Yeah today is day 12, nothing significant but I have lost just under 2lbs. I took these yesterday on day 11.
Here’s a comparison pic from a couple weeks earlier, before I started my “mini-cut”.
Hard to tell from a straight ahead angle, again nothing significant but I do think I look a little bit leaner/tighter and I do feel a little bit leaner/tighter. It’s been good to see a little movement relatively quickly. I didn’t see any scale movement for the first 8 days which is typical, but I knew I was in a slight deficit plus added cardio, so I wanted to wait a full two weeks before seeing if I needed to make further adjustments. Right now I’m gonna keep doing what I’m doing, which has been:
-Creating a ~15% daily deficit with nutrition
-Doing ~20 minutes of MISS after each weight session
-HIIT - Last week I did one HIIT session consisting of sprints/running for about 50 min total, including warm up, intervals and jogging afterwards. This past Wednesday I was going to do another one, but for some reason my lower back was hurting that day, possibly from the day before when I trained twice (AM and PM sessions.) So I decided to take Wednesday off of HIIT and got a few long, slow walks in throughout the day. As I’m not in an actual prep right now and am just trying to drop a little fat, I see no reason to stress my body out more than needed.
I leave for California on the 18th, returning the 30th, and I’ll be continuing trying to cut during the trip until I get back. While I’m in CA I’ll be pretty active all day on the marching band field working with a bunch of bands that are performing my music, and will also have time to train every morning. I’ll be in NorCal and SoCal for a week each, not sure where I’ll be training yet but there’s no shortage of gyms in either of the neighborhoods I’ll be staying.