The Gambino - Journal to reaching higher SMV (daily post)

[TheGambino]

Hi fellas, 8-6-2020

It's time to make a change. I bought a business with borrowed money from the bank at the end of 2018. I rebuild it, got a new staff and doing great. I make a good profit and take good salary. Bought myself a 320 BMW coupé, the one I always wanted, though it's hard work.

Due the time I got fat because of stress that comes with being a company owner and bad habits like smoking hookah and eating bad foods.

I already switched back to better nutrition for a month now and losing some fat but not enough.

From today on I make some hard appointments with myself, these are not to break. The goal is 18% body fat, buying a whole new set wardrobe and then the field reporting is going to start again like I used too. But now I got money and social status, my SMV will be high. Next to that I learned so much in the field exploring So Suave from 2013 and going outside everyday approaching, learning, dealing with women.

I'm going to be the best version of myself to attract girls 18-25 as long term plates to eventually have one to sit with me at the house.

Alright that's really far from now lets write down my current situation and my goals for the next two months.

Now;

No plates, only a few interested girls who want to meet, so I gotta invest to start the rotation.
29% bodyfat
94 kilograms
3 days no hookah, never hookah is the goal
no PORN

Goal;
3 steady plates to rotate
18% bodyfat
80 kilograms
no hookah
doing a morningrun everyday and fitness 1.5 hours

Let's do this!

 

[TheGambino]

Goodevening brothers from other mothers / unknown family / my guys,

What a change !

I made a 180 degrees change in my lifestyle and it feels great.

I woke up this morning, did 45 minutes of cardio at home. Had breakfast, a proteine shake, tea and water. Went on my daily business (purpose) working at the office with new clients, trained my staff a little more and got home.

I had a good healthy meal and went to hit the gym for 1,5 hours (some gyms reopened in my country)

I feel great, I was a little bit weak after a party last week and I'm all good now.

No social media contact with women, no contact at all with one. It's all me time, all Gambino time, all self improvement until I look in the mirror and smile at myself, this is the shape I want, now my dress is smooth, now I expand my wardrobe.

The beginning is made, going to do road to 18% body fat and upcoming weekend is first game weekend, and old night out with the boys. Still no alcohol or bad foods to f8ck up my purpose.

Peace guys and remember; try my routine. If your interested Ill write it down exactley!

 

[evan12]

Good improvement, can you share how old are you ? your look from 1-10 , what kind of business you have ? ( I guess restaurant )

 

[TheGambino]

Good improvement, can you share how old are you ? your look from 1-10 , what kind of business you have ? ( I guess restaurant )

Hey Evan, thanks for being interested in me. I’m 29, I have a bathroomware store with 3 fulltime employees. We sell and install bathrooms for our clients. This takes basically all my time during the day the whole week. But I invested a lot and I’m trying to make the business work for me at some point, probably 5-10 years. I’m going big.

I give myself a solid 8,5 when I’m ripped, I can pull real hotties. I’m kind of short but tanned and I really have a boss allure, everyone that sees me can guess that I’m a alpha male. I give it off, I’m very outgoing strong and convincing. I love myself.

Yet again I take good care of my mother and employees, friends and business relations, the people I care about.

I give myself a 6 now coz I’m 27% bodyfat but I’m working on that.

 

[evan12]

Hey Evan, thanks for being interested in me. I’m 29, I have a bathroomware store with 3 fulltime employees. We sell and install bathrooms for our clients. This takes basically all my time during the day the whole week. But I invested a lot and I’m trying to make the business work for me at some point, probably 5-10 years. I’m going big.

I give myself a solid 8,5 when I’m ripped, I can pull real hotties. I’m kind of short but tanned and I really have a boss allure, everyone that sees me can guess that I’m a alpha male. I give it off, I’m very outgoing strong and convincing. I love myself.

Yet again I take good care of my mother and employees, friends and business relations, the people I care about.

I give myself a 6 now coz I’m 27% bodyfat but I’m working on that.

From what I read you have all what need the only improvement I see is loosing your weight, which is your focus already. I am also trying to loose weight , but for some reason no success , it could be hormonal thing .

 

[mrgoodstuff]

From what I read you have all what need the only improvement I see is loosing your weight, which is your focus already. I am also trying to loose weight , but for some reason no success , it could be hormonal thing .

Many times the body will resist you when you first get started trying to drop weight. Keep pounding it hard. Keep carbs low. Id suggest under 100grams of carbs for the day if your focus is dropping fat.

 

[evan12]

Many times the body will resist you when you first get started trying to drop weight. Keep pounding it hard. Keep carbs low. Id suggest under 100grams of carbs for the day if your focus is dropping fat.

