The Final Metamorphosis - Stark Black & Ecstasy of Gold

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#25

Diet Phase 1 Aggressive Cut/Elimination - 9 Weeks:

2 Ka’chava
1 Serving Vega Sport Protein
2 Large Avocados (grilled or raw)

Optional: Olive Oil and seasoning on avocados (grilled avocado with soy sauce, love it)

80g+ Protein

Approximately 1300-1500 cal/day

2 Free days: Birthday & Halloween

Optional: 1, 36 hour water + electrolyte fast/week.

Training 3x/Week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)

Rationale

Start with the brutal diet first for an aggressive cut and to figure out what foods are causing issues. Add foods each 9 week phase.

Training plan split into 3, 9 week phases. Total time, 27 weeks to complete mental and physical transformation.

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#26

Cycle 1 - Day 7 - EoG ST1 + CN HIM 9/9/25

Feeling pretty good. Learned a lot about fitness and nutrition last night, I thank SB’s manifestation of the information you need scripting.

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#27

Cycle 1 - Day 8 - Rest 9/10/25

Diet Phase 1 - Day 1

Yeah, it’s okay. Its only day 1, but energy is high. I’ll probably crash by Monday when the glycogen is gone, then slug through keto adaptation for the next week or so.

IDK, I’ve been 20+ hour fasting daily for years, so it might be easy? Let’s find out, lol.

No real hunger, energy seems alright, no crazy cravings, nothing crazy.

My new approach to dieting is to leave the ego out, and do what I can stick too, and to stop trying to use dieting to prove I’m tough.

Training
Strength was okay, but soreness was killer. Glad I worked through it.

Quads are 25 inches cold, arms are 12.5 inches cold. My body a little unbalanced, lol. Gonna keep weight ultra low for quads, and focus my energy on glutes/hams, biceps, and back, those are the bit weak points (symmetry wise).

Overall, the workout felt great (mentally) physically it was painful, lol.

The Baki Maxing Plan
Upper
Wed, Sep 10, 2025

Bench Press (Barbell)
Set 1 : 64 lb x 12
Set 2 : 84 lb x 6

Lat Pulldown
Set 1 : 63 lb x 15
Set 2 : 78 lb x 8

JM Press
Set 1 : 30 lb x 4
Set 2 : 20 lb x 15

Preacher Curl (Barbell)
Set 1 : 20 lb x 15
Set 2 : 30 lb x 12

Lateral Raise (Cable)
Set 1 : 5 lb x 15
Set 2 : 5 lb x 12

Dip (Bodyweight)
Set 1 : 1 reps
Set 2 : 2 reps

Seated Row (Cable)
Set 1 : 80 lb x 12
Set 2 : 105 lb x 3

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#28

Great stack :fire:. Excited to see your progress.

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#29

Cycle 1 - Day 8 - Rest 9/10/25 Update

Physically, the diet is easy, however, the mental habits took over, but I challenged them. I wanted a “treat” so instead of candy or junk food like I’ve been eating nearly daily for the last year, I got protein bars and meat and cheese sandwiches.

For right this moment, I’ll focus on staying in a calorie deficit, and building up momentum until I can fully stick to phase 1.

I’m trying to teach myself how to have high expectations for myself, without trapping myself in “win/lose” all or nothing crap.

At the end of the day, all or nothing thinking is how I let myself get out of shape.

I was so hellbent on water fasting, that I was perpetually stuck in a cycle of fasting and binging. Endless all or nothing that led only to failure.

Let’s challenge that.

If I would have eaten like this everyday for the last year, I’d be shredded.

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#30

Cycle 1 - Day 9 - Stark Black (Full Loop) 9/11/25

Diet going well, cut calories by 100 from yesterday. Easing my way into full phase 1 and kinda learning how my body works.

I’ve only ever lost weight through crash dieting, my whole life actually. So this is a new experience for me, and I’m totally cool with taking it slow for a week, 2 weeks, heck, don’t really care.

My intention is for this cut to firmly cement a new baseline for myself permanently, which means slow is just fine. I have 27 weeks for the physical transformation, it’s only week 1.

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#31

Cycle 1 - Day 10 - Rest 9/12/25

Check in goes here.

Diet

Day 1: 188.8lbs
Trained :100:
Calories: 2133

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Day 2: No weigh in
Rested
Calories: 2023

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Day 3: 183lbs
Trained :100:
Calories: 1949

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Training

Workout felt good, pretty weak today, but I’m cool with it, it’s all part of the process: body adjusting to training and lower carbs again. Made a couple substitutions on the fly, gonna give myself another week of training to find my weak spots and make substitutions to the training plan.

