By replacing an unhealthy addiction with a healthy one, it’s certainly not difficult to understand why you’re enjoying a renewed sense of vigour and purpose, largely due to increased levels of energy.
To assist in the achievement of your intended goals (six pack and guns), aim to lift a weight that represents 70-80% of your 1 rep max, performing compound movements before isolation exercises, while ensuring that importance is placed upon the lowering (eccentric) phase of any resistance movement, in addition to progressively over-loading the muscles to ensure their growth and development.
Take 1-2 seconds to contract the muscle and 2-4 seconds to relax it back to the starting position.
As for achieving the often elusive six pack, while core exercises will undoubtedly serve to strengthen (work upon the transverse abdominus), the key to unveiling their shape and definition is to perform HIIT, allowing fat to be burned as fuel during the intense periods of activity.
Equally, diet also plays its part, too. By reducing consumption of simple carbohydrate (something you’re already doing), in favour of complex varieties (quinoa, pulses and beans), you’ll be reducing the amount of insulin needed to ‘unlock the door’ to replenish depleted muscles.
By increasing insulin sensitivity through HIIT cardio, for example, carbohydrate entering the blood (as glucose) after digestion is directed towards the depleted muscles, meaning that it’s far less likely to be stored as fat.
If you’ve ever researched HIIT and wondered what is meant by the ‘after-burn effect’ it refers to the severe depletion of glycogen and utilisation of fat during the hard intervals, met by the subsequent need to consume sufficient calories afterwards, in order to replenish depleted glycogen reserves.
Due its effect upon the body, and its need to sufficiently recover afterwards, HIIT cardio is something that should only be performed twice a week, particularly if resistance training also features regularly.
Given that you’re already training with weights, protein consumption should amount to around 35-40% of daily dietary intake. As such, aim for 0.8-1g of protein per lb of body weight, to assist with growth, repair and maintenance.
and EVERYTHING that is bad for me. Am loving the gym atm and love weights. Plan on having a 6 pack and guns by Summer 
