AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

I’ll keep that in mind. It’s still a surprise every time I eat beef and don’t get a rash; the zinc kicked that one out of the park.

Today is Day 528 of my penis rehab/enlargement program. I’ve logged everything in tedious detail. Less than 10 days were lost due to illness, and even the few times I had vacuum blisters, I got something done. I haven’t taken any deliberate rest breaks, and I’ve been running a pretty heavy schedule. I’ve almost completely reduced the scarring, gained some length, and have much better EQ.

Today is Day 35 of the keto diet. I’ve only exceeded 20g carbs twice, and lots of days I run 0 carbs. I haven’t lost any weight yet, but I feel much better; in my case, at least, it really does help with autoimmune symptoms. I’ve also been noticeably less tired and getting more done. I’m claiming keto as a win just for those.

Today is… I haven’t been counting the days I’ve been doing the flexibility exercises. I started about six months ago, faithfully doing them every day. The last month or so, it’s been more like every other day. I’ve regained flexibility I lost decades ago, and the crunchy joints aren’t crunchy any more, well except for my left ankle (broken twice) and sometimes my neck. I don’t think the ankle is ever going to be 100% again.

Still haven’t started the posture correction routines. Bad attack of mañana.

Still haven’t started the weight lifting. Rolls eyes upward, “Oy vey!”

After raising several blisters a few days back, PE has been limited to some edging. Yesterday I got a surprise: afternoon wood. Followed by evening wood. And then three times last night, hard enough to wake me up. And this morning. Reminds me of when I was 13 or 14 years old. I managed 20 or 30 minutes of edging each time. Pretty spiffy considering I could hardly get it up at all a year ago.

What’s crazy is I’m not doing any active PE at the moment, and I’m on the trailing end of my TRT dose; the next injection is tomorrow. It’s just my dick doing it’s own thing, I guess. I suspect it won’t last, but I’m enjoying it while I can.

Yeah but I guess you were starting from a base of low zinc. Beef contains a bunch of zinc, so the beef you digested yesterday is the zinc you need to digest today’s beef.

Since I sometimes get queasy even with the half-size 25mg dose, I’ll give that a try.

I was browsing one of the threads and someone was talking about pulling lymph through the skin of his glans when he removed his vacuum hanger. That reminded me of when I removed the ADS the day I got the blisters. There was maybe a thimbleful of clear liquid in the bell. It was nearly 80F that day, and I’d worked up a sweat doing yard work, so I wrote it off as sweat. Maybe it wasn’t. I mentioned that the elastic neck cord put an uncomfortable amount of tension on the bell, and that I’d lengthened it with a couple of carabiners… but it was still uncomfortable. Maybe it was still putting out a lot more tension than I realized.

Next time I’m going to use the scale to find out how much tension it’s putting on, but I’m wondering if this is another job for a Gear Keeper, which would maintain a constant tension whether I’m standing or sitting. I’m not sure if the matchbox-sized Gear Keeper would print under my shirt, but it’s easy enough to try and see.

I’d also sometimes seen small amounts of clear liquid in the Size Doctor. I’m running lighter springs than it came with, but maybe even those are a little too much. My glans was feeling a bit beat up even before I tried the ADS; I’d been putting in a lot of time with the Size Doctor for the previous couple of weeks.

PE Day 533: resumed low-pressure pumping with breast pump last night. No signs of distress on the glans. And while a slight amount of “granulation” appeared on the scar band, it didn’t shrink like the other times I had to stop pumping for a few days. That’s a big deal; last time, the scar had tightened until it left a visible dent around my shaft after only three days.

Keto Day 41: 325#. Was 337# on 11/29/21. Twelve pounds isn’t much, but the last time I was below 330# was probably twenty years ago, and that was only briefly. There were several severe calorie-counting diets during that time, that were a complete waste of effort.

I avoided most of the “keto flu” and only had a couple cases of the squirts, so I came out ahead on that. I’ve felt better overall, and the usual seasonal joint pain and allergy issues have been almost nonexistent. Nobody complained about bad breath, but I don’t get close to people much, even before “social distancing.”

One unusual thing, for which I’m pointing the finger at keto, is that my face and neck have become very oily. Scrubbing with mechanic’s soap will remove it… for a few hours. Then it’s back. It’s not a problem, just odd.

12 is 12. That’s an accomplishment. Plus, it’s a pretty big deal to be lighter than one was 20 years ago. You’re in a fight for your life and doing great. Keep it up.

I’m on it… I admit to being disappointed I didn’t get the kind of weight loss some keto advocates claimed, but on the other hand my weight seldom fluctuates *down*. If it continues down, even slowly, that’s better than any of the calorie-counter diets accomplished. And now that I’m feeling better I’m more active than I was before, which probably helps.

This afternoon I hooked up the ADS with a 3/4-pound-tension Gear Keeper. At about an hour and a half I started getting a burn at the right side of the sulcus, like I did before. So I took it off, massaged it a bit, and I’ll try again tomorrow. There doesn’t seem to be any damage or residual soreness.

I had expected that all the hours in the Size Doctor would be equivalent to the ADS, but it seems that’s not the case. That, and wearing the ADS longer than the Size Doctor, plus the excessive tension, were all part of the problem, I think. I’m going to work up the wearing time on the ADS 20 or 30 minutes at a time like I should probably have done instead of just going for it.

