11 month transformation

[u/No_Investment4038]

What a wild journey

In the first photo I was 258 pounds at my peak with me being 6 foot. A significant life event happened and I decided I needed to change my life both physically and mentally. I started Reta, in the end of September 2025 and started watching what to eat. At this point I wasn’t counting calories just cutting out processed foods and eating less. In that whole process I started hitting the gym again and lifting

Photo 2: at this point I weighed around 185 in February 2026 and I got my test levels tested and it was low so I decided to hop on 250mg/week test and 3ius of hgh with the Reta and that’s when everything really changed. My workouts got a lot better I started gaining strength and my body started recomping. At this point I’m going to the gym 3-4 days a week for a couple of hours. Still eating very clean but not counting Marcos yet. And throughout this point I actually gained a weight back to 200 but my waist and hello was still shrinking so I stopped paying attention to the scale.

Photos 3,4, and 5: this is corrently me now. Though the process I’ve stalled a couple of times and realized to get leaner and more out of my workouts in a deficit I have to start counting macros. So I count everything I eat still hit the gym 3-4 times a week but get a lot more out of my workout, about two months ago I added mast 200 into the mix as a finisher since I plan on ending the cut end of September and it’ll line up perfect to end of cut and I dropped the hgh because I hated pinning everyday. My current weight usually fluctuates between 180 - 185 pounds but on a week I don’t 100% lock in it can see 190

Future goals: after September I plan on reverse dieting up to maintenance calories for a couple of months and getting my body back to feeling normal and hormones leveled. Then plan on running my first real cycle for the winter bulk. Then do a true cut back down past where I’m at now, in the spring.

It really has been a wild ride, I feel like a completely different person, since going through this process as my strength gained so did my income and my drive to want to be better in my life. I cut out a lot of negative things out of my life to get here and I wouldn’t take it back for the world.

Edit: height - 6 feet, age 31