I did low carb diet before COVID 19 , now I am back to normal to keep my immune system strong , once the epidemic end, I ll resume my low carb diet, but even with that my losing weight speed wasn't that fast

 

[TheGambino]

From what I read you have all what need the only improvement I see is loosing your weight, which is your focus already. I am also trying to loose weight , but for some reason no success , it could be hormonal thing .

Look on YouTube, you have to work out to get more muscles so you will burn more during the day. Also see howmuch calories you eat and if that fits with howmuch you burn on a day. Talk to a dietcoach.

Im happy yea I got it all. My parents are proud, I got a business and educated and all that. Thing is I grinded like a maniac since 2011 for all this. Look at my post history here... I really burned my as off

 

[Crimson]

You've got it sorted mate. Only 29 and you're already where a lot of guys strive to be. Just shows all your hard work has paid off.
Keep grinding man and good luck with the weight loss.

 

[TheGambino]

Good morning fellas,

One whole week passed since I started this thread about self improvement and working on my SMV. My purpose and goal is a couple of business' that work for me, hiring new managers when my business' grow so I can I work to freedom and financial independence.

I am on the right path but far from there yet, we work on it every single day!

Anyway;

The week was great, I trained every single day accept friday I got rest.

I did 30-45 minutes of cardio every morning and 1.5 hours of fitness in the evening.

My diet is on point and I went out on saturdaynight. I didn't drink any alcohol. We went to a bar where 2 girls a friend of us invited. We were with 6 guys and 2 girls so it was hard to seduce. The girls were all over my buddy anyway, he is ripped, tanned and very chill.

At least we had fun, it's not all about f8cking every weekend, you can have fun sometimes and get to meet new people. Sometimes I end on a different party with different girls and then I get the chance to seduce one. I had fun and met new people!

One thing I didn't like about myself, I smoked a hookah, we were in a bar where they have hookahs. At least I smoked it for an hour and didn't touch it yesterday.

So what's most important now for me; No hookah anymore, only if I go to a hookahbar on saturday but keep it for once 1 month to none.

I think I lost good weight this week and I got a bit stronger to my road to success.

This week is all about my fitness, cardio and work routine like last week! Next week Im going to measure my results here.

Im going to rock my week, you too right!?

 

[JohnChops]

Following, love me some self improvement threads

 

[TheGambino]

Hi fellas,

Been a while since the last posts. I'm doing very good on the self improvement. For the body results i'm totally not happy.
I didn't lose any weight since 8-6-2020. Been working out at least 4 days a week and eating about 2000 calories a day. I feel that I got way stronger musclular at least but I didn't lose much body fat so I'm unhappy. At least I didn't drink any alcohol and changed to better quality food.

Been focussing only on work and working out in the night, had long days. At least I changed to better nutrition. I also smoked hookah something like twice a week, it's less then first but still too much.

Now I have to make some real hard appointments with myself and don't play myself.

* NO ****ing hookah, weekend chills without going to a hookah lounge, my friend and I can go to a bar also and drink a diet coke instead. It's bad for my lungs.
* I cut down to 1850 calories and put everything in an application, so I short more on calories, keep my proteine high and calories low. No cheatdays, no alcohol, only diet food, no eating outside the house at all. I need to be harsher for myself.
* Working out 5 days a week. More cardio.

I'm dating thursday an old girl I f*cked earlier, we go for a drink. I'm going to keep it to a drink, if the vibe is really good I'll try to get to her house to f*ck her, it's an hour drive so I don't want to waste my time.

This weekend I approached 2 random 8's downtown and my buddy and I invited them over for a drink in a bar. They joined us and we had fun for an hour, only laughing and dancing. I added one on instagram, the one I liked. But I'll go back to the real deal when I feel good about myself again and that's when I lose 15 kilograms. To be continued.

I had a girl apply for a job in my business, but she never picked up her phone nor came by the shop, I got another girl already. But she added me on snapchat and I started talking to her after she was sending me pictures. She's a solid 9 imo, really a model. We started to talk and we scheduled to phone call tommorow. No work related things at all, were interested I guess. I will talk to her for max 10 minutes, have some fun on the phone and see if we can meet up next week or so. I keep you guys updated. But still I want to go to like 85 kilograms and 20% bodyfat before I really go to the DJ lifestyle like I lived for years, dating and approaching every weekend. It's also harder to keep up the gym and DJ lifestyle since I run a big business.

So my main focus is still not women, I got no time and better priorities, self improvement and myself:

*GYM AND NUTRITION
*NO HOOKAH
*MY BUSINESS

Let's do this.

 

[gravityeyelids]

Be cautious of steep calorie deficits. They are usually counterproductive. For a 29 yr old male working out 4-5 days/week and as busy as you are, 1850 is likely FAR too low (please tell me that that 2-2.5 HRS of working out a day is a typo). More (well technically less) when it comes to weight loss isn't always better. A small to moderate deficit over a long period of time is the best choice for most people. You dug yourself into this, and a quick crash diet is not going to get you out of it. At worst, you will be stripping the existing muscle off your bones, among other bad things that can happen. The body doesn't react the way a lot of people assume it does when you cut calories aggressively. Your body treats it basically the same as a starvation response and actually ramps down your metabolism and burns less calories because it's saying "why am i not getting enough food!? Welp better save energy/calories."

