What's up guys
I know I've started a few threads on this already, but everything I've done so far isn't really working the way i intended.
I've been cutting for 2.5 months now, and lost a few pounds of water, and realistically probably 2-3 pounds of fat. I've been pretty much turning my gears. Long story short, got some bloodwork, my test and free test were pretty low, and I'm now running a 300mg per day epiandro cycle.
I'm currently sitting at 2600 calories, which is lower than I've been in years, and my weight is staying stagnant. I tried carb cycling for about 3 weeks, and no difference. Just flatten out a bit then fill back out. Minimal weight change. I just ran the 3 main formulas for BMR calculations, averaged them, multiplied them by a 1.5 moderate activity factor, and came up with a maintenance of roughly 3295 cals per day. Now this should put me at a 700 calorie deficit, dropping 1.5 pounds per week. This is clearly not the case at all. So it's back to the drawing board.
I'm planning on bumping my calories back up to around 3200 to get close to maintenance, and eating there for a week. From there, dropping slowly until weight loss starts. I'm just afraid of going up and then staying stagnant again, getting back down to the 2600 I'm at now, and absolutely nothing changing. I'm getting extremely frustrated as dieting down to 11-12% bodyfat used to be a breeze for me. When I was 200 at about 11% bodyfat a few years ago, I never went under 2700 calories. Now 100 calories lower I can't drop any weight weighing in at 228-230 depending on water intake and whatnot.
Do you think that raising calories and sort of "resetting" things so to speak would be the answer here? I also don't want to waste a cycle, albeit very mild, and not see any progress. I have clen on hand as well, and was waiting to get done with classes to use it because I have a script for a 25mg adderall xr that I take daily. I am stopping the adderall for a bit as I am now out of school. It seems like the adderall has actually kept me from dropping weight (first cut while using it), which is really ironic. I know my calorie intake has been on point. I track it pretty meticulously.
Training is a 5 day split with lots of supersets/dropsets. Usually 20-25 sets per workout. I do a chest/back/shoulders/arms/legs split with cardio on off days. I also do either tabata, or 15 minutes of stepmill post workout on lifting days. The 5 day split has always worked well for me which is why I am choosing to run it again.
So as of now, the plan is to raise calories up to 3200 for a week and slowly start dropping them back down as progress stalls. Is there any other suggestions you guys might have? Thanks!
I know I've started a few threads on this already, but everything I've done so far isn't really working the way i intended.
I've been cutting for 2.5 months now, and lost a few pounds of water, and realistically probably 2-3 pounds of fat. I've been pretty much turning my gears. Long story short, got some bloodwork, my test and free test were pretty low, and I'm now running a 300mg per day epiandro cycle.
I'm currently sitting at 2600 calories, which is lower than I've been in years, and my weight is staying stagnant. I tried carb cycling for about 3 weeks, and no difference. Just flatten out a bit then fill back out. Minimal weight change. I just ran the 3 main formulas for BMR calculations, averaged them, multiplied them by a 1.5 moderate activity factor, and came up with a maintenance of roughly 3295 cals per day. Now this should put me at a 700 calorie deficit, dropping 1.5 pounds per week. This is clearly not the case at all. So it's back to the drawing board.
I'm planning on bumping my calories back up to around 3200 to get close to maintenance, and eating there for a week. From there, dropping slowly until weight loss starts. I'm just afraid of going up and then staying stagnant again, getting back down to the 2600 I'm at now, and absolutely nothing changing. I'm getting extremely frustrated as dieting down to 11-12% bodyfat used to be a breeze for me. When I was 200 at about 11% bodyfat a few years ago, I never went under 2700 calories. Now 100 calories lower I can't drop any weight weighing in at 228-230 depending on water intake and whatnot.
Do you think that raising calories and sort of "resetting" things so to speak would be the answer here? I also don't want to waste a cycle, albeit very mild, and not see any progress. I have clen on hand as well, and was waiting to get done with classes to use it because I have a script for a 25mg adderall xr that I take daily. I am stopping the adderall for a bit as I am now out of school. It seems like the adderall has actually kept me from dropping weight (first cut while using it), which is really ironic. I know my calorie intake has been on point. I track it pretty meticulously.
Training is a 5 day split with lots of supersets/dropsets. Usually 20-25 sets per workout. I do a chest/back/shoulders/arms/legs split with cardio on off days. I also do either tabata, or 15 minutes of stepmill post workout on lifting days. The 5 day split has always worked well for me which is why I am choosing to run it again.
So as of now, the plan is to raise calories up to 3200 for a week and slowly start dropping them back down as progress stalls. Is there any other suggestions you guys might have? Thanks!