Originally Posted by
skipbeat
To be fair, I took that picture bloated as fuck and it's a close up, I don't think it's perfectly representable of my body composition as seen in real life.
Jmoye suggested (in my log) to just roll with advanced novice aiming for a very slight weight increase per month, about 3lbs per month and shoot for increasing my lifts. I think this is possible. My old PRs are SQ 325, BP 210, PR 135, DL 375 (for SS setsxreps), so I still have muscle memory on my side too. Once Ive exhausted LP, I'll move on to 531 aiming for bodyfat loss (I'm a big fan of Wendler). Also, my diet as is has me at almost perfect maintenance without counting calories, and my protein is definitely over 200g / day, so I'd rather make very small tweaks and progress. I could cut, but I'd look really, really skinny in the arms and I don't think it'd look too good.
Besides, it's still Winter, I have like half a year before I have to take my shirt off on the regular.