First Cycle Log and some personal thoughts

[trainerulez97]

Source for AAS: IASP (B2G1 Promo, before the official announcement of Trump winning and causing the oil and oral sales to stop due to China’s changing policies)
Source for peptide: QSC (pre-shutdown, Black Friday Sale 2024)

Period: 22 weeks (20 weeks with, 2 weeks only HCG before PCT)
Start date: Nov 11, 2024
End date (before PCT): April 9, 2025
Last week Test dosage: March 24, 2025

Starting weight: 79.9 kg/176 lbs, 22.3%
Bulk period: Nov 11 to Jan 11, 2025
Cutting period: Jan 12 to March 29, 2025 (may increase depending if goal is reached or not)

Weight before cut: 84.9 kg/187 lbs BF 23.1%
Current weight: 77.7 kg/171 lbs, BF 19.5%
Goal: 75 kg with BF at 19 or lower.

Disabilities before starting: Uric acid is bad, was suffering from NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) due to my sedentary lifestyle before and eating habits (canned goods ftw) but the change of habits, lifestyle, and dramatic fitness change did decrease and improve my data. Clinically depressed and with severe anxiety.

Original stack:
Test E, 500 mg/wk, e3.5d
Orals at the last half (Tbol)
hCG EOD 250 IU
Aromasin, Cabergoline, Nova at hand

Supplements:
Vit C, Calcium, Zinc Picolinate, Fish Oil, NAC, UDCA (prescribed), LiverprimeHD (prescribed), s-acetyl glutathione, prebiotic (classic 50b CFU), digestive enzymes, protein powder (casein and isolate), metamucil and psyllium husk powders

What I actually did (kinda dumb yet gave me insane power boost, would not recommend and I still am mad at myself at deciding to test put a little bit of everything, silly me):

Test E 500/week for the first 4 weeks (250 IU hCG EOD)
Test E 750/week for the next 10 weeks (375 hCG EOD)
Test E 500/week for the last 6 weeks (375 hCG EOD)

Review:
I will not be running Test higher than 600 again. E2 management had me starting with aromasin every 3.5 days to 3 times a week to EOD to ED. Will maintain ED dose until the last 3 weeks where it will be at 3x a week.

From Jan 12 to April 9, 2025:
Tren Ace-40 mg/day
Mast P-30 mg/day
T3 50 mcg 2/day Mon-Fri

My reasoning at that time that I managed to make myself believe:

Mast to help with E2 and other minor things, the “salt” in the stack to enhance the experience
Tren to help with the cut (kinda see its appeal, ngl)

Basically wanted to test these two compounds to see how I am able to hold out against the so called negative effects

Regarding the side effects, except for a slight decrease in sleep quality and increased HR variability while sleeping, energy levels are normal, strength is consistent but currently reached a limit at my bench presses / incline bench presses as I have mentioned in my intro post. For DL and RDL at 140kg/2reps right now, mixed grip, unbelted.

I do feel gayer (like seriously), which I did see anecdotal reports from other users, but it’s fine since I am already a gay bottom ‍

The good effect tho, my god I cannot believe it, my mood and outlook in life in the past few weeks have stabilized; I feel more happy, confident, and less depressive episodes. I can still have suicidal or murderous thoughts passing through my head, but compared to when it gets stuck in one thought, it’s way easier to look at it, let go, and continue with my stuff. No more severe thought paralysis even with antidepressants.

Since starting I also increased my workout days from 4x to 5x a week with 3 targeted days for upper and 2 days for legs (Mon Tues, Th-Fri-Sat). I still had 1 hour low-moderate fasted cardio once I wake up in the morning daily ofc.

Orals:
Turinabol first 8 weeks
Then tried the IM version since I got a freebie (suspended in PEG/MEG base, 50mg/mL, dosed at 0.3-0.4 mL daily) for 4 weeks.

Review for this oral: Whoa boy I could feel my blood vessels in my neck and the side of my head pulsating in a good way? Even after 1.5 hours of intense exercise (127-162 BPM range) I still have enough energy. I also feel and looked bigger.

Peptides: starting from Jan 4, 2025 (saturday)

Tirz 2.5 mg every 4 weeks, increase to 5 mg for 4 weeks, increase to 7.5 mg for 4 weeks, increase to 10 mg for 4 weeks; check if it is my effective maintenance dose, increases to 15 mg if not.

