Certainly there are things you cannot change (your facial features, height, eye color, etc), and your genetic features. Yet, there is so much you can change!

My overall critique of the notion of “body acceptance” is this:

It is depressing. It’s telling yourself, “This is the body you’re stuck with, and there is nothing you can do about it”.

It is fatalism.

What’s a superior approach? I say—

Okay there are certain things I can change and certain things I cannot change. Disregard the aspects I cannot change, but take radical control of the things I can change!

For example, weight lifting as “epigenetics”, or how you can modify your genetics. Any human being, if they start weight training will and must put on muscle mass (skeletal muscle mass). This is a physiological fact. For example it is impossible for anyone who can deadlift 500+ pounds to not have bigger muscles than someone who cannot. Or in other words,

If you start training deadlift, squat, and bench press it is impossible to not put on muscle mass and to increase the size and strength and “swoleness” of your muscles.

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“But I’m a “hard gainer!”“

Everyone is a hard gainer. And also, I am starting to think the notion of being a “hard gainer”, being an “ectomorph”, or being a “mesomorph” or any of these new pseudo-scientific classifications are the new bodily racism.

For example, typically speaking Asian guys, especially Asian Americans (East Asians, Southeast Asians, South Asians) see themselves as physiologically inferior to African-Americans, or those with African descent. For example something I realized when I first deadlifted 4 plates and a 25 on each side (around 455 pounds)—

Everyone at the gym was so shocked I could do it.

But I asked my friend, “If I were African-American, would people be as shocked?” He laughed and said frankly, “Probably not”.

The ancient Greeks were “colored”

This is why all these “color politics” annoys me so much — it is ignorant and inaccurate. For example, let us agree that the height of past civilization and greatness were the ancient Greeks. They were all “colored” Mediterranean folks. No “Caucasian’s” or “white” folks here. Everyone probably looked like they had a good tan — olive colored skin.

And the height of all their achievements in terms of strength, military prowess, athleticism, wisdom, intelligence etc wasn’t a race thing — all Greeks were Greeks. Certainly there was a subdivision of slaves, free men, artisans, soldiers, merchants and aristocrats, but in Greece, all were Greek.

Back to the body

Taking it back to the body — any human being given a certain approach will and must put on muscle mass, and remove body fat (adipose tissue). The bigger issue at hand is an optimization thing —

How quickly or slowly can I do it?

And I think this is how we fail — we are all in such a hurry. I say it is simple:

1. To increase muscle mass and size, simply start powerlifting and slowly and gradually attempting heavier weights.
2. To decrease body fat (adipose tissue), start intermittent fasting (no breakfast or lunch, only one massive dinner meal a day), and quit all sugar (natural or fake), quit all sweet stuff, all starchy things (even the “healthy” starches like carrots, broccoli, cauliflower), all “vegetables” (most vegetables are starches in disguise).

Then what can you eat? Simple:

1. Lots of red and fatty meat. Also organ meats. I love beef belly, lamb, beef liver, beef heart, lamb belly, beef ribs, etc. Eggs as a supplemental snack (if I have leftover beef belly oil in the frying pan I just cook 8-12 eggs in it).
2. Bitter greens and herbs. Kale, spinach, chrysanthemum greens— anything bitter. Bitter is better.

Take your time

Perhaps with transforming your body, give it a year. Or a decade.

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Stop looking at bodybuilders on social media (they’re all on strange supplements, hormones, steroids, etc). Instead look at Ancient Greek heroes — The Farnese Hercules. The Doryphoros.

Also, spend more time looking at yourself. Shoot more selfies of yourself, your body, etc. Become more fascinated with your own body than the body of others.

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Also I say—

See your body as superior to the body of others, and don’t desire to exchange your body with any other human on the planet.

“Are you all natty bro?”

No problems with plastic surgery. Only critique —

It doesn’t hold up well over time.

For example women I see with plastic surgery in their older years end up looking frightening.

If you got in a car accident and your face got torn up (Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky), certainly plastic surgery is great! Yet if you’re already beautiful, striving to become MORE beautiful is not a good path.

Big boobs as a trend?

Something random I read online which I found interesting:

With men being attracted to women breasts— it isn’t about breast size, rather “perkiness” (the suppleness of the breast and the direction the nipples point, ideally upwards) as a sign of health and youth.

Big breasts (unnaturally big, plastic surgery implants) I think are just a Hollywood (Pamela Anderson) trend.

A superior trend I see is the “big butt” trend, as all women can get a bigger and more muscular butt and glutes through squats, deadlift, hip thrusters etc.

Even for myself, I’m most proud of my legs (my thunder thighs, turbo thighs) and my butt than any other part of my body. That and my back.

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How Brad Pitt changed the game

I believe up unto this point, Brad Pitt has been the alpha male in American society, and also with Hollywood celebrity. His body physique in Fight Club was the #1 desirable aesthetic.

Also, the movie 300– the physique of King Leonidas and the insanely ripped Spartan 300 soldiers.