Soo everyone I started my diet today that consists of about 400 calories under maintenance, and carb cycling high,low,none and moderate days. This is after a couple years of bulking up and taking between 4,000 and 5,000 calories a day, I have a hollow leg and everyone calls me the human garbage disposal because I loveeee to eat. I started this diet to cut a little fat that I'm not happy with, Ive always been very skinny my whole life but after a couple years of all out bulking I need to trim some fat. Anyway, today I went out for my girlfriends birthday to texas roadhouse, if your not familiar with it go! its amazing, but make sure its your cheat day. Today is my first day and its a moderate carb day, so I get to take in 225 grams of carbs...It was SO HARD to resit the fresh warm bread with cinnamon and butter spread, and if I normally went it would be on my cheat day and Id get a full rack of ribs, bowl of chili, and loaded steak fries...FUCK! I'm on a diet I cant do this...but after several times telling my girlfriends parents that I cant have even a bite of bread and refused taking a piece that my gf tried to force feed me because she didnt understand how strict I needed to be for my diet, I ordered a house salad, no dressing, fresh vegetables, and a grilled salmon fillet with water! AHHH it was hard watching them eat, but when I left I felt great I stayed on my diet when the going got tough and I have no regrets now because I didn't indulge. Sorry for the long post but I figured it was a great way to relieve some frusteration and maybe offer some motivation to others. You CAN do this, whether its a lean bulk, or cut, stay CLEAN and keep your diet it WILL pay off!