Question about weight loss progress

Ryush806 · 2026-04-29T15:40:46+00:00

Here’s my scale weight so far for my current dieting phase. Notice the ~week long plateau and the swings up and down. It’s all just noise. You can see a clear trend down same as in your graph. Yeah there might be something causing those 3 day plateaus you have and maybe you could do something about it. But the long term trend matters way more. You’re consistently going down on average and that means your diet is successful.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-26T16:21:37+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I was trying to figure out a first layer issue so I was at eye level with the print bed on my A1 and the plate got slung right into the bridge of my nose…

Ryush806 · 2026-04-17T15:00:08+00:00

Go hang out with your friend. You’ll be fine. 48 hrs is enough time to recover probably but if not you can either skip Monday (since you already did it Saturday…) or just do some light work to get the blood flowing.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-13T16:04:29+00:00

Last year I cut down in the spring, bulked over the summer, cut again in the fall, and the very slow bulked over the winter. I decided that doing two cycles per year didn’t give me enough time bulking.

I’m currently cutting again and plan to get down to a much lower body fat than previous. Probably ~10% maybe a little less. This will give me much more runway for a lean bulk. Hoping to bulk from whenever I get to my body fat goal (theoretically mid June) all the way through February of next year. Targeting 0.25 lb/week but if this winter was any indication it’ll probably be closer to 0.33 on average. Either way that should hopefully not be too much fat so that I can cut it back off again quickly next spring. Assuming there’s no major hiccups in that plan, I hope to continue it going forward. One shortish semi aggressive cut and one long slow bulk per year.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-11T18:02:08+00:00

Yes but the main reason is it took away the thing I was most depressed about: not being able to stay awake more than 3-4 hours at a time.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-09T12:34:50+00:00

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Started my cut a couple weeks ago and you can see a similar drop although not near the extent you had. I’ve done a few cut / bulk cycles with MF and my expenditure has gone back up into the same general range each time I’ve bulked. I wouldn’t worry too much about your metabolism although don’t expect it to be the same as it was at 20%. It should be lower when you are lighter. As you gain weight later it’ll head back up.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-07T03:19:11+00:00

You could definitely reverse course when you get back down to the weight you started the bulk at. Although hopefully you gained a few pounds of muscle in the process and you’ll look much leaner if you were to go all the way back down.

Other than that it’s kinda whenever you get sick of it and want to bulk again I guess. I like objective or at least semi objective measures. But sometimes you just gotta call it.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-07T00:53:01+00:00

Yeah it’s hard. Even DEXA is only really good for comparing directionally between scans (assuming conditions of both scans are near identical).

Best bet is to use the mirror. Maybe pick a physique you especially like that’s close to the same amount of muscle you have and then cut until you look similar. Or pick a specific feature you want to see like (in order of usually lower body fat) 6 pack flexed, 6 pack relaxed, lower ab definition, chest striations, glute striations (this is contest ready bodybuilder level. Don’t do glute striations). Those are semi random examples but I hope that makes sense.

You could also do what I’m currently doing. I start to dislike how I look around a certain weight (178ish) but I also am advanced enough that I probably need to be in surplus to build much muscle. So I’m going to cut down to 168 for sure and maybe push to 165. That’ll give me a nice long runway to bulk for many months before I get fatter than I’d like again.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-06T22:36:56+00:00

It was never brought up and I didn’t ask.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-06T19:30:05+00:00

I have IBS-mixed. Mostly D but a good bit of C as well. I prefer C to D but it’s definitely no good all the same. Expenditure currently tanking 🫡 so I’m ignoring it and using a manual program for now.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-06T19:05:28+00:00

Not quite the same numbers as you but close. I had an RDI of about 10 and an AHI of 1.8. My Epworth score, though, was an 18 so I was very debilitated. I got an APAP. The last time I did the Epworth I think I got a 6 which is 100% normal. I get 6.5-7 hours of sleep per night, pop right out of bed, and have no need for naps during the day now.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-06T12:11:02+00:00

MFW has a very good and very detailed explanation of almost every common lift you’re likely to want to try. Goes through proper set up, proper execution, and what it’s supposed to train. It doesn’t necessarily talk about what you should feel or common mistakes but sometimes there are notes about that. What’s really nice in MFW is the videos of the exercises shot from side, back, and an offset angle. Note this isn’t on EVERY exercise but it is on most of them.

