Ill try to keep this short...(try)
Finishing up week 8 of my cycle. Test E @ 500, NPP @ 400, EQ @ 750. About to drop the npp. Cycle was going great, still going pretty well. At the end of week 5 I was up 21 lbs. A little more fat than I wanted, but nothing too much...and strength increase has just been stupid...so I'll worry about the extra weight later. So I'm getting 4300-4800 kcal per day from my food and supplementing with 2 weight gainer shakes per day. 1 as a meal replacement and one I drink when I wake up starving at 1 or 2 a.m. high quality gainer with ingredients such as powdered sweet potatoes as a carb source instead of a ton of maltodextrin. ...this adds another 3000 kcal to my daily count.
So end of week 5 I became ill. First had to visit the bathroom way too often, followed by sick feeling stomach, followed by nasty lethargy. Up til this point the cycle had me feeling great. Happy and tons of energy - loving it. At some point I realized it seemed the milk I used in the gainer was causing this. Switched to lactose free milk and improved, still not great though. Switched to almond milk and even better. Still sick though...cut out the gainer and protein shakes (whey in both) after 24 hours-ish I was back to normal. So I've been playing with this and when I have whey I get nasty stomach problems. Literally overnight I developed an aversion to this. Could this be aas related? It makes no sense to me. Plus, now I'm about 5 pounds down from where I was 3 weeks ago...I'm having a hard time hitting my calories without protein and gainer shakes. Also not quite hitting my protein goals. I'm stuck - been drinking whey for 20 years without issue. I drink ACV 3 times per day along with plenty of fiber. I take great care of my stomach and really pay attention to it. Thanks for reading my book and I'm all ears... I want to finish these next 8 weeks how I planned and get joooocy!
Finishing up week 8 of my cycle. Test E @ 500, NPP @ 400, EQ @ 750. About to drop the npp. Cycle was going great, still going pretty well. At the end of week 5 I was up 21 lbs. A little more fat than I wanted, but nothing too much...and strength increase has just been stupid...so I'll worry about the extra weight later. So I'm getting 4300-4800 kcal per day from my food and supplementing with 2 weight gainer shakes per day. 1 as a meal replacement and one I drink when I wake up starving at 1 or 2 a.m. high quality gainer with ingredients such as powdered sweet potatoes as a carb source instead of a ton of maltodextrin. ...this adds another 3000 kcal to my daily count.
So end of week 5 I became ill. First had to visit the bathroom way too often, followed by sick feeling stomach, followed by nasty lethargy. Up til this point the cycle had me feeling great. Happy and tons of energy - loving it. At some point I realized it seemed the milk I used in the gainer was causing this. Switched to lactose free milk and improved, still not great though. Switched to almond milk and even better. Still sick though...cut out the gainer and protein shakes (whey in both) after 24 hours-ish I was back to normal. So I've been playing with this and when I have whey I get nasty stomach problems. Literally overnight I developed an aversion to this. Could this be aas related? It makes no sense to me. Plus, now I'm about 5 pounds down from where I was 3 weeks ago...I'm having a hard time hitting my calories without protein and gainer shakes. Also not quite hitting my protein goals. I'm stuck - been drinking whey for 20 years without issue. I drink ACV 3 times per day along with plenty of fiber. I take great care of my stomach and really pay attention to it. Thanks for reading my book and I'm all ears... I want to finish these next 8 weeks how I planned and get joooocy!