Deadpool's Cycle Log

[malfeasance]

I just re-read Slowww's posts. There is a lot in there to try and get it in only one read, but it hits the nail on the head. The information is valuable to you. Read it again.

 

[Deadpool99]

normal for water to increase and be held like this. Especially as toi get bigger, and go high carb low fat, you can really hold more water with the carbohydrates. Coming out of a depleted state your body wants to hold onto everything like water, glycogen, the fats etc.

This is why in the rebound post I advised keeping the calories the same and adjust on a weekly basis, and surplus small until the water settles primarily. Then it is increased after both water and lean tissue gains even out. L

It looks like you added calories every couple days which means obviously every time you increase carbs, youre going to hold more water relative to the amount of carbs you add. Adding every two days like you did gives you no time to collect information from feedback your body is giving you, or find a real maintenance (when we see you stop growing from calories not from additional glycogen)

You added like 800 calories in a ladder after the first week, then a total of what 1,100 or so compared to the end of the cut in the second week. You are definitely going to have to wait a while for water and weight to stabilize.
Thats a huge amount of Calories for your weight and right out of the gate. To compare bro i held 245lbs on 3,800 calories and that was where my calories were 8 weeks out of my deficit.

I’d knock it down significantly immediately. imo youre going to get fat and ruin your off season if you add at this speed right out of the gate. Then keep it steady until your weight settles and if it doesn’t increase a week then add some calories.

Okay that put’s alot into perspective, I rly appreciate the input, sometimes I get caught up in the faulty premises and my previous experiences, I thought since I did a short cut I could get away with a shorter reverse diet, Ik when I was 210lbs I could eat at 3900 kcal and maintain my weight so I thought I had alot of leeway.

Going to note my weight down today and drop calories, until I can the expected results and find out my maintenance.

Again bro if people can maintain 245 on 3800, there is no way 3200 is not a surplus for a 186 pound male. Your math is wayyyyyy off— adding training days to burn calories also bad idea if you are making progress on your training program. Youre making a huge amount of beginner mistakes. The first and most important aspect is CONSISTENCY. That doesnt just mean adhering to the protocol, but your program has to be consistent itself bro!

The training days were unrelated to the reverse, I just wanted to go hit the gym more frequently out of boredom, I didn’t change my volume, just spread it out. I do the same total sets.

The step count was out of my control, family came to town and well… I was forced to walk more.

Consistency is key, I kind of fucked around with that when it should have been my priority, biggest mistake but hopefully not too late to fix.

I rly appreciate ur help.

 

[Deadpool99]

Deadpool99, please pay close attention to what others are writing you.

Read it again, and again more slowly.

You say you are "confused," but you should not be. The only thing confusing you are the assumptions you brought with you to the conversation, which are unreliable premises.

Frankly, you probably need to reduce your calories at this point. You added 1100 calories a day over a period of 11 days - that is a huge change, not a small change.

Exercise discipline and self control and a careful plan with a goal in mind, which should be adjusted only by small amounts based on what you see on the scale and the mirror or photos of mandatory poses.

Don't adjust based on faulty premises. The scale and photos of mandatories do not lie.

As I just mentioned a post ago, very fair analysis.

I got into my head, again. Ffs. But thankfully y’all set it back straight. And it’s not too late to fix it hopefully.

Again, thank you all, you might have saved me a shit ton of trouble for the future. And probably a shit ton of useless fat gain.

 

[Deadpool99]

BG:

5.7 mmol/L → ≈ 103 mg/dL

Will be adding R-NA-ALA and DBH today to test it out.

Weight:

Thurs 11/06/2025, day 18 of reverse, 83.4kg (183.8lbs)
Fri 11/07/2025, day 19 of reverse, 84.5kg (186.2lbs)
Sat 11/08/2025, day 20 of reverse, 85.0kg (187.3 lbs)

Notes:

- Will take pictures and asses vascularity, fat gain, waist. Need to keep this tightly monitored.

- I clearly am reacting way differently to GH than I previously did, BG and possibly some water retention (likely culprit but don’t want to blame GH for my mistakes), seems to stem a but from the extra 2 IUs I added, I think that was a mistake now, I never expected such a reaction from hgh considering I tolerated it perfectly previously.