This will be running even during PCT ofc, one dose every saturday.
Review: I could see it working cuz the stubborn belly fat is rapidly shrinking/melting/disappearing, sagging skin is appearing tho, will work on that.

Current PCT protocol:
Nova ED 20 mg for 6 weeks
Will decrease to 10 mg and increase by 2 weeks if the sides get too much
Debating whether to stop my SSRI during PCT as it interacts with Nova
I do have clomid that doesn’t interact with it, but the dosage and effectiveness tho in comparison with nova…

Blood chem:
Jan 2025 (img 1586) vs June 2024 (img 1587) - General blood chem test. Note that the uric acid is high for the latter as I have not taken my maintenance meds at that time. Could see the effect of orals on my liver, with elevation on my ALT/AST values.

test test results (img 1588). Last 2 photos are my liver stuff, fibroscan results.

Peace out. Will be using this thread to add some thoughts of mine time to time.

 

[trainerulez97]

Weekly update:

Mood overall is stable, meaning no uncontrollable panic attacks or anxiety attacks or random bouts of rage beyond a scale I normally experience.

Sleep on the other hand, is a bit confusing.

Smart watch is telling me I haven’t slept enough (time asleep vs actually asleep), but every day in the past week I feel relaxed and refreshed the moment I wake up (I sleep around 8:45 to 9:30 pm, wake up at 4, 4:20 am). Except for my body feeling achy and frozen but quickly fades as I walk around my room and drink water and head to the bathroom (even before steroids this was normal for me). Keeps telling me of increased HRV and Increased HR peak values while asleep (did read about tren elevating HR, as well as T3), yet I feel ok.

Gym sessions were fantastic as well, some pain the left wrist so reducing load and intensity for the left arm for pushing and curling actions (these actions were the ones causing pain). Ironically as I am writing this the pain on my left wrist has stopped but will continue the decreased load and intensity for left arm for 1 more week. Currently able to do assisted pull ups and chest dips at the lowest weight possible (9kg) at 3x12 reps, may consider switching to non assisted once I can actually avoid the swinging motion that I do when I tried it (my pull ups became semi muscle ups with the swinging, jesus)

Overall felt happy this week, not much body dysmorphia thoughts, and my BF average daily weigh in is now less than 19.7%.

 

[trainerulez97]

Weekly update:

Physicals:
My left wrist fucking hurts AF. Like when both palms are facing upward, the pain is from the inner wrist radiating to the elbow.
After a while I then realized me wearing a smart watch on my left arm is further aggravating the pain during curl or push type of movements. Damn samsung watch. Didn’t have this problem with Apple Watch.

Currently training the left arm at the minimum weight it can handle with more focus on form and time in tension; right arm undergoes the same, but roughly 3-5 times the weight.

Weight has dropped to 76.2 kg, so that’s nice, maintaining around 19.5-20% BF.

Had a good session on my Back day, but quickly began to develop flu-like symptoms (throat becoming sore, dehydration), preempted with Paracetamol for a day did help, but now sinuses are starting to feel stuff most of the day.

Even a PWO TNE did not help me do my 90% max weight in bench press and seated dips, so it kinda threw me off today. Going to focus on resting for the next 1-3 days.

Sleep: kinda good, kinda bad, generally bad after a leg day workout, can’t even do fasted low to medium intensity cardio in the morning and body feels tired. It doesn’t help I’m currently in a deficit until end of march.

Feeling log:

Quite Good. Seeing my body in the gym mirror makes me smile and feel proud of my progress. Horny-wise it has tapered down. Like I am horny but could not give a rat’s ass to find someone to hook up with. I look at some dude or some woman in the gym and I’m juggling my thoughts between “damn, I want them, toss me like a ragdoll in bed” or “damn, what big arms/ass they have, how long have they worked out, should I copy his/her arms/glutes routine it seems effective for them, lemme stalk him/her till they leave the gym through my peripheral vision with no direct eye contact whatsoever”

Regarding how Tren or Mast affects emotions, I certainly feel it, I feel more at peace from the noise in my mind. Like boom, I’m hyper focused on things. But I also lose the energy to care on other stuff. Some days I am completely shut down in a sense that my voice when communicating with family is very neutral and level, like they are not relatives in my mind? Not yet sure if this is a good thing or not because generally I am impatient or very loud when I am with them.

