Kennyn27's Journal, 11 Apr 23

I haven’t posted an update in a while and even though I weigh myself daily, I’m guilty of not updating it here that often! The first picture is from the end of 2017 when I was my heaviest, I weighed 304 pounds. I then decided to make a change and started my journey. The second pic is from May 2018, when I started using FatSecret, I was down to about 280 at that point but found FatSecret made the process of weight loss a lot easier. The second part of the pic is from the end of the summer 2021 and I was about 190 pounds. Last year I got down to 180 but suffered in the gym doing it, and even though I looked decent i felt like crap.
That is why I decided to try a bulk and started one in December of last year. This was hard for me after eating in a deficit and maintenance for the past 5 yrs. I started my bulk weighing 189 and finished up about 2 weeks ago at 210. It felt great working out in a calorie surplus and now understand why people do it! I gained about 5 pounds a month and put on a total of 20 pounds. I didn’t overdo the eating and kept to a strict 400 to 500 calorie surplus. It doesn’t sound like a lot but it was a bit difficult seeing the scale go up and continue eating that way. The improvements I made in the gym made it all worth it though.
Well that leaves me with the last picture taken about two weeks ago. I ate at maintenance for the past two weeks and will now be going back to a deficit to start my cut.
I have definitely learned from my journey that chasing a number on the scale isn’t always the answer, that weighing a certain weight isn’t always the number we will feel our best at. I will definitely be paying attention to that rather than the scale weight during this cut.

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1645 kcal

Fat: 46.09g | Prot: 177.10g | Carbs: 164.87g.   Breakfast: Raspberries, Blueberries, Watermelon, Lime, Cluster Dextrin, Nature's Best Zero Carb Isopure Drink - Apple Melon, Beyond Raw Lit Pre-Workout, Bananas. Lunch: Butter, Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein Isolate Chocolate, Egg, Schmidt 647 Italian Bread, Egg White. Dinner: Tomatoes, Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas (Soft Taco), Cub Foods Ground Beef (93% Lean / 7% Fat), Friendship Dairies Light Sour Cream. Snacks/Other: Micro Ingredients D-Ribose, BodyTech 100% Casein - Chocolate. more...

2779 kcal

Exercise: Apple Health - 24 hours. more...