I’m trying my hardest I ate lasgna 3 times in 24 hours this week and I’m literally drinking cream! My breakfast had so much olive oil on the eggs that I struggled to tell if they were cooked because they just looked disgustingly sloppy.
It’s working, but I’m far from enjoying it (apart from the lasgna… And the chocolate).
You should check out my weight fluctuations over the years.
Dec 2017 - 217
Oct 2018 - 250
June 2019 - 210
Now - 225 to 230
Those have all been intentional weights.
I can eat fortunately/unfortunately. Thing I find that really makes you fat is activity level. I’ve lost a hundred pounds twice in my life. All I really had to do was get to the gym and be active. I did diet but that just made the process faster. Losing weight for me is way easier than intentionally gaining mass while being active. Although like I said I can eat.
Damn, fatty.
Haha that’s some decent gains and losses! You happiest at current weight?
Same! I can eat 3 big meals a day, but for me gaining weight requires a lot of cals and needs 5 big meals which is just perma-full discomfort!
Losing weight is easy, not enjoyable but easy enough, maintenance is where it’s at, eating enough to still enjoy your food but not too little that you’re hungry!
Dont listen to him @Frank_C - you’re beautiful.
I mean sure 250 is fat. But you can be both.
That weight came with a 545 deadlift and 305 bench.
Yep. I think I look good enough - a little muscular and not fat. I usually go with the term athletic. That journey also proved once and for all that I’m not going to grow much more in this life. Hopefully I’ll add a few grams of muscle here and there and look better in 10 years… but I’d settle for maintaining my current look into old age.
I wasn’t both. 250 also hurt me - literally. I dunked a basketball two handed and the weight of my fat body was too much for my tissue to bear and I subluxed my biceps tendon. That led to my shoulder surgery last June. My shoulder is still weak.
That’s not bad, how much have you lost in the deads since that point? I know you don’t bench flat anymore so I’ll not ask about that sore subject!
It’s tough to compare because that was on a deadlift bar and that’s like cheating. I pulled 500 on a stiff bar the week prior. My best at home deadlift is my recent 510 lb pull. I was probably close to matching my PR and 12-15 lbs lighter (I think I was 240 when I hit those numbers in June of 2018).
Ah that’s very good then, hopefully when I get fat I’ll pr and then cut and pr again!
Morning weight 212, the weights starting to come on now! Think at this rate I might end BtM at 215. I’ll then try and hold that weight whilst bringing conditioning back up.
When I was morning training I’d repeatedly shoot out my back. Haven’t done consistent early bird AM training in a long time. My back had been much healthier. Just caught up on the log. Looks like you are putting in good work all around. Especially eating wise.
Anabolic resistance maybe?
Sorry for brief hijack here @alex_uk
@anna_5588 at a different bodyweight you might find that your taste buds “change”
This sound like a brand issue overall. I’ve found wheys and caseins here that both go well with water but they’re produced locally.
Anyway @alex_uk, did you read BOTSLAYER’s bulking tips in his log?
Never worry about that here, hijack all you like, if there weren’t some tangents going on here it would just be 3 entries of BtM per week.
This isn’t a topic I’m overly familiar with, any good sources to read? Or if you know enough to give me a brief summary?
Not sure I’ve ever done anything but I I’m aware every time I’ve trained early my backs not happy and I just feel unable to perform well.
Thanks - been a lot of unnecessary whining from me but getting there!
I did, it reminded me to eat more pasta, lasgna has been big on my menu ever since!
I use generic myprotein stuff and it’s fine (sometimes lumpy, but just swallow those!) but I’m not drinking whey for pleasure.
I’ve tried a lot of different wheys over the years, always mix poorly with water for me.
I’ve found one that’s the gold standard 
Best simple read I’ve ever come across was this,
That’s also the one I use, because it mixes the best and i can buy it from Amazon for cheap (ish)
The myprotien stuff is okay too but I have boycotted them as a company over a gift voucher con they pulled. My mate offered me some free that he didn’t like the flavour of but I turned it down im that annoyed at the company lol.
Haha that the cashback voucher they offer you at the end of each purchase?
Thanks just had a read, makes sense, not sure I’m there yet, still relatively lean, lower belly fat has increased somewhat, but not massively.
I think in general my body doesn’t like adding any weight, I weighed around 150lbs when I started years ago, and it always took monumental effort to gain, I remember breaking 168lbs (12 stone which is why it was a big thing) and being so happy. I got to around 210 once before (fatter than now) and at some point after that quit training for a good few years, very quickly back to 170/175lbs, my body loves skinny (not lean just skinny!).
I’ll give this last two weeks everything and continue gaining weight, hold it for a month or two and then re-assess. Might also do a blood test to look at hba1c and lipids see what damage is done, I imagine a low(er) carb experiment is on the horizon.