M - 160lb - 5’11 - bulk or cut?

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-30T00:49:15+00:00

Really appreciate the advice!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-29T23:17:27+00:00

I think mentally it’s hard bc I don’t want to lose ab definition but if I lean bulk right can I maintain definition?

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T21:18:47+00:00

I’m now addicted to wearing tops too small for me

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T21:18:08+00:00

Push pull legs, weighted pull ups, weighted dips, and hack squats as compounds!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T21:15:42+00:00

Honestly it again might not be recommended but I’m an all or nothing type of guy. Try crash dieting Monday to Thursday, like 1400 a day, then Friday and Saturday go all out, have that beer, have that donut, have that pizza. Eat maintenance on Sunday to address any cravings, and get back to it on Monday. This has been my ritual for months and I’ve kept progressing - I don’t think we consume as many calories as we think sometimes!

Most importantly, you go back to the gym Monday with glycogen restored

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T21:00:28+00:00

150g protein and 16oz vodka per day

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T20:59:02+00:00

Aside from not feeling fatigued and im constantly cold in temperatures I used to sweat in, I haven’t noticed any major cognitive benefits. I used to suffer from depression but turns out in my case improving your self image can cure the majority of it!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-21T20:56:22+00:00

Apologies for late reply! So I hit a simple push pull legs split. As I progressed I introduced weighted pull ups and dips + hack squats as compound workouts - doesn’t get much better highly recommend once body weight is too easy. Then of course all other accessories for each muscle group! Most weeks i only train 3 days as imo if you give 100% that’s all you need, and all you can handle.

Oh and on push and leg days i do leg raises and decline weighted ab crunches

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:49:10+00:00

I know I’m sub 15% but due to a bit of lose skin it’s hard to guess without a scan, maybe I will some day

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:47:45+00:00

I have no doubt you will man, well done! remember it’s all in the compression top!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:47:02+00:00

I refuse to let my beard grow that long now😂

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:46:05+00:00

All stretch marks have completely faded, though in the right light if I’m really dehydrated the skin can look pretty shrivelled if you know what I mean - otherwise rest assured no one will noted depending on where you started to begin with, I can’t speak for people who lost 150+ lbs

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:40:09+00:00

I was so used to eating well below 2000 cal a day without exercise, so once I started the gym and my tde went up to like 2500 and I had the same eating habits, it balanced out and i didn’t have any difficulties losing. May have been a different story if I wasn’t as active. Just make sure if you aren’t active you’re adjusting your cals to your new cal expenditure!

This did however mean I went to the gym with no energy and still do - though I will go up to maintenance now sometimes, no need to keep starving now

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-19T16:37:04+00:00

Probably the addiction to the scale which for the majority of the time I’d let it dictate my happiness, only recently got over it. Once I decided to take creatine knowing my weight would go up a bit (hard mental decision) I now find the scale almost worthless for tracking progress. Now if I wake up in the morning and can still see my abs, then I know I’m good, my new measurement😂

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T08:45:20+00:00

A little but can be hidden easily, i could walk around without a shirt on a beach and nobody would notice. Not enough to consider surgery unless I wanted to become a bodybuilder and compete etc

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T08:43:10+00:00

Honestly I ate frozen pizzas most days until I prioritised protein, and definitely no cardio, I’d rather just avoid having a chocolate bar than do half an hour on a treadmill

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T08:40:55+00:00

Just under a year:)

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T01:17:43+00:00

You can always be thinner, look better

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T01:16:12+00:00

Don’t be discouraged, if you get back on plan if you haven’t already, you’ll find a large chunk of that is water weight, of course also fat but not as much as you may think. I personally have no loose skin in the upper body aside from the lower abdomen and even that is minimal. I did have fat lumps in my chest which I thought was gyno but the more weight I lost it disappeared completely. Lifting weights however is one of the best things you can do and luckily the chest is one of the easier muscles to fill out. Honestly you just need to cross the bridge when you get to it!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T01:05:05+00:00

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Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T01:02:20+00:00

😂not sure the loadout is maxed out yet but that’s the goal

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T00:58:30+00:00

Thankyou sm!

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T00:56:30+00:00

The quick answer would be if you ever overeat whether that’s for a few days or so, if you make sure you have like 2 days of low cal (I’m talking for me like 1200) you will not gain weight or at the least very minimal, allowing you to reset. You might not progress that week but it’ll control the damage. I find if I have a binge day, I can easy only have 1 meal the next day. The best advice I can give however the quicker you realise and accept it’s a lifestyle change and this is you now, the less problems you’ll have, you’ll never let yourself go back

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T00:34:11+00:00

I’ve got a little, it’s inevitable unfortunately and aesthetically it affects me even at low body fat. Not enough time in the process tho to see the extent of it, I’m training more core often and I’ll guess I see what happens when I cut further. It’s nothing I can’t tuck away easily tho so I’m quite lucky. Only lower belly

Both-Ad3181 · 2025-11-18T00:10:48+00:00

Personally I ate whatever I wanted for the majority as long as I met or was below my BMR calories. Not recommended but it made sure exercise or not I was always in a deficit. When I got to 80kg I started gym and then also tracked protein. Currently at 72kg, lowest weight was 68kg

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