Hi, I read these forums regularly to increase my knowledge, however I do not tend to post regularly. I have been lifting for a good couple of years now, and have made some impressive gains. I was absolutely minescule when I started at age 18, and have bulked up considerably, through eating like a nutcase and working my ass off in the gym. I have come to a point where I am relatively happy with my size (my girlfriend says that my arms are getting too big, lol), but wish to shed the excess fat which has built up, in order to expose my abs and veins on my arms ready for summer:). Apparently I am unable to upload pictures at this point due to my insufficient post count. I will do so as soon as I can.

I am doing this to aid motivation, as I seem to be addicted to eating crap!

I shall post my progress and diet at the end of each day.(hopefully)

cheers for reading; watch this space.

sel

good luck sir! sounds like you've put in some good work over the past couple of years. i'm sure if you can bulk up like that then you'll soon adapt to cutting no probs.

my girlfriend says that my arms are getting too big, lol

pmsl!!! i really wish i had this problem - i have recently been referred to as 'nae guns'!

"i don't have to sell my soul, he's already in me"



5 sept 2008 = bimonthly assessment of progress

Good luck with the cut.

What are your current stats?

Also, you can still upload pictures to your posts, use www.imageshack.us/

...it's only if you want your own avatar that you need to wait till you reach 50 posts.

PB's (88kg-natural)
Squat - 135kg
Bench - 125kg x 2
Deadlift - 230kg

My Journal... ##Getting back into it! ##

Thanks people, really motivating to know there are people out there supporting me. I live in a student house, and we lack basic things such as furniture, so things such as bathroom scales are non existent...lol. However most of my excess cash went on a bench and a fridge for my room (thieving bastards, te he!).

Approximately speaking, I beleive my stats are: Weight: 12 Stone,

Height: 5'9/10

Arms: about 15" i think

Will look into uploading those pics asap.

sel

You can get bathroom scales for 3 quid from Argos and a tape measure would be a few pence.

...although being honest, i often find the mirror is a better judge.

PB's (88kg-natural)
Squat - 135kg
Bench - 125kg x 2
Deadlift - 230kg

My Journal... ##Getting back into it! ##

Ok here goes, for some reason i was unable to post the "before pic" when i looked like a pale twiglet, but heres me not too long ago:



hope that worked

sel

nope.....how about this (u can tell i hate computers)

[img=http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7426/dsc00103cj5.th.jpg]

sel

(yay)

sel

ok i managed to get the skinny twiglet picture of me before I started weight training at 18 with 11" arms

[img=http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8663/skinnytwattz2.th.jpg]

sel

Good work mate best of luck with the cut

Cheers for the help and compliment dead weight and others

sel

Top progress that mate, the worlds your lobster keep up the good work!!

All new cutting journal

http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/m_1810829/tm.htm

This is a photo of me when I was at my biggest.....and fattest, with the mrs. Not a physique photo im afraid, im on the hunt for some of them. For half of last year I was clinically depressed, and lost a ton of weight. This is just before I got ill You can see the fat that has accumilated on my face from the uni lifestyle. This is what the cut is all about....

[img=http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/7057/meandmqi9.th.jpg]

sel

ORIGINAL: OCCY

Top progress that mate, the worlds your lobster keep up the good work!!

Cheers mate really appreciate

sel

Ok so coming to the end of my first day "on the cut" as it were. I ran for 25 minutes at around 60% max heart rate ( I know this isn't long enough, but I decided to ease myself into it; plus i am teaching a class tomorrow night and dont want to be too stiff to demonstrate). My diet is as follows; N.B. I am not new to lifting but I am new to strict dieting, so go easy on me, i am aware that it isnt perfect. On that note, any advice would be gratefully received:

Meal 1

• Thermobol
• Promax in water
• Muesli
• Milk 200ml approx

Meal 2

• 25g unsalted cashews
• 2x flaxseed oil caps (which roughly equates to 10ml approx)
• Multivitamin


