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no offense taken to from anyone here, I am over weight cause I eat too much clean food or not, aging, take T4 and reduction in basic exercises due to injuries, in 2005 I lost both my thyroid and completely tore my patella from my quad. I was being heavily under-dosed by thyroid meds and only given T4, in 4 months I lost 40 lbs. When they finally tested my thyroid hormone levels T4 and T3 were not there, and my tsh was 12.0 (upper limit was 5) which meant since my thyroid had been removed the pituitary gland was pumping out TSH with no thyroid to produce it. When I finally got to a good doc he put me on 450 mcg T4 and 5 mcg T3 2wice a day which lowered my TSH levels to .1 and put me in normal range for T4 and T3 hormones.
I gained 42 solid pound back so I was the exact opposite - gained weight hyperthyroid and lost weight hypothyroid. But my metabolism changed forever some of the top guys I talked to at Duke and John Hopkins told me "you'll never feel the same again or look the same there are other hormones T1 and T2 that we don't have the technology to replace"
Not doing heavy deads and heavy squats hurts too as it burns a crap load of calories.
4 years ago I lost 50 pounds in 4 months by doing nothing but cutting carbs and cals so I need to bite the bullet and get back at it, I never changed the way I trained or did and ounce more cardio and the weight just came off as diet it 90% of it for me.
Also if anything the CM is going to benefit me in other ways as well, so no harm no foul.
You still carry a shit ton of LBM.
A strategy Stan Efferding employed when trying to downsize, and stay shredded year round are those crazy widowmaker type squats/compound exercises that he conditioned himself to do with very little rest intervals in between. A new pathway of growth, with a ton of calories being burned thus staying leaner. If you can employ this with larger exercises that you are able to do, perhaps it will help with you dropping weight.
Just a thought.