Luke, serious question. Why did you feel you needed to clean out and drop weight? What kind of health problems did you have?
only reason to stop at the levels talked about ,,since he maxed his potential long long time ago and will never make top of bodybuilding world again due to hiim maxing himself already in addition to structure problems,,the only reason you stop at this level where you make money off your body and you need hormones to even THE MUSCLE you have not only the over all size,,its the following reasons:
1. digestive problems involving the large intestin and small intestine
2. blood work coming very bad ,,many dont even check it but sometimes yu ojust can look at someone and you feel it personally yourself if you suffer badly and quietly
3.advanced palumbo deasease ,,you can try and stop it by losing weight ,,it never works since his organs are already double the size of a regular fella even if he is 200lb fella it wont matter,,see palumbo as a good example
4. duretic and pain killer abuse,,in his case this is not the problem since he is not a very heavy lifter so nothing to worry about in this department
it is combination of reason 1 2 3 each had its toll to some degree and the only one who knows the truth is the bodybuilder which will never ever say it because it can hurt financially and finish career
taking the break for the sake of taking a break is done but usually a month vacation and the bodybuilder is deep back into it ,,usually crusing during the vacation on low doses but still deep in the game ,,same exact thing as coke addicts,,gotta have it every monday and friday otherwize yruoe not you in your own head friends