giancarlov1191 Member

You're going to need to give more information before anyone can give their opinion. Age, weight, gender, training, goals, diet...

I suggest getting yourself a food scale too!

How is it going so far?

I track my weight to make sure I'm going in the right direction, but I really don't take much stock in the number itself.

Do you record it all on MFP? What does your calorie count come up to usually?

Could you give us an idea of what your diet looks like?

This is so true. It's important to surround yourself with these people and build up your crew.

All the best with your journey!

You might lose a lot of water weight quickly at first but you wont be able to sustain losing 10lbs of actual fat a month.

A plateau is 2-4 weeks. If it hasn't been that long, don't change anything.

Awesome job! You look happy & healthy 🙏

Try tinder bro

I think short-term thinking will yield short term results. You've achieve your first goal of cutting down and you got your abs to show which is great, but I think it's time to transition to the long-game. Take things very slow and deliberate and achieve goals in a healthy way that will be long lasting.

I suggest weighing daily and averaging it weekly and then seeing if those weekly averages go up or down. I think that's helps take away the confusion of the daily fluctuations

We're similar there in a sense. I lost 40lbs in a cut last year (down to about 65kg). After a short transition I've been focused on bulking since August or so. Honestly, once you've got your workouts in place, monitor how your strength and weight increases over time. Add slowly if you think you need to but stay committed.

I agree with staying the course for a set period of the time. It's very tempting to get impatient and try to switch everything up much too often. What does your diet/calorie intake look like?

I definitely spent a good deal of time working on these imbalances before moving on to focusing on the compound lifts, I think it really helped!

Also keep in mind that measuring bf% accurately is very difficult so you'realmost better off going by appearance...on that note, you look great!

Well you could pass as decently muscular so have a look and see where you stack up. I see a lot of other guys that seem to have less developed muscles than I do but can lift way heavier so I really don't think there's much value in comparing.

The bodybuilding library is awesome!

Strength and size are not so neatly related as you may think. Have a look at this get a start on gauging your strength against some benchmarks but everyone is going to be different. https://strengthlevel.com/strength-standards

The name of this forum is gaining weight & bodybuilding, I doubt anyone is looking down.

Slow and steady like everyone else!

Great job!!!

You're doing awesome! Keep it up!

Honestly, none for me. It's a hassle at first but you're better served by cooking from scratch

I wouldn't worry until it's been at least 3 weeks

Good job man!

Best post I read today 🤣

Maybe the positive changes you make with your health and fitness will spill over into your recovery too.