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Re: Weight Loss - Feeling fucking miserable. Depression, possibly ED too?

[vicfrankenstein]

Hi lynx!

I don't know exactly what to say. I have a vaguely similar experience, when I think about it, but also completely opposite. First, your trainer is a jerk. Second, maybe rock climbing? If not, you don't need to read on, but I'll ramble on like an obsessive about why it might help you out.

1. Rock climbing has a very positive and supportive community. It's amazing. Everyone I met has been helpful and supportive and friendly. No belayer? (person who stands on the ground and uses a device ot keep you from falling, if you didn't know.) Well then someone will offer! Or just ask them and they'll probably be more than willing. Need motivation? They'll tell you you can do it or offer suggestions. Need them to STFU? Just tell them and they will. They're willing to educate and help out. It's great.

2. Goals! I always felt like going to a regular gym... was boring. I never felt like I was working toward anything. With climbing, you have a clear goal: climb better, climb harder routes! You also know where your problems are. Is it your strength, your balance, your stamina, your flexibility, or is it reading the routes or holding onto the holds? There's always a goal. It helps keep you from stopping.

3. Full-body and mind. Climbing uses pretty much every muscle. Usually it's your arms first, but then legs come in, and core, back, and even your hand and foot muscles. Plus you learn to balance, you learn to look at the holds and see how to move to get there. It's amazing. Before I climbed I felt that huge disconnect between my mind and body. They felt like enemies. But climbing trained me to have them work together.

4. Safety. I know rock climbing seems scary as shit. It was to me at first. I'm still scared of heights. It takes time to learn to trust your equipment and yourself (and your belayer), but... eventually, for most people, it goes away. There is essentially no danger if you know what you're doing. Yeah, that takes time, but that's what us friendly, experienced climbers are for! You just need to check your harness, check your knot, check your partner (they do all the same) and boom.

5. No teams! Most sports rely heavily on how other people perform. I know I always felt like I was holding people back or they were holding me back, or communication was wrong and everything went badly. Climbing is solo. Yes, you have a belayer and yes, communicating with them is important. However, I think there's a huge difference between "shit get the ball and kick it into the goal oh man you missed" and the call-and-response communication in climbing. "On belay?" "Belay is on." "Climbing?" "Climb on." Simple. and doesn't change.

TLDR: Climbers are nicer than your shitty trainer. It gives you a goal and a full-body workout. I also think the muscle might help with some of the gender dysphoria, but don't quote me on that. (All my new muscle in my back and shoulders makes me want to dress male even more than normal, honestly. I'd just be awesome, and I finally feel like my body could help instead of hinder.)