Being anaemic and off red meat makes the iron the one thing in that cupboard doing genuinely load bearing work, and taking it with vitamin C rather than alongside calcium or coffee makes a real difference to how much of it you actually absorb sister.
Two sets on everything and still getting the session in on a trip counts for plenty, and the glycogen will come flooding back the moment the food does mate.
Fasting glucose at eighty five carrying three hundred pound is a genuinely good number and says the sixty two minutes of cardio is doing work the scale has not shown you yet.
Cutting and bulking get decided by the food rather than the gear, so if the weight kept climbing while you were trying to cut then the calories were never actually in a deficit.
Going in without a number on the scale to chase is the right call for a recomp, the scale is the one measurement that tells you the least when you are adding muscle and dropping fat at the same time sister.
The weakness is the part that separates that from a normal niggle, and six weeks of chiro without it shifting is usually where nerve conduction testing earns its keep.
Jefferson deadlifts from a deficit is an unusual pick for the erectors and a good one, the offset stance makes them fight rotation as well as extension, which is where most back thickness work stops short.