actually wants to get. So I would say for most men, most men can probably get easily down to 10 to 12%. No problem. But once you start dipping into single digit body fats, unless you're of kind of like that ectomorphic type predisposition, it's a bit easier for them. But the trade off is it's harder for them to put on muscle, you get somebody who's more on the, you know, more of a, what's the word I'm trying to say, you got a lot of stored energy, I'm trying to be politically correct. So you got, you know, you're, you're rotund. You have, you have an easy time building strength and muscle, you got a really hard time taking off the excessive amounts of stored energy on your body. You know, they're going to have a harder time once they get into the into the teens. So you start getting around like 17, 18, 19, they're going to go on struggle street. If you got somebody like myself, who's a mesomorph, fairly easy to get there without without it being a pain in the ass until you start getting close to like, maybe like seven, 8%. And that's when it starts to kind of suck a little bit. I find for me, it doesn't really suck that much until I get about, yeah, start getting around five to 7%. And that's when I start feeling like a bag of dicks, but I can easily get down, you know, eight to 10. It's not that big of a deal. As long as I can control my desire for my impulse, my ADD desire for shitty foods and booze. For women, you know, most women can probably get down close to 2022. And it's not that big of a deal. Once they go into the teens, that's when it's going to start to suck. And you try to get like stage ready, start getting under 15, 16%, that's when it's going to start to suck. And that's where you're going to have to accept that I either go really slow and chip away, or I lose my period and I'm freezing cold all the time. My hair falls out. I think I remember one night I texted you cause you're 12 hours or sorry, you're 14 hours ahead. So I think it was like one in the morning and I'm like, dude, I can't fucking go to sleep. Like I'm sweating. My heart is racing. I'm staring at the ceiling and you're like, welcome to Dick Skin Lean. And that only happened one time. And that was actually quite close to the wedding. And it was the week after the wedding that I was like, I need a week off. And you always like, I wouldn't say appease me, but you take into consideration how much I love training and that's how you design my programs. And I'm like, I don't want to train like the whole week. I need off. And I was just like, I can't, you know, and it had built up to that. But going through all this, I think having a big external motivator was helpful. But also like the discipline that it takes, it's really, yes, it's a lot more. But when our clients come to us and they just want to get a little bit lean, I'm almost like, yo, it doesn't, it's not that hard. You just have to want it a little bit more than you do because it really isn that difficult because the internet makes it seem like it is It not