Cut for 3 months after natty bulk

>cut for 3 months after natty bulk
>lose literally all size and strength gains you've made
>decide you will never bulk again
>maintain for 3 months
>mini gut is back
>strenght didn't go up at all
I think this is it. Time to quit lifting.

You didn't eat enough protein

i'm scared of something like this happening once i decide to cut after bulking

Maybe i did maybe i didn't. I did natty "lean bulk" two times and ended up fat both times and after both cuts i lost pretty much all size and strenght.

But not gaining any strength after 3 months of eating enough calories is not right.

It's not time to quit. It's time to GOMAD

Go to the doc and get your test levels checked. If they're very low you're fucked.

There are so called non-responders to weight training, even Riptip admitted that he had experienced them in his gym and he usually just calls everyone who doesn't make gains a faggot. However they don't actually not respond at all, just very badly. If you're literally not making any progress at all, you're either very physically sick or doing something very wrong. Try significantly increasing the volume if you're on SS for example. Recalculate your calories, etc. Fat can't appear out of nowhere. If you think you're maintaining but you're actually gaining fat, you're calculations were wrong.

Also 3 months is waaay too short for a proper bulk/cut cycle. Most programs don't even fully start until you're a month in. Try properly bulking with a sub100kcal surplus for a year.

You didn´t eat enough to maintain or even up your strength then.

>maintain for 3 months
>look objectively fatter after maintaining

You are either delusional about your diet or are delusional about the way you look.

how?

>make bulk gains for 6 months
>put on 40lbs
>cut 3 weeks on 600mg ed dnp
>people ask you if youre on gear constantly