Tapering

I have started my taper for the meet on November 20th. My weight is currently 207# and dropping. I am constantly hungry and my precious belly is gone. I am looking for an excuse to stop cutting weight and just settle for gettting SMOKED in the 220# weight class. Yesterday was going to be a good measure to see if this weight cutting had any effect on my strength.

Backsquat
3x1 @ 365# (PR)

Shoulder Press
1x3 @ 155#
2x3 @ 175#

Deadlift
3x1 @ 475# (PR)

Well, crap. The damn lifts were not a struggle. In fact I could have thrown more weight on! The back squats went down and up with barely any slowing down. The 400# squat I am striving for is looking more and more to be in my grasp! The shoulder presses were fine, nothing special, wasn't entirely focused on these, the excitement in my stomach (and growling) for the deadlift (and food) were what was on my mind. I had pulled 475 once before during CFT when I was "90's Small", 185#. It was terribly ugly, I hitched the whole way, it took me about five minutes, I don't think I locked it fully out and I am pretty sure I shit myself. Today, wow, It felt like 405#. Up with relatively no sweat! All three reps! To try and fix my slightly rounded back I moved my shoulders even more in front of the bar, raising my butt another inch or two. This really felt good and I even got some props on my form from some veterans of powerlifting competitions. Yesterday was a good day.