Relatively new member here and I wanted to share my progress in case my learning help other newbies. I will share the progress over the last 12 months in this post and update as things progress. I started a weight loss Journey in January and I have a Hawaii vacation at Christmas time, so that because a target for me to be in the best shape possible.
TLDR;
Janaury - May: Tirzepitide only
May - September: Began TRT at 160mg Test Cyp per week
September: Bumped Test to 210mg per week, started 2iu HGH
November: started my first blast 300 Test / 150 Primo
December 12th: added first dose of 10mg Anavar sublingual
I am a 51 year old male, 5' 7" tall, former college soccer player and someone who has been in and out of the gym since I was 15. After having kids about 15 years ago, my diet and exercise habits turned to garbage and work stress got pretty intense. In January this year, I weighed in at 248 and a whopping 37% body fat. I decided something had to change, as my Dad was a type-2 diabetic and I did not want to go down the same road that he did. I new my insurance would cover a GLP-1 and my PCP is a very good dude and fully supported me going on Zepbound (Tirz). My plan was to go low and slow, sticking with the lowest effective dose as long as I could. I stayed on each dose (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5) for 8 weeks before titrating up. It felt great to get back in the gym while I was losing all this weight. Working out was fun again and I was starting to see the lean muscle map climb up on my scale.
In May of this year, my PCP told me that he was going to a local TRT Clinic and that I should look into it. He ordered the bloodwork for me and I signed up for 1 month, until I found the much cheaper online clinics. I spent 6 months at a TRT dose of 160mg Test Cyp per week. My Total Test was 887 ng/dL and Free was 178 ng/dl at that dosage. My E2 in August was only 23 pg/mL because I was listening to the clinic's advice and proactively taking low-dose Anastrozole. I have stopped that.
The TRT levels were great for recomping while on Tirzepitide. I love the strength gains, adding muscle mass and the recovery. I started really seeing true recomposition, where my weight loss was fat only and I was slowly adding muscle. I starting listening to podcasts, researching forums and experimenting with other peptides. From a peptide perspective, I have used BPC/TB, GLOW, Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin, NAD+, 5 Amino 1MQ, SLU-PP-332
I wanted to kick things up a notch, but I also want to make sure I am basing everything on proper lab results. I tend to aromatize fairly strongly, so I focused on managing estradiol through stable testosterone levels and by adding a compound that functionally counterbalances estrogenic signaling, so I chose Primo at a ratio of 2:1 (test : Primo). I am currently running 300 test per week, injected daily and 150 Primo per week, injected MWF. In my recent labs, my Total T was 1706 ng/dL, Free was 547 and E2 Ultrasensitive was 39 pg/mL. Pretty damn perfect with no AI at all.
Other labs after 4 weeks on 300 Test / 150 Primo:
LDL: 93
HDL: 38
Triglycerides: 87
Lipoprotein(a): <10
IGF-1: 138
Hemocrit: 46.5
Cortisol: 10.4
DHEA: 122
Ferritin: 210
A1c: 5.1
Cystatin C: 1.22
eGFR: 62
CMP and other labs are all in the green
Blood Pressure: 120/69
With about two weeks to go before I head to Hawaii for a family vacation, I wanted to add some Anavar sublingual to the mix. I started 10 mg daily today after I had all my lab results back. Bringing Anavar in as a small bump to strength, hardness, and nutrient partitioning. The goal isn’t scale weight, just better performance and a subtle recomposition effect on top of the stable Test + Primo backbone. I'll be on the beach at Christmas time and this next couple of weeks is like my final prep. As I finish this phase of going from fatass to human again, I want to finish strong.
I attached two pictures from January where I was 37% bodfat. I also added a picture from 12/9. My Hume scale kinda glitched on me two weeks ago and started under-reporting my bodyfat. I was sitting at 13.5% at Thanksgiving and then it suddenly said I was 10.5% a week later, which is obviously not possible. Today I weigh 195.
Diet: I have been following the Vertical Diet to keep things simple and balanced. I am targeting around 2,400 calories per day, but at 10mg per week of Tirz, I have to really work at mechanical eating to get there.
Sleep: I wear a Whoop band and track sleep religously. I cut WAY back on alcohol about 4 months ago, primarily because it is poison and I see how badly it wrecks my sleep and recovery.
Current Peptide Stack:
- 10mg Tirzepitide weekly
- GLOW daily
- BPC/TB injected locally for sore elbows and shoulders
- 2.5iu HGH
- Thymosin Alpha 1 - 1mg MWF
Gyno: I have had gyno since I was a teenager. I have alwas freaking hated it, but it wasn't until I joined this community that I really learned more about it. I am hyper-aware of it, so I keep a close eye on E2, while being patient and making sure I don't crush it.