Meal 3

• Thermobol
• 1x granary bread
• 5x large egg whites, 1x egg yolk, scrambled
• Water
• Small organic apple
• Small serving of enriched olive spread

Meal 4

• Promax in water


Meal 5

• Thermobol
• 250g (raw) rump steak; fried in extra low fat olive oil
• Five small new potatoes, boiled
• Generous portion of mixed veg; boiled from frozen

Meal 6

• Promax in water

P.S. Im afraid i was unable to keep track of time today (sorry Toxic!)

cheers

sel

As for the thermobol, so far I am most impressed. Felt slightly dodgy for a short peroid: hot/cold, but then felt awesome; loads of energy and very postive mood. Obviously at this point I am unable to gauge the results, but in comparison to the hydroxycut (which gave me terrible side effects) I used to use, it is a great sup.

sel

Ok, in regard to my previous post, I have a change to make. It is 03:40am and I am still buzzing. Cant sleep for ****. My thoughts just keep going round and round and round......Its like my body's nakkered but my brain is staying awake.....not so pleased, i really wanted a fat burner I could rely on. Any advice?? should I stop taking it? or simply take less, or at different times? please help

cheers

sel

ok today went well. avoided the thermobol, because I actually wish to get to sleep before 5am. I shall use it now and again but no way 3 times a day. I worked out my shoulders, which felt great, and i didn't notice too much energy deficiency; perhaps a rep or two.

My diet:

Meal 1: 10.45am
• Promax in water
• muesli
• milk 200ml


Meal 2: 12.00pm
• 25g unsalted cashews
• 2x flaxseed oil caps
• Multivitamin

Meal 3 13:40pm
• 1x Granary bread, toasted
• Medium sized salad (about a portion)
• 5x huge egg whites (proper big bastards), fried in extra low fat olive oil
• 1x egg yolk
• Small serving of mayonnaise
• Even smaller serving of enriched olive spread
• 200ml smoothie (banana, strawberry, apple, raspberry, blackcurrant)

Meal 4 15.30pm

• Promax in water

Workout

Meal 5 18:45pm

• 250g whole wheat pasta
• Half a jar of Tesco pasta sauce
• Two slices of bacon fried in low calorie olive oil
• 200ml Smoothie
• Medium sized salad (about one portion).

Teaching class…Drank a bottle of Powerade

Meal 6 22:30

. Labrada's Pro v60 two scoops with milk


I ate a fair bit of pasta because I needed the energy for my class, and the powerade is a tradition of mine. All I had was lean braising steak for dinner with the pasta, which takes millenia to cook, so Im making up for it with a whopping 60g protein shake from good old lee :D

my workout today was as follows:

Seated dumbbell shoulder press.22kg three sets of 8,9 then 8 reps


Seated lateral raise 7kg three sets of 15reps


Standing front raise 10kg three sets of 12 reps

I think my body will be making some major adjustments to my new diet, and will post up pics on sundy evening. cheers

sel

Ok so i indulged in my first cheat yesterday, i wouldn't have had it so soon, but the mrs. and i have been planning a valentines treat for weeks, so we got chinese. and yes, it was naiiice therefore yesterdays diet ( I stayed round hers hence posting late) was:

Meal 1 10:00am

• Promax in water

Meal 2 (lunch) 13:00pm

• 4 huge egg whites
• One egg yolk
• Two slices of granary bread
• Enriched olive spread
• Small amount of mayonnaise
• Huge salad (2 portions)
• Tom. Ketchup
• 200ml smoothie

Meal 3 16:00pm

• 25g unsalted cashews
• 2x flaxseed oil caps
• multivitamin


Meal 4 20:30pm

Chinese takeaway; but with lots of beef :D.
Wine

No working out yesterday; felt a bit dodgy so missed run, didnt want to aggrevaite what seemed to be an ever present headache. Feel awesome today. Still intend to post pics on Sunday.

cool

sel

Good luck with everything

HIT with Rightyho

Pity we didn't vid Rack going from pink and healthy with a touch of brown to white, then green then that death grey colour reserved for the severely traumatised.

Journal R.I.P.