- But again my mistake should have kept it consistent, my IGF-1 was just so fucking low I wanted to push higher HGH but ofc didn’t think it would cause this much fuss.

 

[Deadpool99]

I feel tighter, more vascular even with the weight increasing as it is.

My waist measurement has been consistent which is a good sign.

It should only get better from here on out hopefully. This cut seriously put into perspective how much size I have to put on.

 

[Slowww]

Okay that put’s alot into perspective, I rly appreciate the input, sometimes I get caught up in the faulty premises and my previous experiences, I thought since I did a short cut I could get away with a shorter reverse diet, Ik when I was 210lbs I could eat at 3900 kcal and maintain my weight so I thought I had alot of leeway.

We reset each time, and an individuals’ body doesn’t have the same needs due to different mass, outputs with movement due to less body fat, metabolic differences, insulin resistance between end of cut & peak bulk. It doesn’t just change from person to person but the individual depending on TDE, muscle that has been lost, and so on. It’s nice to know what you needed last time to compare if you’re OCD about data, but treating your condition as it develops in real time will be more useful than assumptions about what your body will handle based on a totally different period of time

The training days were unrelated to the reverse, I just wanted to go hit the gym more frequently out of boredom, I didn’t change my volume, just spread it out. I do the same total sets.

Fair enough, just remember if you’re doing training vs rest day cals, your average inputs and then body weight will change. So you need to look for a pattern here before you go crazy adding stuff to diet again.

The step count was out of my control, family came to town and well… I was forced to walk more.

Yeah man this is not something I’m commenting on haha. Normal stuff happens, just not a great idea to intentionally start mashing out cardio when you need to establish a baseline

Consistency is key, I kind of fucked around with that when it should have been my priority, biggest mistake but hopefully not too late to fix.

I rly appreciate ur help.

No problem bro, any time

 

[Deadpool99]

BG after adding 600mg NA-R-ALA and 400mg DBH to my post workout carb meal:

5.2 mmol/L → 93.6 mg/dL


Weight:

Fri 11/07/2025, day 19 of reverse, 84.5kg (186.2lbs)
Sat 11/08/2025, day 20 of reverse, 85.0kg (187.3 lbs)
Sun 11/09/2025, day 21 of reverse, 86.0kg (189.5lbs)

Notes:

- Lowered Kcals from previous day

My theoretical calculations based on my deficit:

- Pre cut weight: 96 kg
- Deficit: around on average 1150 kcal/day for 7 weeks (56000 kcal total)
- Fat-loss equivalent: 7.3 kg (16 lb) of fat burned.
- Possible a few extra kg from clen/t3
- Theoretical weight goal: 87-88kg (192 lbs - 194lbs)

 

[Deadpool99]

Sun 11/09/2025 (Day 21):

- 5.2 mmol/L → 93.6 mg/dL
- 86.0kg (189.5lbs)

Mon 11/10/2025 (Day 22):

- 4.9 mmol/L → 88.2 mg/dL
- 86.4 kg (190.5 lb)

Tue 11/11/2025 (Day 23):

- 5.4 mmol/L → 97.2 mg/dL
- 86.0 kg (189.6 lb)

Notes:

- Strength took a while to catch up but is there.
- Feeling tighter, BG trending positively since adding DBH and ALA
- Weight finally took a step back down. Hopefully we can keep it stable.

 

[Deadpool99]

Sun 11/09/2025 (Day 21):

- 5.2 mmol/L → 93.6 mg/dL
- 86.0kg (189.5lbs)

Mon 11/10/2025 (Day 22):

- 4.9 mmol/L → 88.2 mg/dL
- 86.4 kg (190.5 lb)

Tue 11/11/2025 (Day 23):

- 5.4 mmol/L → 97.2 mg/dL
- 86.0 kg (189.6 lb)

Wed 11/12/2025 (Day 21):

- 5.2 mmol/L → 93.6 mg/dL
- 86.2kg (190.0lbs)


Notes:

- Strength is improving, BG and Weight stabilizing
- I think if weight stays within a 0.3kg range for a day or two, we start adding some calories.

