kk so top pic, is me sunday, worst possible mood, eating lowest amount of carbs ive ate in this prep so far, horrible state of mind, depressed, mid day, laying down with good lighting, couldnt workout didnt do much cardio.
i woke up the next day (yesterday) 2.5 lbs heavier than the day before, and it was my best day of dieting. I think it was also the 10 liters of water I had that day.

also, only 5 days before this i had a massive cheat day, 4000-5000 calories with 400-500g of carbs, safe to say i bounced back quick.






this pic was this morning, my left arm looks soft because its infected and swollen, but its going down.
this is in the morning, after cardio but also have a big banana peanut butter smoothie.

yesterdays diet was as follows.

Turkey bacon club with cheese on white
2 applie pie fritters
1 chocolate chip doughnut

2 giant slices of pizza for lunch.

1 large peanut butter cup blizzard from DQ.
1 small dipped cone.

1 large chicken carbonara from quiznoes
1 ham and swiss quiznos square sandwhich
1 chocolate fudge brownie.

2 packs of dads chocolate chip cookies.

10 litres of water.

I haven't added up the macros of yesterday, if you're adventurous and want to that would be cool.
none the less im doing this to show my body can handle a carb overload, and well even a calorie overload.

today im shooting for 200-250g carbs, and ive had most of that already (same timmies breakfast + the smoothie i mentioned)
rest of the day is fish, and maybe ill cram some carbs before the gym today (50g or so)

tomorrow itll be just fish and rice, 150ish grams of carbs worth of rice hopefully.

thursday and friday ill see what i look like and see what happens.

I realized something important during this process, it was all done too quickly and i would never do it again this way. My coach wanted me on 6 meals of 7oz tilapia ONLY, no sodium, no carbs, and 10 ltr of water.
he expected 40 min hiit am fasted, and 40 after weights.

I may not be as dry as i could of been come friday or saturday, or as lean or as tight, granted i will work my ass off these next 4 days to dial in as much as possible. but IM HAPPY, im happy right now, and thats important to me.
top 5 is my goal still, so i can compete provincially if i choose to do it again, but really i just want to get this over with and try my best. Its my first experience and it could be my last, but none the less im doing it and thats all that matters.

sorry for the wall of text.
just in a great mood, never felt worse in my LIFE this weekend, girlfriend felt it, i felt it, friends felt it.
i feel great now, and look relatively okay considering what i ate.

4 days to still bring a good package and hope my abs can win a show, or top 5.

Mad respect for you, but I will never understand why people drive themselves to feeling like shit just for a show.

Good luck though.

hopefully the light fixed u up

thats why i stopped doing what my coach said.
what he was asking was retarded, like a 2500 + calorie deficit a day,
he wants me eating less than a bikini girl diet, and im twice as heavy and how many times more muscular, and exerting how much more calories and energy.

never felt worse than i did this weekend.
havent felt as good as i do today in a long time.

that kinda depressing moody bull shit is not worth a trophy to me.

The real winners eat carbs and enjoy life

Best part of reading your list was the start: "Turkey bacon club with cheese on white" -- I was like, alright carb loading phase, good man. Then my eyes scrolled down and I had a HOLY SHIT moment, but you know what, carb loading is usually more gradual but you were also overkilled on deficit before that, so no wonder you were going nuts. Let's hope it balances out. Guessing next time you'll have a more graduated process now that you have some experience.

In retrospect maybe I SHOULD have posted the sundae pic.

Do you have a plan to bronze up more soon?

Planned comp day weight?

Just curious ofc

i have my spray tan friday.
thats basically a mandatory for stage day.

weight, no idea.. my water intake stops friday at some point, so its said you can lose anywhere from 8-12 lbs over night when that happens.
but right now i was 198 yesterday, i didnt weigh myself today because that would just stress me out and fuck with my head.

just going with the process here.

Looking ripped yer boy

beefy brotha, you'll do well no doubt.

gonna say top 3 without even knowing any of the competition!