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I’d imagine measurements and photos for the purpose of tracking would be best done first thing with no pump or food. When I was checking in weekly with my coach I’d roll out of bed, pee, then head to the back porch for a photo (good lighting outside aka not flattering).
Doing them mid day and post workouts you’re susceptible to fluctuations from diet and pump and what not
Edit: regardless, would smash. 9/10
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I knew this was a risk, but i didnt have a full body mirror at the house and had already started taking photos at the gym for these purposes. Basically, once i started, i didnt want to introduce other variables such as different lighting, etc. I’m not putting too much weight into the biceps measurement, and the scale is… subjective… to say the least. Just making notes to try keeping my log as honest as possible.
Aint no love like homie love 
Just food for thought but I didn’t use a mirror. I propped my phone o in the deck railing with the forward facing camera set to video, hit record and walked in front of it, stood there, then turned around then turned the camera off. I’d just pause the video and scroll through and screen shot the still frames and use those.
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12/2/2021 - planned rest day
approx. 500 additional cal deficit because no training
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12/5/2021 - rest day (unplanned)
Hit some much needed overtime. Grocery shopped, meal prepped for me and the wife (partial, so be finished tomorrow). Used these as reasons not to train… not my best day.
Considering throwing some leg isolation exercises in at the home gym tomorrow after pull day. Prue
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From my experience I’d recommend playing it slower given where your starting point is. As you are acknowledging yourself, you are essentially acting out of emotion here rather than reason. A higher deficit does not get you to your goal quicker, it causes your weight loss to stall earlier. To quote an article from the site,
Transforming your body is a highly emotional issue. Your gut feeling is that the more you train, the better you’ll get. If you just add one more exercise, or two or three, then you can be sure to hit every area of every muscle in your body, and success is guaranteed. Nothing could be more wrong. Being driven to succeed is great, but if you are being driven by your emotions , you are on the high road to zero results.
The same applies to deficits, IMHO. There is a time and a place for cutting aggressively, but that is when you are already fairly close to your end goal.
I don’t know how to say this without sounding rude, I wish it was possible to phrase in a value-neutral way, so please bear that in mind. If you need a re-feed, it is something that you need mentally. Or you are in a greater deficit than you think.
Re-feed does not equal a cheat day. A cheat day will cause you to retain a lot of water, making your subsequent weigh-ins less useful data points.
See my earlier remark. The best thing would have been to weigh your food, and check if your weight is stable, and arrive at your maintenance calories that way. No calculators. Might be useful for your next cut.
If anything is true for the V-Diet is that you don’t eat. You just get a single meal per day. Again, the V-diet is one of those aggressive things you can do when you are already close to your goals. I could do it, and probably get silly lean. It might carry you to your goal weight, but you’ll gain it back as your bowels fill up with food again, and I’m not certain you’d be near your end-game mirror-self.
Do you normally sleep this little? Or did this come about when you started cutting?
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