6’2 235 14% BF. On week 3 of my cut. Currently running 750mg Test E, 300 Tren A, 50 mg anavar, and 2 mg of retatrutide.
My question lies in that I have been tracking my food down to the gram. I am eating in a daily deficit. Because I was unsure, I even had a friend measure my food for 3 days and my weight stayed the same. I’ve lowered food twice and no dice.The scale has not moved in 3 weeks. I can tell My body is leaning out, I have just never experienced being in a deficit for this long and the scale not changing at all. Any idea what is happening?
If your body comp is improvising who cares what the scale says. This tells me you are recomping. Something tells me your more than 14%bf as well. If your not experienced enough to know what’s going on with your body you should not be using drugs.
You also just started taking test so as it becomes saturated in your bloodstream you will put on a little water which may make the scale go the other way.
I’ve said this 1000 times. You don’t need drugs to cut. Especially not what your taking. Steroids are for building muscle. A TRT doses of test is more than enough.
Body fat is correct. Measured via dexa scan. Although you are correct, in that I am somewhat inexperienced. This is my 3rd cycle. I appreciate your input, and I will do some more research.
Drop the tren. You don’t have enough experience. It can come with very harsh side effects both physical and mental. It’s really not worth it for the average gym Bro.
Personally I would just drop down to 200mg/wk test and stay on the Retatrutide.
You don’t need this much stress on your body while dieting especially if your not in contest prep. Save the bigger cycles for building where they will shine.
Can you post a few posing pics? (If you take tren, you can post pics.) I want to see what your 14% body fat looks like.
Next: How strong were you when you started this cycle? How much stronger are you now? (This might need quite a few details for me to completely understand.)
I liked to take body fat percentage at least once a week as a metric to make diet alterations. The problem is that it is important that the gauge be “repeatable”. It doesn’t matter so much that it is precise, just that if you drop body fat that a change in your measured percent body fat also drops. I used a nine point skin fold test. BUT, the mirror is always KING!
BTW, I knew my body well enough that I never counted calories. I used a complex feedback system of 4 metrics to determine how I manipulated carbohydrates.
You mention 3 weeks that the scale has not changed. You might be right at the threshold of a drop. Your body naturally tries to maintain a status quo. It normally took 2 weeks for the scale to start dropping when I started a contest diet. Also, as @s.gentz mentioned, you might be replacing fat loss weight with muscle gain weight. That won’t likely last for long once you get looking good. Enjoy it while it lasts.