Welcome to the flexible dieting lifestyle podcast.

I'm your host, Zach Rushlow.

I'm with my co-host, Miguel Blakut.

And today, by popular demand,

you guys have been asking for this episode for a while.

And if you've been following me on YouTube,

you've been following me on Instagram,

or we've talked about it in the podcast a lot.

I recently went through, honestly, a life-changing bulk. I went through, yeah, I hate calling

it a bulk, but a surplus, a moment where I was focused on putting on mass, eating more calories,

reestablishing a healthy body fat percentage,

and yeah, putting on a lot of muscle mass and seeing what my body's capable of.

And during that period, it was a roller coaster ride of emotions.

It was in the moment, really, I mean, in reality, I mean, let's talk about it.

I'm before we even go into the weeds of it.

I mean, the fact that a bulk is scary means that we have first world problems.

Like the fact that I'm scared of a bulk because it is a moment where I'm going to be eating

more food, gaining more body fat,

and I'm going to look a little bit different, and it's going to bring out a lot of insecurities.

That's a first world problem.

I have enough food to actually bulk.

Like, let's be real here.

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