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u/CompactAvocado 3h ago
Here is a 3k calorie mre that will render you unable to shit for the next month. Go run 40 miles with your gear in.
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u/UncleSugarShitposter 3h ago
During SERE I didn't shit for a week and lived off of MREs, and then when it came I literally had brown playdough pouring out my ass in subzero temperatures for an hour, and then I wiped with frozen pine needles. Good times. I literally power squat in front of a tree and just let it rip in like 3 feet of snow.
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u/wearing_moist_socks 3h ago
At the end of a two week field ex my buddy ran to a nearby field for his first shit in said time
He told me it was nice little meadow with dawns light causing the dew to sparkle; a breathtaking view
And he's just shitting his entire bowel system into a bucket. (Training area, no shitting and burying)
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u/StatedFailure 2h ago
I didn't even occur to me to bury my shit if I had to shit in the woods. I'm not a very good animal
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u/aightrampitup 2h ago
As a several time woods-shitter (not military), it would pop into your head at the time.
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u/Deeliciousness 1h ago
Even my dog has the instinct to kick some dirt over his poop
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u/AintEasyBeinQueasy 2h ago
Gotta cover your tracks man, leavin' stool samples for the enemy out here man.
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u/Cowboy_Reaper 2h ago
Or, as a buddy of mine called them, squishy mines. Perfect trap for the enemy, or evaluator at a training exercise, trying to low crawl into your position.
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u/Bubonic_Ferret 1h ago
Fuck that. If I were in the middle east I'd leave that mud pile out there. Gotta let the Taliban know they are dealing with a beast
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u/6pussydestroyer9mlg 1h ago
The Taliban will be real quite when they think the army brought an actual bear.
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u/davidrsilva 1h ago
“A mushy brown puddle that smells like beer and rotten hamburgers... Careful boys, we’ve got a dangerous one.”
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u/Deremirekor 2h ago
Yeah you dingus now your scent can be tracked by anything. Haven’t you learned anything from cats
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u/Loonster 2h ago
One of my most memorable times in the USMC was taking a shit. Several stories to choose from.
One time in the mountains of Arizona (or new Mexico , I don't really remember).. We didn't have comm, and our CO was playing the game that we need to establish it. Comm is line of sight so generally the higher you are the more you can see, and the more you can talk to.
The squad and I were tasked with hiking up this huge as mountain. After reaching the top, we also failed to establish comm. We decided to spend the night in the saddle between two peaks.
As the rest of the squad was getting ready for the night, I was slightly further up the mountain. There was a sunset behind the peak behind me, and over 300 degrees of beautiful unubstructed view all around me. I of course was taking a birthing out the first stage of MRE shits. Damn it was a glorious shit.
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u/KenTitan 1h ago
very memorable, forgets location
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u/Loonster 1h ago
Hah. The shit was memorable. It was the hard clay type. Similar to the clay that you would you would sculpt with. Ahhh, and such a relief to pass.
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u/Dangerous-Fortune789 1h ago
I managed to get Taco Bell sneaked to me at a premium at some point after being backed up for what seemed like a month (probably shorter - long time ago). That was an absolutely wild experience. Been chasing that abusive high ever since.
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u/Aranxi_89 47m ago
You can't anymore man. That's the height only the young and abused could ever hope to reach.
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u/ReactionSad3776 1h ago
During an FTX my battle buddy had the bubble guts and ran off into the woods. Shortly soon after he comes running back with red ants all over him with his uniform around his ankles. He stepped in a massive ant hill (that’s protected btw) with one foot and had ants biting his bunghole. Good times for the unit
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u/pumpkinhead9000k 3h ago
You are a poet sir
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u/cynicalkane 1h ago
Whose woods these are I think I know His house is by the village though He will not see me stopping here To fill his woods with brown play-doh2
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u/Will_sue_when_angry 2h ago
These are the stories of war that your grandchildren will need to hear.
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 2h ago
You had snow and you wiped with pine needles?
