Bulk1

Have had a topsy turvy month since my last post.. I was really showing good promising results.. and giving it my full commitment! But then... I went over the top and fractured my dam foot due to over doing my cardio!! :( This was a big downer for me!!

I wasnt sure what to do! and then I made a mistake... I thought ..****! I am eating too many carbs now as I cant do any cardio and I even dropped my protein intake by about half! as all i could do was sit and wait, but I could still manage upper body w/o's and leg curls.. but not squats or cardio!

For a while I kept my food intake low thinking I didnt want to gain fat by not doing enough training! But this was a big mistake... I LOST WEIGH ALRIGHT! I lost about 1lb a day!! But it wasnt just fat...it was muscle!

So the last few weeks I went back to eating high protein and upped my carbs again! 6 meals a day.

The crazy thing is.. I have bounced back... I have gained some muscle back and lost loads of fat... I've lost 7lbs of fat since the last month i posted! My waist looks really different now... its more narrow than the patato sack it was before!! Which is awesome... and this is with a fractured foot and no cardio at all.

Okay... I've only been training properly for maximum of 2 months... so I'm nowhere near where I am aiming for... but a mighty improvement...and I am happy with how much fat I have lost and muscle gained since I started... very pleased indeed

One again... u will see I dont look a great deal different...but look how much more trimmed my waist looks! and muscle tone is getting there during these early days. Its time to eat to grow.

This is the day I started my training.. in April 11th




This was me last month... may 27th..





and today June 27th... most noticably... how much weight i have lost around my waist in this pic... even with no cardio for weeks! looking to bulk again now.. so hope to be bigger next month.





and advice or comments would be good to hear guys.. thanks for all the help so far!

ParaManiac

great progress for 2 months training....well done!

Bulk1

Thanks Para, I am trying to bulk but also keeping my carbs as close to all i need as possible so I dont add hardly any fat at the same time. If i hadnt been delayed this month... I think I could have done a lot better but hope to see better results in another month from now... i'm sure i will tho.

ajfitness

nice one fella, a real sterling effort, just keep focused dude and itll all work out.

Bulk1

Hi folks... another month goes by! ... they go by too quick!

After my last month when I had my injury and couldnt stand up for a few weeks.. I was set back. I am now back up and 'running' again.. or walking!

I am never going tp be overly happy but I am reasonaby happy and seeing some progress again.. its only been 4 months now since I started in April..so still early days..but I have upped my cardio 5 times a week! and I am eating as clean as i can, I dont think I could eat any cleaner if i tried.

I am less fat by 3% (which is not accurate) but I can see I have lost a layer of fat... I am eating less carbs.. but as u may know by my other posts on the threads... I am on a mission to shed the fat...I hate it! But its still early days...and more patients is needed by me!

As I am training naturally... progress is slow...but I am gonna stick with it and been gradually progressing with lifting more weight each week.

Any thoughts would be good as I dont get any other encouragement apart from on here!

This months pic... I'll update again in another month.

megatron

damn ,thats fast progress mate.

Bulk1

hi mate, I have to say... I havent looked at my previous pics until just now... and I honestly didnt think I had progressed that much! I knew I had lost 'some' fat and i have gained some muscle.. but not a great amount! but now I can see I am progressing pretty good... my shoulders are looking sharper for sure.

I think what I am concentraiting on are my abs! I am judging myself by them and just thinking I'm not getting anywhere!

I would say to anyone starting out... make sure u take pics each month to see your progress or you wont see it.

Thanks mate.

ParaManiac

Brilliant effort,keep doing what you're doing-its working!

Feel free to post your diet and routine,id be interested.

Conrad

Another nice post Bulk....i liked the first pic post you made. Good progress, real fast also. I think your delts are looking very good... nice size. And the waist is looking so much better. Keep it up mate.

hackskii

Man, you grow pretty fast.

megatron

heh those pics look more like 1 year apart (first and last).

Bulk1

Thanks Conrad.. I should have stayed on that thread as it was my 1st post.. the waist is the hardest thing for me to deal with as always when trying to add size u add size to the waist as well....which I least enjoy and now trying to step up my cardio! It has improved massively tho since the beggining.. thanks.

Bulk1

Cheers Para.. appreciate it! with the diet...its been trial and error the whole time.. I change things quite a bit.. I know this isnt ideal.. but when I see I'm gaining too much around the stomach I back off a bit on the carbs which isnt ideal either.. (I have only over the last few weeks upped my cardio tho) but I am sticking to eating every 3 hrs... drinking lots of water..and taking all the usual suppliments that most guys use. I did start taking Dorian yates carbs as I couldnt eat enough that I required as I find it hard to eat a lot of carbs.. and put that in with the protein. I dont think other peoples diets have helped me and just worked out what i like to eat mainly other than what other people are eating (I really cant eat fish either).


Thanks mate.

Bulk1

Hi megatron... thanks mate... but please forgive me if I am mis-reading this... but I hope this isnt meant to mean I am posting pics that are not when I say and this is a whole waste of time.. I can promise u on my life I have no ego trip that i need to waste my time pretending to be anything I'm not.. I have another pic I took in April...wasnt the same day as the other one.. but you can see on the TV its playing a video that if anyone recognises.. it was only released around about that time.. (its one of my fave videos tracks so I know its not been out that long...like a year that you said? :confused this is all I can do to show you I was a fat bastard in April..lol.. and I have worked extremely hard and I know there are people that photoshop themselves for an ego trip.. but I would rather get advise on where I am going wrong than pretend I was a super hero... I am not that weird I hope!

The pics I posted today... were taken 100% today....the fat bastard pic below I am posting now was 100% taken in April this year.

In your defence... I have made very fast progress.. I am now 2st lighter! think a lot of my fast progress is down to muscle memory (and the training and diet of course...I am on a mission) but in my other thread I started... I have said...I have trained before years ago and shown the pics.. and I think my body remembers this and it speeds up progress...Like it does for anyone after a long lay off! I dont know if this is true.. I'm just saying what could be possible..and I hope next month to continue.. thanks though and I hope I didnt go into one too much.. I just dont want you to think I have any ego trip going on.. I promise u I dont.

This was taken around the same time.. and I didnt wish to post it as its disgusting.. :( and I was actually breathing in.. to make it look worse in this pic to see how pregnant I could look! and i think i suceeded!



Hope this helps mate..

Conrad

yeah...you can tell from the dance vid in the background...came out about that time.