OK - I am back and ready to get this log started.
I mentioned I’d keep a log from the female perspective with a GW + Ostarine stack. Everything arrived in good time and I’ve needed to wait to this week to be organized enough to get started. The past 4-6 weeks I was hit with a horrible Hypothyroid and then endo flare that left me flat, exhausted and sick, for the most part. If you find my other post you will get a little more background, but current stats:
Female 5’4” 153-155 starting weight and guessing the 30% + BF area. Fat! This is a personal low for me from all areas of health, wellness and physical endurance/stamina. Not to mention the reflection in the mirror.
How I Got To Fat: 20% lazy, 20% initial foot injury followed by 60% illness/surgery/recovery the past 2 years.
History of training hard for 15 years prior to getting ill.
As said, this is my first time trying SARMS and GW
These are my goals for the first 12 weeks on the GW/Ostarine stack:
1) Fat loss (obviously)
2) Retain muscle (Not Bulk at this time.)
3) Gain back strength/endurance
4) Overall health/wellbeing
5) Beginning of Re-comp
I will measure results by:
Scale weight
measurements weekly or biweekly
photos every 1-2 weeks
Keeping a food/training log
Logging how I feel/physical symptoms, inflammation up/down, etc.
I would love to get down 15lbs of scale weight and several inches - I am going to try not be too female, however, and judge success only on scale weight. I assume I will have newbie gains from lifting again after such a long time off. This is fine with me, but cutting fat is first priority for now vs building a lot of muscle.
Why a GW/Ostarine stack so soon?
While some may argue or suggest get your diet and training back on point for a 3-6 month time and THEN add a stack, my reasoning has to do with more than the gains in the gym.
- Fighting Hashimoto (Hypothyroid symptoms dominant)
- Stage 3 Endometriosis (not a death sentence but a buzz kill on quality of life due to a host of symptoms)
I fight fatigue and have a shitty immune system on a clean, low inflammatory diet, blahblahblah…so I wanted to experiment on myself after researching/reading/watching mostly the info posted by Dylan (again, Thank you!) and a few other outside resources.
With very little help from GPs and Specialist Docs outside of offering strong pain meds and BC pills that just make things worse and I refuse to take - I needed to find something outside western medicine’s typical bandaid box. (No, I’m not a doctor, this is my own trial and error from my personal experience.)
My hopes are to have more energy to get my workouts in consistently.
Last 10 days - I have RE-STARTED 5 mcg of cytomel (T3) for my THYROID, not for fat loss. (It did nothing for me in the area of fat loss a few months back when I tried it and then tapered off it because I wasn't liking it)
I had a big difference in energy/brain fog lifting, etc. within 48 hrs of restarting the dose. However, no major changes in stamina to put in a good workout. Perhaps prior the dose was too high. Right now 5 mcg seems fine.
No other medications.
I will write my diet/training plan in next post. I’m re-jigging it. In the past I have been successful with close to a 33% split in macros, with lower GI carbs and getting them mostly from veggies and some fruit. (limit grain/bread) I have tried Keto with not great results for fat loss, but a lot of strength improvement. I also retained a lot of water on it? I’d lose appetite on this diet quickly from all the fat and have trouble getting enough cals in, then just crave the sugar/carbs missing and it would backfire on re-feed day. I don’t plan to do this type of diet. I am thinking 1g protein/goal weight (130g) and figure out a split leftover for fat/carbs.
I do struggle with finding the right calorie range for fat loss. I’m thinking 1300-1500…the scale jumps around so much for me it’s been very hard to know what true maintenance is and I know it has changed in the past few years with the thyroid issues. It will also depend on my training.
Most likely first 2 weeks of training will be a 4 day split of compound training in the 8-12 rep range/3-4 sets followed by cardio. Then a second LISS cardio session 3-4 times a week because I am sedentary throughout the day outside of workouts. After the 2 weeks, I will want to incorporate higher volume, metabolic training with some heavier lifting days to keep my bod guessing. This is in hopes my stamina is better.
