My Shirts Don't Fit As Well as Before. Looking for Advice

A few of my shirts fit a bit small now compared to when I first purchased them a few years ago as a new analyst.  I’m not sure if I should try to find a tailor, buy new shirts, or look for specific styles. Any recommendations? Also, any advice to slim down a bit would be really appreciated!

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by far the most effective avenues of losing weight are through diet. It's 80-90% diet and 10-20% exercise. 

2 braindead easy rules to follow:

1. avoid processed foods (incl. pasta, bread, etc - most of them are filled with additives/are highly processed, try to eat grains instead as a carb) 

2. make sure you're having a nice big portion of vegetables with every meal, no matter what. Veggies are super low calorie and very satiating and will take the place otherwise filled with calorically dense foods 

 

+1 to this. Lost 20+ pounds after college after I cut out a lot of processed foods / high calorie diet (was working out 5-7 times a week but had a beer belly). Was too busy to hit the gym at my first job post college so I did loose a lot of muscle (I can't even come close to matching what I used to be able to lift when I was 22/23 but I do feel a lot healthier now with my diet in check). 

 

Slimming down - fairly simple to plan for hard to execute. for me what works is 30mins work out any morning I get 6.5hrs of sleep plus

Then with diet you should be limiting food outside of breakfast, lunch, dinner, 1 healthy snack between breakfast and lunch or lunch and dinner depending on when you're most hungry. Stick to salads and mediterranean types of places on seamless at least 3x/week

Shirts - harder to make clothes bigger than it is smaller. id go ahead and just rebuy if you plan to be this size forever.

 
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Intermittent Fasting was a gamechanger for me. 

I just have 1-2x espresso in the morning and then eat as normal from 12pm.

Focus is much better on an empty stomach as well. 

This isn’t exactly the full picture when you say “eat as normal from 12pm.” Intermittent fasting means eating in 8 hour or less windows and then fasting for 16 hours or more. So technically if you start eating at 12pm, you should stop eating by 8pm.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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Polymer789

Intermittent Fasting was a gamechanger for me. 

I just have 1-2x espresso in the morning and then eat as normal from 12pm.

Focus is much better on an empty stomach as well. 

This isn’t exactly the full picture when you say “eat as normal from 12pm.” Intermittent fasting means eating in 8 hour or less windows and then fasting for 16 hours or more. So technically if you start eating at 12pm, you should stop eating by 8pm.

There are many different iterations of IF, but yes I generally stop eating by 7-8pm. It can vary day-to-day, but ultimately any diet method that will result in high adherence is best. Personally, any diet that is too rigid or attempting to 'just stop eating x or y' is too rigid and doomed to failure imo

 

Athlean x just made a vid abt getting lean and i think it's great message. Instead of focusing on the things to avoid just focus more on getting the good stuff, protein, sleep (however much you need, just get to bed as early as possible), exercise. I.e if your getting enough protein your going to be too satiated to eat some garbage

 

What's your diet and workout routine like? How is your sleep quality and stress levels?

I only have a banana in the morning and then some sort of salad or rice bowl for lunch. Sweetgreen, Cava, Chopt, etc., For dinner it's usually just chicken and broccoli lol. I try to cut out bread. I do have protein pasta sometimes though when I'm craving pasta, but not that often.

Try to work out consistently. You should lift weights but recently I've been really liking F45 classes and boxing classes.

I'd recommend an Oura Ring or Whoop to track your sleep. Sleep is key.

 

Could be time for new shirts if you’re wearing something cheap like trywhit or similar. Dieting is always great, healthy living is never going to be bad thing.

That said if your in the market for new bespoke or MtM shirting I personally recommend Turnbull & Asser and Ralph Lauren Purple Label (only purple label) for RL you can go into their flagship and get an appointment for custom shirting with custom fabrics. You won’t find anything online really. $400-$600/shirt

For a slightly cheaper option Cordon 1956 is great, they have trunk shows for most major cities. $200-$300 /shirt

 
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Could be time for new shirts if you’re wearing something cheap like trywhit or similar. Dieting is always great, healthy living is never going to be bad thing.

That said if your in the market for new bespoke or MtM shirting I personally recommend Turnbull & Asser and Ralph Lauren Purple Label (only purple label) for RL you can go into their flagship and get an appointment for custom shirting with custom fabrics. You won’t find anything online really. $400-$600/shirt

For a slightly cheaper option Cordon 1956 is great, they have trunk shows for most major cities. $200-$300 /shirt

I actually prefer the $1200 - $1500 shirts with the 24 carat gold threads. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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