TLDR;
Janaury - May: Tirzepitide only
May - September: Began TRT at 160mg Test Cyp per week
September: Bumped Test to 210mg per week, started 2iu HGH
November: started my first blast 300 Test / 150 Primo
December 12th: added first dose of 10mg Anavar sublingual
I am a 51 year old male, 5' 7" tall, former college soccer player and someone who has been in and out of the gym since I was 15. After having kids about 15 years ago, my diet and exercise habits turned to garbage and work stress got pretty intense. In January this year, I weighed in at 248 and a whopping 37% body fat. I decided something had to change, as my Dad was a type-2 diabetic and I did not want to go down the same road that he did. I new my insurance would cover a GLP-1 and my PCP is a very good dude and fully supported me going on Zepbound (Tirz). My plan was to go low and slow, sticking with the lowest effective dose as long as I could. I stayed on each dose (2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5) for 8 weeks before titrating up. It felt great to get back in the gym while I was losing all this weight. Working out was fun again and I was starting to see the lean muscle map climb up on my scale.
In May of this year, my PCP told me that he was going to a local TRT Clinic and that I should look into it. He ordered the bloodwork for me and I signed up for 1 month, until I found the much cheaper online clinics. I spent 6 months at a TRT dose of 160mg Test Cyp per week. My Total Test was 887 ng/dL and Free was 178 ng/dl at that dosage. My E2 in August was only 23 pg/mL because I was listening to the clinic's advice and proactively taking low-dose Anastrozole. I have stopped that.
The TRT levels were great for recomping while on Tirzepitide. I love the strength gains, adding muscle mass and the recovery. I started really seeing true recomposition, where my weight loss was fat only and I was slowly adding muscle. I starting listening to podcasts, researching forums and experimenting with other peptides. From a peptide perspective, I have used BPC/TB, GLOW, Tesamorelin / Ipamorelin, NAD+, 5 Amino 1MQ, SLU-PP-332
I wanted to kick things up a notch, but I also want to make sure I am basing everything on proper lab results. I tend to aromatize fairly strongly, so I focused on managing estradiol through stable testosterone levels and by adding a compound that functionally counterbalances estrogenic signaling, so I chose Primo at a ratio of 2:1 (test : Primo). I am currently running 300 test per week, injected daily and 150 Primo per week, injected MWF. In my recent labs, my Total T was 1706 ng/dL, Free was 547 and E2 Ultrasensitive was 39 pg/mL. Pretty damn perfect with no AI at all.
Other labs after 4 weeks on 300 Test / 150 Primo:
LDL: 93
HDL: 38
Triglycerides: 87
Lipoprotein(a): <10
IGF-1: 138
Hemocrit: 46.5
Cortisol: 10.4
DHEA: 122
Ferritin: 210
A1c: 5.1
Cystatin C: 1.22
eGFR: 62
CMP and other labs are all in the green
Blood Pressure: 120/69
With about two weeks to go before I head to Hawaii for a family vacation, I wanted to add some Anavar sublingual to the mix. I started 10 mg daily today after I had all my lab results back. Bringing Anavar in as a small bump to strength, hardness, and nutrient partitioning. The goal isn’t scale weight, just better performance and a subtle recomposition effect on top of the stable Test + Primo backbone. I'll be on the beach at Christmas time and this next couple of weeks is like my final prep. As I finish this phase of going from fatass to human again, I want to finish strong.
I attached two pictures from January where I was 37% bodfat. I also added a picture from 12/9. My Hume scale kinda glitched on me two weeks ago and started under-reporting my bodyfat. I was sitting at 13.5% at Thanksgiving and then it suddenly said I was 10.5% a week later, which is obviously not possible. Today I weigh 195.
Diet: I have been following the Vertical Diet to keep things simple and balanced. I am targeting around 2,400 calories per day, but at 10mg per week of Tirz, I have to really work at mechanical eating to get there.
Sleep: I wear a Whoop band and track sleep religously. I cut WAY back on alcohol about 4 months ago, primarily because it is poison and I see how badly it wrecks my sleep and recovery.
Current Peptide Stack:
- 10mg Tirzepitide weekly
- GLOW daily
- BPC/TB injected locally for sore elbows and shoulders
- 2.5iu HGH
- Thymosin Alpha 1 - 1mg MWF
Gyno: I have had gyno since I was a teenager. I have alwas freaking hated it, but it wasn't until I joined this community that I really learned more about it. I am hyper-aware of it, so I keep a close eye on E2, while being patient and making sure I don't crush it.
