Tyler James5 said:Honestly, you don't even need to spend all day hovering over a stove to eat better than what you're doing now. It’s actually pretty easy to balance out your macros—just tweak the protein, fats, and carbs a bit. Throw some fresh fruit and a salad into your daily routine, grab a multivitamin, and maybe swap out half those sugary sodas for sparkling water or just plain old H2O. There are tons of threads on this forum where you can dig up specific advice on that stuff. And just find a way to move... hit the gym, go for walks, whatever gets the blood pumping.
But here's the real kicker: that layer of subcutaneous fat, combined with being sedentary—and if you happen to smoke, which you didn't mention, and man, I really hope you aren't... but let's face it, that combo is everywhere—it slows down the circulation in your tiny peripheral blood vessels and capillaries. That means any surface wounds take forever to heal, and your immune system isn't going to be nearly as tough against microbes.
Plus, given your age, you're probably dealing with skin issues driven by hormones too. The silver lining of being a young guy is that your body is basically a sponge; it'll react incredibly fast once you actually start eating right and working out.
For skin that's prone to clogged pores and those deep, under-the-skin breakouts, you should use a body wash containing salicylic acid, and then follow up with a moisturizer that has AHA acids... just tell the clerk at CVS what you're looking for, they'll know what's up.
Regardless of what's causing that specific ulcer on your shoulder and the one on your arm—stuff a doctor might try to fix with antibiotics—you seriously have to change how you eat and how much you move, otherwise you're headed for a major health crisis. I mean, it's pretty obvious you shouldn't be polishing off three chocolate bars in one sitting, right? You don't need to be a professional nutritionist to get that.
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I don't smoke. I don't even drink alcohol, 99% of the time. :P But the reality is that I barely move at all. I sit at my desk all day at work, then I come home and just sit there. In fact, I was so stationary recently that the entire right side of my head and lower back seized up, leaving me with a bit of a tilted head. I'm asking about this here because I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, and whenever I notice something unusual, my mind immediately jumps to the worst-case scenario. As for the chocolate—I don't usually eat it. I generally avoid candy and sweets, but I guess I had a moment of weakness and polished off some large Toblerones, two Kinder bars, and a bag of those mini Snickers. For nearly a week after that, everything felt sore, from the subcutaneous boils to the ulcers.
So, is it possible this is just some kind of infection or something similar? It isn't raised; about once a week, enough of that green gunk builds up that it falls off along with the scab, leaks a little, and then a new scab forms. The skin surrounding it is redder than the rest of my skin. About a week or two ago, it looked like two small pits and was raised, almost as if a subcutaneous boil had surfaced, and then I ended up digging at it until it became one slightly larger, flat pit, which is how it has remained since.
