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Hey /fit/, former skinnyfat /trv/ler here, I need your wisdom.
I'm 5'11 and started lifting 2 months ago while cutting calories and eating well. I lost around 10 pounds and am now at something like 12% bodyfat, and I thought it was time to start bulking a bit since I'm still what you call a hungry skeleton at 140 pounds.
Problem is, I'm leaving for a 2 week vacation in Morrocco next week and I'm worried about what will happen. What will happen if I eat over maintenance (ie. will my body think "I've been half-starved for 2 months, time to rebuild those fat reserves quick"), and what do you suggest I do to mitigate my lack of lifting ?
If I do get some fat back, should I cut again when I come home, or say screw this and bulk anyway ?
It's not that I don't know the theory. I read the sticky post and applied it for some time.
However, I seem to be unable to exercise continuously, on a regular basis.
I am a free-lance worker and my weekly schedule changes at the shortest notice. Sometimes it is just hard at the end of the working day to decide to drive to the gym and hit the lifts for a while.
On top of that, most gyms around here, in my country, hardly work on weekends. I know it sounds stupid, but they manage to do 7.30-22.00 on weekdays and just 7.30-18.00 on weekends or even 09.00-14.00. I mean, WTF is that?
I don't like the outdoors.
On top of that: >recent tendon injury (right thumb) >developed leg muscles, very easy to exercise them, but physiotherapist told me I have troubles with my hamstring so I should do dedicated exercises and do stationary things (e.g. cycling) rather than exercises in which I have to lift the entire plant of my foot until I get stronger.
Moreover: >I am not sure which machines or free weights I should use. I mean, I never know if I'm training properly. Should I book a coach for a session or two? >I am always fumbling with regulations, seat height, etc. So many things to remember for each machine. I tried to make a chart, but I have to go around the gym with pen and paper...
I dunno really guys. I think I have a problem of attitude or I focus on things that are not really relevant (e.g. maybe I should just try to work out more instinctively).
I really don't know how to organize everything.
Maybe somebody could ask me some specific questions or interview me to find the problem? I believe I'm not the only one with these kind of troubles.
Who is /fat/ for? Fat members of /fit/ who want to learn how to eat right, lift weights, and lose fat. Here we ask others for advice and give moral support to one another. We all know how hard it first is and we all have to get through it to better ourselves. At the end of the day this is a support general whose goal is to help and motivate the chubby channers who need it. Please be warned that there are some chronic idiots who post in this general giving horrible advice that doesn't work for them or anybody. If you see something that contradicts what the sticky says, ignore it.
>tfw bulking >tfw youve never been this fat >tfw you're scared you might stay this started off at 135lbs been bulking for a year. now im 170lbs. anybody else kno this feel? share your bulking feels with us
