Right on! My new form of cardio will be chewing ice from now on lol
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That makes two of us, if I drink coffee I need a whole, extra strong pot of it . The only time I felt overcaffeinated was when I drank like four and a half pots of coffee in a row.
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Funny story, I once took 800 mg caffeine in pills before a workout and I felt nothing. I’m pretty sure I have never ever experienced what it feels like to be “high” on caffeine.
Btw I took this pic pre check in
And my mind is truly playing tricks on me at this point, as all I’ve been thinking is, “oh I’m SO lean now, I totally deserve a cheeseburger/pizza/omelette with cheese!”. Brain, stfu.
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You’re looking pretty lean, but man, pizza and burgers are one dark path.
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Why so? Because I could never stop eating them once I start or for some other reason? Truly curious what you mean here.
Anyway, as I said my long term plan is to hover around this level of leanness give or take while I add muscle, so I’ll have to find the right balance between eating stuff I like and eating right (luckily most of the stuff I like is also “good” food).
That being said, when the diet is over I’m totally asking Paul to give me two days of free eating. I don’t plan on going too much overboard (I’m too anxious by nature to allow myself to), but I’ll definitely smoke some pot with friends and have the stuff I missed the most.
For tonight, I’ll have to settle for my white chocolate whey protein.
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You’re spot on with not being able to stop. I’ve seen it a couple of times first-hand; a guy or a girl decides to reward themselves with a cheat meal, which turn into two meals at first, then a whole day. Before long they are just eating shit all the time. Really, it’s pretty brutal to witness in real life.
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Yeah sure, although I do believe my discipline is good enough that’d not happen to me, it’s still a risk.
However, my dream is truly to be able to afford eating a pizza or just eating out once or twice a week, also eating good foods that I like and staying pretty lean while adding mass.
That really sounds like it’d be too good to be true, but maybe getting this lean will help me in the long run to achieve this.
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That’s completely achievable. Of course it won’t be optimal in terms of physique, but it’s not impossible.
Getting lean always helps through better nutrient partitioning and insulin sensitivity, for example
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That makes three. I dont bother with coffee, it’s just a waste of time for me. I dont use any sort of pre-workout just something like banana and protein.
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So I’ll share what happened tonight and kind of today but I feel very, very ashamed of it. Like a big defeat and I don’t know what to think.
Tonight I came home and felt like I was possessed, every bit of discipline I had went out of the window and I kinda cheated. I had like 3 extra scoops of whey, then I made something like 70 g of pasta, threw an egg into it and ate it, then I had like 50 g of cream of rice. Then I was able to stop myself.
To remedy that, today I skipped the carbs both at breakfast and lunch. Now I was at home with some friends and I was making dinner for everyone. I had my lean steak with sweet potatoes but I had to cook pork ribs for them. They tasted TOO good so I had one. To counteract that, I didn’t put my due tbsp of olive oil onto my salad and I even threw some of my steak in the trash. I also had like 3 extra scoops of whey. It just tasted too good. I’ll skip tomorrow’s breakfast and just have lunch.
Yet, I feel like I have cheated big time and like I don’t have any control anymore. Goddamn I had resisted hunger for six whole weeks without the shadow of a cheat. Why now?
Lucky for you, you were able to stop rather soon. I’ve heard of guy who have woken up in the middle of night to eat like 20 protein bars and three bags of bread.
Why did this happen? It’s a game of hormones. Serotonin is a hormone that makes you feel good. Eating carbs increase serotonin levels and not having them depletes it. Most likely your serotonin levels dropped far too down.
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Honestly, after a few hours I thought about that and realized I was probably being a little melodramatic in my last post. After all, with the corrections I made afterwards, I realize that I probably almost broke even with calories.
And maybe, just maybe, being lean helped those calories being put to good use rather than just become fat.
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Given that you’re lean, you did all kinds of corrections and the cheat was not all that big. (That’s like, what, 800-900 Calories?) I’m pretty sure you’re in the clear already.
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That’s what the coach told me. 
Honestly, I decided to have a small celebratory snack consisting of 60 g raw ham with 120 g wheat bread, followed by a small banana. Simple, humble, but I was craving this stuff.
And from tomorrow on we’ve decided to lower the calories a final tad do we’ll be going hard and then it’s finally mass gain time.
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Omg @danteism go look Paul’s insta stories, didn’t realize he’d posted that!
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You can tell Paul is proud of you, and he should be. The difference between the photos he posted is huge
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Ikr, but looking at the before one made me realize how much I thought I was in decent shape when in reality I was just a fatass.
Like really, I thought I was fit! I never want to look like that again man.
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So today’s was kind of a weird day. Spent all day at home because of a serious weather emergency, then evening came, drove to the gym, and it was closed.
Drove back home and spent an hour doing stuff like this
Better than nothing I guess
Entering 8th and last week of cut…
Current condition:
Feeling VERY skinny atm, and woke up at just over 150 lbs. These moments made me rethink everything I’ve done so far in the gym. How can I be this under muscled after two and a half years of work? Even Paul told me I have not a solid base as of now, which in these last pics has probably become pretty apparent.
Never mind, Paul told me to have a refeed, which will be the last one of the cut.
There we go
Thrown tomatoes and other leftover veggies, made somewhat of a sauce out of them, had pasta with it, and then treated myself to some pumpkin oatmeal with some cinnamon on top and just a couple of drops of honey.
Tasted awesome and I hope I’ll get to eat stuff like this on a daily basis when Paul and I move onto my mass gain phase which by the way will begin… This weekend!
Can’t wait.
So I just finished the last push workout of this final week of cut and I’m writing this post as I so some (very) low intensity cardio.
For the past weeks, everyday life has been a gigantic struggle. All I could think about was food and I would fear the time I’d have to go to the gym because of how exhausted I was and how hard the workouts and cardio were.
Nevertheless, it’s now time for some before and after pics. I started at a weight of 78 kg and ended at 68 kg. That’s a loss of about 22 lbs in 8 weeks.
Here’s before pics
And this is what I look like now.
(I’ll post better after pics when I take those in a couple of days for my weekly check in with coach Paul)
Working with Paul Carter has been AWESOME, and as of this weekend we’ll officially start mass gain phase. I can only expect results as good as those I’ve got cutting under his wing.
I’ll now tag some of the people that have followed my log in the past to show them this so maybe we can share some thoughts about the process I’ve undergone and the results I got.
@danteism
@flipcollar
@EyeDentist
@robstein
@the_mighty_stu
@duketheslaya
I can’t wait to find out what plan Paul has laid out for my mass gain phase!
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