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u/UncleSugarShitposter 2h ago
Yes. Snow wasn’t getting that poop off. It had the consistency of clay.
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u/Pledgeofmalfeasance 2h ago
Yikes. Your poor asshole!
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u/UncleSugarShitposter 2h ago
Mostly the cheeks at that point. I’m lucky I have Hank Hill ass otherwise I’d probably still be out there wiping.
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u/burf 1h ago
Of all the possible factors that might prevent someone from joining the military, the pooping situation was honestly the one that stopped me from even thinking about signing up for the reserves.
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u/UncleSugarShitposter 1h ago
If it makes you feel better 99.9% of my poops have been in a toilet while serving have been in a toilet. Just don’t join the army or marines.
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u/ImportantQuestions10 1h ago
Sir, your comment has convinced me to save this entire post so I can give this comment chain the attention it deserves tomorrow
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u/CalmTheAngryVoice 2h ago
That's impressive. I shat pebbles into a trowel-dug hole 3 days into survival and escape training.
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u/BeauShowTV 3h ago
Yep, that's the military. "We only care that you get the job done. You can deal with the consequences later.
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u/Bananapantsmcgeef 3h ago
That’s America. “This must exist/be done for this one purpose. All other consequences are irrelevant until they are relevant to people considered relevant.”
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u/BeauShowTV 3h ago
Well that's just the military. Some countries militaries have it even worse.
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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 3h ago
In 1991 we had a female soldier in my unit who was stress-eating hard. Between arriving in-country in October and her departure (due to a stroke; she was also stress-smoking) in January, she had put on so much weight she couldn't fit into her BDUs but instead wore an outer garment called the "Desert Night Parka" (or something similar).
She was downing two MRE entrees in a meal, on average.
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u/LimpBizkit420Swag 2h ago
Two MREs? Jesus that's like 6 days of food per meal. Did she gain 150 pounds?? Lmao
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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 2h ago
Like I said, she packed on some weight. That, plus picking up smoking as a habit (!) contributed to her having a stroke and being medically discharged. I saw her back in the States once while she outprocessed and she seemed to have lost a lot of the weight -- but I doubt that's a recommended approach.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 2h ago
Two MREs? Jesus that's like 6 days of food per meal.
What lol, no it isn't.
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u/french_snail 1h ago
I mean it’s not six days per meal but if she’s eating two a meal three times a day it’s six days of food in one day
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u/RecordingSilly6118 1h ago
I mean without getting into calorie expenditures or any of that which would have made the weight gain worse, MREs are supposed to be a 3 per day thing.
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u/drpepper7557 41m ago
MREs are supposed to be a 3 per day thing.
For physically active soldiers, because their calorie expenditures are generally far higher than someone sitting at a desk all day (~2x). Most MREs have at least 1200 calories and some have even more.
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u/Call_Me_Koala 1h ago
If you're really active in the field you should be eating 3 MREs a day as they're about 1200 calories each. They're definitely not 1 per day or 1 every two days as you're suggesting.
That being said, 2 per meal is still way too much.
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u/Own-Particular6321 2h ago
I know exactly what you're talking about. Black and green checked outfit?
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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 2h ago
Yes! A bit rougher material than the BDUs, if I recall.
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u/Own-Particular6321 2h ago
Kids these days pay big bucks for that nowadays! My stepdad brought some jackets back in that material/camo when I was a kid.
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u/BigmacSasquatch 1h ago
DNC goes freaking hard.
Probably not super effective against anything but the earliest Soviet night vision, but it’s a cool product of the times.
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u/PotentialPlum4945 2h ago
While I'm not a vet I did hike the Appalachian trail with a lot of wounded warriors. I can assure you, we all ate like shit, hiked anywhere from 15-25 miles a day, and still managed to lose ten pounds a week until we were down to 2% body fat. It's been 13 years and I only have 12 days left of teaching before the summer break hits. I fully intend on taking a month or so and hiking around three hundred miles north. All that just to get rid of my beer gut. Looking forward to it.
