week 4 winny update

[jessi78]

welp, its week 4 and im up to 10mg. no sides at all, cept for like a week i had the worst acne imaginable on my face. better now, thank god. i had my bf taken yesterday, and it went up to 19%, very very strange. but my lean mass has increased by 14lbs, damn thats a buttload of muscle for a month bench has gone up by like 20lbs, leg press up around 40lbs .. just to name a few. im not really noticing a "leaner" look tho, which is disappointing. im dieting very strictly, weights 5 days a week, 1hr cardio 6 days. i do feel very hard tho. when she was taking the measurement, the water caliper was going all wacky, flucuating 1-2 points per measure before settling ... so i think im just really f'n bloated. anyway, this week im gonna start increasing my protein on low carb days and decreasing my carbs and hi carb days. also throwing in 20 mins of morning cardio and 20 mins later at night, after dinner. ill check in in another month

jessi

 

[jessi78]

if its not likely, then something has to be off then. i guess im just gonna have to try and get it taken a different way. i dunno, just seemed strange that id go up 2%, but yet put on 14lbs lbm. hmmmmm ...

jessi

 

[wilson6]

The increase is 95% water weight, some under the skin and most elsewhere, so the 14 lbs is NOT muscle and you probably haven't changed bodyfat much either, again the sub-Q water is affecting the skinfolds. Probably more like 1-2 lbs of true contractile protein, if that. The increases in strength can be a function of fluid and changes at the neuromuscular junction and central level due to the winny, not pure muscle gain. Not in 4 weeks and even a bod pod or UW, unless you measure total body water isn't going to tell you much. It will still look like a mix of both muscle and fat, when in reality it is mostly water.

And, I agree with SPATTS, winny does cause significant bloat in some, but not all. To say that it never does is misleading.

W6

 

[jessi78]

alright, so briefly .. im very bloated and my measurements arent making much sense.

i have also missed my period for the first time in about 6 years.

jessi

 

[jessi78]

lol, your tellin me

 

[jessi78]

alright, im very very confused now. my weight went from 158 to 153 in 2 weeks. then i had my bf taken, went up 2% and the scale read 166lbs. this week i get on the scale again, and its at 148. wtf???????????? im totally not understanding this extreme flucuation of weight gain/loss.

jessi

 

[wilson6]

How are you taking the BF measures? and are you using the same scale for each weigh in?

W6

 

[jessi78]

the bodyfat is taken with a water caliper. and the weight is taken with the same scale at the same spot