Hey all, hoping someone can chime in here. Ime closing in on my mid 50s, and have fallen far out of shape. The past decade has been a loss (physically) and covid made it worse. Post covid i have discovered that ive lost all willpower/discipline when it comes to dieting. I’ve lost considerable amounts of weight twice in my life, and both times slagged off and put it all back on for various reasons/excuses. My recent efforts have just all fallen flat.
Ongoing depression finally forced my hand, to do a couple of things I was previously very resistant to… I got my testosterone checked, and it was low, so I have gotten testopel treatment… and that has made a definite difference in several ways. I always said I would not supplement testosterone… But I feel better today than I have in years. It hasn’t been a cure all, but in general, it has made me feel better. The second thing, was finally getting on the standard GLP1. Again, something I never thought I would do, but again, desperate times…
For more background, I am a generally large framed man with a comfortably fit weight of around 260-280. Less than that I start to look sickly. However, I am well above that, and around 340, though I am losing. I am going to the gym and since I am doing solo workouts, mostly using machines, and still trying to figure out the weight ranges to use on them. It has been a slow process. I have always worked out with free weights, but I feel safer now on the machines, since I don’t have a spotter. Right now I am just doing a push day, a pull day and a leg day. As I proceed I plan on adding reps to duplicate muscle groups in each of these… but right now, I am just doing 3 sets of each exercise.
My primary focus is currently to keep moving and keep at it in the gym. I do not expect to get ripped, but I do want to build muscle… I hope that getting some power back is possible. Anyhow, I felt like that was all a lot of background for my main question… Is a whey powder like Gold Standard something I should be taking to supplement my exercising? I used it when I was very regularly in the gym before, but I was also younger and much more fit. I didn’t know if that owuld be considered flushing money down the toilet or not. I have already ordered some Creatine HCL, on the recommendation of a trainer at the gym. I have done some reading on it, and realize there is some debate on if it is better than Creatine monohydrate, worse, or generally undecided… But I figured something was better than nothing, and I didn’t want to deal with possible side effects from the monohydrate.
At any rate, I appreciate any input that anyone more learned on the topic can offer.
Thanks!
Youre debating something that im not.
I realize its the glp1, thats why i said “this drug has given me control…” i fully recognize its the drug. And in my first post I said that i had lost massive amounts of weight twice before, without it… And understand what it takes to do it, and it hasnt been from lack of trying. Im not sure if its age, or a combo of that and the endless wall of shit being thrown at me every day from the political atmosphere in the us… But i cannot do it anymore. Im at wits end with this. You can look at it as a weakness. I probably would have 15 years ago… Hell i pretty much looked at it like that 6 months ago… So be it.
Im losing weight with the drug. Im going to the gym with the drug to try to help build myself up for if/when inever do go off of it. Im trying to eat healthier with it in an effort to lay down tracks for when/if that day comes. But tbh, im not doing this to try to stretch my life out another 35 years. Im just doing it so maybe my knee hurts less, and i can do more shit right now. Inam probably not as worried about a massive heart attack as you might think. Hell, thats the lotto ticket. Cancer is more likely to hit me before coronary failure does. My arteries are clean according to my sonographer, and my heart is in good condition according to my cardiologist. Im not sure how, but it is… Maybe from a very active lifestyle when. I was younger… Who knows.
My goal isnt to be classified as not obese, its to be classified as “i just cut the grass on the back hill and didnt have to collapse on the garage floor for 20 minutes afterwards to regain the energy to take a shower.”