ExtremeCakesOfPetal

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[ExtremeCakesOfPetal @extremecakespet]

I have been staying with my dad 24/7 at the ICU. He had Covid and Covid pneumonia and pneumonia on tops of his other health problems. It has been a week and He is still in ICU .

[ExtremeCakesOfPetal @extremecakespet]

@Lettergirl101 Even when they are not yours!!!

[Lettergirl @Lettergirl101]

Sunday night transition night. My son goes to his dad's and I take that sick, lonely feeling to the gym.
Mother 1st, everything else after,
Any age, any stage.💕💕

[ExtremeCakesOfPetal @extremecakespet]

@Lettergirl101 Yes ma’am. Family is everything!!!!!!!!

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

"I wish I had your motivation!"

Respectfully, no you don't.

It's just a really mean voice in my head telling me l'm too small & too fat at the same time.

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

6500 calories to 2800 calories.

A prep that took JSD to the European, World and Natural Mr Olympia shows.

Currently building for 2028 💪

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

One of my clients has been running since 9am yesterday morning!

With no sleep.

100 miles.

What a mindset.

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

10 things keeping you above 10% body fat:

Your protein is lower than you think. You probably believe you’re “getting enough” but when you actually track it properly, you’re floating around 80–120g and convincing yourself that’s solid. It’s not enough to fully support muscle retention while leaning down. If you want to look lean, you need enough muscle underneath first.

Your daily movement is inconsistent. One day you hit 7k steps, the next 9k, then 4–5k when life gets busy. That inconsistency matters more than you realise. Fat loss is heavily influenced by output outside the gym, and inconsistent NEAT makes your weekly deficit unreliable.

Your adherence is not as tight as you think it is. It’s rarely the single “bad meal” ruining progress. It’s the repeated small deviations. A couple of loose meals during the week, relaxed tracking at the weekend, bites here and there that don’t get counted, and suddenly your weekly average is no longer a deficit.

You keep restarting with new systems. Keto one month, carnivore the next, then low carb, fasting, detoxes, whatever social media is pushing this week. The individuals who actually get lean are usually boring with it. Calories, protein, consistency, patience. Repeated long enough for it to work.

Your sleep is not in a good place. Poor sleep doesn’t just make you tired. It affects hunger, recovery, appetite regulation and decision making. You end up hungrier at night, less controlled around food, and far more likely to overeat when discipline is already low.

You’re not tracking progress properly. No consistent morning weigh ins. No weekly photo comparisons. No trend data. Just emotion and mirror checks. That means you’re guessing instead of making decisions based on actual patterns.

Your hormones might not be helping you, but they’re probably not the root issue. Higher body fat, poor recovery, inconsistent nutrition and lifestyle habits can suppress testosterone, but for most individuals that’s a downstream effect of everything else being off first.

You’re doing lots of cardio without enough quality resistance training. That often leaves you as a lighter, softer version of yourself instead of leaner and more muscular. Muscle is what changes how you actually look when body fat comes down.

You either don’t stay in a fat loss phase long enough, or you make it too aggressive to sustain. If the setup is extreme, adherence eventually breaks and rebound happens. If you stop too early, you never accumulate enough weeks of consistent deficit to see meaningful change.

You rely too heavily on tools that give false precision. Smart scales, body fat calculators, random scan estimates. They can provide context, but they are not accurate enough to steer decisions. If they convince you that you’re leaner than you really are, they quietly slow your progress down.

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

My gyms cleanliness can never be questioned.

They just cleaned the treadmills 😀

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

The perfect week for you includes a meal of choice.

It’s something I do myself and something I encourage you to do too.

Something you can look forward to all week. Something you can enjoy with your partner, family or friends without feeling like you’ve failed your plan.

1 meal out of 35 meals a week is 2.85%.

So if your other 34 meals are on point, that one meal has very little impact overall. It’s like a fly hitting a skyscraper.

That doesn’t mean turning it into a binge. There’s never a reason to completely lose control and eat everything in sight.

You can go out, enjoy some curry (I do), have a few slices of pizza, maybe even a beer or two, then get right back to your normal routine after it.

To look at it another way, you have roughly 1,820 meals a year.

You gain absolutely nothing from believing all 1,820 need to be perfect.

That all or nothing mindset is one of the biggest reasons you struggle to stay lean long term.

The goal isn’t perfection.

The goal is building a lifestyle you can actually repeat.

[Lettergirl @Lettergirl101]

Me...
54 years old
Single mom
Full time Postwoman
Started post Menopause
There are a million excuses and 2 choices. To do it, or not. So do it!!! Change your health, change your body, change your life!!!
Any age, any stage.💕💕

[ExtremeCakesOfPetal @extremecakespet]

@Lettergirl101 That is it. No excuses. Get it done. You forgot about this amazing person you are. Looking extremely happy there.