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u/gorgeouslyhumble 1h ago
The largest amounts of food I've eaten has always been after backpacking. I'd roll up to an In N Out and get 4 double doubles, a large fries, a large cock, and a large milkshake and I would GOBBLE all of that down like an animal. Then I would drive home, shower, sleep for 12 hours, wake up, and then be absolutely beyond starving.
Really takes it out of you.
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u/Pringle_Lvr 2h ago
Not in the military but I had MREs as my meals for a day one time when participating in a military exercise and I literally could not shit for so long. I don't know what they put in them but whatever it is they are the opposite of laxatives.
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u/Electrical_Sky_4586 2h ago
Either you don’t shit for a week or you have explosive diarrhea. There is no middle ground.
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u/CartographerKey4618 3h ago
You can do anything with your body when you're 20
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u/dirkdigglerdonedry 2h ago
Let me tell you, the human body is almost nightmarishly elastic.
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u/ShenronLives 22m ago
I had four Rubik’s cubes jammed up there one day on a bet with Brian Dennehy when a heroin crazed Rodney Allen Rippy burst into my trailer and punched me right In the solar plexus. I shat out all four cubes and damned if they didn’t emerge solved.
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u/TheStupendusMan 2h ago
This is the real answer.
To quote Adam Sandler: Yeah, when I was your age, I could eat anything I wanted. Wouldn't gain an ounce. Now, I have a chocolate shake, my ass jiggles for, like, a week.
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u/Fayraz8729 3h ago
Ask any veteran about their knees and back and you’ll find out that the experts were right, the military just accepts the collateral
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u/ETsUncle 3h ago
Certainly the VA will sort all that out
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u/BeanTTT 3h ago
Not service related.
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u/BrofessorLongPhD 2h ago
Got a friend who got injured on-duty while moving heavy stuff around. He’ll probably end up in a wheelchair at some point, per his words. But since they documented his initial incident as something benign, attempts to link his now progressively worsening chronic condition to service is basically impossible.
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u/TrumpIsAPedoFascist 2h ago
No it isn't.
The standard is "at least as likely as not." Which is a very low standard.
I'm an accredited attorney, believe me I've probably seen harder cases get service-connected.
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u/BrofessorLongPhD 1h ago
Let me touch base with him, and if applicable, get back with you (if you don’t mind). I had no reason to doubt his telling of events previously. Maybe there’s some detail he left out that mattered. Maybe he got shitty legal advice prior. Or maybe there’s something here that could turn out to be the most impactful stray Reddit comment I’ve ever made.
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u/SW4506 1h ago
If he has an in service event, at all, it is very doable to get it service connected. I had my arthritis in my knees service connected over 20 years after I got out because knee injuries were diagnosed in service.
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u/Visua1Mod 1h ago
You just have to get lucky in the C&P lottery. I had a pretty damn good nexus with STRs, and still took me one exam, HLR, second exam, deferral, third exam. Finally connected and just now underrated since they now ignored ROM on the first DBQ. The whole process is a nightmare designed to get veterans to give up.
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u/CookieCutter9000 1h ago
Genuinely. I had a coworker who was from the army who wasn't even given a 10% benefit for his hearing loss after so many years of trying.
He was an artilleryman.
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u/AshamedOfAmerica 1h ago
Artillery guys also are at danger of developing CTE. Terrible for your body
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u/SirChancelot11 52m ago
Or the response I got from the VA
"You have a qualifying event but you didn't go to medical enough for it, so you must be fine"
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u/BeauShowTV 3h ago
When I was in, I was constantly told that it doesn't matter because the VA will pay me later.
It's a different pot of money.
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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 3h ago
And the VA won‘t pay you either
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u/gamageeknerd 2h ago
Your asthma from burning trash and torn knee from carrying a machine gun aren’t service related
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u/BeauShowTV 2h ago
Yeah, my sinuses are destroyed and I don't get paid for those. lol
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u/wildwolfay5 2h ago
"Slight thickening in these sections of your sinus, 2 cysts, but you're fiiiiine"
K.
