Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere in this forum.
I’ve experienced a significant amount of weight gain over my last 4 months on TRT with no major changes to my diet to speak of. I’m up about 20 lbs overall. My wife says I look great but I also noticed my body fat is up 7% as well for a total of 23%. Is this normal and to be expected? I last tested TT at 557 and my Estridol is in range at 22.
I’m fairly certain some of its muscle gain since my strength is up quite a bit from just a year ago. My TRT clinic says to cut my calorie count down, which is something I never really had to monitor before.
-age - 40
-height - 5’11"
-waist - 34
-weight - 205+
-describe body and facial hair - heavy growth but, no changes
-describe where you carry fat and how changed - Thighs and upper chest
-health conditions, symptoms - Asthma
-Starting TT 234 / Estradiol 47
-Current TT 557 / Estradiol 22
-PSA 0.3 ng/mL
-FSH 7.2 mIU/mL
-LH 4.7 mIU/mL
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Twenty pounds in a month is a huge weight gain. Care to post your diet?[/quote]
Unless I’m misreading, I believe he had the 20lbs over 4 months, with a (purportedly) steady diet.
5’11" at 205lbs is by no means an unreasonable weight to maintain, so it may be that you are carrying it well. What about other things in life: stress? Personally, I was very stressed when I started having to do TRT, as it’s just a big, long-term life change. I was in my early 20s and didn’t experience any type of weight gain effects, but at your age and such, I could imagine that happening.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Twenty pounds in a month is a huge weight gain. Care to post your diet?[/quote]
Unless I’m misreading, I believe he had the 20lbs over 4 months, with a (purportedly) steady diet.
5’11" at 205lbs is by no means an unreasonable weight to maintain, so it may be that you are carrying it well. What about other things in life: stress? Personally, I was very stressed when I started having to do TRT, as it’s just a big, long-term life change. I was in my early 20s and didn’t experience any type of weight gain effects, but at your age and such, I could imagine that happening.[/quote]
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Twenty pounds in a month is a huge weight gain. Care to post your diet?[/quote]
Unless I’m misreading, I believe he had the 20lbs over 4 months, with a (purportedly) steady diet.
5’11" at 205lbs is by no means an unreasonable weight to maintain, so it may be that you are carrying it well. What about other things in life: stress? Personally, I was very stressed when I started having to do TRT, as it’s just a big, long-term life change. I was in my early 20s and didn’t experience any type of weight gain effects, but at your age and such, I could imagine that happening.[/quote]
Yes. I meant four months. [/quote]
I pointed out the distinction only because 20lbs in four months isn’t entirely unreasonable. That’s something like a pound a week or so.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Twenty pounds in a month is a huge weight gain. Care to post your diet?[/quote]
Unless I’m misreading, I believe he had the 20lbs over 4 months, with a (purportedly) steady diet.
5’11" at 205lbs is by no means an unreasonable weight to maintain, so it may be that you are carrying it well. What about other things in life: stress? Personally, I was very stressed when I started having to do TRT, as it’s just a big, long-term life change. I was in my early 20s and didn’t experience any type of weight gain effects, but at your age and such, I could imagine that happening.[/quote]
Yes. I meant four months. [/quote]
I pointed out the distinction only because 20lbs in four months isn’t entirely unreasonable. That’s something like a pound a week or so.[/quote]
If natural or on TRT with normal T values, that would be a lot of fat gain considering no one is building near that amount of muscle at that rate.
It might be water gain. At about 8 weeks I was up ten pounds that I slowly lost over the next six weeks. As I recall, it crept up pretty fast in weeks 7 and 8.