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MrKleen73 said:
What I would say though is that some anabolics ain't gonna hurt as long as relatively dry compounds and run at lower doses not super blast levels. You still respond very well to anabolics from my memory. So you may have to drop calories again once you start them to reach weight. Plus the anabolics will be there already at good levels for when you go for the rebound and turn up the volume with food and more hypertrophy focus.
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I'm gonna start with a sarm just because I have it. After x amount of weeks I was gonna throw in some tren.


So just 250 test and 50 ment cus I'm already using 25mg so why not. I don't seem to ever look bad on it. The water doesn't go under the skin it seems to go in the muscles for me. Although I've never used more than 100 mg a week of the injectable I don't think. So it might just be because the dose is always been low.

250 test and 50 ment + 20-30mg rad for a couple weeks and then maybe 100-150 tren at the end when I really cut the food short. Drop the tren, increase test and start adding calories back in. Slowly. I'm not married to any of these drugs or doses. I'm open to hold off and wait even longer before I add things since I haven't even added fat burners I kept saying I was going to do it but I haven't yet lol
 
@Hyde ok you won this time! 10 cal per serving instead of 40 per serving. Frees up 90 calories.

It's tasty but definitely sweeter than I'm use to. The only options where I went were this, vanilla caramel and peppermint mocha. I didn't think I could handle the other two flavors on a daily basis. They sounded good for a treat but not for an everyday coffee. Even this one's too sweet I'll have to get just some plain regular old coffee mate but I enjoy it.

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183.8! Just in time for French toast lol.

My son's home this weekend. We're making a big breakfast and il be eating protein and vegetables for the remainder of the day.

Physical and some bloods tomorrow
 
Smont said:
@Hyde ok you won this time! 10 cal per serving instead of 40 per serving. Frees up 90 calories.

It's tasty but definitely sweeter than I'm use to. The only options where I went were this, vanilla caramel and peppermint mocha. I didn't think I could handle the other two flavors on a daily basis. They sounded good for a treat but not for an everyday coffee. Even this one's too sweet I'll have to get just some plain regular old coffee mate but I enjoy it.

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Bro Cannoli?? You lucky SOB. The zero-sugar flavors here suck by comparison. Vanilla, Hazelnut, and Birtbday Cake. All 3 of the ones you found sound wayyyy better to be; I’d be slamming cannoli daily for sure.

^Boy, that is a first world complaint if I ever heard one btw 🤣
 
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Couple meals from yesterday. I bought a huge pork tenderloin and cut it up into pork chops. Subbed out my half cup rice for applesauce. The other is a grilled chicken wrap with roasted vegetables, a sprinkle of feta, a teaspoon of ranch and some Cajun spices
 
That first plate unfortunately looks like what I am going to be eating this week. I am spoiled to how moist sousvide chicken is but I grilled it this weekend and it just looks so dry comparitively. Not saying yours looks dry but reheated chicken is never as good. I may just eat it cold or add to salads to moisten it up. I will definitely have less saturated fats this week tho which is good and the goal here.
 
MrKleen73 said:
That first plate unfortunately looks like what I am going to be eating this week. I am spoiled to how moist sousvide chicken is but I grilled it this weekend and it just looks so dry comparitively. Not saying yours looks dry but reheated chicken is never as good. I may just eat it cold or add to salads to moisten it up. I will definitely have less saturated fats this week tho which is good and the goal here.
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When I first cooked the chop it was very tasty and juicy, the second one was reheated and a little dry and that's why I opted for the applesauce so I had something to dip it 😂
 
MrKleen73 said:
That first plate unfortunately looks like what I am going to be eating this week. I am spoiled to how moist sousvide chicken is but I grilled it this weekend and it just looks so dry comparitively. Not saying yours looks dry but reheated chicken is never as good. I may just eat it cold or add to salads to moisten it up. I will definitely have less saturated fats this week tho which is good and the goal here.
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Funny... just got done vacuuming chicken breast for sous vide. Makes for great cold chicken. Pork tenderloin (served hot) is also a favorite. 135, then a quick sear. Sliced, spiced and devoured 😀
 
Fasted for blood work, got my EKG and physical and cleared to go. When I got there my blood pressure was crazy high like 150 over 95. They had to take it three times but in between the second and third they left me alone for like 5 minutes and it came back at 118 over 78, the first two times they used a regular cuff and the third time they used a bigger one and a hand pump. At my house my arm and my wrist one usually have me around 1:10 over 70 or somewhere in that ballpark. Anywho I continued to fast until 9:00 p.m.. well actually I had two monsters.
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Man that looks good! Congrats on being cleared for the fight. Oh Man, Chimmichurri Hot Sauce, color me intrigued! I LOVE Chimichurri! How good is it?
 
