VanillaGorilla
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Yeah, I was throwing caution to the wind couldn’t be stopped.
Motivation for some
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NeuroRN
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Welcome back.
Echo what has been said.
Get labs. Privatemdlabs is a good one.
Get the wife on board.
Get your self on board. Diet. Workouts. Cardio. Get dialed in before your cycle.
Stop blaming the weight gain on the pandemic. Get real with yourself. You stopped doing things. There’s always options. There’s always alternatives. You got lazy. Make the changes, and don’t rely on AAS to do the work for you.
Stick around this time.
Echo what has been said.
Get labs. Privatemdlabs is a good one.
Get the wife on board.
Get your self on board. Diet. Workouts. Cardio. Get dialed in before your cycle.
Stop blaming the weight gain on the pandemic. Get real with yourself. You stopped doing things. There’s always options. There’s always alternatives. You got lazy. Make the changes, and don’t rely on AAS to do the work for you.
Stick around this time.
Welcome back and I couldn’t have said it any better than @NeuroRN or @herrubermensch stated. Plenty of nationwide legal HRT clinics. Defy Medical is another big one that’s nationwide, has a plethora of providers, and does your labs 4x/year, and has their own mail order pharmacy that sends it to your door.
Benefit for me is that it’s actually local to my area, so I can go to their medical facility for all of the extra aesthetic stuff they provide.
Benefit for me is that it’s actually local to my area, so I can go to their medical facility for all of the extra aesthetic stuff they provide.
VanillaGorilla
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This is what I miss about this community.
Shock6050
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Definitely good advice about ensuring you have diet dialed in and alcohol, if it can be minimized, will play a huge factor in not only gains but also well being/energy (well that can depend on how much/often you drink for the most impact). A little over a year ago I was kind of in a similar situation. Had a lot of shitty stuff happen in life and having triplets just destroyed time for the gym. Just hit a point where I felt horrible, looked terrible, and had lack of energy. So I built my own gym (this was during peak covid) that just takes up half the garage (at least at this point…many doubt it’ll stay this way when I come across deals that would be hard to pass on, thou I’ve resisted so far). Completely cleaned up diet and dropped all alcohol and kept being consistent lifting. My main cardio was simply long walks or on the treadmill at steepest incline…also have a weighted vest for walks to make them more challenging. Went from 265 down to my lowest at an even 200. Since then I’ve increased calories now that body comp is where I like it and have started a mini bulk (just aiming for 500, maybe sometimes 1000 calories above maintenance). Now sitting around 210. Let the mirror tell you most of how it is going but tracking weight is useful if not overdone (can at least see the trends since it can fluctuate so much daily). I just weigh myself once a week at the same time of day prior to eating to get the most accurate and consistent results.
Definitely get labs as suggested as you may just have low T and focus on your diet/nutrition. That combined with exercise is probably 80-85% of the battle if not higher. AAS certainly helped as I was in a 1000 calorie deficit…so got a lot of muscle sparing and muscle gain benefits.
Definitely get labs as suggested as you may just have low T and focus on your diet/nutrition. That combined with exercise is probably 80-85% of the battle if not higher. AAS certainly helped as I was in a 1000 calorie deficit…so got a lot of muscle sparing and muscle gain benefits.
VanillaGorilla
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I appreciate the support and congratulations on your journey.
That is an inspiring story.
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