What you will find is that you drop a few lbs at the beginning (typically water weight, carbs/glycogen, and muscle mass and a small amount of fat), but then you quickly level off and don't really lose much.

If you don't do much resistance training, you are further at risk for stripping muscle off. Too much cardio and a steep deficit is just about the worst thing you can do for maintaing muscle mass, let alone increasing it. A significant amount of the weight that people lose when doing this is lean muscle mass. Very bad. It's not clear whether your afternoon workouts are resistance training, so i could be wrong on this.



You also seem to be putting a fvck ton of importance on physique/looks and money. That stuff really doesn't matter. It's really silly to prevent yourself from really going out and making approaches unless you're under a certain bodyfat and weight. Do those things if you want to, to make yourself happy, but it sounds like you're drawing state/confidence from how you look or your income/business rather than from the core of yourself. Think of it this way - if your money, job, car, ripped body, etc was taken away from you, would you still feel just as comfortable walking into a bar and gaming any girl there? The answer should be yes.

 

[zekko]

Be cautious of steep calorie deficits. They are usually counterproductive. For a 29 yr old male working out 4-5 days/week and as busy as you are, 1850 is likely FAR too low (please tell me that that 2-2.5 HRS of working out a day is a typo). More (well technically less) when it comes to weight loss isn't always better. A small to moderate deficit over a long period of time is the best choice for most people.

Yeah, you're much more likely to keep the weight off if you lose 10 lbs. over the course of two months than two weeks. And it's more managable to maintain that lifestyle.

 

[mrgoodstuff]

Be cautious of steep calorie deficits. They are usually counterproductive. For a 29 yr old male working out 4-5 days/week and as busy as you are, 1850 is likely FAR too low (please tell me that that 2-2.5 HRS of working out a day is a typo). More (well technically less) when it comes to weight loss isn't always better. A small to moderate deficit over a long period of time is the best choice for most people. You dug yourself into this, and a quick crash diet is not going to get you out of it. At worst, you will be stripping the existing muscle off your bones, among other bad things that can happen. The body doesn't react the way a lot of people assume it does when you cut calories aggressively. Your body treats it basically the same as a starvation response and actually ramps down your metabolism and burns less calories because it's saying "why am i not getting enough food!? Welp better save energy/calories."

What you will find is that you drop a few lbs at the beginning (typically water weight, carbs/glycogen, and muscle mass and a small amount of fat), but then you quickly level off and don't really lose much.

If you don't do much resistance training, you are further at risk for stripping muscle off. Too much cardio and a steep deficit is just about the worst thing you can do for maintaing muscle mass, let alone increasing it. A significant amount of the weight that people lose when doing this is lean muscle mass. Very bad. It's not clear whether your afternoon workouts are resistance training, so i could be wrong on this.



You also seem to be putting a fvck ton of importance on physique/looks and money. That stuff really doesn't matter. It's really silly to prevent yourself from really going out and making approaches unless you're under a certain bodyfat and weight. Do those things if you want to, to make yourself happy, but it sounds like you're drawing state/confidence from how you look or your income/business rather than from the core of yourself. Think of it this way - if your money, job, car, ripped body, etc was taken away from you, would you still feel just as comfortable walking into a bar and gaming any girl there? The answer should be yes.

Dont focus on the calorie number. All of our bodies are different. If he's piling on weight at 2500 calories a day and 2000 and under lets him shed weight, then thats what HIS body needs. I've been loooking at this information for over 20 years. We have different metabolism. Different lives equaling different daily requirements. What ive never heard discussed is possibly others who have to eat a huge amount might have poorer digestion and absorption. So much of the food passes straight thru. While another gets fat on much less might have greater absorption.

 

[gravityeyelids]

Dont focus on the calorie number. All of our bodies are different. If he's piling on weight at 2500 calories a day and 2000 and under lets him shed weight, then thats what HIS body needs. I've been loooking at this information for over 20 years. We have different metabolism. Different lives equaling different daily requirements. What ive never heard discussed is possibly others who have to eat a huge amount might have poorer digestion and absorption. So much of the food passes straight thru. While another gets fat on much less might have greater absorption.

I dont actually count calories simply for the fact that it's horribly inaccurate (and i've maintained what is pretty close to a lot of guy's ideal physique for close to a decade, at risk of sounding like a douche who thinks that one anecdote is damning evidence). You can't accurately gauge your caloric intake (which fluctuates by the day and hour), the calories listed in nutrition facts on boxes can be off by up to like 20% (which is usually more than your entire deficit or surplus), and most people don't account for things like the thermic effect of food (which again can be up to like 10% of your total calories depending on macronutrient). Tracking calories can be a good baseline to see if you're in the ballpark, especially when starting out, and millions of people have seen good results from it, but you need to recognize the weaknesses of it.