I have a 9-ounce and a 12-ounce (3/4 pound) Gear Keeper; I’ll order a stouter one once I can go six or seven hours with the 12-ounce reel. They go up to at least 36 ounces. The advantage of the Gear Keeper is that it maintains a nearly constant tension, so no big variations between sitting and standing. I get the impression it’s not a big issue with the bent-around-the-waist ADS rigs, but it is with the neck strap.

Most of this you’ll probably know from your research but I’ll state it anyway on the grounds that you might be missing a section.

You could try decreasing your fat. If you think of a diet as protein for amino acids and an energy source in the form of fat or carbohydrates, then you already have that part covered in your body.

Protein is pretty satiating and you can increase it quite a lot without a problem. To some extent you have to think about calories in and out but very high protein is strange you can find it gets burned up in the body with a kind of thermic effect, i.e. you run hotter and the extra protein doesn’t cause weight gain. I’ve noticed this before on high protein. I’m not aware of any downside to this but I haven’t researched it fully. I would expect that you are generating energy (gluconeogenis) but at a rate your body needs it. You could try replacing a meal with a protein shake but generally whole foods are better as they digest more slowly. A useful search term is “protein sparing modified fast”. It’s important when dieting to make sure that your protein levels are adequate because you don’t want to lose muscle mass, the more muscle mass you have the faster you burn energy. Unfortunately the body will burn muscle in preference to fat in certain circumstances but I don’t think you are there atm (it’s normally a consideration when you are low body fat already). Leaner cuts of beef or lower fat ground beef (more expensive and less tasty) and chicken breast. There’s a book that covers this in pretty good detail P:E diet but the ideas are simple.

When people talk about dramatic weight loss on keto, they are generally referring to water weight. The hydrate bit in carbohydrate explains that. That’s the kind of weight that you’d gain pretty quickly if you went back on a carb heavy diet.

A really good metric is waist size. Better even than weight, which will vary more day by day. If add it to the health stats on this site along with weight, there’s a calculation for body fat percentage.

When people are talking about “can’t see the forest for the trees”, I’m the one saying “Trees? What trees?”

I’ve been eating mostly lean beef or pork, but I’ll follow up on that. I have never liked the texture or flavor of fat, and always cut or pulled it off, even as a small child.

[looks for hidden camera] Last night I was looking through old posts in the thread and saw your mention of that, and did some surfing. I hit a half-dozen sites, all of which had essentially the same text, with dire warnings, that all described what sounded like a variant of Atkins, repackaged as a new fad diet. There was nothing I saw that encouraged me to spend more time on it. Granted, I could have hit a half-dozen crap web pages.

I’m not ignoring your advice, but I don’t want to jump tracks onto something else before giving keto a fair run.

Fat is what adds the taste!

If you are eating lean cuts already, what are you getting your fat from for your 70% fat macro?

I don’t think of a protein sparing modified fast as a ‘lifestyle diet’ like keto. It’s a tool that you use for a short period.

Eating too much protein while in ketosis can result in the body breaking the protein down into glucose (gluconeogenesis)…

What really kicked my weight loss up when I started keto was also incorporating intermittent fasting.

When your body is already in the mode of using fat as an energy source, periods of fasting basically force you to use your own body fat as energy… you have nothing else.

Then, add in some exercise while in a fasted state to deplete your glycogen reserves and naturally increase your HGH and testosterone levels, and boom, you’re cruising.

I lost more than 80lb in a year with those 3 tools:

-Ketogenic diet
-Intermittent fasting
-Fasted exercise

The exercise doesn’t have to be anything hardcore. In my case, it’s a 1 hour walk at lunch every week day with some body weight exercises scattered throughout (push ups, squats, pull ups on a tree branch, etc.)

Almost 3 years later, I’ve been slipping on the diet, adding some carbs back in, and to be honest, cheating pretty bad every weekend starting with dinner Friday night.

But because I’ve kept the intermittent fasting (almost OMAD…20-4) and my daily walk+exercises, I’ve kept most of the weight off.

Having said that, the holidays have not been kind and I need to get back to eating clean and low carb so I can get back to where I was before…

Interesting.

I read the keto articles at the usual medical sites, various papers at nih.gov, I read Taubes’ book, and I’ve probably perused a couple hundred keto cookery sites. In none of them has the word “macro” ever appeared. Yet punching “keto macros” into a search engine resulted in approximately eleventy zillion hits.

I’m still poking around the results. I thought the whole point of keto was to be burning the fat I already have.

> What really kicked my weight loss up when I started keto was also incorporating intermittent fasting.

A lot of people have had good results with fasting. I don’t have any trouble with not eating - hunger pangs mostly went away after the first couple of weeks, and I don’t always eat breakfast or lunch, and they’re very light if I do. But my blood sugar will crash if I’m not careful. For example, this morning, 14 hours after an early dinner, it was 83.

I agree fasting can be useful, and it’s something I may try in the future, (I pay for my own glucose test strips since I’m not diabetic, but they’re not that expensive) but I’ve made a number of lifestyle changes recently, and right now it would just muddle the results I’m tracking for those.