+ 9 One year progress, pic.
One year progress, the pictures were taken Sunday, fasted, and post workout. The before photos at the bottom were after about three months on tirzepitide and test c. After I got out of the military, I started school and work full-time, 10 years straight of sedentary activity, Getting back to Brazilian jujutsu training helped, but it didn't solve the issues. Doctor looked at me with a test Level in the low 300s and told me I was fine, and that we should just wait and see what happens with my pre-diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. So grateful for the resources that this site has provided, Which pointed me in the right direction, It's been life-changing. Still have a lot to learn, I feel I just now figured out the diet aspect, Looking forward to putting on some mass.
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Great progress, man — seriously impressive transformation.
I can relate to the doctor situation. I also tried the conventional route first with an endocrinologist and urologist. They basically told me my levels were “fine” and that I should just accept the natural decline with age. It was pretty discouraging, especially when I was already feeling the effects on energy, recovery, and body composition. That’s what eventually pushed me toward taking matters into my own hands.
Keep going, you’re clearly on the right track.
You look great, bro. It happens way too often. A doctor who’s probably obese takes one look at you and your labs and says you’re “fine,” fully expecting you to hop on the merry-go-round of endless office visits, prescriptions, and blood draws.
Obviously all you needed was a little simple testosterone.
The U.S. healthcare system can be incredibly frustrating when it feels like symptoms are dismissed instead of investigated. Fuck American medical.
Yeah, they wait until you are in a full-blown disease, state, type two diabetes, morbid obesity, Etc. before they do anything. This is ingrained into the training and the way they practice. I think it's due to the threat of lawsuits, that they avoid anything with any potential risk, even if it's small and the benefit is large, they won't treat you. I asked for a simple trazodone to help sleep because I didn't sleep for almost 3 months, he told me I needed to see a sleep specialist, which is a three month wait. They know we're going to get our treatment elsewhere, on our own if they won't, they don't care because it takes any liability off of them. Sometimes I wonder, if the European model may be better, not necessarily socialized healthcare. But in Germany, if your surgeon fucks you up, you can't sue them. Given time that would probably change the way they practice for better and worse.
We have a very similar story brother. I also lost myself after I got out. Only difference is I got back in the gym, lost weight, got on gear and then resumed BJJ after. Feels great to feel like the you that was kept locked away again doesn't it? I'll never do that to myself again. At the time, though, I felt like it was the only way I could trust myself to live in the civilian world.
Amazing. I love seeing this. So happy for you. You gotta be feeling fucking great right now.