Scraps
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Hi Everyone,
Stumbling across this forum was pure luck — it seems like an absolute gold mine, so I'm delighted to be here.
40 year old man here, and in my youth I was always athletic. Unfortunately things have gotten harder as I've gotten older. My job is high stress but very sedentary, tied to a desk 12 hours at a stretch. A year ago my testosterone level got checked and came back incredibly low; that explained a lot of what I'd been feeling symptom-wise, and the years of weight gain probably trace back to it too. TRT followed, with diet kept really strict and training in the gym pushed really hard.
Over 1600 in daily calories and the weight stops coming off, as I've found. Sustainable? Not really — some early progress happened, but I'm back at my starting weight and the training slipped too.
GLP1 medications have been under consideration for a while, but with my existing TRT in the mix the monthly costs get prohibitive.
Finding the forum told me I had a way forward and felt immediately optimistic. So much I don't know yet, though. Dosage calculation for reconstituted vials is one gap — and filtering is something I just learned about as well! Then there's which dosages in the kits to look at and the storage question pre and post recon. So much to learn, but starting and taking back control of my health can't come soon enough!
Contributing some things along the way is the hope; nutrition and exercise are both areas I'm really knowledgeable in, so giving back is something I look forward to.
With the introduction out of the way — any recommendations on where my educational journey should start!
Stumbling across this forum was pure luck — it seems like an absolute gold mine, so I'm delighted to be here.
40 year old man here, and in my youth I was always athletic. Unfortunately things have gotten harder as I've gotten older. My job is high stress but very sedentary, tied to a desk 12 hours at a stretch. A year ago my testosterone level got checked and came back incredibly low; that explained a lot of what I'd been feeling symptom-wise, and the years of weight gain probably trace back to it too. TRT followed, with diet kept really strict and training in the gym pushed really hard.
Over 1600 in daily calories and the weight stops coming off, as I've found. Sustainable? Not really — some early progress happened, but I'm back at my starting weight and the training slipped too.
GLP1 medications have been under consideration for a while, but with my existing TRT in the mix the monthly costs get prohibitive.
Finding the forum told me I had a way forward and felt immediately optimistic. So much I don't know yet, though. Dosage calculation for reconstituted vials is one gap — and filtering is something I just learned about as well! Then there's which dosages in the kits to look at and the storage question pre and post recon. So much to learn, but starting and taking back control of my health can't come soon enough!
Contributing some things along the way is the hope; nutrition and exercise are both areas I'm really knowledgeable in, so giving back is something I look forward to.
With the introduction out of the way — any recommendations on where my educational journey should start!