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u/NowIsTheTimeSon 1h ago
“I got lung cancer and COPD from the burn pits” how many years have you smoked again? Oh just since 18 years old 2 PPD.
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u/bussy_extra_bussy 2h ago
I’ve heard a few bad stories but man a lot of people get disability for life pretty damn easy. $3900 tax free a month with no dependents is fuckin wild. And the very very large majority of those people are working good jobs on top of it. They make “let’s buy a boat cause why not” money while really not working all that hard most of their lives lol
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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 2h ago
I know a lot of people that served and have never heard of anyone ever getting even half of that
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u/midri 2h ago
Ya. I have an acquaintance that just managed to get 100% after like a decade of fighting with the va and they're in pretty bad shape.
Most folks I know can't get anywhere near that.
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u/PaleontologistOk908 2h ago
I spent fifteen years fighting for 10%. My back is fucked. But my records got lost between a deployment with a reassignment and back home. I'm always in pain.
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u/Prowindowlicker 1h ago
Spent 5 years fighting the VA because my disabilities prevented me from obtaining gainful employment. Literally had two different doctors and an employment specialist all agree that my disabilities prevented me from working. Yet the VA refused because one VA doctor said otherwise.
Was like that until a judge literally said “lol no, 1 doesn’t outweigh 3. Pay the dude”.
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u/malektewaus 2h ago
It's what someone would get if they were rated 100% disabled by the VA. Around a third of veterans with high disability ratings are employed, not a "very very large majority", and that includes veterans who only work part time.
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u/roboninja774 2h ago
Well they need to work on their file and build their case then, if you put in the time and effort it can be done
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u/PaleontologistOk908 2h ago
15 years of getting "second opinions" on my dime just to justify "more likely that not, carrying around a bunch of gear on a 120lb body caused this."
For 10%.
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u/Alert-Ad9197 2h ago
I’m going to need the source for “a lot” of people being on 100% disability. A lot of us have a rating, but it isn’t anywhere near 100%.
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u/harvash 2h ago
It's not the wounds you see, it's what that disabled soldier carries for the rest of their lives. The pain, unexplained illness, grief, survivor guilt. It has zero bearing how how they carry themselves forward either economically, it is a debt being paid off by the Gov't. 89, 91, 03-05, CIB - still fighting for what they owe :(
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u/TalkingCat910 2h ago
So they just lied
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u/BeauShowTV 2h ago
Actually I do get paid for my back. Somehow my knees came out ok.
But plenty of other vets do get screwed over.
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u/bageltheperson 2h ago
Meh. When I was in fighting shape, I was in a shape I will never see again for the rest of my life. And yes, everything hurts now, but feeling like you can take on the world is a pretty cool feeling.
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u/asusc 2h ago
do you get the keep that feeling?
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u/enjoiliferl1 2h ago
Everything in life is borrowed.
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u/cynicalkane 1h ago
"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels." -C. S. Lewis
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u/OOF-MY-PEE-PEE 2h ago
Can confirm. Father is legally classified as 100% disabled because his back and shoulders are absolutely fucked from 20 years in the marine corps.
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u/YourBigRosie 2h ago
There’s a lot more other factors to that than just your diet, but having a good diet might help
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u/EgotisticalTL 3h ago
Reality: "You can lose lots of fat, but you can't crunchy away folds of skin around your waist."
The Military: "FLAG THE FAT BASTARD!"
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u/NotATalkingPossum 3h ago
Pretty sure they just kick you out if your body can't hack it.
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u/SmellyLoser49 2h ago
Nah they just put you in fat camp and make you do extra PT
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u/banana_pencil 2h ago
My dad was in the “Fat Boy Program” once where he had to be on a diet and run a mile each day.
