📅 Month 2: Reset or Rot? , Still Ugly but at least things have changed

[Kazura_]

TL;DR
Month 1 was chaos since I had so many things to improve on. Month 2 was clarity since I learned which things I should focus on, in this case, less is more. I'm trying to make a few small changes into consistent daily habits, focusing on too many things is cope .

I’ve made no visible progress IMO, maybe even look worse...

Before vs After

Sadly, I feel it looks more like Before Vs Before. I got some feedback saying I look autistic and miserable in all my pictures, so I tried to smile, now hopefully I just look autistic. Photos are from last week when I went to see family, I know the angles are not ideal etc but thought these photos would be more accurate than some selfie or screenshot on Zoom, which I used before in a post, and they made me look better, which made me think I had improved.

I’ve actually started doing the boring daily work that makes results inevitable if I stay consistent (mewing-wise I started today and ordered a jawliner arriving next week, minoxidil and finas take a while to see results but if I start daily now it will be easier to track things month by month )

Also, because I spend so much time thinking about looksmaxing now that I'm aware how chopped I am it makes it easier to change, before family and friends would be like 'bruh you don't even look that bad ' but obviously I've never had a gf now will I ever have one looking like this but only the people here will admit it, I know when it comes to relationships that it's immature to think if I just look better that will change, its also going to be my personality, status and probably everything tbh that needs improving and even when I reach a decent point I should not try to hope some female will make my life better.

I got feedback in my last posts that I'm wasting time with all this, and just need to get money asap and get surgery, like 20% of the comments seem like that and sure, maybe there are some things I cannot fix naturally and if I had money I should fix it with surgery asap but I don't have the money and have so much to improve on naturally, I can fix issues with money but without any understanding of what caused them my lifestyle and habits will screw me over long term , e.g I got told to correct posture so started sitting straight on my PC and now I have back ache, so now I'm realsing my posture before was bad ( slouched on keyboard ) and resulting in a bunch of issues but now, even the solution which I thought was easy ( just remember to straighten back ) is more complex than I thought and is a habit I need to study and repeat daily for the rest of my life to actually fix, even if I got some back surgery or something I would still bend over to type on my keyboard. ( current fixes are to type without looking or to get an adjustable desk )



TL;DR

• My photos still look mid.
• My sleep is trash some nights.
• My meals are inconsistent.
• My lifestyle has been reactive, not built.
• I wasted time looking into surgeries and advanced routines before I even built a consistent sleep-wake cycle or a single meal I eat daily.

What Actually Improved​

Habits​

• Wake time is now consistently 6–7am.
• Running daily (was 5km → now 6–10km/day). Few off days due to injury from the increase but hopefully should adapt soon, Goal is 10km daily in 40 min, currently at 50 min
• Added consistent daily shake (morning): whey + milk + oats + pumpkin seeds + spirulina
• Evening: variable high-calorie meal to hit baseline macros + calories.

Protocol Additions​

• Starting Finasteride + Minoxidil daily this month (brows, hairline, preventative).
• Started mewing (daily reminders, tracking tongue placement + posture).
• Started collagen for long-term skin/joint quality.
• Tracking sleep time + aiming to increase slowly.

I will probably not see any changes for at least 2 months from these, even if I manage to make them daily habits and don't miss a day, mewing and running will be the hardest ones. Probably made these too long but I mainly just make these for myself now to track progress. might make some actual side profile pictures or something soon so its easier to visualise change/ lack of it

 

[MOWANA]

Don't run either sprint or incline walk

Cover your forehead , thicker eyebrows also dye them black
I don't really know about the glasses you probably should lose them
Consider using hydrocortisone on nose to shrink it abit
Check @xnj thread about it for full instructions

 

[Zygomaxxic]

Start using contact lenses and get a rhinoplasty if you can.

 

[Kazura_]

I’ve actually started doing the boring daily work that makes results inevitable if I stay consistent (mewing-wise I started today and ordered a jawliner arriving next week, minoxidil and finas take a while to see results but if I start daily now it will be easier to track things month by month )

Don't run either sprint or incline walk

Cover your forehead , thicker eyebrows also dye them black
I don't really know about the glasses you probably should lose them
Consider using hydrocortisone on nose to shrink it abit
Check @xnj thread about it for full instructions

• Running vs sprint: My goal right now is to lock in any cardio habit. Once that’s solid, I’ll experiment with sprints or incline walks for conditioning.
  
  Forehead/eyebrows: I’m tracking minoxidil+finasteride for brows and hairline. Will look into eyebrow dye once I see initial regrowth.

 

[Kazura_]

Start using contact lenses and get a rhinoplasty if you can.

Contacts: ( i went for the appointment where they try to open your eye and put them in and they couldn't because I have a strong reflex or something, so they said practice at home, then rebook )
Rhino: I’ll fund that once I’ve mastered the basics. No point cutting corners on habits if I can’t maintain them post-op. it seems to be the biggest issue with my face everyone mentions but I'm also a mouth breather so I know fixing that can impact nose positioning but it would take like a year of consistency also even with a perfect nose I would still be ugly but also poorer which is why I say I have so much to improve naturally first

 

[slaters]

Chad

 

[LTNUser]

Chad

He has potential brah, you should cheer him up actually

 

[slaters]

He has potential brah, you should cheer him up actually

Youre assuming I’m not ?

 

[Zygomaxxic]

Contacts: ( i went for the appointment where they try to open your eye and put them in and they couldn't because I have a strong reflex or something, so they said practice at home, then rebook )
Rhino: I’ll fund that once I’ve mastered the basics. No point cutting corners on habits if I can’t maintain them post-op. it seems to be the biggest issue with my face everyone mentions but I'm also a mouth breather so I know fixing that can impact nose positioning but it would take like a year of consistency also even with a perfect nose I would still be ugly but also poorer which is why I say I have so much to improve naturally first

I feel you. It took me 30 minutes to an hour to put a contact in for the first time (8th grade, they wouldn't let me leave until I did it).
Also, how much protein do you get in a day? I, personally, aim for 1 gram per pound of body weight (so 138 for me).
But yeah, don't give up, keep working, and you'll be bound to undergo some level of improvement, aesthetic or mental.

 

[J99]

hey bro. i gotta say you're is actually decent. i recommend you use minoxidil for beard and brows. also grow a moustache because your upper lip is super thin.