Dustin07 said:
weren't you like 205lbs last week lol
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No lol, I've been under 200 since late September and under 190 for the past 3 weeks. I originally started cutting for vacation in September and then I decided to turn it into a real cut. At least I think that's how this started, my memory sucks lately I'd have to go back through the log 😂 😂 😂
 
MrKleen73 said:
Man that looks good! Congrats on being cleared for the fight. Oh Man, Chimmichurri Hot Sauce, color me intrigued! I LOVE Chimichurri! How good is it?
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It's ok, a little too thin/too much viniger. Still good, But I mean what do you expect from the zero calorie version 🤷

I give it a 6.5/7 out of 10

Had to edit this post because the typos are so bad lol
 
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Smont said:
No lol, I've been under 200 since late September and under 190 for the past 3 weeks. I originally started cutting for vacation in September and then I decided to turn it into a real cut. At least I think that's how this started, my memory sucks lately I'd have to go back through the log 😂 😂 😂
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My cut started in feb of 2025, then again in June, then again I think in Dec. I think I'm cutting right now but the scale keeps going up so I must be doing a really good job of stacking lean mass at the same time 🤔🤔

its good to watch you and Kleen cutting and Hyde shaving a few lbs, helps me keep things in check a bit. I need to drop 10 myself but I'm having too much fun lifting heavy and eating right now. hard to be balanced lol.
 
Dustin07 said:
when I ran Klokov I treated myself to 2 x double 1/4lb'ers every squat session. those were good times.
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Wow with fries that is like a 150g of fat in that meal alone.
 
Hyde said:
Dante Trudel taught us to never eat the fries though.
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Yeah, on a feed like that I will often forego the fries for the extra sammich, or if i double up on a half lb burger patty, no fries.
 
MrKleen73 said:
Wow with fries that is like a 150g of fat in that meal alone.
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wasn't enough back then though lol, I was still running 2 hour sessions of wods, and most of my heavy squat work was on Saturdays. Never gained a lb doing that, that I can remember, and I almost died the day I did a 4x9 at like 90% or whatever insane % klokov was. but it sure tasted great. I just remember fast food being such a rare thing for me I justified it on squat days lol.
 
Dustin07 said:
wasn't enough back then though lol, I was still running 2 hour sessions of wods, and most of my heavy squat work was on Saturdays. Never gained a lb doing that, that I can remember, and I almost died the day I did a 4x9 at like 90% or whatever insane % klokov was. but it sure tasted great. I just remember fast food being such a rare thing for me I justified it on squat days lol.
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Oh, I have no doubt you burned through it!
 
Dustin07 said:
that and I was probably chronically low/deficit anyways so it was probably the only time my body was proper fed lol.
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That was exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything because I wasn't sure if you did the Klokov workout during your super cut period or more recently.
 
MrKleen73 said:
That was exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything because I wasn't sure if you did the Klokov workout during your super cut period or more recently.
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LOL I keep calling it klokov, very good lifter, best in all mother russia. I meant smolov jr.
when I did that, geeze i bet it was 10 years ago now. I just remember the 4x9 I think was like 245lbs before I had a 300lb squat in me. absolutely brutal. I was more focused on xfit style competitions and regionals at the time so my strength was $hit but conditioning was "train with your shirt off" 🔥 🔥
 
Today I mixed up test and trest in a bottle. The concentration is 175mg/ml. 125 test and 50 trest and I took 1/2 ml. Will start with 1ml per week for about 5 weeks

I added 20mg rad 140 today and will go 5 weeks

I added 15mg carderine today and also will go 5 weeks. (Mainly for endurance, but also to burn some extra fat. But again, mainly for the cardio/endurance boost).

