I turn 53 in a Few weeks and have rode The Weight Train for as long as I can recall. I am locked on to removing as much Body Fat as possible and maintaining muscle. Two Gastric Surgeries and every gimmick diet and fad pill behind and I still fight to get the weight off. Calorie Deficit and an active lifestyle are what’s on the menu from now on. High Weight of 513 six years ago got Down to 310 a year later creeped back up to 429 then back to 335. I then slipped back up to 399 in June of this year. Yesterday I was 314 and I can see getting in the 200’s very soon. Thanks for all of the Great Information it’s time I put it to action.
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Ghoul
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Here’s your official MESO 50’s fixer upper starter kit:
GLP
TRT
HGH
BP
LIPIDS
GLP
TRT
HGH
BP
LIPIDS
Civdiv
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Track your calories! I had tried a lot of fad diets and complained a lot of my life about struggling with weight. Even without attempting a deficit, just tracking your calories is a huge eye opener. When you start seeing how much damage you're doing to yourself with the little handfuls of snacks here and there, and how much all the sauces and and things you put on food add to your daily calories it gets pretty easy to make better choices. I dropped a decent amount before even trying to go into a steep deficit by tracking everything I ate. I started realizing how many times I was adding 100 calories here and there just snacking. Add in the glp as stated above and now you have self control and awareness. That's a powerful combo.
Landlocked
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52 here. Jumped into a cycle too early, myself. Results were great, but my lipids took a hit and I’m running the starter kit now. This forum and its members have been a great help. At your weight I would suggest Tirz for your glp. Good luck on your journey.
Ron OG Mouse
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53 myself. I dropped off the BB lifestyle in my mid 30's when my kids got older and needed more of my time. Let myself get up to 320lbs. Last year started TRT and Tirzep. Down to 235 19% BF. From size 44 to size 36. Now I'm swapping it to Reta, HGH, MOT-C, SLU and test. Will be adding more Test Tren and Var early next year. I'm running a very intense high frequency 90 min weight session 5-6 days a week and 45 min of cardio 7 days. With all that the Tirzep was not allowing me enough real food ED. Reta should be better for that now. I am a total Endo so what know what's it's like to lose weight. I have tried all those fad diets. GLP1 is the real deal. Honestly I'm not sure I will ever come off of reta. It does so much to help your body besides weight loss
Endeavor Fitness
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55 here, Bodybuilding lifestyle until around 50. Have enough size to where I can run 200-300 mg TEST C + 1-2 mg of Reta + 2 io of GH. I'll throw in 20 mg anavar 4 days/week pre workout.
I use Reta for bloodwork, as well as glucose control. I'm old school, I never had to track my macros, or calories for that matter, because my trainers taught what I needed to cut back on, and what to add.
I use Reta for bloodwork, as well as glucose control. I'm old school, I never had to track my macros, or calories for that matter, because my trainers taught what I needed to cut back on, and what to add.
I use the paid version of myfitnesspal app. It has a lot of crazy functionality that should be ignored- what it’s good for is setting calorie and macro goals, entering food as you eat or plan your day of eating, and tracking overall body weight. Messing with steps or workout calorie expenditure is a fools errand.
I went from 355 to 255 on TRT and food tracking- around 270 I started messing with a higher cruise, some peptides, hgh. I also get inbody scans free at my gym which are wildly innacurate as far as body composition goes but do track weight well and can show general trends. I also get dexa scans about every 6 months or sometimes before and after changing a protocol- also not truely accurate but much better than the electric impedance scans.
A better metric for progress tracking is a tailor’s tape and mirror selfies. You might not see changes every 2 weeks but over time they can help with motivation.
I lift 5x/week which does little in the way of fat loss- 1-2 miles liss treadmill warmup and a bro split. But steadily gaining muscle does stoke the metabolism and help to look more like a fit dude than a melted candle after considerable fat loss.
Good luck to you sir
I went from 355 to 255 on TRT and food tracking- around 270 I started messing with a higher cruise, some peptides, hgh. I also get inbody scans free at my gym which are wildly innacurate as far as body composition goes but do track weight well and can show general trends. I also get dexa scans about every 6 months or sometimes before and after changing a protocol- also not truely accurate but much better than the electric impedance scans.
A better metric for progress tracking is a tailor’s tape and mirror selfies. You might not see changes every 2 weeks but over time they can help with motivation.
I lift 5x/week which does little in the way of fat loss- 1-2 miles liss treadmill warmup and a bro split. But steadily gaining muscle does stoke the metabolism and help to look more like a fit dude than a melted candle after considerable fat loss.
Good luck to you sir
bossetti
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Get good on endurance so u can burn lots of calories easy
Ron OG Mouse
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I understood Dex scans were pretty accurate? I do them every 3 months. Something cool I bought from amazon is a tape measure with an app on your phone specifically made for keeping and tracking body progression.
I thought the dexa was one of the best ways to measure fat % too- turns out it’s supposed to be awesome for groups of people but can be off by a considerable amount for an individual.
I think that there are mickey mouse dexa setups that aren’t calibrated or run by well trained operators, and also variables like hydration that can affect the results.
Now having said that, I get dexa scans. I go to a medical facility that does body composition scans without a doctor script for cash. I try to go in the afternoon after working out, and my food and hydration is basically the same every day. The results have consistently shown fat loss and lean tissue gain consistent with what I see in the mirror, with the tape, and under the barbell. It’s a helpful tool for motivation and definitely can show more than just jagged trends like a few weeks of weigh ins or the wild educated guesses of an inbody electrical impedance scanner.
Here’s the thing- any time I’ve talked about my dexa results in online bodybuilder spaces I invariably get the reaction that they are obviously way way off. Every scan I’ve gotten, actually dexa and the cheesy inbody, has shown my lean mass starting below 200 and after a couple years lifting and playing with PEDs I’m around 210 lean mass. I started a thread about it- you can search dexa and my handle it’ll come up, not gonna re-type it here.
In any case, it doesn’t matter because it’s the journey not the destination- I’m interested in setting achivable goals and hitting them, eating the elephant one bite at a time.
But, yeah- grain of salt on the dexa.
