Figure just do a quick week 3 summary a couple days early to get it out of the way. Day 1 of cycle 07/07/19 started at 205 pounds and about 20.5 percent body fat. (Probably had no business bulking since at the starting point I was over 20 percent bf). As of today 07/27/19 weighed in at 218 pounds and body fat of 22.6 percent. So in about 3 weeks my weight went up 13 pounds with roughly a 2 percent increase in body fat. Obviously all my gain wasn’t fat just by doing the math, but due to already being over 20 percent when I added the additional 2 percent fat is quite noticeable especially around the chest area and love handles. Just glad I had the sense to change this to a cut with the input of others on this forum (
@Borashi I should have listened to you from the start when you recommend a cut after I showed you my pic before starting the cycle). Oh well, live and learn.
Will be reducing total calories for week 4 from 5000 down to 3000. Will re-evaluate in one week depending on what body fat percentage does not based on scale weight. Hoping in the last 5 weeks I can at least drop the 2 percent fat I gained and be at 7 or 8 pounds higher weight than the 205 pounds I originally started the cycle at. Ideally would like to lose 3 or even 4 percent body fat,
but that will be hard in just 5 weeks.
Over the last week the additional fat has been more noticeable to me to the point where I have decided to reverse directions in this cycle. Cardio also has become more difficult.
I usually go at 2 and a half miles per hour six days a week at a 15 percent incline on my incline trainer, but due to the additional weight this became too difficult and I had to reduce the speed to 2 mph at a 15 percent incline. No noticeable sides this week except the occasional acidic stomach. Dropped the YK 11 today and knock on wood so far no acidic stomach. Some strength increases on lifts, but nothing huge this week to write about. Hopefully I will have better scale results to report next week. Learned
a lesson for me. Will not be bulking again unless at a minimum down to 17 or possibly 18 percent bf starting weight. Ideally what I would like to do for future cycles is recomps with total weight remaining the same and body fat going down, but I know that can be tricky.