The achievements keep coming. 184lbs baby. Up 4lbs! Holy shit.
I was checking my log, and the last time I had an increase this great was back at the start of July… so two months later and I’m growing like crazy again. That’s 6lbs in 2 weeks. Holy crap. Wow. Seems like my goal of getting to 190lbs is going to appear quicker than I’d expected!

I’m also quite grateful for this large spike in weight, because it explains a lot. Firstly, it explains the outbreak of spots I have on my face right now. With all the hormones all over the place, it makes sense that the skin is having a hard time dealing with it all. I was hoping it wasn’t the antibiotics failing to work – but it’s just sad that they’re not strong enough to deal with the outbreak
Secondly, and I think this is something that I haven’t mentioned on here till now… on Monday I had a mini freakout in a bus on the way home from work. I had to stand in the central isle thingy, and when someone was leaving, I had to back onto this lady – with my backpack in her face. Not ideal by any means, but she kept whacking my bag from side to side. OK… it was my bad, but she just wouldn’t give up for a few seconds while the people left. Then, there was someone leaving the bus and he just glared at me. And I started swearing at him. Oops. Then I just kinda let rip. Sorry bus.
But it makes sense in the context of my hormones going crazy this week. With testosterone as high as it needs to be to create that much muscle (and fat
), I’ll have to deal with the negatives. But I can handle it as long as I know I’m getting something out of it!
So – this is wild. Up 21lbs since I started. And now more than half way to my goal of 200lbs (before I cut).
It’s also good because I’ve noticed that I’m not fitting quite as cleanly into some of my pants. At least there’s a reason for that. But – you know what – for gaining 21lbs and still fitting into the same sized pants, that’s pretty good going. And the fact that I’m still going to cut down to 190lbs in a few weeks / months, means I should be able to maintain my 32″ waist – which I hope since all my pants are 32″ LOL!!!!
Oh – another tangent… I’ve noticed my belly getting bigger… but it’s weird. It’s not getting fatter. At least it doesn’t appear to be getting fatter. It just seems to be pushing outward, and I think it’s because my core’s growing more and more and pushing the fat out!!! It’s wild. This is such a fantastic journey – hard as fuck… but so enjoyable.
And the hard as fuck comment brings me to today’s workout. Holy shit. It was painful! We did the dumbbell push press and I sucked royally at it. It’s so much harder than a normal bar push press. The weight is completely repositioned over the body – to such an extent that I found it really difficult to push my hips back and get the hip jerk. I just couldn’t maintain the weight of the dumbbells while pushing back (because my hips normally move forward to compensate for the weight of the shoulder press). So that wasn’t a great exercise for me
The rest were good – painfully good











