Hasbrowns, waffles, pizza, and all in the same day!?!?? Dude, that’s the standard American diet, not a nutrition plan. If you want to have one of those snacks once a week that’s fine, but those foods shouldn’t be a regular thing for anyone. That’s enough carbs to fuel you for three days.
And I can’t read all of this arguing but I’m in here to offer my support to
hairygrandpa. His honesty is not meant to be cruel. It’s necessary and refreshing to hear in this forum. If DC truly wants to change his physique then it’s honest people like HGP who will help make that happen. So many others are doing a disservice to DC when they feed his ego and pat him on the back when he would actually benefit from a little brutal honesty.
And I’m saying all of the above after going through the same thing a couple months ago. A few guys were super honest with me and said I look like my muscles are flat, I don’t lift heavy enough, and I drink too much beer. Sure, you could interpret that as harsh but I appreciated the criticism and made the proper changes to my diet and lifestyle and have since made a good deal of progress in the right direction. I still don’t have a great physique but I’m at least making progress. I hope DC can also benefit from the critique he is being offered.
Also, nobody ever wants to hear this, but you don’t need supplements, and you don’t need more gear. Your stagnation is 75% the result of your diet (maybe more) and 25% the result of your training.
And you said HGP is fatter than you but I’m not so sure about that. Also, I’ve seen his before pictures and his transformation is very apparent. So those “fad” diets are working. Intermittent fasting, keto, paleo, or anything else based on high fat, low carb (essentially the original, primitive human diet that we all ate pre-agrarian revolution) is not a fad, it’s here to stay. Do yourself a favor and stop eating all those crappy processed carbs but instead switch to fat as your primary energy source. You’re not a triathlete or marathon runner, you lift as a hobby. So you don’t need very many carbs at all and an excess of those macros will store as fat, rather than help you build muscle.
I dare you to go carnivore for one month. Eat nothing but meat, eggs, and dairy and you will have a more rapid body transformation than you ever had from taking gear.