I've had girls look at me strange because I'm short all the time. I've had them look at me funny for wearing flip flops to a steak house, knowing how to read while black, and for not being able to drive a stick too. Its only an issue if you confirm it as such. Hell, I played ball for years and I was always the shortest guy in the crowd - I didn't even know it was supposed to be a big deal at all.
Yeah I didn't even know it meant anything until some random chick said something in my junior year of HS
Yeah seriously. My definition of "stud" isn't entirely positive, but it definitely doesn't include 5'6" 130lb dudes. You can still be attractive without being a "stud," which I view as kind of an idealized physical description (tall, muscular, like a good breeding horse), disregarding all other aspects of a person. I guess others have a different definition of the word.
If wearing flip flops is an issue, then I have some serious problems.
If you're not paying, then do you really want to complain? Some people do, some don't.
If I am outside, and not at work, chances are I'm in flip flops. I don't do it on purpose, it's just habit now I guess and I do it instinctively for convenience. I have to remind myself to put on boots if I'm doing work outside, and that's after having scars on my feet from preventable accidents. Got a nice one last year after tripping over a power washer and having it slice a chunk clean off.
If you saw me walk into a steak house with flip flops, would you make fun of me? Dressed to the nines with everything else, but wearing flip flops?
But I still didn't get any of the girls I wanted. Probably my fault. But again, never heard anything about being attractive... well, I had one friend who thought I was more attractive than him, but he's the same guy who threw away numbers from some random chicks in a shop and his prom date came to him. I didn't go to prom, but that was by choice. I never asked anyone. Besides, one of the people I wanted to go with... well, that's another story. I've been slowly moving myself to "stud" status over the year.
Left pics - June, 2011, 210 pounds.
Right pics - April 2012, 202 pounds.
Growing up...well, I prefer telling that tale in person, haha.
When I dropped out of college to work on GAF full-time, sedentary work at home living didn't combine too well with pizza delivery and drinking juice and soda and beer all the time, and I very quickly ballooned up to a high of 300 pounds in 2009. That wasn't so hot, and I became a mountain hermit from 08-09 or so, barely interacting with people in the outside world at all. In the summer of 2009 I realized what the hell had happened when I no longer recognized myself in the mirror and could barely get up a flight of stairs, stopped deluding myself, and read up extensively on nutrition and fitness and turned it all the way around. Looking back, I don't even have photos from my max, but even at around 260 I'm completely horrified by how I looked. If I ever need a dose of adrenaline I need only look at one of those photos.
6'3 185 lbs right now, active and reasonable lifestyle so I can basically do whatever I want and not worry about it anymore, and more handsome than I've ever been, if I may
And I hear you on the looking at old pictures and being horrified thing. A friend from Japan sent me photos from our 1st-2nd year together there and I can't unsee the angry moon (my much weightier face from before). Embarrassing stuff. Also, I can't imagine you at 300 at all. It just doesn't compute with all the choke outs I've seen you do. ;P
So first Gaf is the source of all evil, but then we find the weight loss thread/fitness threads and it becomes a force for good.
I've been slowly moving myself to "stud" status over the year.
Left pics - June, 2011, 210 pounds.
Right pics - April 2012, 202 pounds.
I went from looking unruly to decent, however I think I went from having a very interesting personality to becoming a blank slate if that counts?
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