LoTs is pretty cool, I feel like my intuition in the gym is getting better and better, and I keep making micro adjustments to my form to get better results.

Quads are just so dominant for me, it’s crazy. So, from now on, I will do high rep deep squats mostly for form, mobility, and health. Otherwise all lower body focus is on glutes and hams. My quads are STILL SORE after mostly deadlifting on Monday, lol, they just overpower everything, let’s fix that.

Triceps are in the same boat as quads, too dominant, so light weight, high rep.

After the 27 week transformation, I want to spend 9-27 weeks powerlifting and trying to maximize my strength to weight ratio.

The Baki Maxing Plan
Full Body
Fri, Sep 12, 2025

Barbell Hip Thrust
Set 1 : 50 lb x 12
Set 2 : 60 lb x 12
Set 3 : 60 lb x 12

Single Arm Underhand Lat Pulldown
Set 1 : 80 lb x 6
Set 2 : 80 lb x 3
Set 3 : 60 lb x 9

Bench Press (Smith Machine)
Set 1 : 94 lb x 3
Set 2 : 84 lb x 6
Set 3 : 64 lb x 10

Behind The Back Bicep Curl (Cable)
Set 1 : 20 lb x 12
Set 2 : 20 lb x 8
Set 3 : 10 lb x 12

Lateral Raise (Cable)
Set 1 : 5 lb x 12
Set 2 : 5 lb x 12
Set 3 : 5 lb x 12

Overhead Tricep Extension (Cable)
Set 1 : 10 lb x 20
Set 2 : 20 lb x 8
Set 3 : 15 lb x 12

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#32

Cycle 1 - Day 11 - EoG ST1 + CN HIM 9/13/25

The last couple of days have been a little weird, had a bunch of weird SB experiences all stacked up one after another. The issue is, these are all the same “problems” that I experienced on SB in the past that caused me to stop running the title for about 8 months.

However, there is good news, though I’m experiencing the same kinds of annoying issues, my emotional response to them is lightyears ahead of where it used to be.

However again, I don’t really know what to “do” about any of these issues. I never have solved it. All that’s seemed to work is the healing from EoG ST1, kinda.

It’s helped me respond better to the events, and it has lessened the intensity of some of the events, however the events are happening again, this time with rapidity.

So…not sure.

Sure, it’s totally possible that these things are a reflection of problems that I need to solve within myself, but the way in which they happen, the details themselves, and the correlations are… difficult to understand or work with.

It’s possible it’s just recon, but again, it’s the same events over and over again which makes it odd.

So, I’m once again at a bit of a loss because I don’t really understand what the point of it is.

It does seem to mean something, it does. When the same things happen over and over again, then there’s a pattern being shown. But I don’t really “get it.”

Hmmm. Healing is the way, I know that much.

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#33

Cycle 1 - Day 12 - Rest 9/14/25

Hmm, I’m thinking about pulling out Stark Black in favor of another wealth based title. I tested R.I.C.H a couple times last cycle, and I felt very hot and cold about it.

On the one hand, I liked how I personally felt, on the other hand, my earnings tanked hard. That doesn’t mean much, same thing happened to me on EoG ST1 for the first 2 months.

RoW seems interesting, but maybe too much, Emperor is not really my style anymore, Khan is amazing but too distracting from the task at hand, Gen Moggers? Idk, might clash a little with EoG ST1 given that they have so much overlap.

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#34

Sounds like recon to me lol

#35

Cycle 1 - Day 12 - Rest 9/14/25

Okay, here’s for a little more detail. I’ve now had about 4 events in the last 2 days where I was disrespected or put in danger by customers.

2 out of the three, I got pissed, raised my voice, swore, and made my point crystal. Both interactions ended with cash tips and respect.

Event 1: I roll up and a group of older ladies jumps in my car, another opens the trunk to climb in. I yelled “everybody out.” They apologized, a safe number of passengers got in the car, they tipped me and wished me luck by the end.

This was wild behavior, it’s illegal, could have cost me my job and tuition, and could have gotten somebody killed.

Event 2: 3 people get into my car, drunk guy in the backseat says if I try anything “I’ll choke you out.” I ignore it the first time. He says it again, I ignore it. He says it a third, I slam on the brakes and explode “How about y’all get the fuck out of my right now. You’re gonna threaten to choke me out in my own car!?”

Instant apologies from all three, the girl tries to talk about local history, dude that was talking shit keeps trying to say sorry.

Trip ends with a handshake and a cash tip.

The issue is, I don’t like that kinda behavior, even if it works.

So I’m trying to now learn how to achieve the same effect, with no huge dominance displays.

