Posted on here a while ago and a lot of people recommended that I go into a slight surplus. I ended up doing that (around 250-300 cal) and I need opinions on if I should keep going with it or not. My goal is to compete in my first show in April so I’m not sure if I should go into an even larger surplus for a few months before prep or not.

Hi guys, I asked chatgpt and showed pics of myself to it and it recommended that I drop down to 66-70kg range.

I’m 76kg at 175cm, 23 years old around 22-24% BF.

5'9" 150lbs

Been bulking for a while and I think now it would be a good time to shed at least 2 or 3 kilos, before slow bulking again.

What do you think?

First photo 18th July - weigh in at 174lbs.

Second photo today, 9th September - weigh in 163.2lbs.

Progress in second half of my cut so far. Strength starting to dip and workouts starting to suck. Should I carry on until I’m leaner before going back into surplus?

Thanks

20yrs old -240 deficit

Started at 250 lbs, cut down to 161, but I’ve since crept back up to 182. Feeling a bit lost at the moment. Been back in the gym for about 2 months running a PPLPP split, and I get ~17k steps a day from work. Not sure if I should keep bulking or start cutting again. Any advice?

Lost around 9 kilos over summer and am wondering if I should keep going for the last few kilos or stay maintaince as I have started going gym again recently

5’8, 180lbs at 23y/o. Lifted 2 years in high school then lost some weight with a physically job(and strength going from 225lbs bench to 185lbs). Now I’ve put 25lbs more weight on, but still a lot leaner than I was in football. Now my goal is to get very lean, but I’m just not sure if I need to cut, bulk, or maintain and just lift more. Also, how do I calculate what my TDEE is? I get quite a bit of walking(5-8mi a day), move thousands of pounds of products a day for my work(2500lbs average), and will play basketball for 30 minutes. TIA