That's too fat. Why do that to yourself?
Subsequent cycles are never like the first one. Welcome to bodybuilding. That first cycle will always be your best.
Sorry to tell you, but you will know soon enough, after more cycles. Never again will you have that "new human being." Everything after is adding a little more mass and a little more each time.
A decent body fat percentage to start
if you are accurate in your assessment. Maybe try not to go over 14 -15% - that means you are taking in plenty of excess calories, since you added
nine pounds of pure fat in addition to water and muscle.
Here is a little secret. If your weight stalls for two weeks, then you are at maintenance calories for that weight. It does not matter that you added 500 calories. If you add 500 calories when you weight 200 pounds, and two weeks later you weight 200 pounds, then your additional 500 calories brought you up to maintenance level.
Yeah. You'll gain something over maintenance. Muscle, fat, and it might be fat, but the scale has to move up if you are over maintenance. If you do not gain weight you are at maintenance.
Welcome to bodybuilding. Remember what I said about never again having your first cycle? That cycle is over and done. It was great, wasn't it? Now get it out of your head and focus on the future. You add small amounts. And they get smaller as you get bigger each subsequent cycle. And, sorry to inform you, you have to eat more as you get bigger. That is just a fact of life. I was pretty miserable on what I had to eat to get over 250 pounds. I did not like it one bit, but I ate what was necessary to keep the scale moving, just as when cutting I had to make the proper downward adjustment to keep cutting.
Don't compare a cycle that got screwed up by an illness. Things happen. That probably won't happen next time.
Wow. All that gear at 169 pounds? 600mg of tren?
169 pounds up to 230 pounds???
Why?
I think maybe now I know the issue. You have unrealistic expectations of what one solitary cycle should add to your frame. 61 pounds should be years of training, not one go for broke cycle.
You are really adding a bunch of fat and water. If you add 7-10 pounds of actual lean tissue, that is, stage weight, single digit body fat, from one cycle to another, that is about what to expect now on your third or fourth (sorry, I lost track) cycle. Third and fourth cycles do not add 61 pounds - and if you do it is a bunch of swelling from water and fat and what a horrible way to go through life. Then you have to cut, cut, cut, wow, and cut some more to see that seven pounds of muscle you gained, hey, I just cut 54 pounds. No, thanks.
Please consider readjusting your goal for one cycle, and maybe getting help with your diet (sincere advice here - I am not a coach, so I have nothing to gain from telling you to consider getting one), six meals of ground beef is not a healthy way to go about this.
I wish you luck, but please maybe look at some of the logs on here in the bodybuilding section, especially
@Mac11wildcat 's log, where he shares all sorts of detail about his diet and about his gear use - and it is nothing like what you are doing. There is a lot to be learned there reading the 100 pages or so. There are some other bodybuilders here, too, who are successful amateurs running logs. It might be worth seeing how they eat and their gear use. None of them are trying to gain 61 pounds in one cycle.
Please take some time to read and learn from their examples. You may find it worth your while in the end.
