I bulked from skeleton to 155lb. My lifts were in the intermediate range.
Then I fasted down to 139lb and lost all my strength. I'm literally OHPing the bar, and now I'm skinnyfat.
The fast talking shills have played me for an absolute fool.
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>155lb
70 kg is basically skelly tier
>Then I fasted down to 139lb
why the frick would you do that
>and lost all my strength
wtf did you expect? jesus dude
You have to feed muscle or it will frick off. The human body doesn't like to maintain large amounts of muscle either. It's forced onto you by yourself.
>the human body doesn't like to maintain large amounts of muscle
semi true, it depends on a lot, heavier people will maintain more muscle regardless of how skinny they used to be.
hold up, are you telling me that starving yourself is unhealthy?
No shit; if you care about muscle mass you shouldn't fast for more than 16hrs. Even 16hr fasts is at the high end.
155lb, fat but intermediate lifts
nice mushroom tip
Taken today,139lb.
zero strength but still fricking fat.
BTW I'm a manlet, 155lb is BMI 25
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why tf did u fast? u look a lot better at 155
>yes, that's the point of the thread. Fasting is bullshit. I don't know how to preserve muscle while cutting but fasting isn't it.
Now I have to somehow lose the rest of the fat and start all over again.
>Now I have to somehow lose the rest of the fat
just fast
It seems like you could start bulking again. Since you’re concerned about your current strength, maybe now is a good time to try to regain your strength and reach new highs.
If you bulk correctly, you should be able to reach new PRs every time you do a bulk, and you should be able to bulk for over a year without getting fat.
cool shooter cowboy
Manlet with a gun how surprising
5’9?
I wish buddy
>skeleton
>bloated
stop eating fiber, bro
and you’re supposed to stay active and do light exercise while fasting, not sit on ass smoking a joint
You look better here . Stop fasting and just lift and eat alot of protein
Height?
Did you also stop lifting and did you only fast for 2 days at a time?
Once to ~60 hours, other than that less than 48. Even that was awful: by hour 40 I could barely get up if I'd been sitting, and I would feel like dry heaving in the mornings. It really felt like dying.
I thought it was worth it but I wish I was fat and strong again.
Those fasts are stupid. It takes 2 days to burn your liver glycogen stores and you will never burn fast efficiently if you do it that way
That doesn't make any sense. Do you think the body can't utilize your fat cells efficiently unless you still have liver glycogen stored up?
>by hour 40 I could barely get up if I'd been sitting
you sound like a b***h 40 hours is nothing
why would anyone bother fasting except for religious/spiritual reasons?
Isn't it supposed to do stuff to your hormones?
I saw everyone in my life getting fat and wanted to do something extreme. I live in the suburbs and routinely go entire days without seeing a person with a normal BMI. I feel like I'm living in invasion of the body snatchers-- everyone is becoming fat. When I see old friends I pray they haven't taken the fat pill, but one by one they're succumbing.
So fasting is religious; I was trying to ward off the curse, but instead it made me weak and skinnyfat. Now that all my strength is gone I'm going to fast back down to skeleton and start all over again.
Whoa sounds fricking based.
Fasting IS an anti-globohomosexual religion.
I bulked last winter so i could finally squat 3pl8. Now I've fasted down the bloat and all my lifts are like 20% weaker. Lmao from 2x110kg bench to just 2x90kg now. I used to bench 2 pl8 for like 7 reps, now i can't do even one. Aaaaaahhh.
But. Fasting isn't a scam. Anyone who cuts will lose some strength.
I've been fasting/cutting for 3 months. I've heard it being said that it takes half the time you've been cutting to get all your strength back. So in 1.5 months I'm expecting my lifts to be close to my pre -fast level but without all the bloat.
I've lost a lot of strength. Maybe more than you. But I'm confident in muscle memory and I'll be lean and stronk in no time.
Nice!
>muscle memory
Is this a thing? It scares me to lose progress and have to do things all over again
You're 5kg heavier on right than left but fatter too, noticeably. You probably gained 1kg of muscle. Why the frick would you do that to yourself?
My son was born in April. I really wanted to squat 3pl8 before he was born, so he's born to a chaddy daddy and not a dyel dad.
Don't be scared to lose progress. It's just life bro. Ever heard of Sisyphus?
The next time will be much easier, you'll see.
>My son was born in April. I really wanted to squat 3pl8 before he was born, so he's born to a chaddy daddy and not a dyel dad.
i cannot unsee gyno anymore
even a tiny smidge of breast tissue on a man and i immediately notice
frick this board for what it has done to me
frick frick frick frick frick
Yee i know the feel.
I have several copes for this
>Gyno? This just means I gotta keep increasing my bench and decreasing my bodyfat.
>Get operated? Nice try Dr Schekelberg. Never gonna do it.
>The israelites did this to us with microplastics, onions and cheap beer. The gyno helps me to never forget.
sounds like you just have an eating disorder
>why would anyone bother fasting except for religious/spiritual reasons?
Americans are stupid, what else is new?
>Then I fasted down to 139lb
why ???
I'm 5'7 and would never cut under 150ish.
Post body-- at 155lb I was unambiguously fat. There must be a way to get lean and retain some muscle, but fasting isn't it.
Not him but I'm 5'5" and so far I've cut down from 151 to 137 over the course of 2 months. My lifts have gone down around 5 lbs each. I'm still skinnyfat so I'm planning on spending another 2 months cutting. Just cut slowly, lift + eat a high protein diet while doing it. I probably would have gained muscle if I was eating eating 130 g of protein but I usually only hit around 80-100 bc I want consume many calories.
bc I can't consume many calories*
Are you telling me that your body needs protein to function and that there's no protein in your body except in your muscles?
The only way to look fat at 155 5'7 is to have no muscle.
I currently have a diet coming in around 1000 calories. I dont feel like eating more. Should I add a protein shake to my diet?
its fine. you can rebuild strength and muscle much quicker than you did before.
btw, how many days total did you fast for?
youre supposed to at least use your muscles you stupid moron, of course if youre not using your muscles youll lose them
You will gain the strength back after you maintain your weight for a bit moron
Nice pic
I could never get past 170lbs doing crazy cuts I'd lose all progress every time especially if there was fasting involved. Now I'm a lean 200lbs a year later and eat normal.
what fasting really does is make you eat over a shorter period of time with the idea being that you eat less in that time. It is just cico by intention. It is ruined by morons who think "im healthy because i fast" then go binge eat a massive amount.
I just eat less calories on non training days if I want to lose weight. Too little food and my workouts are shit, bad sleep, no energy. So I keep it higher then that but cutout excessive snacking.
>op fasts
>doesnt lift at all
>loses muscle
wow wtf fasting sucks bros
fricking lift while you fast idiot
You are an absolute fool, no fast needed.
>fast
>lose muscle mass
What did i even expect to happen
Idk what to tell you, bruh. You’re moronic.
Fasti g helps with alot of shit in your bosy besides weight loss but fasting is really beneficial for people with more bodyfat to pull from
>he fell for the cutting meme
permabulker skeleton here, i've still to hit 155 lbs