I feel.. at peace? Like there’s still my anxiety in my mind shouting about something in the future, but when I process it, it is like “oh” then go back to serenity.

Peace. Might post some progress pics later if I am satisfied with the cut result (fingers crossed).

 

[Eddie.]

Overall your bloods look great! I just wonder how you managed to get your uric acid from below the ref range to above the ref range. Something in your diet contains high amount of purines. Did you eat seafood for extended periods of time?

 

[trainerulez97]

Overall your bloods look great! I just wonder how you managed to get your uric acid from below the ref range to above the ref range. Something in your diet contains high amount of purines. Did you eat seafood for extended periods of time?

According to my doctor (which is also my sister, very convenient for blood test interpretation), I had much of my protein during this period of time from whey protein and whey isolate powder (although it has lower content than seafood and red meat/organs, high consumption can potentially increase it). I cut down my consumption from a daily intake of 75 g (solely from protein powder) to 25-50 g daily, decreased high-fat foods consumption (both good and bad), less red meat and more on chicken, eggs, plant protein. That + maintenance medication enabled me to lower my uric acid. After all medication will not work if my diet doesn't change.

 

[trainerulez97]

Weekly update:
Already reached 75.5kg as of Saturday, at 19% BF. Hopefully this week I reach my weight goal of 75. Will be maintaining at that weight. Wrist pain has slightly alleviated and will decrease upper body session this week and focus on legs to lessen strain and allow proper recovery. No prolactin or estrogen sides commonly reported have been observed, and I have decreased to MWF schedule for Aromasin 12.5 mg and MTTh schedule for caber 0.5 mg.

Mood-wise: Concentration is absolutely great while in the gym. I feel this energy inside me bubbling but never erupting or manifesting into anger, but as fuel. Music does help, making me more autistic as I move my head to the beat.

Less horniness during gym time(good). Peak horniness during the acts of sex and or self-pleasure seems to have increased compared before. It's also making me act more dominant when I am usually submissive, idk where to attribute this change (it's ok I guess).

Tirz appetite suppression is great. Shifted to a dosage of 5 mg Wednesday and Saturday, can really see an effect. However, would switch to 7.5 mg weekly in 2 weeks to check the effects. Deciding whether to do 2.5mg mwf or simply 1 shot of 7.5 mg.

Kinda annoyed that I had to increase BAC water bc 1.5mL won't fully dissolve the 15 mg, increasing it to 3 mL. Noticeable for QSC's 2/3-month old Tirzepatide (got some from my brother who switched to reta). Oh well, as long as it works. Already also bought some from SSA Tirzepatide, HGH 24, and some BAC water stock.

Happy news though: instead of giving me 1 set of my orders, they sent 2 sets so now I have 500 days worth of 2IU daily dose for HGH and 1 year worth of 10 mg dosage of 80 weeks of 7.5 mg dosage for Tirzepatide. According to them when I asked, to treat it as a blind box.

 

[trainerulez97]

Weekly update (a bit late)

Body wise: reached 75 kg (yay), already started with HGH (2 IU) at night last week. I do know I will be retaining more water than usual, and I have seen my weight jump from 75 to 77.5 ranges in the past few days (ik it is water weight because my bf% is decreasing as the weight increases so it’s fine), but it is fine since it's generally for recovery and sleep dosage. I really can't change my diet since high sodium is a staple in our country, it's how delicious food is made. However I did NOTICE that ever since starting AAS, I have unconsciously already decreased my sodium intake.

Generally I consume around 6000 mg of sodium from various food sources (most of which (40-50%) is from soy sauce/fish sauce seasoning), but now I am consuming at least 2000 and at most 4000+ mg. Not sure if the steroids or the GLP-1 changed my preference for saltiness in food. Or maybe I have become more health conscious. Idk.

Saggy skin at the bottom of my stomach is kind of bothering me, but i feel maintaining a slight calorie deficit will help avoid severe skin sagging.

Tirz dosing: finishing the remaining 5 mg dosage for the week this sat, then switch to 7.5 mg per week. going for 3.75 mg Wed and Sat dosing. Going to stick with this dose till the end of my Steroid cycle.

Mental wise:

I feel calm, content, and serene. No paranoia, no unwarranted aggression. When I do have outbursts due to my impatience, still notice it can get overblown and I feel regretful.

Peace.