This is It….My Obnoxious

Okay, my tagline here at BB.com states that “I’ve got a big, strong brain–I want a body to match!” But Judas Priest, I’ve gotten so huge lately! I’ve been following the advice that I ought to do a bulk in order to get big muscles (and God knows that I ‘do’ want big muscles), so for the past 6 weeks I’ve bumped my caloric intake from 2000/2200 up to 2800 per day (all strict Keto, mind you). For the first couple of weeks it seemed as if nothing was happening (no change at all), then all of a sudden two weeks ago it hit me–I gained about 5 pounds in a single week! I took some progress pics of myself yesterday and couldn’t believe how large I looked–I wanted to delete the pics immediately because I didn’t recognize myself. Was that me? I’ve never seen myself looking so big and solid!

EDIT: Okay, I posted a new progress pic taken today.

However, the pics in no way describe how I feel, which is unequivocally MASSIVE! I walk around my house and I can hear my legs thumping hard into the floor, like that monster in Cloverfield. I even have to walk with my legs slightly ajar, something I’m not accustomed to because my thighs have always had a gap wide enough for a Ford F-650 to drive through with ease. Another sad thing is that most of my cute stuff doesn’t fit. I can’t even get my size 2 capri jeans over my thighs, nor can I get my cute little pink ‘Juicy Couture’ hoodies to slide up over my arms (sob)!!!! I also can no longer wear my tiny ‘Hello Kitty’ panties because kitty’s face looks distorted when stretched over my expanding glutes.

On a positive note, I do feel a lot stronger and can push more weight (woot)! Also my biceps are finally taking on some size as well, as is the posterior region (yahoo)! I’ve never had a big, round butt, so I’m definitely looking forward to getting some solid basketballs built back there! But strangely enough (even with all that’s going on), I don’t feel terribly fat. I’m not seeing the same fluffy lard or embarrassing muffin top that I remember from my skinny/fat days. I instead feel solid like a somewhat diseled chick ready to lift the back-end of a small Volkswagon, which makes me feel pretty good despite my increasing girth.

With that said, however, I’m having incredible urges to start leaning out–even just for the sake of my sanity, lol! I’ve cut back considerably on my cardio these past weeks, but I think I’m gonna start running off some of this bulk, as well as scaling back my caloric intake just to see what happens. Hopefully there’s still a considerable amount of muscle hiding under there, maybe even a few newly formed abs as well (please God, I hope this is the case)! I wish that I could get one of those Hydrostatic dunk tests in order to figure out my bodyfat so I won’t have to worry about these things so much–but in the meantime I’ll just have to figure it out on my own, through trial and error I suppose. So on that note, there’s a 40 minute/12% incline/3.8 mph cardio workout with my name on it! See ya later!

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