I was just goofing.
But Jas was not! That’s some serious shit!
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You put on no pounds of muscle though.
You are fat, and you are weak. There are two things to work on there. Diet solves 1 of them.
Still, no veggies, fruits or cardio for you, but YES to cool whip? Should work out well for someone with “the sugars”.
I am adding all of those in, esp cardio.
I am also walking around 15k steps per day, which has been useful
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95% of the people here are not even close to looking like that.
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That physique is absolute peak of what I would want, smaller is fine.
I also doubt that guy can bench 4 plates, probably 3 plates at best.
In my 10+ years training I have never trained 6 days a week, never took 10ish sets to failure per body part. I would say i have built the level of development you seek and have done/learnt the things needed to achieve it.
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Man you just went from saying you only need to bench 205 to 225 to posting a physique that you state as close to your ideal and think they likely bench 3 plates at best.
Not the most experienced here but I think if you stop thinking of diet and training as mutually exclusive and only being able to focus on one you would see some results! You can focus on both and at the end of the day most people who put on muscle as beginners add a bunch of strength so you should not limit yourself by saying only a few bench x amount so I only need to be average especially when posting lofty physiques as an ideal.
You likely wont be able to stick to everything you enjoy doing but earlier you said you liked DB bench better than barbell since you saw results in strength gain faster. If you enjoy results then you have to find a program and consistently stick with it while trying to push yourself to improve. It will be uncomfortable as it is hard work and not always enjoyable but the goal is long term results that you can have consistency in working toward.
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I’ll tell you something. I am not shooting for a specific lifetime number. I am going to train like a 5 plate bench is there eventually. If I miss that goal, but get into the 400s, guess what, that is still a great bench.
My point is most people who try really hard don’t end up where they want. I’d like to look like Chris Bumstead, but even if I train hard, eat well, I won’t be able to do it. But I’ll be a closer to that look than if I went for mediocre.
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Well shit, I was honestly prepared to make a custom diet for you for free once I got your 3 days’ log of all your food. I’m seeing now you don’t really want help though.
Nice job acknowledging that your diet may be a problem after 7 years of gaining no muscle and losing no fat. Problem is you don’t know how to fix it. Your toxic relationship with your training and diet seems very abusive, like that partner you keep returning to and defending and believing will “do better” even though they are severely unhealthy for you. Before training…before diet…you need to fix your mind state. Best of luck!
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Damn Dude!
Imagine if you got a little sun!
That’s nice, but I am not aiming anywhere near that, like I said, I just want to have some more muscle and be lean most of all in the long run. Good luck on your way there.
That physique I posted is peak what I would want, but even much lesser than that is fine.
We had a weeks sun this year so that was good 
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I remember that week, it was a good week.
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I know how to fix my diet and have actually been good at it compared to where I was before, I just need to add some more fruits/vegetables and remove some processed foods.
Training, as long as I can make progress and enjoy it, whatever. Sure I won’t be benching 3 plates, don’t care, won’t be squatting 4 plates, don’t care, I’m still confident I can get to 90s on dumbbell bench press within a year and 70-75s on dumbbell shoulder press and I think that is the point where I might look decent enough from general perspective (after a cut), not Jeff Seid or anything.
Would have been better if we could have left the house!
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Just start running man. You are not going to get anywhere lifting weights. If you fix your diet, and start running, you will get where you want a lot faster. It really sounds like you just want to be lean.
I don’t think you realize how strong jacked people are (normally).
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Are you going to make me flex my “key worker” status?
Yes, I just want to be lean with some more reasonable size, maybe “jacked” is the wrong word since you guys lift way more so jacked is different to you and me.
I would have called the pic I posted “jacked”
How about the dude in this thread? Would you be happy to look like this?
You want to be lean and add a bit more muscle. The training you are doing won’t add much if any muscle. Why not just run, since you will get to the lean goal a lot faster? It seems for you spending any more time in the weight room is just going to be a waste of time, so why do it?