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You always lose way more the first week. It's water weight from reducing the sodium and carbs in your diet. You shouldn't readjust yet. Give it at least another week/week and a half and then...

Not sure why this would matter, but only way to gain weight without fat is to build muscle or consume sodium by basically intentionally bloating yourself.

Why would you possibly care about your BMI?

More bodyfat lost than actual gains. Good job though.

Some simple math here:

Let's say you are 20% at 159 lbs. That would put you around 32 pounds of body fat, and a lean body mass of 127 lbs.

Assuming you lose about 2 pounds of muscle mass...

The routine is eat less food. You control your habits. They aren't the weather. They didn't 'worsen', you just decided not to try.

Diet sounds garbage. Come on bro.

With that said, cut. No question cut.

Hard to tell, but I think you're just fat.

Eat right, cut that fat, then hit them weights

damn somebody's got self esteem problems

Bro, it's really up to you, but I'd just cut. At least for me, being fat as hell while building muscle just feels horrible and is demotivating. To each their own though. You can always bulk, get fat...

I you're lame women will not mess with you no matter what you look like.

So I bulked for about 7 months. Strength went up, probably put some muscle on, but I got fat as hell. Realized my mistake and decided to cut. My goal is to get lean as a base and then bulk. I've...

3350 calories a day, ~165g of protein a day.

I don't have any measurements.

And how long do people bulk for? I don't really have an issue continuing given that I'm not really getting much...

Thanks bro. Yea guess I'll just keep on. Everything looks good on paper, just not seeing it in the mirror but hey only been on this bulk thing for 4 months

Yea that's what I'm saying...And I do hit legs hard so they could be absorbing some of the weight.

Not sure what else to do though because I train everything hard, or at least I think I do.

I have a general idea, but basically I just move up when it gets too easy. I have a general idea of how I'm moving up but I don't write it down.

5'9"

Diet is 60% carbs, 20% protein, 20% fat, separated into 5 meals a day. Lifts have improved all around, although I don't actually track that. I do increase them relatively often though.

But yea, I...

Went from 148 to 158, but I look the same, maybe slightly fatter.

What gives? Would have thought 10 pounds would be more noticeable

Pics attached.

First pic was on 12/8/2014 (weight 148)...

No I'm not familiar as of now but I'll look into them.

Edit: I actually do all those exercise except for deadlifts, but I do isolate lower back