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No natty who is 5'8" and has only been training "on and off" for 2 years is going to look ripped at 177 lbs. Your lifts aren't bad, but you would need to cut at least 20 lbs for more definition to...

For the best advice possible you should post a shirtless face on photo in good lighting (cut off your head if you wish) for us to assess your current state, because self assessments don't often tell...

Forget it, move on like it never happened.

No, it will not be good, because 1800 calories is too low for someone your size which is probably why you keep failing. A diet needs to be sustainable for the long term, when you cut calories to...

Post a photo, its the only way we can give you the best advice possible.

You're already eating at maintenance if you're not losing weight. If you haven't been using a food scale you have absolutely no idea how much you've been eating, so any calorie claims are complete...

Be consistent with your calories, 1800 calories a day is not enough for someone your size, which is probably why you keep binging. If you eliminate the high and low calorie days and try to just be...

Your food choices really suck. White hamburger rolls, cheese, chocolate, ice cream, sausage, pasta, huge amounts of popcorn... All extremely high calorie stuff, none of the things you should be...

Barring any unknown or undisclosed health concerns, you can't gain 16 lbs in a month without eating a massive amount of calories; nearly 2000 calories per day OVER what you burn.

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I'm 6'5", 213 lbs, desk job, and my TDEE is in the range of 3100-3300. My cutting calories are 2500 usually. A 350 lb guy having a TDEE of 3500 is totally believable.

For OP you're overthinking...

Milk and peanut butter are both high calorie foods that I would never include in my cutting diet (unless its almond milk). Especially because people can't measure PB for chit, they scoop out 2 huge...

What makes you say that?

Never ever ever "eat back" your calories burned during exercise. Fitbits and machines and people always massively overestimate their calories burned, so this never ends well.

1% of your overall...

So much wrong is this thread...

Telling someone that is already obese and not losing weight to increase their calories is foolish, OP is obviously not tracking everything or is making major...

Yeah, thats insane... Thats a straight up DIRTY bulk. At most you only added 2-3 kgs of muscle, the rest is just water and fat.

Is this a serious question? Are you talking about club soda and a wedge of lime? Club soda is water (zero calories) and a lime slice probably has about 2 calories in it.

Your average beer...

Just curious, how much mass did you add in 12 weeks? Ideally in a lean bulk scenario you should have put on no more than about 6 lbs.

What exactly are you asking, there is not a single question in your post. You said its not a "critique my diet" post, but that's exactly what it looks like.

Don't over-complicate things. Get at...

No such thing as cheat meals for me, I make whatever it is fit within my weekly calorie target.

Start with www.tdeecalculator.net and get a ballpark caloric burn, choose "sedentary" or "light exercise" for your activity level so that the algorithm will skew a bit lower (better than starting too...