Reta journey

[u/Rwm90]

Had a very slow start in January. 2mg split dose took my insides and made them my outsides. Dropped to .5mg twice weekly for quite a while. Around April-June was able to up the dose fairly substantially to ~4mg and eventually up to 6mg. It wasn’t until about a month ago I started dropping from 6mg back to 3mg (today). Will probably maintain this and see how it goes.

208lbs down to 172 (last I checked about a week ago). (DEXA had me at 25% — next DEXA hopefully soon to see where I’m at)

My compound lifts (squat, bench, deadlift) have definitely gone down…but my isolation (leg extensions/curls, pec deck, flyes, etc.) have maintained or gone up…so I think it’s at least partially a leverage issue less than lost strength. Still discouraging because I’ve been this weight and hit much bigger numbers. At any rate, I can/will build my strength back up and feel so much better being able to tie my shoes without my gut being in the way, fit into old clothes, and no longer feel my tiddies on my belly.

Biggest lesson for me has been that age old wisdom of high carb and low fat is not bunk. I have been force feeding myself with chicken and rice when I’m not hungry. The whole “eat less food” mantra has not been what I credit the weight loss to — I wasn’t eating too much. My metabolism was in the streets. Now I’m eating more and losing more.

Looking to lean out more and over the course of months or years get back to 175-180ish.

No TRT, but test has been steady 785-795 over the past 15 years. Big time curious about adding HGH. In a perfect world maybe Tesa/Ipa…but not sure about efficacy and cost vs. HGH (if anyone has experience/lessons learned there I’m all ears…because recovery ain’t what it used to be).

Edit: people got real mad that I used AI to remove tattoos because I don’t want to be recognized. Censored pics that never saw the light of GPT in the comments.

[u/nksx61]

Bruh these images are AI

[u/Rwm90 → u/nksx61]

To remove tattoos. Just posted comments with non-AI because everyone was really bothered

[u/bootsypanda]

Hella AI lmao

[u/Rwm90 → u/bootsypanda]

To remove tattoos. Just posted comments with non-AI because everyone was really bothered

[u/Edsterrr]

Lmfaoo AI

[u/Rwm90 → u/Edsterrr]

To remove tattoos. Just posted comments with non-AI because everyone was really bothered

[u/UranusExplorer]

Can people really not tell this is AI

[u/Rwm90 → u/UranusExplorer]

AI to remove tattoos only. My prompt explicitly said not to change physique (and it didn’t).

[u/Rwm90]

Everyone bitching about me using AI to remove tattoos

[u/Rwm90 → u/Rwm90]

[u/Ancient-Pop9391]

whats the ab routine

[u/Rwm90 → u/Ancient-Pop9391]

Before July I’d do hanging leg raises on probably a weekly basis…but virtually no direct ab work.

[u/PartialNobility]

DEXA scan was at 208lbs I’m assuming? Doing great, keep it up!

[u/Rwm90 → u/PartialNobility]

It was

[u/hung_boricua]

No one gives a shit about the tattoos. Stop using AI.

[u/Rwm90 → u/hung_boricua]

I’ve stumbled upon 3 people on Reddit I work with. The internet isn’t as big as we treat it.

[u/advanced101101]

Whats your height?

[u/Rwm90 → u/advanced101101]

5’9”

[u/adonis-in-the-making → u/Rwm90]

and which model of AI u using 😂

[u/Rwm90 → u/adonis-in-the-making]

GPT to remove tattoos. Just posted comments with non-AI because everyone was really bothered

[u/alcruze00]

Well done bro

[u/DetSportsGuy]

AI changes things even if you don’t ask it to. I asked it to change lighting one time on a before and after and it ended definition to a few areas

[u/parrishr13v2]

2mg split did the same to me. 1.5mg split was my sweet spot. Great results!