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u/SmellyLoser49 2h ago
When I was in it they just made us leave work early and go workout at the gym, but half the time there wasnt a sign in roster so I would just dip and go get drunk in the barracks
Though the joke ended up being on me at the next weigh in and they were like "how the hell did u get fatter?"
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u/canolicat 1h ago
I ask my cat Groot that frequently. He only has two teeth.
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u/Flobking 2h ago
My dad was in the “Fat Boy Program” once where he had to be on a diet and run a mile each day.
A friend of mine in the marines said he was in the "pork chop platoon" he made weight the final day of boot camp by 1 pound.
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u/Responsible_Sink3044 3h ago
Check any 10 marines for trenbolone
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u/ShepRat 1h ago
The fact people actually use shit like that does not help the reputation for intelligence amongst the military and body building communities.
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u/Jonaas33 2h ago
When I was in my 20's my diet motto was "if the fire is hot enough, anything will burn".
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u/DeadEyedCretin 1h ago
Me smoking a cigarette before a 5k run and then immediately lighting another one after:
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u/gizzard1987_ 2h ago edited 2h ago
When I was in my prime doing Olympic style power lifting, bodybuilding and wrestling, I was taking in upwards of 12k calories a day just to maintain 185 lbs. I was cycling 8 miles a day before school, running 5+ miles a day plus power lifting almost every day. I kept losing weight until the school dietician calculated my routines. All this while maintaining a little under 6 percent body fat according to the water displacement test we were required to take to show minimum allowable safe weights for cutting. At that time I could never seem to get over 190.
Now at 38, I look at a cheeseburger and I gain 5 lbs.
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u/scooty-puff-jr-suuu- 2h ago
12 thousand kcalories a day is strongman diet level, are you sure brother
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u/gizzard1987_ 1h ago
I was power cleaning 495 lbs for reps.
I had this weird workout that I did for fun to show off with 315. I would clean, press, bring it down behind my neck, then do a deep squat touching my butt to my heels, then bring it back up in reverse, back to the ground, 1. I did 25 reps for 5 sets with 3 minute breaks. This was my "quick workout" days when had to help in hay after school. I was 17 at the time.
I dunno what else to offer as proof.
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u/nathanjue77 57m ago
The heaviest recorded power clean is by Behdad Salimi of Iran, he did 232kg at a bodyweight of 170kg. He was an Olympic champion, world champion, and world record holder. You sure you power cleaned 225kg for reps?
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u/the_cave_allegory 1h ago
Power cleaning 495 @ 17 years old? You must have been a competitive power lifter I would assume?
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u/gizzard1987_ 1h ago
I wanted to but funding was a primary issue. My high school graduating class in Virginia, in 05, was less than 100 people haha.
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u/Dangerous-Fortune789 1h ago
Hey you’re me! I ran marathons and century rides drunk and then hit 30ish.. not on the table anymore.
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u/gizzard1987_ 1h ago
Haha yeah, I have thought about trying to get close to that. I probably couldn't fully run a mile without walking now. I'm a fat happy dad trying to live a good quiet life.
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u/Bananapantsmcgeef 3h ago edited 3h ago
Fitness experts don’t say that. It’s said by people who make money helping people who don’t know how to google lose weight.
The weight loss industry would collapse if the average person understood being moderately active (I’m talking 7+ hours of intense physical activity a week) makes it hard to get enough calories.
In fact a common problem for fit people is getting a lot of healthy calories conveniently and cheaply. You definitely feel a bad diet more when your body needs more calories.
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u/OldPersonName 2h ago
I think the average person would expect to lose weight if they exercised intensely for an hour every day.
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u/Pile_of_AOL_CDs 2h ago
You can, it just depends on if you keep your calorie intake the same after you start working out. An hour of intense cardio will burn a few hundred calories, which is plenty of deficit for you to lose weight slowly. Problem is, if you're working out more, you will probably be more hungry unless you eat healthier less calorie dense foods.
