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Twelve weeks into TRT and concerned I’ve made a mistake…
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<blockquote data-quote="Pacman" data-source="post: 234024" data-attributes="member: 2450"><p>It's possible also that this is due to the way you are eating... Is your diet in check? Are you monitoring your daily caloric and macro intake, along your daily weight etc?</p><p></p><p>If you consume a lot of carbs, you will look puffier. This is true by pretty much everyone. Carbs hold onto a ton of water. Even if you lose fat, you can still look cosmetically puffy from the sheer amount of water your body holds onto, and the more carbs you consume the more your body holds onto water. This is the reason that bodybuilders pretty much "carb-starve" (as well as dehydrate) themselves right before shows, despite them being all under 10% bodyfat... </p><p></p><p>Increased T levels also increase water retention, so that would only add to that.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, your body will start producing testosterone again. Your levels will likely have to drop below whatever your brain detects as normal first though, so you might feel somewhat shitty for at least a few weeks until your body readjusts. If you intend to cease TRT completely at this point (after 12 weeks), going off cold turkey is the best option long term, despite the temporary discomfort. You will have to go through the discomfort anyway, because as long as you are injecting, your body won't "feel" a need to produce its own. So tapering would only extend that process.</p><p></p><p>As a side note:</p><p></p><p>This is not true. </p><p></p><p>At least not in the way your doctor described that. </p><p></p><p>You'll definitely have an easier time losing belly fat with normal (and especially high normal) T levels, but T is not a fat burner. You can still gain belly fat (and overall fat) by being in a caloric surplus, no matter how much T you inject. Also, unfortunately belly fat is the last to go for most of us. For some reason most of our bodies seem to be aggravatingly insistent on losing belly fat last.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pacman, post: 234024, member: 2450"] It's possible also that this is due to the way you are eating... Is your diet in check? Are you monitoring your daily caloric and macro intake, along your daily weight etc? If you consume a lot of carbs, you will look puffier. This is true by pretty much everyone. Carbs hold onto a ton of water. Even if you lose fat, you can still look cosmetically puffy from the sheer amount of water your body holds onto, and the more carbs you consume the more your body holds onto water. This is the reason that bodybuilders pretty much "carb-starve" (as well as dehydrate) themselves right before shows, despite them being all under 10% bodyfat... Increased T levels also increase water retention, so that would only add to that. Yes, your body will start producing testosterone again. Your levels will likely have to drop below whatever your brain detects as normal first though, so you might feel somewhat shitty for at least a few weeks until your body readjusts. If you intend to cease TRT completely at this point (after 12 weeks), going off cold turkey is the best option long term, despite the temporary discomfort. You will have to go through the discomfort anyway, because as long as you are injecting, your body won't "feel" a need to produce its own. So tapering would only extend that process. As a side note: This is not true. At least not in the way your doctor described that. You'll definitely have an easier time losing belly fat with normal (and especially high normal) T levels, but T is not a fat burner. You can still gain belly fat (and overall fat) by being in a caloric surplus, no matter how much T you inject. Also, unfortunately belly fat is the last to go for most of us. For some reason most of our bodies seem to be aggravatingly insistent on losing belly fat last. [/QUOTE]
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