Go to prior thread for what I am doing, but I think I am going to go back up to 1200 calories a day (at 1000 for the last week which is 100 of fruit and the rest almost all lean protein and most days I was at more like 800). I walk an average hour a day on a treadmill five days a week and I lift for on average 90 minutes six days a week. I also do a lot of prole goy Mr. Fixit things, but those will ramp down when it gets colder. I am also out of wood to chop and split. :-(

An issue I have is finding clothes that fit. My chest is 47in measured (I think because I was fat I have a barrel chest) and my quads are big. I need pleated or relaxed fit pants as for example Levi’s 501 look like skinny jeans on me, but slim fit dress shirts I still look like a pirate. This is fine under a suit, but I don’t know what I am going to wear when it gets cold and I can’t wear slim fit polo shirts (which stretch). I suppose it does not matter as I can wear a coat/jacket/fleece but I would like some decent dress shirts.

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https://huckberry.com/store/shop/bestsellers

Maybe also try their waxed canvas: https://huckberry.com/store/flint-and-tinder/category/p/75996-bighorn-waxed-jacket

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You can't add 2lbs of muscle on a diet of 1200 calories a day. It doesn't matter how much you lift.

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Decided to get close to maintenance calories and redouble my lifting efforts by actually doing core and going hard on legs. I don’t know what maintenance calories are though. 2000 maybe?

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6’2.5: 2100

6’: 1400

5’10: 500

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havent ever had much visceral belly fat afaik

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Overall, not fat really, but have some fat left to lose. Also I look jacked in clothes. Narrow waist and a barrel chest and big arms is a good look. Without clothes, I still need a lot of work.

Work is a lot now, so I am doing 4 days a week lifting as opposed to 6-7 and I buy into the recovery thing and I do think I was overtraining by arms.

Been averaging 1500 calories with the additional calories over 1000/1200 coming from switching pork tenderloin and chicken to steak and ground beef more. Basically I do non-lift days 1000 and lift days more like 2000.

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Edit: I eat healthier food than literally anyone. I feel bad if I eat boneless skinless chicken thighs rather than breasts. I consider rice to be terrible, I ate whatever is in one small box of beans and rice in the last few months. I eat top round because strip steak is too fatty and I trim any fat off the top round. I have had zero sugar in months (including things where it is added to a food). I have had three small pieces of bread in three months. I eat shrimp plain. I don’t use protein powder. I have had three or four French fries (cooked in beef tallow) as far as fried food.

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I ate 2lbs of chicken breast, 300g of sweet potato, a can of green beans, a pear, and a small kiwi today. 1490 calories, 225g of protein. I walked 3 miles plus at a brisk pace and lifted for over two hours doing chest and arms. I am trying to get back to six days a week lifting if I can.

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I like my ED (eating disorder not erectile disfunction). I am trying to have the healthiest diet possible. IDGAF if it is an ED or not, it’s better than 99.9999% of what people in the US eat.

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Long story short, Diamond Dallas’s twink comment got to me so I am eating more and lifting even heavier. I am probably going to hurt myself, but I want 18in biceps so I can say my biceps are the size my neck used to be.

Maybe it was the intense work out yesterday evening. I did hydrate a ton and I ate 1960 calories with 244 grams of protein and a fair amount of carbs in that so I guess I am still in a deficit? Or maybe it just burned all the glycogen in my arms (should not really do that much, today is leg day). I just don’t know. I also had/have been walking a lot (close to a 4mph pace but only a couple miles a day).

Anyway, as much as I like steak, I bought 10lbs of boneless skinless chicken and figure I eat a couple pounds a day. I do like the thighs better by a significant degree as they reheat nicer (I am indifferent when they are fresh off the grill).

I also discovered cauliflower rice. Broccoli and brussel sprouts are flame compared to cauliflower. Oh, and eggplant. 100 calories a pound. And who knew mushrooms had so much protein. Portobellos are pretty 180 with chicken. I use fruit and Celsius as preworkout. The actual preworkout and ashwandwhatever the heck it is makes me feel odd.

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This is how weight loss has always worked for me. Seemingly flatlines for a while, then the weight gets flushed after a hard workout and hits a new low. Some of it is glycogen and will come back but most won't.

You need to be careful man. Most of my training injuries over the years were from lifting too heavy in a caloric deficit. You are probably overtraining right now if you are running a cut. The only way you are going to add mass to your biceps in a deficit is if you have amazing genetics to where your "beginner" training physique has 18 inch lean biceps. Not likely, but you can technically add some mass going from "untrained" to "beginner." Or if you were pretty far along and had them at 19+ before, then they deteriorated to 16.5, you might get them back to 18 in a deficit. But if 18 is your prior peak (or a new high), you're just gonna get injured.

Long frequent workouts targeting shit like biceps is not what I would do on a cut at all to begin with. Compound lifts, less workouts, less volume, maintain as much strength as possible. If you keep your strength high, you will BLOW UP when you start eating again. If you drag everything out, eating to be able to train at a high volume but not building muscle because you're in a deficit, eventually you'll just start wasting away. Your body fat won't be as low as you want because you didn't run a big enough deficit, and you'll hit a wall where your strength drops a lot because you've been in a deficit for too long. And this is all going to be magnified because you weren't starting with a decent muscular base to begin with.

I would bulk and build a decent base (not dirty bulk) and then do a hard fast cut instead of trying to do multiple things at once.

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I appreciate your concern and I tore the shit out of a shoulder last time I got on a kick (which ended with the injury). I have learned my lesson on heavy flyes. I have been half ass bro lifting curls and presses for decades so I think I am safe there unless I get to a point where I can go really heavy (which I feel no need to at this point). My biggest concern is that I reinjure my knee/ankle everything else that I destroyed before.

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Also, if you were formerly really strong, your muscles are going to gain strength faster than your ligaments and joints can handle it. You don't want to wear them down. Definitely take some supplements for that even if they feel fine.

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