4 1/2 weeks into first cycle test e, feel no different

[SampsonandDelilah]

Lifting is the easy part, the kitchen is where the hard work starts. Love your willingness to hit the diet section. TDEE is certainly important.

A quick formula I’ve used with success is body weight X 15 for maintenance calories. Take that number and add 500 for growth (equates to about 18 calories per pound of body weight). Take the total number and divide by 6 (that’s how many calories you need per meal). Then divvy that up into micros.

For me I do well with a 40/40/20 split.

Proteins/carbs/fats.

It’s a generic formula, but actually works quite well.

Good luck

[BG]

If you weigh 200lbs then your only eating enough to be 200lbs, you want to weight 225 then you have to eat like you weigh 225lbs.

[Honkey_Kong]

400mgs is fine, thats 3x more then natural. What brand are you using? Be interesting to see your blood results for sure.

If you weigh 200lbs then your only eating enough to be 200lbs, you want to weight 225 then you have to eat like you weigh 225lbs.

^^^ This


400mg of test is enough to make most rookies have great gains for their first cycle. The higher the dose you take, the more side effects you get. And if you're not eating like you weigh 225lbs, all the gear in the world isn't going to get you there.

If you look at the old bodybuilders from the 70's and 80's, they didn't use anywhere near the dosages I see kids today taking and they had some great physiques with symmetry and proportions.

[BG]

Lifting is the easy part, the kitchen is where the hard work starts. Love your willingness to hit the diet section. TDEE is certainly important.

A quick formula I’ve used with success is body weight X 15 for maintenance calories. Take that number and add 500 for growth (equates to about 18 calories per pound of body weight). Take the total number and divide by 6 (that’s how many calories you need per meal). Then divvy that up into micros.

For me I do well with a 40/40/20 split.

Proteins/carbs/fats.

It’s a generic formula, but actually works quite well.

Good luck

I do believe many people over think diets and thats why they can not stay on them for long.