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Yes but wouldn’t excess skin inflate the reading?

My ribs do show. When I do upper body day you can see almost every muscle, my legs are also extremely lean (you can see each of the quads actually as I squat). I can my obliques and under good lighting my abs can sorta show. I am quite vascular as well. I would say everything might support a low BF except for the abs... I…

Okay I’m glad that I’m not too far off then. What routine do you do?

Thanks do you have a link to this routine?

Thank you! I think I can do this long term but I just needed the support that it can be done and the power to do it!

Yes. Right now my weight is too low for what I’m comfortable with so I am purposefully eating more the next week or two. It is uncomfortable to consciously eat more food but I keep telling myself this is what I must do to maintain haha. Some people tend to gain and I guess my demon is more being too cautious!

I get it. I have had no real issues with weight loss since I stabilized between 135-140 five years ago. But I do have a tendency to lose weight rather than gain and I have been below my usual weight range for like 6 months now and just stopped counting so that change has me concerned I’ll continue dropping. But the only…

What I do know is that I tend to lose weight over time which is definitely not something I want. So I wonder whether any indication of falling out of my weight range (as I am currently) should trigger a sustained period of extra eating just to get back to baseline. This seems like the logical solution but my concern is…

So if you go to 193 and if you go below 167 you intervene and eat more? My range is 135-140 and I’m currently 133.6 so I was gonna try to eat more to go back to 135 considering I fell out of my range

When you have bulked to 155 did you find that you were growing out of your clothes? That’s another fear of mine. I just wanna fill them out more but not have to buy new clothing

I would say I have been doing this for some time and I am liking these results for sure (starting to reveal abs!) however my major insecurity is my legs which I view as disgustingly skinny and would like to make bigger. However, I know this will require a dedicated bulk as the recomp will just continue to make them super…

People tell me this all the time. I just get way too freaked that I won’t be able to stop and kinda spiral but never do it correctly. Maybe I should just try to be more confident and pursue it. Also it’s former fat boy syndrome (people who used to be fat fear any weight gain)

Unless they invite you out for lunch or dinner

I guess I just fear the extra fat gain cause I don’t wanna become out of shape and grow out of clothes on a short bulk (+15lbs). However, then I end up spinning my wheels. The days out are certainly my trigger to worrying about my progress but I think the concern is more deeply rooted in FFB syndrome TBH

Yeah it’s once or twice a week max. That’s what I’m trying to stick to. This won’t throw off my weight trend? I’m trying to stick to 0.5lbs a week gain and don’t want to go too far above that rate or end up spinning my wheels by diminishing the surplus

A final update—I now have to realize that my body has learned a new reaction to stress that it hasn’t before...water retention. Just one day after exams and I have already shed more than half of the weight that I picked up last week

I decreased calories to 2400 and I decreased my activity to 4 days lifting, 2 days yoga, 1 day running. Should I decrease calories any further? Also, I doubt it’s my sodium/potassium balance. I eat a plant based diet with minimally processed foods (only processed food is really Tofu/a toasted English muffin in the morning)…

I decreased calories to 2400 and am taking everyone’s advice—4 day’s lifting with 2 day’s of yoga and one day of cardio (3-5 mile run) . Do you think by decreasing this regimen I should reduce calories even more or is 2400 likely sufficient?? It’s so strange I need to be so concerned about weight gain suddenly. I usually…

ONE MORE QUESTION: my weight is trending down now but I’m still kind of running through things in my head...my current diet is breakfast at 7; lunch at 12-2; dinner at 6-7; meal before bed at 9-10. Each meal is 500-600 calories (for my allottment of 2400-2600 calories). I figured this wasn’t a problem cause “timing doesn’t…

I took the day off and went to yoga yesterday. I feel much more energized and am going to continue with taking Sunday off for rest and yoga. Also, my weight is trending down since Friday. I think that I am going to need to accept that under periods of high stress I now have a tendency to add a lot of water weight acutely.

The symptoms passed and I went back to normal. I also got busy with school...there never really is a free moment in medical training. It was likely stupid but now I do think it warrants a quick visit

Hmm...I would say since about April

I’m very proud of my physique actually. But your point here is valid and was on my initial differential for the cause. It’s just that you didn’t say that from the start.

Um. Some of the best intermediate programs are both hypertrophy and power And I’ll repeat—one of the 7 days is a cardio day without any lifting

I totally agree! It’s the advise I give other people but it’s difficult to follow when it happens to you! Anyway, yes I think I need to put very little stock in that and continue alerting at maintenance. I gained another lb today which just seems totally off

FOR THOSE WONDERING: My weigh ins this week—

I am 5’7. But if 2600 calories were indeed too much for me (again I’m a man) then I wouldn’t just gain 5lbs in three days. It would be gradual. My weight gain is literally only occurring over one week Also, my calorie allowance is estimated after several years of tracking and usually losing on anything lower than 2500 (and…

Well I do three days of powerlifting and three days of hypertrophy. Plus on one day it is running so no lifting whatsoever. So I do take a day off from lifting

Yes religiously! Except on the one day a week I take off where I still will count probably two meals and leave like 1200-1300 calories for a meal and some drinks (again I don’t really binge and this has never ever presented an issue for me in the past—usually my tendency is actually losing weight not gaining) Also I forgot…

Thank you guys. I am going to prioritize muscle gain this year and await doing the marathon until next year