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Don’t treat the magic 500 calorie deficit number like it’s set in stone. The amount of muscle lost during higher calorie deficits is still pretty debatable. Also, a 500 calorie deficit for a 6’5, 300...

Maybe I missed this in your OP but how long have you been dieting and when did you start working out?

If you’re adding a stressful activity on your muscles at the same time as you begin cutting...

I was halfway joking about the losing the fat thing. Point being that one can definitely gain fat in a single day and think oh it’s just water weight, when really you’re only dragging out a cut.

As long as it takes to lose the fat you stored on your refeed day.

Without knowing your diet, it’s impossible to guess at this question. If your refeed was near maintenance cals, the effect...

What everyone else said. It sounds like you need to get out of your own head and keep things in perspective. It’s hard to give someone advice about how they should be eating when they have a...

You said you just got back in the gym and started lifting again. That always bumps me up a pound or two if I’ve taken time off. Give it a week and the scale should stop playing games with you.

Pendlay Row: back parallel to floor, pull to the sternum, bar returns to floor every rep. It's more of a power/strength exercise that emphasizes the middle back more

Barbell/Bent-Over Row: angled...

You're looking at it wrong. What if the size of box increased when you added water?

Just realize that at your calorie intake, 1 binge day will likely negate a week's worth of deficit.

It sounds like you just need to work on your tracking a little bit. I am similar height/weight...

I'm starting to notice that too and have never had that problem before. I have what doctors have described as a "male badonkadonk" so no matter how lean I've gotten in the past, I still have a little...

I would love to join you all again but after my success the last two months, with the help of the April/May motivational thread, I will be starting a bulk soon. I'm really excited to start adding...

Jimmy John's is the most overrated restaurant ever. I really don't get the hype, other than the late night delivery (but I'm not in college anymore so I have no need for a sandwich at 2:30 am).
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You only gain water weight to a certain point. It's not like you blow up like a water balloon with every week of bulking. You can attribute the first 3-7 lbs to water weight. After 1-2 weeks of...

I ate light the whole day before and still ended up at 3200 calories (give or take a few hundred, I had to estimate a lot). Those craft beers are not only heavy on your stomach, they also get you...

It looks like you just have a little fat left, but I'm not sure if trying to lose it right now is the way to go. I would start trying to add muscle if I was you.

Agree with the above poster that...

Brew fest tomorrow...I'm gonna save an extra 200 calories today and Sunday but that may not even make a dent in my expected surplus. I'll try not to wipe out a month's worth of progress...but I'm not...

No one ever does. We see what we want to see in the mirror...until one day, you realize none of your clothes fit anymore and you're out of breath after running to the door to get the pizza.

Then...

If you try the shake thing, it's best to use cereal that isn't super sweet because the shake is sweet too.

"You've lost weight. Are you TRYING to lose weight?"

Yep, gotten in several times lately and after previous cuts. It comes off really negative, as if by trying to better my health and physique,...

5'10, 29" waist will be great for aesthetics, terrible for pants shopping lol. Nice progress though man. Good luck with the cut