So, its 1.5 years later. I’ve gained some, lost some, tried this, tried that, and pretty much I’ve learned a few highly valuable lessons:

1) Eat Quality Food, For Quality Gains

2) Dont stop eating

3) Dont take extended breaks from the gym, unless you’ve gone an injured yourself.

Im now weighing in at about 227 lbs… My biceps are around 14-14.5 inches, I think most of it is water retention/salt retention. I feel fucking fat. But Im definitely getting “SWOLE” (finally)… see the pictures below, and apologies for them sucking, I had to get the wife to use my camera phone, and lighting isn’t that good. So I adjusted some contrast to help see the actually muscles, and I thin I failed.

Ill update again later… if you compare these pics to my first ones… you can see a big change.

I think the next best step would be to do a few “cutting” cycles, whatever that means. The more I get into this, the more schools of thought I find, and the more things become convoluted.