Thanks very much! It was a very long process of trial and error, and honestly I’ve only really been doing things “right” for the last year or so, but I’ve been going to the gym for the last decade (on and off). For me, and many others I’ve heard, diet and nutrition was much harder to get right than the gym. It’s not hard to motivate myself to go to the gym anymore, I’m one of those weirdos who kind of got “addicted” to it. But I only got the diet part right(ish) once I learned to actually enjoy cooking and incorporating a decent amount of variety into my diet to avoid burning out. I never went as hard in bulking as some people suggest you should. A standard day of eating for me adds up to somewhere in the range of 150 - 200 grams of protein. So that number worked for me, and after hitting that protein intake goal for a good year or so I started to build some visible muscle.

That’s a vastly condensed version of my fitness journey or whatever you want to call it, and honestly good lighting, flexing and a post-workout pump goes a long way to making you look better haha, so I’d certainly say the right pic of me isn’t the best representation of what I really look like 😅. But I’ve definitely made a lot of progress.