I began my serious training almost a year ago. My dad contacted me with a fitness teacher. He's excellent. Taught me everything I need to know about nutrition, good practices and of course he guides me in the gym.
Now I'm facing a sort of new reality: everything that I was hoping for, but at the same time didn't think would happen, is happening.
I'll start with what my teacher told me. He said oyu're gonna forgete about that bad knee. Which came true, I'm already lifting pretty much the double of my weight in the leg press. That was my goal. The pain, the cracking… gone. Just a minor hint of disconfort on rare ocations. But that's it. I can run again. No problem.
He said also that I'd get the "six pack" abs. I thought "yeah, right. I was always a fatty in the stomach, even when I was leaner". Well, I'm not quite there yet but I can see it forming and every week I notice more definition in the abs. I can touch my stomach and feel the rounded shape of the abs. It's almost a scary feeling.
Then, there's the things that were promised by my "online research" here in /fit/ and in other places. The most important is the face. Oh fuck the face. If only every man knew. I look so fucking different. I can see my adams apple, I can see my neck is much thinner and nicer, then my jaw is so much more defined. The jaw is such a big difference. My cheekbones appeared out of nowwhere and just basically I have a many face now. The only thing that ruins it a bit is my scars from acne I had as a teen. Still, it's such a massive improvement. It was exactly like those before and after pics suggested.
It comes down to baby fat. I wasn't fat, I mean maybe I was. "Chubby" or whatever. Since I'm tall, I didn't look that chubby, but the fat was there. I was hitting 100kg, now I weight 78kg.
In my training, I build muscle as I lost fat. I went through a bit of a skinny face, it didn't last long tho.
My body now is lean and muscular. Baby fat is fading. I don't have huge muscles, those who are tall will understand that our muscles don't look the same. However, next year I'll probably pack some serious heat if I keep going this way.
I was also able to quit porn and fap less. Now I been fapping once a week for about a month.
I got more confidence, got friends and now I'm thinking of getting a gf. A year ago I was a loner, I never called myself "incel" or any faggy name but I was just that: alone in my room playing vidya or doing whatever.
My testosterone levels are probably higher. I'll ask my trainer about that. I want to start approaching girls, but I have my doubts as to what to do for religious reasons.
Anyways, sorry for the wall of text but if there's anyone out there that thinks they can't make it, I can tell you now that if you put in the effort, it'll happen. Unless you're too ulgy or short, but even then I've seen ugly guys that with a gym body look ok and have more confidence at least.
As for me, I wonder if you guys that have been through this path have any advice on how to deal with all these changes.