Still never added a actual non stim fat burner like mitoburn and only using caffeine at the moment. Approximately 400mg caffeine per day. And Im upping my sodium, going to aim for 6000mg/day

(Average day right is 4500).

This morning I did a PPL circuit on a 2min on 1 min off timerwith 40lb dumbbells.
20 x step ups, 20 x bent over rows, 20 x 45° incline press and Asian squat holding 5lb DB like a crucifix hold arm position. 4 rounds

Jump rope 1 round, incline treadmill run 1 round, wind bike 1 round.

Heavy bag 5 rounds.

I superset some rope press down with cable curls and walked on the treadmill for a 10min cool down.
 
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Still trying to keep it interesting with my food but it's getting hard lol. Here's some little chicken with peppers and onions pizzas made on the protein wraps. 2 of them is the serving.
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And 15 of these with two tablespoons of cocktail sauce.
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Brings today to 1180 cal and 130g protein. I don't need any more carbs today, I used them up around the workouts. And I got 800+ calories to go.

Probably gonna eat a couple more shrimp, some leftover breakfast sausage and a protein bar
 
Works slow so I squeezed a extra session in this morning. I drank a massive instant coffee that was half decaf and about 30 calories from that creamer and hit the gym. 45min of cardio with varying intensities. After that I sparred 4 rounds with................. The front desk girl 😂 😂 😂. She's learning to box and the owner told me to get in there and work on defense and footwork and look for openings. Didn't really have it in me to throw a lot of punches at her so I only threw one when she had her hands down to kind of remind her to put her hands up. I'm pretty sure I said sorry every time I landed a punch 😂. After I was done I hung out the gym for about another hour just watching other people work. Sometimes I like to walk around and people watch and see what people are working on I'm pretty good at picking up on people's mistakes as well so I'll usually hang around when the new guys are sparring so I can talk to them in between the rounds and help fix things.

I'm actually wanting to expand from the strength and conditioning to some actual boxing coaching. I'm probably only equiped with the knowledge to train new fighters through the basics, if a guy's been around the gym for more than 2-3 years there's not a ton I can teach them because they've probably already learned more from the trainers we have. But you gotta start somewhere.

Some of these younger guys I've been sparring with and working out with are really good but they're really new when they make a lot of mistakes and some of them have a shitload of potential. There's two guys in there early to mid twenties that have the potential to be Pro fighters, I'm not going to go on a limb and say that I could make somebody into a champion because I can't lol. But I can see the potential in some of these guys. Your 24 year old kid with one amateur fight but you're in the ring looking like you've had 20 fights, you know that person is capable
 
I just wanted to throw this out here in case someone stumbles across this thread thinking this is the way to cut. It's not the best, not even close, at the moment I'm being stupid aggressive and intentionally overtraining this week before I back off and rest for 4-5 days leading up to it.

I did double sessions today, I spent almost 5 total hours in the gym. After this mornings workout I had 25 cocktail shrimp, rested for 2 hrs, had a sparkling water with 70mg caffeine and went back.

So this weigh in is after a few low days and today I'm pretty much protein only. Like 1.5gm fat

All time low for me since I started lifting again lol. In my socks and underwear too so I probably am 179.8 or .9. either way, I hate it lol, I was 175-180:when I graduated highschool, my original fight weight was 178.

10 more days and il start lifting weights again. I'm staying on the cut. But il be bringing calories back up a little and letting the training and the addition of gear recomp me a little.

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Giving myself a extra 400 calories tonight. Other then the shrimp which was 230ish and the extra coffee after this morning has me at 300 cal for the day.

Next meal is Burrito bowls
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Im gonna over shoot and say I'm at 1200 cal and il give myself another 1200. But first.......

