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@steveko89 exciting times Steve, good luck with everything 👍 I can’t get back to my cut, last few weeks have been maintaining at around 7lbs heavier than my pre holiday weight. I also hurt my shoulder so I’ve not been at the gym for almost 3 weeks. I managed to go a whole year without missing more than the occasional day…

Les when you first got down to 188 what made you bulk back upto 212lbs? My own situation is I’ve made it from 205 to lowest at 165lbs. I have now added creatine and weight is sticking at 169lbs. I am not quite where I want to be. I have been weight training for a year 6 days per week, I have also been logging food and…

Some great food examples here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10326769/are-you-a-hard-gainer-please-read/p1

I think you look great. What height and weight are you?

Yes that’s totally possible, especially as it’s highly likely you’re a very active person and burn lots of calories in your day to day life. Fats have 9 calories per gram so things like peanut butter are very calorie dense. That’s assuming you don’t have any allergies but lots of high calorie foods you can eat. If you…

No I don’t, I was more meaning the religious connotations with fish on a Friday. That’s really interesting about the churches holding fish fry’s, sure they raised plenty of money for good causes.

Yes I think fish Friday is kind of the same deal here. This thread is making me hungry, no fish tonight though it’s pizza instead!

That must be what it is, the chip shops around here don’t sell gerkins so when people ask for a pickle they know what we mean. Guess regional like you having a chipper

Also on a recent trip to NE England I went for my fish supper and I asked for a pickle. This led to the guy in the shop taking the pee out me just because I don’t call them pickled onions! He was going on a bit like Peter Kay and garlic bread 🥖

Friday is fish supper day is it not?

Glasgow here and never heard of a chipper tea. We call it a chippy, we can be having our tea to indicate we’re eating dinner! Some of the chip shops here you can try such delicacies as a deep fried mars bar, buckfast burgers and irn bru pakora 😆 never tried any of them! I have also seen someone order chips, cheese and a…

If your struggling to physically eat more calories then blend and drink them. Easy to make 7-800 calorie shakes

Your in an ideal place to slow bulk and put some muscle on. You can still have as low bf at a higher weight. That’s assuming you want a little more size

Sounds like circuits

Excellent post thanks

I’m going with increased testosterone. My gf actually said to me the other day that my chest looked hairier now that I’ve lost weight. I know having a hairy chest isn’t the fashion but as a real Scotsman I don’t care, keeps you warm!

Less skin so all they hair follicles have to move to where’s left! 😆

Water fluctuations if you don’t understand them can destroy all your hard work. It happened to me previously. I had worked hard for several months and then had what I now know was just a water weight gain and it annoyed me as I’d worked so hard that I pretty much gave up and regained most of the weight I’d lost. I’ve since…

I like to work out in the gym in the mornings. The gym I go to has a lot of retired oap members (here in the uk the councils make gym membership for the older generation very cheap and it used to be completely free) anyway as a young ish guy it has completely opened my eyes. 2 stand outs for me is one man mid 80s he was…

Wow serious dedication right there, well done 💪

@nexangelus don’t be selling your self short. Your are lifts are great 💪

Pasta is fine during weight loss, I agree the protein is low in that particular meal so as Sijomial says add some chicken to bring it up. Keeping protein high during weight loss is important for body composition as is trying to keep your strength up.

You don’t taste it when blended. There is no rule as to what combination you can blend, you can blend anything. Avocado is also high on calories. He will gain weight when in a calorie surplus, you just need to get him there. People put on weight eating in a surplus while eating vegetables just as much as people can lose…

I would buy a decent blender. If your in the uk the 1000w nutri ninja is quite good. It’s easy to make a 6-800 calorie shake for an example, Oats, peanut butter, drop of honey, banana, whey protein powder, full fat milk. If he drank a couple of these or similar per day it would greatly increase his calorie consumption.…

Well done 👍

Great work! What height are you? What was you’re calorie deficit like? 💪

Thank you, part of me thinks that my bmi is 24.4 so in the ideal category but it took me losing nearly 30lbs to get there that maybe I should keep cutting till I get to 22.5 bmi I realise that bmi isn’t an ideal way to gauge progress but I wonder if there’s any articles worth reading on genetic maximums for naturals at…

Ok so I’m still 4lb up from my diet break and finding it hard to go back to such a significant deficit. I want to know if anyone has got where they want to be with one cut or if it normally takes a few bulk cut cycles? I prefer my size around 15lbs higher than my current weight so not sure if I should just slow bulk back…

20% is low body fat for a lady. Also keep in mind that body fat scales are best used only for trending purposes, they commonly over estimate body fat percentages.

Well done mate 💪