u/CleverFeather

This YLA storefront has some of the compression colors available to buy on the Shop app. This yellow compress for instance, isn’t available on the main site. Is this a scam? Because I’d really like to have this but it seems… too stupid to be true lol.

What’s up yall,

Before and Afters above. First two are from approximately a year ago. The afters are from about three weeks ago but representative of today.

As you can see progress has definitely been made, but I’ve got that lower belly pooch hanging around as well as some upper body fat that’s being stubborn.

Anyone care to gauge what my current BF% is? My inbody scale estimates 21-22%. I had to have started out at 38%+.

Any tips on cutting from here? Currently 194lbs at 6’ and 38M. Daily macro is 1600 cal with 160g protein, 180g carbs 55g fat. Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks all.

Hey all,

Been on this sub for awhile as a lurker. 38M 6’0” looking for some help with transitioning either off tirz, going to low dose maintenance, or to another gray market like Reta.

Since the new year I’ve been on Zepbound, I started at 2.5 for four weeks, 5mg for four weeks, 7.5 for four weeks, and now I am going on week 8 of 10mg. In that time frame I have lost 82 pounds, going from 276lbs to 194lbs.

I have been religiously tracking my training, weight loss, calories and my macros during this time using my at home scale and Cal AI. According to all my data I have gone from 37-39% body fat to 21% and roughly 8-10 pounds of my weight loss was muscle.

I calculated my BMR to be somewhere in the 2300-2400 kcal/day range, so my cut began at 1800kcal. I stuck to that from January through to mid April. Around the third week of April is when I reduced from 1800kcal to 1600kcal while also increasing my protein goal from 140 to 160 grams daily. I was weighing in around 217lbs then and honestly was looking to recalculate my BMR but could only guess at what that number was given I was so deep into the cut. The adjustment and more consistency worked. I also began running longer times and distances for my cardio days and warm ups before training.

So here I am seven months in and while I do have a new goal weight of 183 pounds, I am also considering changing the paradigm of the goal entirely. For years I’ve been fat, and the idea of gaining weight healthily is as foreign as the French language to me. But I’ve gotten to the point where I need to focus on how I transition off Zepbound, protect my weight/fat loss but focus on gaining muscle. The last bastion of fat is in my midsection right above my waist line, and a bit on my sides right underneath my arm pits. If I can cut those down on my way to 183 (which by my calculations would be where I’d hit 16-15% body fat at current body composition) then start stacking some lean muscle gains… I mean that’s the goal right there boys and girls.

Has anyone done this before, successfully? Managed to get off the glp-1, protect their fat loss, and start gaining muscle? I am essentially asking if anyone has caught the golden goose before in body recomp’ing, I know. But I am hoping for some guidance here in this area, even if n = 1 and it’s only your anecdotal experience.

Title says it all. This would have been physically impossible for me six months ago. One milestone down, many more to come (hopefully) 🥹🫠

I don’t even know where to begin.

I started this journey January 7th. Of this year. I weighed 276 pounds.

A couple years ago, I had “tried” dieting and exercise. I say it that way because I had absolutely no understanding of dieting, and I was just throwing myself into the gym and hoping the weight would come off, accelerated by my recent sobriety. (Two years sober as of May 19th)

Well, it didn’t and I quickly became disillusioned with everything. Within six months every pound I had lost was regained. When I got sober, I was 280. I got down to 250, and then rebounded to the aforementioned 276.

Being 38, I have been more conscious of my own mortality lately so I had been going to the doctor. Among my comorbidities was my psoriasis, high blood pressure, and prediabetes. So after my last check up I asked about Ozempic, which he shook his head at saying he couldn’t prescribe it without actually being diabetic and it not costing a fortune.

Then he mentioned Zepbound. I kind of sat on my hands with it for a couple months. Then, after the new year, I decided that it was this or being fat forever, and I didn’t want that.

So I got started. On 2.5mg I certainly noticed a dulling of my appetite. And overtly greasy things were a chore to eat. Fast food wasn’t an option. So I ate cleaner. I was committed to not looking at a scale for at least a month. Just wanted to see what would happen.

About two weeks into that, I noticed I my belly didn’t really protrude the way it normally did. I stepped on the scale and I had lost 11 pounds. From there I realized I had a powerful tool at my disposal. And if I wanted to maximize its utility, I needed to streamline everything else.

I downloaded a calorie counting app, Cal AI. Holy shit has that app been so helpful in this journey. I have logged every single meal, every single day, since then. I think I’m on a 140+ day streak? It’s seriously such a great tool.

I started going back to the gym. I got on Claude and asked it to create me a four-day split, and I stuck to it. Some weeks I went five days. A few weeks I only went three. But the point is I fucking went even if I didn’t feel like it. Hot tip; if you get in there, you’ll feel better when you leave.

So that was my new lifestyle. I started with a cut of 1800 calories daily, regardless of if I went to the gym or not. My macros were 150g of protein, 170g carbs, 54g fat, 25g fiber. I tried to hit the fiber every day because buddy the constipation was very real. A couple weeks there I did the magnesium citrate route. With a BMR around 2300 I figured that was a good deficit.

And the weight just fell off. I’m titrated up to 10mg now. Since I began I have retained 90% of my lean body muscle mass. I have gone from almost 40% body fat, to 22%. My gains in the gym are more retainers than anything, I quickly learned there was no bulking in the deficit I was in. So holding onto the weights I was lifting was my goal. I consider myself a chunk of marble to be whittled away.

But perhaps the most important thing is the change mentally I have undergone in the past six months. The rewriting of my mind’s code, my relationship with food and how I view it has changed entirely. My new habits have not only begun to influence my decisions but those decisions now influence the lifestyle I aspire toward. That’s the difference this journey has taught me. We are not our words but our actions, our actions influence choices, and those choices become our identity. You want to be Ronnie Coleman? You better start acting like it. Because the only way to get from here to there is start choosing the things and ways someone like that does.

This is getting philosophical but at the heart of it all is a desire for improvement and today I fully realized one goal I’ve had in my mind for years and years. As I’ve learned more about nutrition and my functional gym literacy has increased, my goals now are different. 15% body fat, which at my height and weight and lean mass means 183 pounds.

If you’ve made it this far, I commend you. But that also means you’re probably trying to figure out if something like Zepbound is for you. I approve of anyone using it with the caveat that you see it as a tool, as something to assist you. It won’t lift the weights for you, it won’t make you happy inside when you’re trying to sleep.

But it will give you a chance to give those things to yourself. Thanks for reading! God bless.