Got sick for 2 weeks, lost considerable amount of size help?!?

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This! I was sipping on a combo of oral rehydration solution, leucine, creatine, glutamine all through out the day doing mini-workouts (bodyweight mainly) while still on leave.

I looked “swole” within 24 hours. Just felt like a used up bag of dicks🤣

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I’m late to the party, but everyone telling you to just eat and lift again and quit stressing are right.

Muscle memory is a great thing - I had to take a couple years off and am back to ~80% after about 6 weeks. You’ll be fine.

How do you use up a bag of dicks? Asking for a friend.

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Poor grammar that’s how, lmao! Should have used the edit. “A bag of used up dicks”. That should steer you in the right direction. :wink::laughing:

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The English language really is amazing

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One by one.

Or so I’ve been told.

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Were you a super lean 199lbs at what height?

Also what was your illness?

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10-15% body fat

5 foot 11 inches

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Was your illness to personal to mention?

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Ahhhh nah not at all… pneumonia with plural effusion I had to get drained. Sucked

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That is a wide range. There is a big difference between 10% and 15% body fat.

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I was like 12 when I last checked so I went with a range as I didn’t know for sure.

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Maybe a pic would be helpful, because your guessing is of little value

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@Goodyearwing1

Pretty much your question was answered in this post

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I will go along with very unlikely, but I did lose 40lbs in 5 weeks and maybe all of it was lean body weight. I was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease dermatomyositis. I was a urinating machine. My CPK was over 18,000 when it should not be over 200. I was taking 64mg/day of Medrol, which favorably partitions nutrients to fat cells, so I was likely gaining fat while I was losing those 40lbs on the scales. Over that period of time I digressed to being incapable of climbing a flight of stairs or getting up from a deep sofa, not to mention difficulty of swallowing food. BTW, I didn’t recognize the person in the mirror.

I am positive OP doesn’t have a myositis disease, as he would be concerned about the drastic loss of strength. I thought I was a death’s door.

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