Years of restrictive dieting haven't given you lean and muscular. They've given you metabolically suppressed with escalating anxiety and control around food. And the path forward isn't what you think.

If you're stuck fighting to maintain low body fat whilst muscle mass stays stubbornly low, you're in the bottom left trap. The uncomfortable truth: you can't get to lean and muscular from here. Not directly. The path goes through temporary fat gain whilst rebuilding your metabolism - and it takes 18-24 months, possibly longer.

Even competitive bodybuilders, who understand this is physiological necessity, describe the psychological toll as brutal. But they have a framework for it. Do you?