I'm going for a 2mile walk
 
Smont said:
I feel tiny bro 😂 😂 😂

Being leaner like this definitely creates the illusion I'm still big if I have no shirt on, but in my clothes I look significantly smaller that's what's getting to me lol.
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I have some more fitted or oversized 2XLs I still wear that look good on me, but any cheap big cotton ones I am swimming in 😭
 
Hyde said:
I have some more fitted or oversized 2XLs I still wear that look good on me, but any cheap big cotton ones I am swimming in 😭
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Same! My higher quality xl T shirts look good on me. I got some 2xl ones I can still wear, my shoulders look wide and because I'm vascular, my forearms look good hanging out, but my big cotton 2xl t shirts are HUGE right now
 
After carb up and going over my limit 2400 turned into 2900, I woke up 184.3 and after coffee n bathroom trip 183.7

645am now, workout today work is all heavy bag for 45min

I probably won't eat anything but protein and fat today. Carbs on my actual meal plan or around 100 today, but I'm probably going to go lower and try to keep it under 50
 
One of the lenses on my camera is busted and all my pictures are coming out like they were taken with a flip phone lately. It's all good though I don't want to put any high def progress picks up anyways until I'm really happy.
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Still got that lower back fat, lower abs a little bit watery looking, but the external obliques and serratus are coming in pretty f****** good and despite not lifting weights very often lately I'm seeing good separation in my muscles and veins showing up in New places (I don't exactly need those! Sometimes I wish I was less veiny, it starts to look gross when you're really lean. Specially that gnarly one that runs through my temple into my forehead lolz
 
Tonight's my little brother's 40th birthday at my cousin's restaurant, so hopefully I don't crack and start pounding the buffet appetizers or cake lol.

I heard the Coast guard academy is bringing a bunch of their cadets down to our boxing gym tonight so I may leave the party earlier to get some rounds in.

They're not great boxers but they have incredible endurance
 
Smont said:
I feel tiny bro 😂 😂 😂

Being leaner like this definitely creates the illusion I'm still big if I have no shirt on, but in my clothes I look significantly smaller that's what's getting to me lol.
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Yeah, that is hard and if you were planning to stick around a shopping trip could fix that, but since you plan to go back for the gains you just have to deal with swimming in your old shirts.
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I have some more fitted or oversized 2XLs I still wear that look good on me, but any cheap big cotton ones I am swimming in 😭
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Oh yeah, if I am not in an athletic fit one, I look like I am being swallowed. The difference between how a shirt looks on my Monday compared to Friday is like I am in my Dad's clothes as a kid.
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Still got that lower back fat, lower abs a little bit watery looking, but the external obliques and serratus are coming in pretty f****** good and despite not lifting weights very often lately I'm seeing good separation in my muscles and veins showing up in New places (I don't exactly need those! Sometimes I wish I was less veiny, it starts to look gross when you're really lean. Specially that gnarly one that runs through my temple into my forehead lolz
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Dude, you are going to spring board into growing leaner I bet. I have seen you hop on from this lean, or close and you always look awesome as you fill out. Curious what some extra calories while in a deficit and on blast is going to do from here!
 
Smont said:
After carb up and going over my limit 2400 turned into 2900, I woke up 184.3 and after coffee n bathroom trip 183.7

645am now, workout today work is all heavy bag for 45min

I probably won't eat anything but protein and fat today. Carbs on my actual meal plan or around 100 today, but I'm probably going to go lower and try to keep it under 50
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That’s the right play. You overate yesterday; you just don’t need the extra carbs today since you already frontloaded. Just changed the timing this way.

I would abstain from the appetizers & cake at the party entirely. It’s a lot easier to make simple rules than try to moderate your way through based on feelings in the moment. Guess what, you are cutting hard, you have a binge-eating disorder, and there’s a good chance you will feel inclined to justify whatever lol. Nobody ever wins playing Tip-ins. Or maybe they always do (depending on perspective), but people always end up balls deep 😝
 
I mean if your cousin wants you to eat a slice of cake, eat it & be happy for him, but if nobody hassles you then I just silently skip things.
 
