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(Dan Moore @ Aug. 27 2006,13:40)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE"><div>
(vagrant @ Aug. 27 2006,12:45)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">Recently I've been doing as suggested in "massive eating", combined that with my new HST workouts and have gained 20lbs in the last month. 20 pounds of FFM. My BF went down. Of course I do know that it's mostly water - but muscle cells full of water are stronger and bigger than dried out muscle cells starving for nutrients that they aren't getting.</div>
20 Lbs in a month, all Fat Free mass?
Not disputing your results I just find that a little atypical.</div>
Mostly water I'm sure, following injury, pneumonia, dehydration, chronic undereating, severe carb depletion (for a month where I lost 15lbs I could eat almost nothing and lived only on protein shakes), very low testosterone level, pituitary dysfunction, thyroid labs were screwy, and still training at my maximum ability every day...
Yeah, 173 to 196 then peed off enough to be down to 193.6 last doctor visit. Lots of corrective medications involved, but I believe the biggest factor was actually eating enough - and the calculations I got from berardi's calculator matched almost exactly what my doc put me on. The test hadn't even had time to start working yet when I was 196. It seems to be working now...but sadly, I've lost weight since then - almost 3lbs.
However, like I said - water in the muscle cell is still weight, it still looks better than dessication (what do you think we take creatine for?)
Oh yeah, I find them a lot atypical - after 3 years of training very hard, I've gained very little muscle. I did lose a ton of fat (started as 300pounds of lard).
The measurements are probably accurate because they were taken in my physician's office by my physician...the one that is guiding me in all this and prescribing my meds, endless lab tests, and all that goes along with the kinds of therapy I'm on.