[Chris]

Hello Chris

Your base of the growth start was very lean but also very skinny. And you have a little bit of loose skin which appeared, probably from a past overweight and your previous cut which was a bit too fast.

Nothing alarming for me! From the picture, you can keep the growth slowly.

The skin will also be less loose when u will add a decent amount of muscle in the future, so still nothing alarming for me.

The point on which I wanna put an emphasis here : your mental state.

You doubts a lot of your coach/ and you did not gain a significant body fat either, so I do think you still have past “demons” in your head, regarding “body fat” or “taking weight”.

Instead of contesting the technics of your coach, try to speak to him of your “demons” / “fear” of getting big.

You HAVE TO TELL HIM that you don’t feel comfy and that you need a slow process for your mind (cause shape wise everything was under control) instead of telling him “you sure I need 3k kcals smg because I take 1,5kg etc etc” where here you criticized his choices ; which are 2 different approches, if that makes sense for u.

And ofc he told u he knows better, cause he is the coach and you are the clients, so he knows better by definition; Particularly in your case: where everything was under control body fat wise.

If you had became extremely fat, I would have told you “ok your coach pushed too far” but here; you lack of objectivity on yourself.

So I guess you come from a starting point with over weight, and all of this is just anxiety to come back as before.

Hi Allison,

Thank you very much for taking your time to reading the post carefully and answering so extensively. You are very right about the mental state part and it’s great that you also talked about this from his perspective – I didn’t even realize that it was criticizing him.
I’ll proceed as you suggested.
Wish you a great day.

[Chris]

So are you still at the same weight as the end photo in the drive?

If so you can continue to build up for now.

If things have gotten o sloppy, then yes a small pull back to then step forward with guys that have had an ED in the lady I would always go for a longer and slower approach to a diet rather than a short and sharp to take care of your mind with food

Yes, that was just taken this morning. Thank you!