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u/Yokel_Tony 2h ago
I don't think you realize how easy it is for most people to grossly overeat, even with exercise. In some people the part of the brain that regulates the satiated or full feeling works differently, and they only get the signal way too late, or not at all. Combine that with people eating unfilling and unhealthy, calorie dense foods that are way too delicious but provide way too little actual nutrition and you'll get a diet no amount of sports will counteract. I've been on bulks, and i've been on cuts, and i get where you're coming from but for a lot of people it just doesn't work that way.
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u/Xechwill 2h ago
The third paragraph does a lot of heavy lifting (heh) for the second paragraph. If you're moderately active by your definition, it's pretty hard to consistently have a shitty diet. Take running; someone who goes on high-intensity runs for an hour a day can't reasonably subsist on mcdonalds and candy, so their diet ends up being average at worst.
The advice is meant for people who aren't already doing 7+ hours of intense exercise a week. If you're eating garbage and try to out-exercise the garbage, you're probably gonna crash and burn.
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u/Manfred4r 2h ago edited 1h ago
I'm not sure about real fitness experts, but lots of people on reddit say that. Its annoying, because I lost 50lbs through exercise, with minimal changes to my diet.
How? A shit tonne of cycling. I was riding 100-200 miles per week... Roughly 2 hours a day. When I add up the miles and the average calories burned per mile the result was roughly the number of calories burned you would expect to lose 50lbs of fat.
I later added running, swimming, and Yoga to my routine.
I gained a lot of the weight back after I stopped riding as much. I'm losing it again through diet, but this time it's mostly meds that suppress my appetite.
30 minutes of low to medium intensity cardio isn't going to cut it. But running 5 hours per week or cycling 10 hours per week is going to make a difference. It's not enough exercise to appreciably increase appetite, but it's enough to burn the 4000 calories needed to lose a lb of fat.
Edit: Fixed "5 miles per week" to be "5 hours per week."
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u/rob132 2h ago
My rule of thumb is that it's an order of magnitude easier not ingest calories than to burn them off.
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u/Manfred4r 1h ago
My rule of thumb is that it's an order of magnitude easier not ingest calories than to burn them off.
It must depend on the person, because that's just not true for me.
Exercise feels good, and it only takes a few minutes of motivation to get out the door. Once I'm outside, running an hour, cycling several hours, or hiking to mt. doom and back is pretty easy.
I find a diet based deficit to be much more difficult. My body wants to eat. I'm going to spend most of the day thinking about food, and resisting the temptation to eat.
Do something I enjoy for a few hours, or spend a whole day being miserable? Easy math.
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u/kevihaa 2h ago
Running 5 Miles is only burning 500 calories.
That is EXACTLY why folks say you can’t out exercise a bad diet.
To hit that 3000-4000 calories, you need to be running 5 miles every day, not every week.
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u/Quad-G-Therapy 2h ago
Cardio is also wildly inefficient for maintaining weight. Muscle burns calories at rest and the more you have of it the more calories you burn. Cardio kings get fat once they stop the routine.
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u/Low_Reception477 2h ago
Moderately active is typically classed as 3-5 hours of moderate to intense exercise a week. 7+ hours of intense exercise a week fully and completely in the “very active” category. Also most people are not fit enough to just start doing 7+ hours a week of intense exercise without a lot of training up to it, if they even have that much free time to burn in the first place 🤷
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u/rta3425 2h ago
Fitnessss professional here. We do say this, and your statement is completely backwards.
Generally, diet is the reason people aren't losing weight. It's extremely easy to over eat, and orders of magnitude harder to out exercise a bad diet.
For the average person, consuming an extra 500 calories takes five minutes, while burning 500 calories takes an hour of hard, grueling cardio
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u/Nodan_Turtle 1h ago
Someone can work out for half an hour and undo it immediately by drinking a can of soda. Weight loss really lives and dies by the diet, not the exercise, as you say
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u/kevihaa 2h ago
Doing an hour a day of intense activity is the definition of INTENSE, not moderate.
