You've lost it already? What's the bodyfat looking like now? Update us with what you've been doing after coming off and how quickly you started to shrink.
I just went back to my normal look, almost exactly.
I'm 192-lb today, only because I had a good day of bodybuilding eating yesterday, weighing 190 then. My pre-cycle weight was 183.
My doctor and I both think 185-lb will be a good weight to maintain for optimal health, if I increase my calories more than my usual level, since that slowed down my thyroid.
I just haven't planned the diet to get to that 185 yet, and I still have a tiny bit of the extra mass from the cycle...but I'd guess about 70% of it is gone by now.
As I continue to eat <1,500, down to as low as <1,000 calories daily, I will go back to my pre-cycle weight of 183...if not back to 170.
Natural training sucks, so I'm not motivated to eat a bodybuilding diet. I hate eating. Not just for bodybuilding - I hate eating, period.
For the cycle, I just went from a very low calorie diet - as outlined above - to calories in the 2,000 to 3,000 range. Call it 2,400 daily.
That was a SOLID 1,000 calories over my average. But I wasn't eating a perfect bodybuilding diet - I was just eating 2,400 relatively clean calories.
Since the Anadrol results were immediate...I was motivated to keep eating at that level.
When I ended my cycle on September 1st, my motivation to eat dwindled, and by November 1st, I was completely back to my old diet...which is 90g protein per day on average, with some higher days in there - maybe one or two a week.
I try to stay in good shape by normal person standards, but I'm nowhere near as full and pumped as I was on 15mg Anadrol daily.
My chest sucks. It's even worse now off cycle. I'm glad I now know it's just a genetic trait I can't fix.
I know I said I'd only do one cycle - but because my mini-cycke was so great, I want to do another one within the next year. A REAL cycle, with injectable testosterone. Maybe even test-only.
But I'm not doing it unless I have a proper diet planned out, which to be a PRECISE diet, where I MUST eating XYZ different foods a day, a minimum quantity of water, etc.
I'd take any advice and suggestions on Getbiggers for a proper diet - that's not my wheelhouse, so I could use the help.
As for me - because I'm not eating, I decided to go back to strength training. If I can't gain muscle due to low calories, I may as well be strong.
I'll attach some photos below, but to start, I have some training updates here:
http://www.instagram.com/matthew_thunderbayI'm training Strongman events for next year's contest season. Unfortunately, my main gym only goes up to 120-lb dumbbells, and I need 130-lb and 140-lb dumbbells at this point. My contest next summer is a 150-lb dumbbell for reps.
Then I found out that to buy one of each 130/140, it would cost $1,310, and that's a bit more than I wanted to donate to my gym, haha.
So I'll just be attaching 5-lb or 10-lb to each side of the 120, and secure it with electrical tape. Electrical tape should be able to hold up to 10-lb per side safely.
If I can get 140 for 3-4 reps in training, I should be able to get that 150-lb dumbbell in contest.
This picture is from October 1st - one full month off cycle. We'll it appears like I kept a good amount of the cycle this photo, it's only because I'm pumped here.
It's when that pump goes away 15 minutes later that you see how profoundly steroids trained my look.
Really, Anadrol's most impressive impact on me was allowing me to looked full with a 50% pump 24/7.
I wish there was a natural way to maintain our pumps all day.
Since this picture on October 1st after one month, I've lost more muscle since.
I could have maintained more of it if I kept my calories at 2,400 daily, but I hate eating.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CkJ3XD6t4ke/Three paused reps with 100-lb dumbbells overhead:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjFEKgHuMrT/If someone can plan be the perfect muscle diet, next year's summer is going to be GREAT.
I'm on a strength program now, and I'm stronger now than I was then, and pretty close to my lifetime strongest - and even stronger on some individual lifts and Strongman events.