The lesson I’ve taken is that anger can be a very effective tool.

But I always feel awful when I explode, even when it works.

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#36

Were you allowed to express anger as a child?

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#37

Explosions of anger signal a lack of self control in many contexts. There are plenty of people who deliberately try and piss people off just to see them explode because it makes the instigator feel powerful.

That’s why I don’t like exploding in anger. Anger is just as healthy as any other emotion when processed properly, however, it’s the lack of emotional control that causes the reaction you quoted, not the existence of anger itself. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Though exploding in anger is sometimes the right thing to do and can work, it’s RARELY the best possible way to handle a situation.

*My feelings on the matter.

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#38

Oooh I see. I hadn’t considered the instigator angle

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#39

Well, I didn’t give much detail. But the pattern has been people instigating me. Pushing me to see how far they can push me. There are many other examples from my close relationships of this stuff happening. Lol.

However, I do really appreciate the question, because it helped me think about it and why I feel that way. :alien:

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#40

Cycle 1 - Day 13 - Stark Black + Synergy: Tale of The Dragon Name Embedded (Full Loop) 9/15/25

Diet & Weight

182.6lbs

Training

The Baki Maxing Plan
Full Body
Mon, Sep 15, 2025

Bench Press (Dumbbell)
Set 1 : 80 lb x 6
Set 2 : 70 lb x 12
Set 3 : 70 lb x 6

Glute Bridge (Bodyweight)
Set 1 : 25 reps
Set 2 : 30 reps
Set 3 : 30 reps

Squat (Foam Roller)
Set 1 : 5 reps
Set 2 : 5 reps
Set 3 : 5 reps

Lat Pulldown
Set 1 : 73 lb x 14
Set 2 : 75.5 lb x 9
Set 3 : 68 lb x 12

Seated Dumbbell Curl
Set 1 : 30 lb x 13
Set 2 : 30 lb x 8
Set 3 : 20 lb x 12

Tricep Pushdown (Cable)
Set 1 : 20 lb x 20
Set 2 : 25 lb x 12
Set 3 : 5 lb x 7

One Arm Lateral Raise (Cable)
Set 1 : 5 lb x 15
Set 2 : 5 lb x 10
Set 3 : 5 lb x 7

Notes

Gym felt really good today. Made a slight adjustment to my form on lateral raises and it felt GOOD, felt really good. Much better than it has in the past. I’m pleased lol.

Adding the high-rep, glute bridges prior to squats really seemed to amp up the glute activation. Foam roller squats were pretty damn hard though, it’s mostly a challenge of working through my sticking points and it forces me to keep strict form. From now on, that’s going to be my main squatting movement.

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#41

Cycle 1 - Day 13 - Stark Black + Synergy: Tale of The Dragon Name Embedded (Full Loop) 9/15/25

What a weird experience. I ran it and felt huge energy, then I went into fight or flight. Then I picked up a car full of computational neuroscientists (my pet interest) then I bought a bottle of Sake and went home lol.

This hits DIFFERENT!

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#42

Cycle 1 - Day 14 - Rest 9/16/25

I won’t make any declarations about name embedding yet, I like to take time, but all I can say now is that it hits different.

I’ve noticed more energy circulating.

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#43

Cycle 1 - Day 14 - Rest 9/16/25

Hmm had a very productive day. Worked, bought a new mattress, reorganized my house for better flow and energy, and got some stuff done that I wanted to get done.

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#44

Cycle 1 - Day 15 - Extra Rest Day 9/17/25

Training

The Baki Maxing Plan
Full Body
Wed, Sep 17, 2025

Seated Row (Machine)
Set 1 : 75 lb x 15
Set 2 : 75 lb x 13
Set 3 : 80 lb x 13

Incline Bench Press (Dumbbell)
Set 1 : 70 lb x 8
Set 2 : 60 lb x 13
Set 3 : 60 lb x 7

Glute Bridge (Bodyweight)
Set 1 : 30 reps
Set 2 : 30 reps
Set 3 : 30 reps

Hip Thrust (Barbell)
Set 1 : 40 lb x 8
Set 2 : 40 lb x 12
Set 3 : 50 lb x 5

Lateral Raise (Dumbbell)
Set 1 : 10 lb x 15
Set 2 : 10 lb x 20
Set 3 : 10 lb x 17

JM Press
Set 1 : 20 lb x 15
Set 2 : 20 lb x 15
Set 3 : 20 lb x 15

Preacher Curl (Barbell)
Set 1 : 20 lb x 15
Set 2 : 20 lb x 15
Set 3 : 20 lb x 10