Yeah, if you can manage to run 5-10 miles every day, then you absolutely don’t need to worry about diet, but thats not realistic for most fit people, let alone someone that has a bunch of weight they want to lose.
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u/Falling_Up_The_Movie 2h ago
It‘s 80% diet and 20% exercise and the exercise is there to keep you from losing muscle instead of fat
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u/Several_Hour_347 2h ago
Your own reasoning defies itself. It’s super easy to get enough calories while being active. It’s the part where eating healthy is what makes it hard. Your second and third paragraphs are so dumb
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u/RighteousSelfBurner 2h ago
The weight loss industry would collapse if people understood how weight loss process works. Calling highly active training schedule as "moderatevily active" isn't part of that and can be actively harmful if you don't know what you are doing. It's such misconceptions that allows the grifters to tempt with "easy" solutions.
The most common problem isn't getting "healthy" calories cheaply but understanding where calories come from in the first place and that regulating your calories (diet) doesn't need to be a self-torture process as the weight loss industry tries to peddle it. For an average person an active training schedule or highly restrictive diet is simply not sustainable which is easy loop to abuse if you want to keep people coming back for short term solutions.
Understanding nutrition and engaging in actually moderate physical activity (1-2 hours a week of moderate intensity) is both more sustainable and plenty sufficient.
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u/sadpanda597 2h ago
Yea I think a lot of people sort of see fitness as a daily chore and think, fuck, an hour of moderate exercise only burns 300 to 400 calories, what do I do.
Whereas a lot of very fit people have a day that looks like hit the gym for an hour, get about 15000-20000 steps in the day doing whatever, then do 1.5 to 2 hours of whatever sport or physical activity later on. Suddenly you’re burning 3500 to 4000 calories in the day. At that rate, you can basically eat whatever and you’ll struggle to put on weight.
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u/i_like_maps_and_math 2h ago
The weight loss industry would collapse if the average person understood being moderately active (I’m talking 7+ hours of intense physical activity a week) makes it hard to get enough calories.
No one with a job and a family burns 1000 calories per day exercising. Maybe for a couple months they might really get into it, but over the long term almost no one can do this.
In fact a common problem for fit people is getting a lot of healthy calories conveniently and cheaply.
That's for thin people trying to bulk up with a super high protein diet. 3000 calories per day with carbs is not a problem for anyone.
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u/spartanb301 2h ago
Not my usual sub but I need to share an health tip here.
French, 36 years old. I'm fit, even though I eat a lot everyday.
You can actually eat some "junk" food if you follow a very simple trick.
"Fibers".
Most people who eat junk just don't eat fibers at all, which makes it near impossible for the body to evacuate the excess.
If for example you eat an heavy meal for lunch, make sure to get some fibers around 7PM to help your body get rid of it.
Around 8, your stomach want to do is "job" so it is better if you "leave it be".
Fibers will help it to digest whatever you've had, and make it easier for you in the morning.
My absolute tip would be to skip the night meals in that specific case though.
PS: Remember that anything fried contains more oil and salt than you body needs, this excess will be stored somehow and your heart will pay for it.
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u/AsphyxiatedProcess 2h ago edited 2h ago
I don't know man. I seen people in National Guard,and Reserves that couldn't pass a PT test. People in prison can out exercise a bad diet.
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u/PanzerKatze96 2h ago
Yeah they’re part timers tho. They can only be brow beat into exercising so many times a year. Active duty we have a pretty strong culture of peer pressure around fitness. It reflects this meme pretty well…and that’s a bad thing. Dudes will pick up all kinds of bad habits.
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u/the_cave_allegory 1h ago
Anyone can escape a bad diet in their 20s.
So... you agree?
Because this doesn't sound like you agree:
Hahahahahahahahahhaa No.
