Stopped at 181 instead cause I was just getting fat. 10 lbs seems to be the magical number no matter how fast I bulk -- more than that and it's just fat.FredM wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:14 pmYup. My post SS year was 210-180. When I started I thought I'd be able to cut to 175-180, bulk to 190 and look like Jordan or Austin. Instead, I was still 20% bf at 180 so decided I should gain first to 195 then cut again. This time I'd cut to 170 and bulk to 180 and still look reasonably jacked and lean. But I'm still 18% bf at 170. So now I'm super slowly gaining until 185 then cutting to 165 when I'll finally achieve final form. Trust me. This time I'll be ripped af at 165.dw wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 5:32 pmDid you have the experience that the more weight you loss, the more you realize you had to keep losing to get lean?
I've done a few big cuts and I'm always amazed at how optimistic my initial projections are. I think your average SS graduate could probably get down to about 160 pounds at 15% BF. Yet they think they've "filled out" at 200 or whatever.
It's more than a little depressing that, at 5' 11", I'd need to be 155 to get under 15% bf. I don't think I have the willpower to make that happen. Comparing my body to post growth spurt HS (168 lbs) I'd guess I gained like 10 lbs of LBM after 4 years of lifting and bulking/cutting. Fortunately I've found other reasons to lift than looking good without my shirt or deadlifting 500 lbs -- cause otherwise I'd definitely quit this sh**.
Week 4 and I'm back down to 174 already. I plugged in my goal to macrofactor then just stopped tracking because cutting is kind of a joke now. I just skip a meal. Sometimes I accidentally skip two because work gets in the way of the second meal timing. With coffee I'm barely, if ever "hungry."
Of course, if it's anything like last time I'll hit an abrupt wall at 170. But now I'll be mentally prepared this time to track everything and break through to 165 (that's what I'm telling myself). Probably getting below my post growth spurt weight at age 16 is way harder (losing baby fat). Something something fat cells something hormones something something.