I'm a fan of replacing ALL your current foods with very clean and nutritious foods, eating a balanced mix frequently, LISTENING to what your sstomach tells you in terms of digestion and what foods your body likes and doesn't like, fueling your workouts (and daily work) with plenty of calories and complex carbs to operate at a high energy level, and then prioritizing hypertrophy with a good amount of cardio on the side, while tracking weight and how you LOOK over the LONG term, not looking at things a week later and assuming things like "oh i gained/lost 2 lbs of fat!!". You should never really feel starving and tired unless you're dangerously obese and can risk a steep fat loss. You should also have a firm understanding of fatigue accumulation and how much volume/work is necessary, and ideally your workouts should be intense enough to where they don't last 1.5 hrs, and that they require some type of periodization and recovery plan/days to manage fatigue and progress. If you're eating clean and training smart and consistently and minimizing injury risk, the fat will come off. This is a multi-year game, not a 3 month one if he wants to make real, long term progress.

Weight is also a relatively poor indicator of progress unless you're VERY overweight. You could build 2 lbs of muscle and lose 3 lbs of fat, and your weight will say that you only lost "1 lb of fat", when in reality you made a HUGE leap in terms of physical appearance and body recomp. Not to mention that sometimes my weight will fluctuate by up to 5lbs from one day to the next just based on hydration, food, waste, creatine, glycogen, etc.

The bodyfat thing is very inaccurate as well. People throw out "oh i went from 23% to 18%" and it's like....no. No you fvcking didnt. You have almost no way of knowing that. The only truly accurate way to know your bodyfat and lean muscle mass makeup is to get a fvcking autopsy. Most of the normal/cheap methods used are very inaccurate and poorly administered and the margin for error of the really expensive ones are still usually within the range of people's progress for weeks or months. This sounds hippy dippy, but how you look and feel and taking a more intuitive approach in the long term are probably the best gauges for a lot of this stuff.

 

[mrgoodstuff]

I dont actually count calories simply for the fact that it's horribly inaccurate (and i've maintained what is pretty close to a lot of guy's ideal physique for close to a decade, at risk of sounding like a douche who thinks that one anecdote is damning evidence). You can't accurately gauge your caloric intake (which fluctuates by the day and hour), the calories listed in nutrition facts on boxes can be off by up to like 20% (which is usually more than your entire deficit or surplus), and most people don't account for things like the thermic effect of food (which again can be up to like 10% of your total calories depending on macronutrient). Tracking calories can be a good baseline to see if you're in the ballpark, especially when starting out, and millions of people have seen good results from it, but you need to recognize the weaknesses of it.

I'm a fan of replacing ALL your current foods with very clean and nutritious foods, eating a balanced mix frequently, LISTENING to what your sstomach tells you in terms of digestion and what foods your body likes and doesn't like, fueling your workouts (and daily work) with plenty of calories and complex carbs to operate at a high energy level, and then prioritizing hypertrophy with a good amount of cardio on the side, while tracking weight and how you LOOK over the LONG term, not looking at things a week later and assuming things like "oh i gained/lost 2 lbs of fat!!". You should never really feel starving and tired unless you're dangerously obese and can risk a steep fat loss. You should also have a firm understanding of fatigue accumulation and how much volume/work is necessary, and ideally your workouts should be intense enough to where they don't last 1.5 hrs, and that they require some type of periodization and recovery plan/days to manage fatigue and progress. If you're eating clean and training smart and consistently and minimizing injury risk, the fat will come off. This is a multi-year game, not a 3 month one if he wants to make real, long term progress.

Weight is also a relatively poor indicator of progress unless you're VERY overweight. You could build 2 lbs of muscle and lose 3 lbs of fat, and your weight will say that you only lost "1 lb of fat", when in reality you made a HUGE leap in terms of physical appearance and body recomp. Not to mention that sometimes my weight will fluctuate by up to 5lbs from one day to the next just based on hydration, food, waste, creatine, glycogen, etc.

The bodyfat thing is very inaccurate as well. People throw out "oh i went from 23% to 18%" and it's like....no. No you fvcking didnt. You have almost no way of knowing that. The only truly accurate way to know your bodyfat and lean muscle mass makeup is to get a fvcking autopsy. Most of the normal/cheap methods used are very inaccurate and poorly administered and the margin for error of the really expensive ones are still usually within the range of people's progress for weeks or months. This sounds hippy dippy, but how you look and feel and taking a more intuitive approach in the long term are probably the best gauges for a lot of this stuff.

Calories, food quantities and learning what it means on your body.