Muscle Gain or Lean Cut? 4 weeks into a lean bulk, thought I was leaner until I saw the side pic
Stats: M25, 5'7-5'8", 68kg/150lb, ~18-20, lifting 1.5 years, 4 weeks into this lean bulk, vegetarian, no medical conditions. Goal: build a v-taper (wider shoulders, tighter waist) for a family trip in October.
Body:
5'7ish, 150lbs, been lifting about a year and a half, veg (no eggs or meat which makes protein annoying). Trying to build a decent v-taper for a family trip in October, haven't seen them in 3 years so trying to show up looking like I actually lift.
Been on a lean bulk for 4 weeks. Went from 65.7 to 68kg and my waist has stayed at 33" the whole time so I thought it was going well. Front pics look fine to me but then I took a side pic (attached) and there's way more gut than I realized. Pretty sure I'm like 18-20 not the 14ish I assumed.
My workout split is a 5 day thing, rest after legs and after day 5:
Push - incline db, shoulder press machine, pec deck, lateral raises (myo reps on last set), tricep pushdown + overhead
Pull - weighted pullups, lat pulldown wide grip, seated row, rear delt fly, incline curls, hammer curls
Legs - bulgarian split squats as my main, leg extension, rdl, leg curl, calves
Shoulders + arms - cable lateral raises (my priority), shoulder press, rear delts, face pulls, tricep/bicep supersets
Upper - incline, row, laterals, pulldown, pec deck, triceps
Basically lateral delts are my #1 focus for width, then triceps and upper chest, then back.
Numbers if it matters: incline db 60s (got stuck at 65 a while back and lost it, working back), shoulder press 100, weighted pullups +20, bulgarian split squat 120, row 180.
So my main questions:
based on the side pic should i just keep bulking till august or start cutting now
is my volume actually set up right for width or am i doing something dumb. anything obviously wrong with the split