I’ve been cutting for about 18-20 weeks now.

Here’s the inconvenient truth (without the filters):

• You Feel Smaller – Because You Are

When you lose weight, you get smaller – everywhere /from your ankles to your ears/ – and you can literally feel it.

I am not talking just about clothes getting baggier.

You feel smaller and more “exposed”.

You feel vulnerable…because you are. That extra layer of protection is gone.

This is especially pronounced when you wake up, and you lоок even leaner and tinier due to dehydration.

• Low Energy Levels

When you are on a cut, you pass through the following energy stages:

1. The first few days are lethargic (especially if you are also cutting carbs). Hunger could be high.
2. Then you enjoy improved focus and more energy – the body synthesizes adrenaline to keep you going. Hunger is getting duller.
3. You stay at a medium energy level. You are neither euphoric nor super tired.
4. After a few weeks (sometimes more), fatigue hits hard. Small errands feel exhausting. You go for a walk, and sometimes you subconsciously cut it short to save energy.

Sometimes you drop on the couch and need like an hour to recuperate after fairly basic tasks.

• You Learn That “Low Calorie Filling Foods” Are Bullshido

You can lie to your body only for so long. You can eat some vegetables and fill your stomach with grass, but at the end of the day, when there are no calories, your mood/hormones remain depressed.

Your body isn’t happy. You are effectively paying an employee a low salary while giving them free coffee and a gym membership discount. It’s fine…for a short period.

• People will think you are sick.

Natties love to take flattering selfies showing their abs, but in the real world, people just think you’ve gotten sick.

Your body is shrinking = what the hell happened, bro?

In some cases, loved ones may get worried about your health, especially if your face looks coffin-ready.

• Your measurements are depressing.

I never measure my arms or anything really on a cut because the number could give me emotional cancer.

• You brainwash yourself into thinking that you have lost a lot of “muscle.”

When you see the smaller version of yourself in the mirror, you may conclude that you overdid it. Usually, it’s simply the reality of how much muscle you are carrying.

It’s physically impossible for a lean natty to look big in clothes unless he has the frame of a pterodactyl. Most leanish natties appear like suicidal joggers in clothes.

• You realize how mega impossible it is to gain muscle on a cut.

Only people who’ve never done a real cut think they can gain muscle while putting their body into “melt mode”.

You can literally feel with your senses that your body is deprived and burning itself if you listen carefully.

And you realize on a somewhat core level, how ridiculous it would be to expect from your organism to add lean tissue to a system that cannot sustain itself as it is.

Notice how I keep using the word feel. Because it’s really a feeling, a real one.

There Is Always a “MOTOR”

Cutting proves one thing extremely well, namely, that there is always one thing that makes the whole magic possible, and if that condition is not met, no amount of “dancing” can compensate.

In this case, the motor is a caloric deficit. I am more of a keto guy (still eat some carbs), but all diets work in general. You can certainly get lean on a high-carb diet if you are in a caloric deficit.

Imagine two people.

Person A:

• smokes
• drinks Coke Zero non-stop
• drinks energy drinks without sugar
• drink coffee like he hates water
• sleeps like a vampire
• averages 500kcal deficit a day

Person B:

• eats organic Argentinian beef
• drinks ram milk from
• drinks 5L of Alpine water
• squats
• eats at 500 surplus

If person A continues long enough, he will get lean (if the protein is low and there is no training, the look will be fragile, but still lean).

If person B continues long enough, he will get fatter and fatter and fatter.

The point is obvious.

Every goal has an essential variable that must have the proper value for the desired outcome to occur.

And if that value is not respected, you can’t compensate for it through other pathways.

The same principle is observed in many other aspects of life.

Lifting?

A natty martyr lifts for 10 years, reads barbell books, and makes less gains than a steroid addict does in 6 months.

Money?

A “hard-working” martyr could buy the idea that people are poor because they are lazy and don’t work 24/7.

Meanwhile, a Chad whose dad had inherited a factory after WW2 works practically 2 hours a week and earns more per second than the martyr does in a month. Why? Leverage.

Dating?

The average dude is gaslit into thinking that he has to move the world to date a woman with a fish face and cellulite on her knees.

In reality, the modern dating market comes down to looks and money. You have them, you have options. You don’t have them, you waste time on stuff like texting game, creativity, “dark psychology”….retarded YT videos…etc.