 Oh what's going on? What's up with this? What's up with this lighting? We need some, we need some fucking lighting in here don't we? You gonna light me up? Light me up man. Here we go. What's going on guys? Welcome. Welcome to another episode of Making Gains and it's the first episode of The Cut. Would you believe? We're sipping on a white monster. So the date is the 28th of March. Come on. I'll tell you what guys, one thing I realised about this lens is that it's great for when you're far away but up close it doesn't focus good at all. So I think I've got to get a smaller lens with less of a zoom. Light me up! Where is it? Alright anyways, doesn't matter. Today's date is the 28th of March and it's about 11.15 in the morning and I've got a day off. Since getting back from Melbourne, I had, I got back on Tuesday, I had Wednesday, Thursday, Friday off. I worked Saturday, Sunday, Monday, 12 hours a day and then today's Tuesday so I've got today and tomorrow off then I do another two days, blah blah blah. Actually our workload has actually decreased a little bit so I was probably doing at least 50, if not 55, even 60 hours a week. You know probably a good month ago. A couple of shifts have been canned so obviously everyone's workload goes down a little bit. I'm sure that will be back up before we know it but at the moment we do have a little bit of time off, a bit more time off. And so I'm actually only working about seven days a fortnight at the moment. So 7.12 is 84, I work a 73 hour fortnight, that's what I get paid on so I still get 16 hours overtime. No sorry, 80, 84, 11 hours overtime. And you know that's enough to bump up the pay packet a little bit. So it's definitely nothing like getting 30 or 40 hours overtime. When you've clocked in, when you've filled out a time sheet and you've got 30 or even 40 hours overtime and you've worked weekends, man you just know, you just know you're going to get a good pay. But anyways I'm going to try and use this extra time off productively like this morning. I've actually just shot my first video about the topic of steroids and you know my opinions on steroids and would I ever do them? And if you are interested in that then I would say go back to the previous video on my channel and check it out. I'm hoping that it goes well, you know give it a like, share it if you want. These are my opinions and mine only but I thought it was about time I gave you my opinions on steroids seeing as I am a natural. So with that said, I'm just editing it up now. I'm going to run through my macros for these first four days. So I started dieting on Friday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, today's Tuesday. Let's have a look at my macros for the first four days. This is going to be a mini cut. It's not going to be a huge cut. I'm not going to get really shredded. I basically just want to get in and out, you know, six weeks, eight weeks tops. Good morning. Yeah, good. Okay, so that's enough of that. Yeah, so the macros for Friday. Now like I was saying I want to be in and out six to eight weeks. I don't want to fuck around. So I am, you know, my calories are, they have been cut pretty drastically. You know, I was on probably three and a half to 4,000 calories a day. I've dropped them down to anything under 2,500 I'm going to be happy with. With that being said, the first day, first day, my calories were 2,130. Second day, Saturday, I stopped at 1,800, which is fucking low. Sunday, 1,900. Yesterday, I bumped it up a little bit. I had 2,500 and today I have had nothing. I've just had this. So probably an average of what, 2,200, 2,100 or something like that. Which is, you know, that's definitely on point for me at the moment. And as far as macros, let's have a little look at that. Friday, look, macros, I want my protein to be at least 200. I want my fats to be 70 or under and I want my carbs to make up the rest. So Friday protein was 175, carbs 194, fat 73. Saturday protein 212, carbs 119, fat 39. That was a hard day. Sunday protein 163, carbs 205, fat 46. And yesterday protein was up around 280, carbs was at about 200 and fat was at 74. So, you know, that's probably ideal, yes. If I can bring my calories down to 2,000, I'll be even happier because I really do want to be in and out of this cut as soon as possible. You know, I want to bring out the fucking detail again. I want to get some detail back. You know, this is how I'm looking right now. It's time, it's time. It's time guys, it's time to get this shit sorted and I'm really looking forward to it. So, you know, I've crept into it really well. I haven't done any cardio. I've done one cardio session since day nine of this series when I went to play some basketball. What a stunner, but it's not surprising because it's like this every single night here. So, I've just taken my client down to the oval for his AFL footy training. And in the background you can see the basketball court. So, every now and then I'll get on the shift where we take him to training. And turns out I got the lucky straw today. But actually it's not the lucky straw because he's been fucking misbehaving like every single time. But today I was clearly the whisperer and he has been behaving and he's out there playing now. So, I have a basketball and I'm going to go and shoot around in the evening sun here in Alice Springs. It's