Willy_Bird
Newbie
A TL;DR will be provided at the bottom.
Hello this is some background about my journey, current self, and then some. I am 24 Y/O 6'2 M at 285 going to the gym 5-6 days a week depending on school. I was about 388 pounds at 18 Y/O the heaviest of my senior year in high school before I started focusing on health. I rapidly lost weight once I started caring about my calorie intake, as well as 3 times per week seasons with a trainer. I was about 250 when I switched from a mix of cardio/CrossFit (whatever the trainer had me doing) to solo lifting at the gym. By the time I was late 19-20 I developed eating disorder in order to faster loose weight going from 250 to my lowest at 155. As you can imagine, this was ROUGH on my body and despite working out 6 days a week I was weak as hell. At my lowest my skin started to become jaundiced from the beating I was giving myself, so another change was in order. I kicked the bulimia habit with some professional psychiatric help, and starting eating right. I slowly gained weight and mass until I was 22 when the pandemic hit. By this time I was 185 pounds, and doing pretty well for myself physically.
Fast forward through late 2019 - late 2021 and I was 295! I didn't workout at all during the lockdown, and I subsisted off of at least 2 ben and jerry pints a week (in my defense I work health care, and have been going grey since covid kicked off). As I continue on my journey I've accepted that this weight gain in a way was a blessing instead of a curse. Instead of eating then vomiting everything I ate , I am responsibly cutting from 295 to 240 after spending some time at 290 lifting weights and getting strong. DL 425x5 SQT 425x8 BP 265x6 I don't really care for shit 1-rep maxes so here's some digits I can comfortably lift. Despite making excellent progress, I have been doing some reading into PED's in my free time.
When I was new to the scene I genuinely thought that the enhanced physiques I saw on the internet, were obtainable by diet/exercise alone. This defiantly contributed to my eating disorder, and still effects how I see myself to this day. As I work towards my goal of 240 pounds, I am deeply considering a cycle to dip my foot in the water and see what I can do.
My question to ya'll as I'd like to hear some of your input is to when/if I should cycle. I know some say not to cycle if you are above 13% BF, but from what I've seen this is said mainly because of the assumption that you are inexperienced with the gym/diets at that point. Is there actually backing behind this rule, if so do share!
The best,
Willy
TL;DR Was fat, lost fat, got an eating disorder, became a skinnyfat jaundiced abomination, got healthy/gained some muscle, GOT FAT AGAIN, going back on the weight loss journey responsibly, wanna take steroids.
Hello this is some background about my journey, current self, and then some. I am 24 Y/O 6'2 M at 285 going to the gym 5-6 days a week depending on school. I was about 388 pounds at 18 Y/O the heaviest of my senior year in high school before I started focusing on health. I rapidly lost weight once I started caring about my calorie intake, as well as 3 times per week seasons with a trainer. I was about 250 when I switched from a mix of cardio/CrossFit (whatever the trainer had me doing) to solo lifting at the gym. By the time I was late 19-20 I developed eating disorder in order to faster loose weight going from 250 to my lowest at 155. As you can imagine, this was ROUGH on my body and despite working out 6 days a week I was weak as hell. At my lowest my skin started to become jaundiced from the beating I was giving myself, so another change was in order. I kicked the bulimia habit with some professional psychiatric help, and starting eating right. I slowly gained weight and mass until I was 22 when the pandemic hit. By this time I was 185 pounds, and doing pretty well for myself physically.
Fast forward through late 2019 - late 2021 and I was 295! I didn't workout at all during the lockdown, and I subsisted off of at least 2 ben and jerry pints a week (in my defense I work health care, and have been going grey since covid kicked off). As I continue on my journey I've accepted that this weight gain in a way was a blessing instead of a curse. Instead of eating then vomiting everything I ate , I am responsibly cutting from 295 to 240 after spending some time at 290 lifting weights and getting strong. DL 425x5 SQT 425x8 BP 265x6 I don't really care for shit 1-rep maxes so here's some digits I can comfortably lift. Despite making excellent progress, I have been doing some reading into PED's in my free time.
When I was new to the scene I genuinely thought that the enhanced physiques I saw on the internet, were obtainable by diet/exercise alone. This defiantly contributed to my eating disorder, and still effects how I see myself to this day. As I work towards my goal of 240 pounds, I am deeply considering a cycle to dip my foot in the water and see what I can do.
My question to ya'll as I'd like to hear some of your input is to when/if I should cycle. I know some say not to cycle if you are above 13% BF, but from what I've seen this is said mainly because of the assumption that you are inexperienced with the gym/diets at that point. Is there actually backing behind this rule, if so do share!
The best,
Willy
TL;DR Was fat, lost fat, got an eating disorder, became a skinnyfat jaundiced abomination, got healthy/gained some muscle, GOT FAT AGAIN, going back on the weight loss journey responsibly, wanna take steroids.