Any input is welcome.
I mentioned I’d keep a log from the female perspective with a GW + Ostarine stack. Everything arrived in good time and I’ve needed to wait to this week to be organized enough to get started. The past 4-6 weeks I was hit with a horrible Hypothyroid and then endo flare that left me flat, exhausted and sick, for the most part. If you find my other post you will get a little more background, but current stats:
Female 5’4” 153-155 starting weight and guessing the 30% + BF area. Fat! This is a personal low for me from all areas of health, wellness and physical endurance/stamina. Not to mention the reflection in the mirror.
How I Got To Fat: 20% lazy, 20% initial foot injury followed by 60% illness/surgery/recovery the past 2 years.
History of training hard for 15 years prior to getting ill.
As said, this is my first time trying SARMS and GW
These are my goals for the first 12 weeks on the GW/Ostarine stack:
1) Fat loss (obviously)
2) Retain muscle (Not Bulk at this time.)
3) Gain back strength/endurance
4) Overall health/wellbeing
5) Beginning of Re-comp
I will measure results by:
Scale weight
measurements weekly or biweekly
photos every 1-2 weeks
Keeping a food/training log
Logging how I feel/physical symptoms, inflammation up/down, etc.
I would love to get down 15lbs of scale weight and several inches - I am going to try not be too female, however, and judge success only on scale weight. I assume I will have newbie gains from lifting again after such a long time off. This is fine with me, but cutting fat is first priority for now vs building a lot of muscle.
Why a GW/Ostarine stack so soon?
While some may argue or suggest get your diet and training back on point for a 3-6 month time and THEN add a stack, my reasoning has to do with more than the gains in the gym.
- Fighting Hashimoto (Hypothyroid symptoms dominant)
- Stage 3 Endometriosis (not a death sentence but a buzz kill on quality of life due to a host of symptoms)
I fight fatigue and have a shitty immune system on a clean, low inflammatory diet, blahblahblah…so I wanted to experiment on myself after researching/reading/watching mostly the info posted by Dylan (again, Thank you!) and a few other outside resources.
With very little help from GPs and Specialist Docs outside of offering strong pain meds and BC pills that just make things worse and I refuse to take - I needed to find something outside western medicine’s typical bandaid box. (No, I’m not a doctor, this is my own trial and error from my personal experience.)
My hopes are to have more energy to get my workouts in consistently.
Last 10 days - I have RE-STARTED 5 mcg of cytomel (T3) for my THYROID, not for fat loss. (It did nothing for me in the area of fat loss a few months back when I tried it and then tapered off it because I wasn't liking it)
I had a big difference in energy/brain fog lifting, etc. within 48 hrs of restarting the dose. However, no major changes in stamina to put in a good workout. Perhaps prior the dose was too high. Right now 5 mcg seems fine.
No other medications.
I will write my diet/training plan in next post. I’m re-jigging it. In the past I have been successful with close to a 33% split in macros, with lower GI carbs and getting them mostly from veggies and some fruit. (limit grain/bread) I have tried Keto with not great results for fat loss, but a lot of strength improvement. I also retained a lot of water on it? I’d lose appetite on this diet quickly from all the fat and have trouble getting enough cals in, then just crave the sugar/carbs missing and it would backfire on re-feed day. I don’t plan to do this type of diet. I am thinking 1g protein/goal weight (130g) and figure out a split leftover for fat/carbs.
I do struggle with finding the right calorie range for fat loss. I’m thinking 1300-1500…the scale jumps around so much for me it’s been very hard to know what true maintenance is and I know it has changed in the past few years with the thyroid issues. It will also depend on my training.
Most likely first 2 weeks of training will be a 4 day split of compound training in the 8-12 rep range/3-4 sets followed by cardio. Then a second LISS cardio session 3-4 times a week because I am sedentary throughout the day outside of workouts. After the 2 weeks, I will want to incorporate higher volume, metabolic training with some heavier lifting days to keep my bod guessing. This is in hopes my stamina is better.
Any input is welcome.
