Just wanting to clarify with the statements you've made. I'm curious if when you were eating 330g you lost size and strength, why did this happen? If you had the greatest gains at 420-450g and feel like you lost muscle from lowering that, then how was it stupid and unnecessary?
You don’t understand because you took two of my statements from completely different contexts. One of them was written a long time ago maybe three or two years earlier. The other one is recent. And that’s the difference.
Back then, even two years ago, when my health problems started actually they started earlier, but they hit hard about three years ago I was on huge doses, huge amounts of food. And when I began lowering my protein, my food, my gear, I thought I was losing muscle.
But now, looking back with more experience and perspective, I can clearly see that I didn’t lose muscle at all. I only lost bodyweight
My measurements arms, chest, legs stayed almost the same, even though I now use four times less gear and eat much less food and fewer calories. What I thought was “muscle” wasn’t muscle. It was inflammation and swelling internal water, intracellular fluid, what some people call “sarcoplasmic hypertrophy.
My waist was 15 cm bigger, even though I had thin skin and veins on my stomach. Same like you — your waist is also distended, and if you lost twenty kilos, you would also think you lost muscle at first. But it’s not muscle it’s water, inflammation, and organ enlargement.
So you took two of my old statements from totally different situations in my life. And now what I say comes from much more experience, time and perspective.
It’s hard to see the truth when you’re younger and still inside the process.
