Mfras
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I’ll start with a TLDR then move into way too many words unless you’re taking the crap of your life on company time:
PEDs are great fun- they’re why most of us are here, and optimized training & recovery should be a given, but perhaps our most powerful lever to pull to affect body composition is FOOD! This log is meant to document my adventures, progress, and missteps as I move from ending an epic cut into maintenance then attempt to lean bulk on and off cycle.
Ok so that’s my thesis. Here comes the long part. Because this is the nutrition subforum that’s my primary topic but let’s get the other awesome shit out of the way.
I train 5x week, LISS and heavy lifting and keep it mostly boring and repetitive with some fun mixed in on top, always exploring maximum recoverable stimulus & volume. Could it be better? Of course, always. But I fucking show up like clockwork, work hard, and pay attention to always making progress, and mostly avoid new nagging injuries.
I drink 1-1.5gal water a day, get my sleep, and stretch.
I keep my suppliment stack really simple- fish/krill oil, multivitamin, zinc, creatine, and pm magnesium.
I pay attention to bloodwork, performance, energy levels, and log my lifts, tailor’s tape, daily AM bodyweight with an eye on the center of the cluster inside normal water flux, and get a few dexa scans a year.
Right now I’m on 160mg testC split tues/fri with no AI, 5mg reta/week, 6.6mg GH split am/pm, 40mg telmisartan & 10mg cialis/day.
I’m 6’3” and 240lbs this morning. Last 2 dexas had me at 210 then 213 fat free mass so I’m calling it 212.25lbs FFM which I’m taking conservatively and saying I’m currently at 12% fat.
I started getting into the bodybuilding lifestyle because after a fucked up motorcycle wreck and the pandemic I hit an all time high of 355lbs. I’ve been super dialed in for years now, cutting around 120lbs and gaining a lot of solid muscle. Did some ill advised short duration fat guy cycles here and there too that were actually really productive.
Currently around 5lbs from finishing my cut- whatever that looks like is fine although I am trying to hit a spot where the last major ugly fat deposits that are hanging on to the bitter end are mostly gone. Even though dexa has me at 12% or lower my physique is fucked because I am old and was fat my whole life. I was also super active though and although it cursed me with terrible skin it blessed me with a ton of lower body and trunk strength- as if I wore a 120lb weight vest for decades and finally took it off. If only I had been walking on my hands jesus I’d be jacked to death.
Ok so that’s kind of all the baseline shit. Now we finally get to the actual topic- FOOD!
I use the paid MyFitnessPal app and log everything that goes in my mouth. I’m at ≈5-6lbs left before I feel like I’ll reach a tipping point where fucked skin looks worse than less fat, at what the dexa says will be around high 10%. I am eating 2000-2100cal/day and hitting a minimum of 210g protein and 60g fat. The rest is carbs. When I was truely a fat fuck that was over 1.5lbs/week but at current body comp it’s looking more like .8-.9lbs/ week.
Here’s a pic then that’s more than enough for a first post- nobody wants to read war & peace and I’ll fill in more about my progress and future plans later in other posts that are also way way too long!
PEDs are great fun- they’re why most of us are here, and optimized training & recovery should be a given, but perhaps our most powerful lever to pull to affect body composition is FOOD! This log is meant to document my adventures, progress, and missteps as I move from ending an epic cut into maintenance then attempt to lean bulk on and off cycle.
Ok so that’s my thesis. Here comes the long part. Because this is the nutrition subforum that’s my primary topic but let’s get the other awesome shit out of the way.
I train 5x week, LISS and heavy lifting and keep it mostly boring and repetitive with some fun mixed in on top, always exploring maximum recoverable stimulus & volume. Could it be better? Of course, always. But I fucking show up like clockwork, work hard, and pay attention to always making progress, and mostly avoid new nagging injuries.
I drink 1-1.5gal water a day, get my sleep, and stretch.
I keep my suppliment stack really simple- fish/krill oil, multivitamin, zinc, creatine, and pm magnesium.
I pay attention to bloodwork, performance, energy levels, and log my lifts, tailor’s tape, daily AM bodyweight with an eye on the center of the cluster inside normal water flux, and get a few dexa scans a year.
Right now I’m on 160mg testC split tues/fri with no AI, 5mg reta/week, 6.6mg GH split am/pm, 40mg telmisartan & 10mg cialis/day.
I’m 6’3” and 240lbs this morning. Last 2 dexas had me at 210 then 213 fat free mass so I’m calling it 212.25lbs FFM which I’m taking conservatively and saying I’m currently at 12% fat.
I started getting into the bodybuilding lifestyle because after a fucked up motorcycle wreck and the pandemic I hit an all time high of 355lbs. I’ve been super dialed in for years now, cutting around 120lbs and gaining a lot of solid muscle. Did some ill advised short duration fat guy cycles here and there too that were actually really productive.
Currently around 5lbs from finishing my cut- whatever that looks like is fine although I am trying to hit a spot where the last major ugly fat deposits that are hanging on to the bitter end are mostly gone. Even though dexa has me at 12% or lower my physique is fucked because I am old and was fat my whole life. I was also super active though and although it cursed me with terrible skin it blessed me with a ton of lower body and trunk strength- as if I wore a 120lb weight vest for decades and finally took it off. If only I had been walking on my hands jesus I’d be jacked to death.
Ok so that’s kind of all the baseline shit. Now we finally get to the actual topic- FOOD!
I use the paid MyFitnessPal app and log everything that goes in my mouth. I’m at ≈5-6lbs left before I feel like I’ll reach a tipping point where fucked skin looks worse than less fat, at what the dexa says will be around high 10%. I am eating 2000-2100cal/day and hitting a minimum of 210g protein and 60g fat. The rest is carbs. When I was truely a fat fuck that was over 1.5lbs/week but at current body comp it’s looking more like .8-.9lbs/ week.
Here’s a pic then that’s more than enough for a first post- nobody wants to read war & peace and I’ll fill in more about my progress and future plans later in other posts that are also way way too long!
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