Smont said:
I feel tiny bro 😂 😂 😂

Being leaner like this definitely creates the illusion I'm still big if I have no shirt on, but in my clothes I look significantly smaller that's what's getting to me lol.
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LOL dude its such a mind F. hardest part of cutting usually for me. and then some dude at the gym will have the nerve to tell you that 'you're looking jacked' when you're down 20lbs and I"m like wtf you talking about. 😂 😂
Hyde said:
I would abstain from the appetizers & cake at the party entirely. It’s a lot easier to make simple rules than try to moderate your way through based on feelings in the moment. Guess what, you are cutting hard, you have a binge-eating disorder, and there’s a good chance you will feel inclined to justify whatever lol. Nobody ever wins playing Tip-ins.
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So true. I think the body also knows that it doesn't want a six pack, it wants nutrients. you let it taste a little sugar and it turns into the cookie monster. nothing worse than an open tub of peanut butter at 9pm when I'm on a deep cut lol.
 
Hyde said:
I mean if your cousin wants you to eat a slice of cake, eat it & be happy for him, but if nobody hassles you then I just silently skip things.
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I am of the abstaining school also. Which is why fasting, and keto work well for me. I have always kind of been an all or nothing guy. Attempts to participate in moderation with tempting foods often leave me balls deep to quote @Hyde. Currently avoiding carbs during the week is super easy, like a non-issue. Having a day I can kind of let go, and enjoy them is awesome because I also know I have a dead stop at bedtime that night. THen back to NOPE not touching it.

So I agree, if noone is hassling you to have a peice of cake then don't and your brother would probably completely understand that you are sacrificing to get ready for a fight. Just find a good peice of meat to gnaw on and don't stress it.
 
Hyde said:
That’s the right play. You overate yesterday; you just don’t need the extra carbs today since you already frontloaded. Just changed the timing this way.

I would abstain from the appetizers & cake at the party entirely. It’s a lot easier to make simple rules than try to moderate your way through based on feelings in the moment. Guess what, you are cutting hard, you have a binge-eating disorder, and there’s a good chance you will feel inclined to justify whatever lol. Nobody ever wins playing Tip-ins. Or maybe they always do (depending on perspective), but people always end up balls deep 😝
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I definitely will justify things when I'm hungry enough lol. There's plenty of times I'm hungry and I don't need a car buff but I convince myself I do and then it turns into a binge lol. Luckily I'm good at doing damage control after the fact lol
 
MrKleen73 said:
I am of the abstaining school also. Which is why fasting, and keto work well for me. I have always kind of been an all or nothing guy. Attempts to participate in moderation with tempting foods often leave me balls deep to quote @Hyde. Currently avoiding carbs during the week is super easy, like a non-issue. Having a day I can kind of let go, and enjoy them is awesome because I also know I have a dead stop at bedtime that night. THen back to NOPE not touching it.

So I agree, if noone is hassling you to have a peice of cake then don't and your brother would probably completely understand that you are sacrificing to get ready for a fight. Just find a good peice of meat to gnaw on and don't stress it.
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My brother could care less if I eat or don't eat at the thing, he's learned a long time ago that I just do things differently than other people lol. It's usually the older women in my family trying to force me to eat s***. But I'm very good at just saying no if I want to say no. And everyone there knows that I'm fighting in a couple of days
 
MrKleen73 said:
I am of the abstaining school also. Which is why fasting, and keto work well for me. I have always kind of been an all or nothing guy.
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same here. When my wife was 'cutting' with a legit female bb competitor as her coach, we did very good with things like a salad, no dressing, ice tea, no cocktails etc on a date night, and limited our refeeds to one meal on Saturdays, but generally speaking I prefer to offset a thursday night out with her with a full 36hr fast elsewhere in the week.
 
Dustin07 said:
LOL dude its such a mind F. hardest part of cutting usually for me. and then some dude at the gym will have the nerve to tell you that 'you're looking jacked' when you're down 20lbs and I"m like wtf you talking about. 😂 😂


So true. I think the body also knows that it doesn't want a six pack, it wants nutrients. you let it taste a little sugar and it turns into the cookie monster. nothing worse than an open tub of peanut butter at 9pm when I'm on a deep cut lol.
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I read peanut butter and instantly craved peanut butter and crackers with milk!
 
Came home and air fried a bunch of shrimp.

4 tablespoons powdered peanut butter
2 tablespoon of sriracha
1 tbsp soy sauce
Mix that up and very slowly add tiny amounts of hot water til you get the consistency you want.

Great dipping sauce

Your welcome lol
 
Oh man, gonna have to try that.
 
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