okay so basically I'm 21 with a soft-featured face, wide child-birthing hips, massive thighs, and only a few inklings of chest hair, with the majority of my facial hair still being unpronounced. Also, a really small frame with paper thin wrists.
Anyway, it's not so bad, but extra weight makes my already soft features look even softer, and my hips look even more feminine. Everything I put on goes to waste, thighs, and underchin, in that order.
I've been lifting for about a year and half, 22% lean muscle, which looks pretty good (one of my pecs is genetically smaller than the other, so it could be better), but now I've gained about ten pounds of extra weight over the summer and don't know what to do. I don't want to keep looking this chubby, but at the same token, muscle is my only salvation in terms of maintaining a physique that balances out my feminine features, and I know I'll lose a bunch of that that if I start too hard cutting.
Ideally what I'd like to do is just go on a water/liquid fast or some shit, and start taking in non-shit surplus calories for bulking after that's done. I'm just worried I'll lose everything I've thus far built.
Basically what the fuck do I do lmao.
I'm also basically completely inept when it comes to counting calories, which is why I go for the extremes.
My first piece of advice is to stop being retarded. My second piece of advice is to read the fucking sticky.
Zachary James
Mostly my face is what I'm concerned about. With the right expression, lighting, and haircut I can look about 10 years old. With how I usually present myself though, I pull 15-17.
Andrew Gray
sticky doesn't address this specific issue
It's helpful, but I genuinely felt no better prepared to face th
Jayden Peterson
this specific set of circumstances after reading it
Easton Ross
Muscle loss during cuts are overstated.
Get enough protein/creatine/whatever and don't lower your current routine.
Easton Lee
Count your fucking calories and reach your macros. This shit isn't hard, and it is addressed in the sticky.
Cameron Ortiz
So do you think a whey shake (with vital nutrients) fast+maintaining a routine would be the way to go?
My goal is just to lose this weight I've put on after a summer of binge drinking so I can get back to eating properly.
Angel Cooper
Post pics of our body
Michael Mitchell
only way we can help is pics
Jayden Garcia
>this shit isn't hard
Eli Gutierrez
What
Said
Count your calories, reach macros, cut at that intake until you're shredded. If you're not patient enough and want to go on a crash diet you will yoyo between skinny fat and semi strong fat.
Slow and steady.
Oliver Martinez
Also not relevant, but I literally had to get surgery for gyno.
Fucking genetics man. What the fuck. I swear it has something to do with the fact that my dad took a shitload of T when he was my age, and heavily into bodybuilding.
Leo Myers
post body
Juan Taylor
Alright. Is there anything online (besides the sticky) that goes more into gradually cutting, and with what foods to do it with?
It's very simple. Just get enough for your body not to start eating itself like crazy.
That's just my take. I sometimes combine this with intermittent fasting(google it).
Just get enough protein and nutrients to maintain your muscle. Aim for 1-2 pounds a week, 2 pounds is aggressive as fuck, not recommended, and constitutes an almost 860 caloric deficit per day. So know that this is your absolute upper expectation for weekly weight loss. Any more and you are gonna lose muscle.
Bentley Sanchez
and obviously keep lifting at the same volume and weight.
Grayson Rodriguez
>so basically I'm 21 with a soft-featured face, wide child-birthing hips, massive thighs >extra weight makes my already soft features look even softer, and my hips look even more feminine. Everything I put on goes to waste, thighs
fuck I'm hard as diamonds
Bentley Rivera
Aight thanks nigga. I guess I'll go with that then.