 

[Deadpool99]

Updated Bloodwork:

I have 3 sets: Pre cut, Mid-cut, Post-cut

Pre-Cut Bloodwork cycle support that changed compare to now:
- For lipids: I had used a combo of Citrus Bergmot, Plant sterols, Red rice yeast + coq10
- For liver: 1-2g nac, 0.5-1g tudca, 800mg sam-e

- Also previous bloodwork was done on a rest day, 24 hours from my training session




Mid-cut Bloodwork:
- For lipids: Only 4mg pitavasatatin, only 1-2 weeks into it
- For liver: 1-2g nac,1g tudca, 400mg sam-e

- Using high dose t3/clen, aggressive cut.
- Also previous bloodwork was done on a rest day, 24 hours from my training session




Post-cut bloodwork:
- For lipids: Only 4mg pitavasatatin for 5 weeks
- For liver: 400mg Glutathione IM + 1g nac

- Blood test done during training session split, not rest day, which may cause slight elevations

Notes on GGT: Only did 2, one as a natural, one currently






Natty GGT:

Marker	Pre-Cut (No pita, Nac only)	Mid-Cut (2 weeks on Pita 4mg, Tudca/Nac/Sam-e)	Post-Cut (4mg Pita, Nac, Gluta 400mg)
Total Cholesterol	70	92	77
LDL-C	32	54	41
HDL-C	24	27	21
Triglycerides	49	57	68
AST (SGOT)	46	72	72
ALT (SGPT)	66	73	112
eGFR	105	114	121

 

[Deadpool99]

Updated Bloodwork:

@ChemBB We talk about leptin, but do u think bodybuilders usually have healthy leptin to begin with everything they do?
I have never seen anyone other than you test for it, or maybe you have seen other's leptin levels.

 

[dinfaralt]

@ChemBB We talk about leptin, but do u think bodybuilders usually have healthy leptin to begin with everything they do?

my leptin usually takes a dip cutting. also t3 drops below normal ref range.

usually 1-2 refeeds a week keeps it normal range.

 

[Deadpool99]

my leptin usually takes a dip cutting. also t3 drops below normal ref range.

usually 1-2 refeeds a week keeps it normal range.

I have some family visiting in 10 days. Perfect timing, should just be entering a bulk.

I do wonder if bodybuilders test leptin often, I can’t imagine people being lower bf for long periods of time having a healthy leptin. But ofc until u have a heavy off-season, still I wonder, doing high volume, stimulants, high cortisol from ped’s, and overall usually have a high sympathetic drive.

 

[dinfaralt]

I do wonder if bodybuilders test leptin often, I can’t imagine people being lower bf for long periods of time having a healthy leptin

ive only tested it while being 15% bodyfat so cant say.

on paper it should be like that tho. but everyone is different. some people just cut easily and have a hard time putting weight on, interested to see what their leptin/t3 levels are while cutting

 

[ChemBB]

high cortisol from ped’s

I actually have chronically _low_ cortisol from PED's, that keeps getting lower...
Most recent value was 3.6

And yeah, I imagine leptin levels in offseason should be normal range for BB'ers

 

[ChemBB]

I have a leptin test result pending, from 3 weeks of bulking going from 190 -> 215lbs with insulin use

Will post results here when I get them

 

[Deadpool99]

I actually have chronically _low_ cortisol

Do you take ksm-66 by any chance?
That shit brought my cortisol from above the reference range to just within the lower side reference range.

 

[Deadpool99]

I actually have chronically _low_ cortisol from PED's, that keeps getting lower...
Most recent value was 3.6

And yeah, I imagine leptin levels in offseason should be normal range for BB'ers

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Great, thanks for the values. Nice to see the trends and great to see someone tracking it.

 

[Gonz0]

Nice log bro! I saw in the beginning you mention cycling on and off hcg , just wondering what your thought process is behind that ? I run it year round so just wondering if there are some benefits of cycling on and off.

 

[Deadpool99]

Nice log bro! I saw in the beginning you mention cycling on and off hcg , just wondering what your thought process is behind that ? I run it year round so just wondering if there are some benefits of cycling on and off.

The original plan was to maintain testicular function to pct. However I took HCG off as I don’t plan to do any PCT anytime soon again