Hey all, listen up...

The last few days, i've visited people and had them visit me (friends and relatives) who i've not seen for 2 or 3 months, and they always enjoy seeing changes in my physique after a while of not seeing me.

Over the last 14 weeks, i've been cutting to get bodyfat down (I was 20% at 210 when I started; i'm now 15% at 194... sound messed up?). The first 12 of those 14 weeks, I was using the carb cycling method to burn fat off with the ECA stack (and the last 2 weeks i've recently switched over to a steady caloric restriction with using Clenbuterol). The problem was it was my first time ever using carb cycling, and as such, there's a bit of experimentation and tweaking required to see if it suits you. Well, I started off with 3 low carb days and on the 4th day, a high carb day. Did this for about 12 weeks and got down to 15%. What's messed up is that for the first 8 weeks, i'd be dropping fat at the rate of a pound per week. Then suddenly i'd lose like 4 pounds the next week after!! I know for a fact it wasn't water, because I always weighed myself on or after a high carb day (to wait for glycogen replenishment). Then I started worrying about it being muscle. So towards the last couple of weeks, I switched to TWO high days, and 3 low days instead of the 1-3 method.

So anyways, over the last week i've had 3 friends whom I haven't seen in a bit tell me that i'm looking 'smaller'. One of them only yesterday said "you look like you've de-bulked". Another the other day said "you're looking more compact, and less bulkier, like you've lost muscle or something" and I asked him "looks like muscle or fat?" and he says "well, you've lost something". So now i'm worried i've lost a shitload of muscle.

But here's the other messed up part... I haven't lost strength in the gym since I started AT ALL and as a matter of fact, i've continued to gain strength over the last 12 weeks. I usually use strength as a gauge as to whether or not i'm gaining or losing muscle. Secondly, these comments of "de-bulked" and "less bulkier" i'm thinking could be the fat loss itself, due to the fact of coming off a bulk, the fat over the muscle gained on the bulk makes you look... well... 'bulky'... lol.

So now my head is spinning with this. There's no doubt i've lost fat, that's for sure... but at the cost of muscle as well? But my numbers in the gym only keep going up. Wtf? I know it's kinda hard to understand from this description I gave, but is there any way of realling telling what the hell went on over my cut? I figure in any case if I lost muscle, when I jump into my next bulk, muscle memory should kick in and i'll gain it all back plus more. But man... this is nuts.