Don't some bodybuilders go soft (as in get fat) when they retire from the juice and excessive lifting? I doubt all former big dudes are wasting away unless they are also ill. Normally when one slows down on the exercise and doesn't drastically reduce their caloric intake, they add fat. Facial wasting is the absence of fat in certain areas of the body. Most evident of this condition is the face.
I have fairly prominent cheek bones and have always carried very little facial and neck fat (no double chin, for example) and yet I don't have that hollow eyed, sunken cheek look that Dave has. Also, I don't pluck my eyebrows or wear mascara like he appears to do.
Agreed for the most part, EXCEPT that Dave has always been an extreme ECTOMORPH (I understand that somatotypes are a joke, but this is to make a point.) Dave was a collegiate distance runner. Even during his
Prime years of food and drug abuse, anyone who knew him would say he always had shredded glutes and was vascular and striated everywhere. Naturally and off drugs, he would revert back to an aged version of what he was in his 20s, especially if he's on HRT which I'm sure he is because his Leydig cells must be fried. Dave is a genetic freak in that regard.
I have a buddy that is the same way. He tries to bulk and will cram down 6K cals a day, but his metabolism is so crazy, it's like his body doesn't have the ability to store fat. He makes gains slower than me, but every lb he gains is a true lb of hard earned muscle that he won't lose til he quits lifting.