[Princess Mia @_Goddess_mia]

How’s my back?

[StrengthEwa @StrengthEwa]

There’s nothing attractive about weakness, or dependency- whether it’s a man or a woman. Nothing sexy about it whatsoever.

[StrengthEwa @StrengthEwa]

The true you is in what you hide.
People bury their real self behind masks because they know isn’t good. The most authentic version of you is locked in the parts you’re too scared to show the world.

[ExtremeCakesOfPetal @extremecakespet]

@StrengthEwa Very true. I told someone else that same thing.

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

People massively overhype what peptides actually do for muscle growth.

There’s no peptide that straight up builds muscle the way it’s portrayed.

None. Not BPC-157, TB-500, MK-677, CJC/Ipamorelin, IGF-1 stuff, not whatever “recomp stack” you saw on TukTak.

What people are usually feeling is some combo of:

• Extra water/glycogen making you look fuller

• Better recovery perception (you just feel less beat up)

• Rampant hunger leading to actually eating enough

• Reduced pain letting you train harder/more consistently

• Straight placebo + confirmation bias

That’s very different from “this shit built new muscle tissue.”

Real muscle comes from mechanical tension, progressive overload, enough food (especially protein and calories), and recovery.

Peptides might nudge a couple of those supporting factors indirectly. But indirect help isn’t the same as directly driving hypertrophy. That distinction is huge, and it’s become blurred due to marketing.

Peptides are signals, not bricklayers.
They’re just amino acid chains that flip certain switches like …growth hormone release, inflammation, appetite, repair signaling, etc.

Your body still has to decide whether it’s worth building expensive new muscle.

Without a strong reason (hard training + surplus), it won’t bother. Muscle is metabolically costly.

No peptide overrides that basic biology.

A ton of popular peptides (CJC, Ipamorelin, MK-677) crank up GH or IGF-1 pathways. People hear “GH is anabolic” and believe it’s the golden ticket.

Even GH in reality is pretty mediocre at building actual contractile muscle compared to real anabolics.

It’s great for making you look fuller through water, collagen, glycogen, and fat metabolism changes.
That “pumped” look tricks a lot of people. But fuller ≠ more myofibrillar hypertrophy.

Same with IGF-1 peptides.

Yeah, IGF-1 is involved in muscle physiology. But injecting it doesn’t magically bypass the need for training stimulus, calories, sleep, and genetics. Isolated signaling without the full environment is weak as hell.

The Recovery Loophole

This is where BPC and TB-500 can actually be useful for some people.

If they let you train harder, more often, with fewer nagging injuries, then yeah you will build more muscle over time. But the peptide didn’t build the muscle. The improved training did. Same way fixing shitty sleep helps gains. Supportive environment ≠ direct anabolism.

Scale Weight vs. Muscle
MK-677 especially makes people balloon on the scale fast.
More hunger = more food = more glycogen + water + gut content.

+8 lbs in a few weeks is seen and think they turned into Ronnie Coleman.

Actual new muscle tissue accrues slowly, even on gear.

Now Compare to Real Anabolic Steroids

This is the fundamental difference.
Steroids (Test, Tren, Nandrolone, etc.) directly hit androgen receptors inside muscle cells. That triggers real changes in gene expression, ramps up muscle protein synthesis, improves nitrogen retention, activates satellite cells, and shifts the protein synthesis/breakdown balance hard in your favor.

Peptides mostly work upstream—better signaling, recovery, more hunger. Steroids are direct drivers at the tissue level. That’s why steroids build more muscle when everything else is equal, and why they also come with real sides.
If peptides worked the same way, they’d carry similar risks. They don’t—because the mechanisms are different.

The Marketing Scam
The whole peptide boom is happening because:

• “Peptide” sounds cleaner and safer than “steroids”
• Grey area legality
• Guys desperately wanting a shortcut

Most “peptide transformations” are actually: surplus + better training consistency + actual testosterone/GH + the peptide as the cute marketing cherry on top.

The fundamentals still rule:

Eat enough protein + calories.
Train hard w progressive overload.
Sleep/recover.
Stay consistent.

[Coach Benjamin Yeezus @BenjaminYeezus]

2nd haircut for Ru this morning.

Curls aren’t going anywhere though.

[Lettergirl @Lettergirl101]

Geez, my last post is really taking off. If you all wanted to see me in a dress so bad why didn't you just ask? 🤣🤣🤣

[Alli Covington, M.A. ❤️❤️❤️ @allicovington]

Day 123 of the next 50 years is a 5mi hike at Los Lobos National Park in Carmel Valley with (most of) the crew!

Absolutely stunning day for it! Sunny, clear, and gorgeous. Life is beautiful!

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

.@SECWAR just met World War II veterans at the Normandy American Cemetery Ceremony.

Their courage and sacrifice helped save the world—America will forever owe them a debt of gratitude.