Like the title says I'm turning 41 this year and wanted to share my progress. A little background I have noticed myself loosing motivation and drive and putting on weight since my early 30's and at 38 I finally got my test levels checked, 3 different sets of labs showed high 300's low 400's this being the low end of normal my DR wouldn't even consider TRT. I waited another 6 months and I found an online TRT clinic that agreed even though my levels were in the "normal" range I could still benefit from TRT because I was having symptoms of low T. The clinic put me on 150mg every 7 days and within the first 3 months I was feeling like myself again I had more motivation more drive more energy and just an overall better outlook on life and I had actuallystarted exercising again and going jogging with my wife, but then the provider started dropping the ball on refills and I would go weeks without test and my levels would crash and I would feel like shit again and I wouldn't even be able to force myself to exercise, this went on for about a year before I decided to take my treatment into my own hands. I found this community and read everything I could and reasurched as much as I could finding a good domestic source and have been doing amazing for the last 6 months. I have been working out 5 days a week and doing at least 30min of cardio every day, I still do cardio even on my rest days because I need to get rid of this damn muffin top. I am 5'6" 180lbs when I started seriously exercising I am still 180lbs I haven't dropped any weight but I have dropped 2 pant sizes and overall I look a lot more lean than when I started and my shoulders have a more broad appearance and my biceps have grown an inch and a half they went from 13-1/2" flexed to 15". Originally I had planned to try to get back to 160lbs which is what I had been most of my life until I got into my 30's but I think my plan now is to try to stay at 180lbs while leaning out and building muscle. I am not where I want to be but I feel like in the last 6 months sourcing good ugl test and doing my own labs I have made a lot more progress than I did the first year on TRT through a clinic. As of now I am doing 150mg test c split m/w/f and 25mg var ed I plan on running it for 7-8 weeks, I added the var 10 days ago to try to help burn some fat and for joint and tendon repair and can already feel the difference. I kept seeing people talk about the back pumps from it and now I know what they are talking about, on back days or days I go harder on cardio my spinal electors feel like overinflated ballons and on arm days by biceps feel like I'm wearing pool floaties. The first picture is a few weeks before Christmas last year and the second picture was 2 days ago right before my workout. I feel like went from being dumpy and clearly out of shape to someone who at least cares about their appearance.