Correct.
I'm not trying to run down Matt, but the weight he added with Drol was almost entirely water weight, with maybe a pound or so of additional, actual, dry muscle mass. We tried to tell Matt that "cementing" all weight gains -- and certainly including things AAS induced -- into true muscle growth takes time and lots of food (sorry to talk about you in the third person, Matt; such is considered very rude in my circles, but I AM also writing to Webstar, so I think I get a pass ).
But let's set aside most of that momentarily, because I am curious: Matt, how do you make a living?
We'll take it from there, mate.
I personally dislike eating, but in addition to that, the studies on caloric restriction are very clear - it is much healthier to be lighter.
I could dig up my blood work from before my cycle. Everything wasn't just good - it was optimal.
That's not by accident.
Say what you want about Brian Shaw - the man will be dead in 10 years time.
There is nothing "healthy" about bodybuilding - even natural bodybuilding. While I do like the physical look of more muscle, it requires more shopping, more cooking, more eating, more cleaning, more passing, more shitting, and it all ultimately makes you less healthy.
Now that I know that I can bulk up to 205 and full in the span of a month, I have no reason to maintain that size year-round in the frigid Canadian winters here while we're covered up anyway.
I'll go back on cycle and go back to whatever physique I prefer to get, next summer.
I think 190 and leaner would be a better look.
It's the optimal look for me, for how I want to look. If others want to be 250+, that's their preference. It's not mine. Its also not healthy. It it didn't come at a biological cost and reduction to lifespan, I would stay on gear.
The only major benefit to gear to me is that you are perpetually full and pumped up.
It's one thing to be, e.g., 220-lb - it is NOT the same 220 when natural vs. juiced.
My ideal look would be somewhere between 175 and 205. I can't justify being 220 at me height, even if I do it naturally. That's carrying around 50-lb of extra mass. I can't fathom maining a 50 resting heart rate at that weight.