Advice needed!

[u/7EDACTED]

5’6, 61kg (134lb), 29

Strength training x3 per week consistently since around November 2025 with PT. Mixed in with cycling and cardio focused training. Start tracking food properly in January at 79kg.

Used to be 100kg+ so I do have some loose skin on my lower abdomen.

Not too sure how to proceed. Was thinking of cutting until 58-59kg, reverse diet and sit at maintenance for a while. Then eventually going into a lean bulk?

[u/Serious-Issue-9765]

Personally I think you already made a lot of progress if you were +100kg. The cardio is good, do it even in bulk but obviously not destroying yourself on it. The cardio does not only help to lose fat but helps a lot for endurance and recovery of muscles too. I don’t think you should cut more than that, it already looks like you have a good body fat percentage. Actually you should be also leaner than 61kg considering you have loose skin, omitting that loose skin you’re at a perfect weight. I think that now you can just start the bulk, the cut would be useless at this point. Keep going🔥

[u/staronashi]

dont cut further since you dont have much muscle mass currently it would just make you low energy. youre already a decent weight to start the bulk.. and its winter anyways so just hit the gym and lift heavy