Okay, yeah, the thing was my old orange scoop was some kinda fractional imperial measure close to but somewhat larger than the creatine-bin scoops that do 5g, so going from 5 to 5’ (I’ve measured with the old scoops for a while, so I’ll mark these ones as distinct) scoops was itself a step down already.

So all my weight loss predictions are kinda denominated in that, so it’ll take a while to reestablish my scale, but I expect the “overweight side of average” phase to start before the end of the month.

Yeah, the whole time losing weight it was like there were masses of fat blistered on to masses of fat and as you slimmed the top one might disappear and leave you with the ones under, which you then might realize have further ones under them…

Now the torso is just one single mass held taut under the skin and two saddlebags… no, half-saddlebags… no, quarter-saddlebags at the lower corners of the stomach. When they fully empty out and we’re down to the one single mass will probably be my trigger for declaring we’re on to the the “overweight side of average” stage.

See, now I like when new shirts are tight cause it looks fine now and it’s only going to look better.

No, if I’m giving the whole schpiel from the top I point out that with these drugs out people should expect “person I recognize is suddenly much thinner” to be a more common thing in the future though.

There’s very little grabbable fat left at the hips.

Okay, uh, accidentally went down a creatine scoop a day early cause I guess I had “it’s gonna be 4” in my head measuring it out and missed the “…after this one”, but that works, I went from only weakly noticing it when it was time for a new one to “yeah I feel it in my limbs but it’s not going to make getting up that hard”

I was going to go down months ago but that day I got another echo that pushed it back up over one scoop, and before I’d fully worked that off another one that did it maybe half a scoop.

Which means that if my back-of-envelope calculations are correct and no more delays, I’ve had 40% of the total weight loss from when I first went down to 5 scoops already, which: believeable!

The significance of finally passing through the level I had been mentally modeling myself as last month was that I no longer registering myself as line, getting thinner in terms of that body I’ve always had

From here on, especially with all the muscle gain lately, I’ve just never had this body in my life, it’s like a second puberty.

Huh, new degrees of thinness usually proceed forearms-upper arms-chest-upper stomach-lower stomach, but I just noticed one first in the chest.

But when I checked my arms I realize they’re no smaller in diameter but much firmer as the fat loss has been matched by testosterone-powered muscle gain.

This is just… dumb. This is, quite literally, adolescent fantasy fulfillment. I haven’t even had this fantasy in decades.

::stepping out of the cooling-down shower, seeing my naked torso in the mirror::

fuck, I’m attractive now.

Huh, my chest seems to have got a notch tighter and harder, I’d more or less stopped paying attention to that as complete already

Yeah to whoever had been asking about my FUPA, I’m tangibly less plush and more firm below the waist now too.

…I mean, like, the groin area, though erections have definitely been thicker and harder since the Covid stuff – I don’t know exactly how that’s mediated by blood pressure, testosterone levels, general personality traits or specifically sexuality (some of it is “a dude having an erection” is hot now, even if it’s me), all of which changed.

My stomach is still fairly bulbous but I am now completely comfortable wearing thin shirts that are so short as to expose slices of the bitty edge of its bottom around others; my mental sense of myself the whole time was actually fatter than this and the old personality had developed the ability to talk his way past it in compensation

The bulk mass of what was once my stomach’s top roll of fat is now completely vacating.

Anyway, all the testosterone-boosted mulch pitching built my back muscles to the point my borderline shirts were too tight again, fortunately as I lose weight I’m more comfortable in the merely tight ones

Yeah, so when I grab the bottom corner of my stomach now not only is there no room for the pinky finger but the ring finger doesn’t really have purchase to get involved in the grab

Losing weight creating interesting shifts in relationship to temperature, my core may be less insulated now but my skin is also closer to heat-producing muscles, which means I’m totally, indefinitely-sustainably comfortable in cooler airflow now.

Yeah I think only now do I have the muscle:fat ratio so many dudes pulling the “bear” gay archetype do, though they just have more of both

Yeah I would prefer being thinner yet but I would be fine with a girl I was currently trying to get with seeing me shirtless now. I would be fine with her touching me shirtless.

Yeah, I think I called the “average side of overweight” well (from the previous transition from “fat side of overweight” to “plain overweight” I’d realized to hold off another week or two to fully settle in), feeling my torso up to then was a process of it getting less bad, but now it’s affirmatively better every day

Yeah, this isn’t the thinnest I’ve ever been, but it’s thin enough to definitely notice this is the most muscular I’ve ever been.

“My t-shirt is too tight” no longer cleanly reads as fat and unflattering, and it’s headed for built and flattering.