Bulge Beware

Blogger has (Corrrection: Had, seems to be fixed now) my dates screwed up, today is Tuesday April 29. This article caught my eye from the Chicago Tribune:

In an overwhelmingly overweight nation that worships thinness, many describe prejudice against the obese as one of the last socially acceptable biases. Advocates for the plus-sized, particularly activists in the "fat acceptance" movement, want obesity to become a category legally protected against discrimination, like religion, race, age and sex. But not everyone agrees.One such law, to ban discrimination against weight and height, is pending in Massachusetts.

Well of course fat people are discriminated against. And fit athletic people get the benefit of the doubt. That's pretty much why gyms and diets and eating disorders exist. Duh. Eight years ago I had just finished two back to back Cybergenic cycles (Cybergenics: An exceedingly brutal routine which I'm sure I'll blog about at some point and maybe even try a modified version of in the next few weeks), the second eight week cycle done while in deep ketosis, and I followed up them up with a week of dehydration for a photo shoot.

At the end I was 160 lbs of cut, hard, rippling, vascular honk'n muscle man. And I assure you, people treated me differently than they do now at my current flabby 185 lbs. And I don't just mean potential mates, I mean the 16 year-old kid at the shoestore or the fifty-something plumber making a house call to fix my toilet. Everyone. It was subtle and no doubt unintentional, but it was there then and it's there now.

I doubt anyone means to do this, but it's a fact, it happens. And of course employers gauge an applicant in part by their appearance, and that includes fitness. Beautiful people get treated better. I think the weight thing is much harder on women though. More on this later.

Still sore, did 20 mins step with a SIX inch box thank you very much followed by lunges to failure and a set of seated crunches. Tomorrow it'll be the real deal again. Anyone know if that legal version of transdermal andro-test sold online is worth a shit? I'm thinking of doing a cycle of androstenidione -- yes, the legal precursor not any banned anabolic stuff -- starting in a month, but I don't really want that crap going through my liver. I'd just as soon it soak through my skin.