officially the first piece of off-season cardio for me this year of games. So, I'm going to get into it. I love basketball. The last time I actually played for a team was in senior boys at Cashmere High School back in Christchurch. And I wasn't the best player by any means, but I did fucking love it. And there is nothing like, there is no cardio workout, no cardiovascular workout like fucking playing basketball full tip for like a half. I mean even a quarter, even a few minutes. I remember I used to get the most driest throat. It was ridiculous, like there was no workout like it. Not a rugby game, nothing. I've always loved shooting around and you know playing around with the ball. So, I brought one down and we're going to have a few shots, see if I can dunk it. I'm not sure I can. I really don't think I can. These are full-size 10 foot hoops by the way. So, if I do dunk it, kudos to me but I doubt it. Let's see. I could do this all day. I don't know why I didn't use this for cardio when I... Anyway, so I'm going to get this dunk. It's the last thing I do. Let's go. I think today we'll probably do my first cardio session. So, I'm going to bring the camera along for whatever that is. Obviously, I'm going to lift. And, yeah, that's about it. So, I'm going to leave you guys now. That was the macros for the first four days. We're on day five of the cut. I'm feeling good. I've dropped the water weight. I'm not 105 kilos anymore. I'm probably about 102 and a half. And, you know, I expected that. Once my weight starts going under 100, I don't know how I'm going to feel about that, you know. I'm very, very used to seeing three figures on the scale. And I'm not too sure about how I'm going to deal with that. But we'll cross that hurdle when we get there. I want my six-pack back, man. I want some nice cuts in my rear delt. I want all that shit. So, that's what we're doing. And I'll see you guys in the next clip, wherever that may be. Peace. Alright, so the first thing I can definitely show you guys is my first meal. Now, not only when I was bulking, but also when I'm cutting, my first meal is going to be a shake. My shakes when I was bulking had so many ingredients. It was so huge. It was probably at least 1,500 calories per shake. I've cut that in quarters, basically. And now I'm going for about a 300 to 350 calorie shake. I want protein. I want carbs and, you know, minimal fats. So, what I'm doing is my protein sauce is egg whites. I'm using these ones currently. Alright, we're going to go... I'm going to measure this out. We've got the food scales here. Put that on top. Press it. Zeroes it out. And I want 300 grams of egg whites. We've got 170. And that's 300. So, 300 grams of egg whites is probably about a grams of protein. 40 grams of protein. Something like that. With that, we will put... I always like having something frozen in my shakes. Not only to, you know, give it flavour, to keep it cold and give it a nice texture. So, we've got egg whites. I put in strawberries. And you better know we've got plenty of those because I bought a chest freezer which was the best investment of my fucking life. And now I just keep everything frozen in that. So, I want... Now, guys, this is a huge tip. Huge tip. Strawberries are so low in calories. This entire bag, 500 grams will give me 186 calories. Okay? But we only want 150 grams. So, just in 200 calories for an entire bag of strawberries. That's amazing. So, we're going to put in one serve which is 150 grams. So, there we go. I do want a little bit of sweetness. So, what I'm going to do, this is maple flavoured syrup. It's another real huge tip I'd give to sweeten anything when you're on a diet. One serve is 35 mils which is a big serve and it's only got 18 calories. So, we're going to put 35 mils in here. There we go. That's going to sweeten it quite nicely. As well as that, we're going to use some almond milk because I do not enjoy drinking egg whites straight up. I need a little bit of you know, a different liquid texture in there. So, we're going to put 200 mils of almond milk which is all good. And what else are we going to do? What else should we do guys? I'll put in a banana actually. Finish it off nicely. So, at the moment I don't have any protein powder which I need to rectify but that reminds me I will put in my creatine as well. I've been trying my best. I've been trying guys, I promise to you know, remember to take my creatine because I know it's so important especially when I'm cutting. The entire time I was cutting last time I did not take creatine once and it was the stupidest thing I could have ever done. You know, as a natural you need all the help you can get in maintaining the muscle. So anyway, here we go. 300 mils of egg whites, 150 grams of strawberries, some maple flavoured syrup and one banana and we're going to mix that up. Now, we're all right then and here we have it. So the macros will be on screen okay? I'm going to get this down and I'll see you guys for some cardio. Not bad. I definitely need a protein powder. I need a good tasting protein powder to mix with it. I'll be able to take all the other sweetening ingredients out. The banana could go, the fucking maple flavoured syrup could go and it would be even higher in protein, lower in carbs and lower in fat. I've got to get a protein powder. Got to get it. Thanks for watching.