I've been building muscle and what I didn't expect is how dense it is.
I'm not any smaller. Actually, my body is the opposite of smaller. The scale needle is creeping up because I'm getting more muscular.
And I tell you I feel like a tank. This body I have now is solid. It feels incredible 10/10
I did it so the doctors wouldn't scold me. I did it because the literature says you're supposed to exercise. I did it because that way I could truthfully say I was trying my best.
I never could understand why it worked for other people but not for me. It was not fair.
I started working out under the influence of marijuana, which turns out to be a performance-enhancing drug for me. Until then, the mind-body connection had been an abstraction.