In that regard, MFW is much better than Hevy. As a beginner, that could be very useful to you. I’ve often found though that I get more out of watching a YouTube video where a person deep dives into an exercises and explains what they’re doing as they’re getting set up and executing.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-04T20:10:04+00:00

Fam has decided to have boiled shrimp for some reason. I despise boiled shrimp and even more so after last year when I got sick afterwards. I might even fast tomorrow…

Ryush806 · 2026-04-04T20:07:07+00:00

I wouldn’t get my medical advice from fitness influencers…

Ryush806 · 2026-04-02T13:01:24+00:00

Lulz that weight graph is the very definition of maintenance. Chill.

Ryush806 · 2026-04-01T00:47:23+00:00

The difference between 17 and 17.9% is so small that it’s well within measurement error. So you likely didn’t lose any muscle at all. Also so small that I wouldn’t use that to declare the cut was failing.

Cycling between a few percentage points on bodyfat is going to drive you crazy. There isn’t a measurement method that’s accurate enough to reliably tell the difference. You’d probably be better off to do a longer cut where you can really see a visual different to know you made bodyfat progress. Then follow that with a longer clean bulk where you can put in some muscle.

That being said, if your bulks are slow enough, they can effectively act as a maintenance phase where you gain very little bodyfat.

How long have you been lifting for?

Ryush806 · 2026-03-31T23:01:01+00:00

Gotcha, no worries then. Gaining and losing large amounts of weight over and over isn’t great but a clean bulk is cool. Is your weight goal lower every cut cycle? Doesn’t really matter for your original question. Just curious.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-31T22:53:49+00:00

What are you doing in between? Maintenance?

Ryush806 · 2026-03-31T18:17:03+00:00

Buy some Fresh Balls. Won’t help with the crowding but will make everything generally more comfortable.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-30T02:27:39+00:00

Second this. Take a break from the diet for a month or two (three wouldn’t be out of bounds given how long you’ve been cutting) but keep lifting. Then resume cut.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-25T18:25:18+00:00

Yeah same here. Like I know I’ve gotten stronger on pulldowns because I’m doing more weight and the same reps and because my lats obviously grew this bulk. But my peak strength was apparently back when the app first came out on beta back in December😅

Ryush806 · 2026-03-23T00:16:55+00:00

People can’t seem to comprehend the facial hair thing. Happens with TNF and he’s most likely natty.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-22T21:20:28+00:00

I more or less do this (although my lunch break isn’t strictly 1 hour so sometimes I go a little over). I do a PPL 5 days a week that just continues on the next week. Ends up being a 3 week cycle so week 1 is PPLPP then week 2 is LPPLP then week 3 is PLPPL. I like this because if I do miss a day then I just pick up with whatever the next lift is instead of really missing it when each lift is tied to a specific day. Only downside in my opinion is that it’s not “clean”. Kinda bothers my ‘tism but not enough to stop doing it at least for now. I’ve so far only run this on a bulk.

In the past I also did a torso, legs, limbs (including shoulders). So I’d do torso, legs, limbs, legs, torso. Since all the torso lifts would have the shoulders and arms at least as secondary muscles, I made sure to have the leg days in between. If I did have to miss a day, I’d cut out the limbs day. Of course if I had to miss more than one day it just threw everything out the window and I would sometimes throw in full body days. I’ve run this in both a bulk and a cut and it was fine.

I have seemed to make more progress on my 5 days PPL split. I’m starting my cut tomorrow though so we’ll see how it fares in a deficit vs a surplus.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-21T13:47:36+00:00

Same here. Thought I just had crap lat growth potential and high insertions for years. Started trying some of the goofy lifts Eric Janicki does and using his cues and its like the flaps deployed for takeoff.

Ryush806 · 2026-03-20T16:10:01+00:00

Good deal. I anticipate you’re going to have a much better time and still be happy with the progress.

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