 What up guys? What up? Jake here. It's Sunday. Sunday, what's the date? I didn't even know the date. Sunday, the 7th of February. It's one o'clock in the afternoon. I've decided to make this video just to discuss my future plans in depth with regards to competing. I've had a few days of humming and hiring like I always do about whether I should continue cutting or go back into a lean bulking phase. I know that when I train with enough carbs in my system, when I train in a surplus, I train better. I have better pumps. I have more productive workout. That is not losing fat. That's not losing weight. Honestly, after I made that transformation video just recently, looking at myself at 8% body fat, it's extremely hard to put that in the back of your mind and just continue bulking and not worry about your abs, which is what I did for a good 10-11 weeks after my show, but I found myself getting way, way, way too soft. Since the start of this year, it's February 7th now, obviously. Since the start of this year, I've been low-key dieting, haven't tracked a single thing. Basically, I've just been keeping the level of protein in the back of my head, trying to hit at least 200 grams a day. As far as the other food in my diet, it's just basically been limiting it, definitely limiting the fast food sort of thing. I haven't been eating a lot of fast food at all. In fact, the last time I had KFC or McDonald's or whatever was in one of my last videos, which is called The End of the Dirty Bulk, which was just before Christmas Day, and that was the time when I decided, right, enough is enough, I'm going to go and try and get back to the condition I was before the show. Because at the end of the day, I think that is actually maintainable. That was around about 8%. I never got down to the really, really nitty-gritty, like 6-5%. That isn't maintainable, but at the 8%, it certainly is. I reckon it is anyway. Basically, I'm going to try and get down to that. As well as that, I'm going to compete in the INBA. As you guys have probably already heard, I've discussed it a few times, but today is the day that I'm actually going to weigh myself for the first time in weeks. I've bought a scale over there. I'm going to jump on them. I will have an accurate reading, an accurate start date, because the show is literally, I think it's 12 weeks away today. Is it 12 weeks away today? Yeah. No, it's 12 weeks away today. It was 13 weeks last Saturday, last Sunday, when Dylan and I went down to the information seminar down in Adelaide to discuss this actual show that I'm looking at doing, so it's 12 weeks today. So, what I've gone and done is I've bought a couple of whiteboards. This one is going to be, I really don't know what it's going to be, but basically I'm just going to put my weight down and then I'm going to track my weight on one of these boards. And then the other whiteboard is going to be a little bit of a chart, a little bit of a brainstorm thing for my YouTube because I'm always getting ideas and I never fucking follow through because something else comes up. I have a shit day at work. I get home and I just, I can't be fucking thinking about it, but if something's right in front of me on a whiteboard, I'm going to have no choice but to think about it. And at the time that I put it on the whiteboard, it seems like a fantastic idea so that, you know, when I come home and I'm in that different mindset, when it doesn't seem so fantastic, I can look at it, I can be reminded and be reminded how I felt when I wrote that down and hopefully, you know, continue with whatever ideas that I have put down. So anyways, guys, day one, return of aesthetics weigh-in. First weigh-in, let's get this shit done. All right, guys, now we're on tiles and I want to keep it in the exact same place every single weigh-in. I don't need, I don't want any, any little, you know, discrepancies. So we've got it down here. I'm going to take my shorts and my t-shirt off to get a really accurate weigh-in. This morning, all I've had is some oxy-shred. I haven't eaten yet. I ate quite a fucking bit last night so that would definitely have put my weight up a little bit but I've gone for a little bit of a walk. I've only had, as I said, liquid today so let's jump in here and see. Now as I said before, I haven't weighed myself in ages. The heaviest I've been is 102 kilograms, ever. The lowest I've been within the last, you know, three years or so was 87 and that was just before my show. So I bulked right up to about 98 kgs after my show. And so we'll see, see what I've got down to. 92.55 kilograms. So let's try that again just to make sure. Yep, same result. 92.55. So that is obviously where we're at. And I will write that down. So day one weigh-in. What is it? Feb 7. We've got 92.55 kilograms. And actually, let's work, let's work that shit out. So I'm officially sitting at 204 pounds on the dot, basically. So I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to structure this whiteboard but I do know it's, you know, it's going to be smaller writing than that so I can really fit quite a few weeks worth of wanes in there. But yeah, here we go guys. This is the start, return of aesthetics. My return of aesthetics. Feb 7. 92.55 kilograms, 204 pounds. And just before I do go, I will, I'll show you guys a bit of an update. The lighting's pretty shit and I'm fucking wide as a ghost but we'll give it a go. So let's see. Right, so I've got no idea what that looks like but I'm assuming it looks washed out and not that great. So we can only move forward from here. Today is the day. I'm starting tracking everything. Starting with my weight and then I'm also going to be tracking my, my calories, my macros. I haven't used my fitness pal in months. In fact, I just looked at it before and the last time I logged in was like two months ago. So, you know, I've made some good progress in the last six weeks without but obviously there comes a point where if you want to keep progressing or you want to keep progressing at a certain rate, you have to be accountable. There's just no way around it. And all it is is an extra, you know, five minutes a day, putting in your food, putting in your macros and calories but until you get in the groove of things, I know guys, I know, coming from experience. All it takes is like your first week, but to get to that point, it's a little bit of a struggle. So today's the day. My house is actually fucking dirty. So by the end of tonight, hopefully I'll have my first complete day of logged food and the house will be clean. My coffee table will be up and, you know, I'll have a really nice environment to wake up tomorrow morning, Monday the 8th of February, 12 weeks out, you know, clean house, clean slate. I'll jump on the scales after having a really good day of dieting today. Hopefully I'll have a new low and we'll be off from there. And then it's anyone's guess how we go. So thanks for watching guys, just a bit of an insight. This is the routine of aesthetics and we're out.