Testosterone and calorie needs

yirara

Aww, thanks a lot

springlering62

yirara wrote: »

… the community is so full of bro science it's unreal.

That’s really scary, considering you’re probably already facing a world of what ifs and unknowns. Glad you’re researching carefully and have a salt shaker nearby for the occasional “grain of”.

yirara

Right, reached the next goal. Only about 3.5kg left to reach my goal weight. All going well, and I've managed to slow weightloss down a bit by eating more cheese. Something odd has happened: my body usually needs a lot of carbs to function properly. Since starting this I've been eating more protein and at times more fats and I feel good. No hitting the wall, no getting wobbly on my legs. That, and less freezing is still the only thing though.

AnnPT77

yirara wrote: »

Right, reached the next goal. Only about 3.5kg left to reach my goal weight. All going well, and I've managed to slow weightloss down a bit by eating more cheese. Something odd has happened: my body usually needs a lot of carbs to function properly. Since starting this I've been eating more protein and at times more fats and I feel good. No hitting the wall, no getting wobbly on my legs. That, and less freezing is still the only thing though.

That sounds quite positive . . . and very interesting. I appreciate you sharing your experience with this.

P.S. In my world, anything that results in being able to eat more cheese sounds like a good thing. 😋😉

yirara

Cheese is always good, @AnnPT77 I'll try to get my favourite cheese this coming weekend when I'm visiting the Netherlands. A slow-aged, mature, small edition gouda. Not sure I'll be lucky as it's not something you find in tourist shops in city centers. 🤗🥰

yirara

So maybe this bit of normal weight is of interest to anyone (in case anyone reads along)

Returned from vacation, about 1kg heavier. Took 5 days to get back to my pre-vacation weight. It was just water weight.

As usual, after a big waterweight dump I'm a bit constipated. Cue weight going up a tiny big every day despite being in a deficit due to only minor bowel movements. This goes on for 6 excruciating days (because the scale hated me). And then everything normalized and I realized I was right on cue for my weightloss goal.

Basically: all totally normal even though the weight didn't go down every day, and even went up for a bit.

yirara

Nearly a month on. Not much has happened other than freezing less my skin looking younger and somehow my hair has turned into a big fluff (it always lacked volume). The biggest thing is that I can activate my scapular muscles much better, which I still need to do due to a rather bad accident a year ago. So that's a big result Other than that: no change on the calorie needs so far, and not more hunger. Nice. Note guys: I'm only microdosing. Not expecting any radical changes.

claireychn074

Ooh younger looking skin is defo an advantage! 😀 are you having any side effects (beyond the fluffy hair) or is it all good?

yirara

claireychn074 wrote: »

Ooh younger looking skin is defo an advantage! 😀 are you having any side effects (beyond the fluffy hair) or is it all good?

All good so far, and I do like the fluffy hair. It's a nice change to having spaghetti hair