figure i should post
something in here every now and then
finished a cut very nicely, bottomed out at 182.0lbs which i haven't been since high school! I was also very dry (as in, did a full water fast the day before, and then a dry fast on the day of my weigh-in). next week i binged. cutting a little this week to re-do that, and doing a slow lean bulk. currently at like 188lbs ish. Hard to really gauge my weight since i do a lot of fasting, both water fasting and dry fasting. freakin love fasting.
love using full day fasts for cutting. the benefits are amazing. i even did a ~65hour fast to finish off my cut with a couple of ~14hr dry fasts included in there. you don't even get that hungry. helps me sleep very well, too. it's amazing. minimal strength loss and i love not having to cut for months at a time.
lifts are like... squat 295x5, RDL 385x5, incline db bench 90x8 (pr is 100x6, goal is 100x10),
i miss playing basketball. i gotta find a qualified PT near me, get some MRIs of my knees, and take this SERIOUSLY. my cardio sucks man. i'm 26 now and i should start caring about cardio.
Whats my goal now? why do i lift? tbh, i just want to stay looking good and be healthy. i also hate having a fat face. after a certain bodyweight it's like boom my face is fat and bloated and it's a huge difference.
my target strength levels squat 405x1, db incline bench 100x10, rdl 495x1, chin up maybe +100x5. if my knees seriously heal up, maybe ill go kingfish and just work back up to a 455 squat like i used to have and work on that 40" standing vert. but it's not so important to me anymore. would be cool as hell though.
thinking of doing some kind of martial arts in the future, God willing. men are the protectors and maintainers of women, and i need to get on that. i have the job part down (not a crazy salary but enough for me) and the physique, but i've never been in a fight in my life lol
work has been real good to me. been having a lot of work from home projects. got hotspot on my phone, i work on my laptop while driving with my friend, or local dunking donuts, sometimes i log in to check my mail while at the gym eating my preworkout clif bar at the table, etc. not having to commute saves so much time, and wakign up at 5:30am daily on top if that is just amazing. i wake up and have a few hours to kill before i have to sign on. can even take a mid-day nap as part of my lunch break without anyone knowing.
been really slacking on learning my arabic, but i'm picking it up here and there very slowly. very cool to listen to the dawn prayer recitation and understand some things here and there. what a sick language (at least the standardized Arabic is). i could go on and on about the very basics of the root system and how even individual letters have characteristics, so beast. i think i posted before about how when i started to pray 5x a day, all of a sudden i didn't need as much sleep. wide awake by 7am -- not just awake, but like fully functioning awake on 6hrs of sleep (unusual for me). i was guessing that the change was due to entering a deep sleep much quicker. i got a sleep study done for suspected sleep apnea and they discovered that
within three minutes of falling asleep i was entering REM. They want to test me for narcolepsy now lol. kind of confirms my guess of falling into deep sleep very quickly, but to be fair i dont have this data on me from before praying 5x/day
some meals i've been having recently, home cooked:
some beef patties with olive oil, spinach, mushrooms, onions, salt pepper paprika cayenne, then i threw in some eggs on top and melted provolone and gouda in:
home made halal guys, thats cauliflower rice in there (tastes amazing) with some veggies and idn what spices. got the sauce from halal guys, this thing tasted incredible, probably better than the famous cart itself:
Then my other friend came over and melted some cheese on top and seasoned it more... the cheese melted even more afterward (not pictured):
meatballs stuffed with cheese, aka meatbombs. also some zuchini salad, tastes so freaking good:
steak with provolone and parm crust, cauliflower rice and avocado:
i don't eat like this every day. usually its a protein shake, some greek yogurt combos: fig preserves + crushed cashews, honey + granola + banana, strawberry preserves + black seeds, and some eggs with a bunch of random stuff thrown in