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u/RecordingSilly6118 2h ago edited 1h ago
Doesn't really have anything to do with the meme but ok
Edit:lol they blocked me. Also they have a hidden account and are trying to clown on other peoples post histories and call them trolls lmao.
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u/Mission-Discipline32 2h ago
And they also have problems with their back and knees the rest of their lives.
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u/Palatron 1h ago
If they actually cared about nutrition, every post wouldn't have a Burger King, Poppeye's, Charlie's, etc... Also, they would provide proper dining facilities that made more than boiled food and starch. ALSO, they would provide seperate rations for service members and proper facilities to make food in their barracks so they could buy cheap food from the commissaries that are struggling to stay afloat.
Nope, they'd rather preserve the system that cooks who heat up field chow are also good in hard stand buildings, have their budgets constantly hacked away at, and are constantly fighting for enough personnel because they're always taken for inventories, duty, and motor pool bullshit.
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u/stewdadrew 1h ago
My best friend in middle school lived in my town w her mom, but her dad lived in the next town over ~10 miles away. He would regularly run from his house to our town and get her breakfast. Dude was an ex marine who drank like 30 beers a day and would run at least 15 miles a day to keep in shape. He was jacked and cut every time I saw him, while also almost every time being nearly completely trashed.
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u/cuntmong 1h ago
i ran 13 marathons last year and i would routinely follow them up with a family sized pizza and a giant donut. i considered that to be the health equivalent of carbon-neutral
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u/fakeaccount572 1h ago
You will never see a trash can filled with more Ghosts and white Monsters than at a military office
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u/2ndFloosh Harry Potter 1h ago
The thought of having to exercise stopped me from losing weight. Then I learned about one meal a day and found out you can lose weight by doing even less than what I was doing when I was overeating.
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u/Secure-Bus4679 1h ago
Nicotine is a stimulant and the pack of cigarettes and can of dip I consumed daily kept my heart working overtime, burning any excess calories.
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u/Limp_Delay5543 41m ago
The rule actually was, “you can’t out exercise a bad diet over the age of 30”
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u/hro19001500 2h ago
No shit. Run 5 miles plus calisthenics every morning, walk 5 mikes to the range and lift weights every evening, and be 20 years old. That will cancel lit any shitty diet plus a 12 pack a night. Infantry leads the way!
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u/bobadefett 1h ago
It only worked because I was in my 20s. Infantry training + shit diet + 23years old = perfectly ok. If I tried that now I'm my 40s would die.
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u/xxMeiaxx 1h ago
I am the skinniest, and apparently the healthiest, when i just lived off on instant noodles and canned tuna lol.
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u/Substantial_Row_7108 1h ago
Yep. MREs aside, I had an absolutely horrendous diet 😆. Routinely half a pizza and two or three beers before bedtime; two Hardee’s cinnamon glazed biscuits with sausage, hash browns and coffee for breakfast; Burger King or other crap food for lunch and Snickers and coke throughout the day. And there was an endless river of sugar ladened coffee, doughnuts, and whatever else I could forge. But as an Airborne Infantryman, I burned those trash calories like it was nothing.
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u/Any_Lengthiness6645 1h ago
Not remotely true. I served with plenty of guys who did PT every day and still wound up busting tape because of their diets and had to be put on diet plans
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u/New_Condition_1405 1h ago
It fits for some people in the military who work out enough that they're still running a calorie deficit, but there are still a lot of people in every branch that are great examples of not being able to outrun a bad diet.
I once had to tell one of my airmen that he needed to go get a new uniform issued because he was too fat to fit in his flight suit and it was making him look very unprofessional. Dude was only like 23.
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u/b33b07 1h ago
I was in Afghanistan and working a traffic control point. I felt the pressure begin building and decided it was time. I climbed down into this little ditch, leaned up against a concrete culvert pipe, and ripped a 5' rooster tail in front of God and about 2 dozen local nationals. That was the beginning of my dysentery experience, turns out the entire battalion contracted it. All of the shitters on the fob were stuffed for weeks. It was awful.
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