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AndyJ's Body Enhancement Thread

body measurements:

02/07
weight:
248#
shoulders: 54
chest: 48.5
waist: 48
abd: 50
butt:
thighs: 27
calves: 16.75
neck: 16.75
biceps: 15
forearms: 11.5
wrists: 7.5

03/29
247# -1#
shoulders: 50 -4” (mostly back/upper chest fat)
chest: 46.5 -2”
waist: 47 -1”
abd: 49.5 -1/2” (fat roll above pubes)
butt: 47.5
thighs: 26.5 -1/2”
calves: 16 -3/4”
neck: 17 -1/4”
biceps: 14 -1”
forearms: 11.5 no change
wrists: 7.25 -1/4”

Lost one pound, lost a bunch of flab. I have visible veins and muscles in my arms now.

In mid-January I was getting ice cream for my wife and looked at the carb count; 15g per cup. Hey, I could have a cup or two without leaving ketosis, cool. And enjoyed the hell out of that for a couple of months. But I also noticed I’d stopped losing weight. I put that down to a less-aggressive exercise program; resistance bands and spring bar in the house, instead of the weights outside where it was cold. Then I happened to notice the label on the ice cream carton - 40g per cup. We’d switched to a different brand shortly after I looked at the first carton, and I didn’t think to check the new brand. Oops. It has only been a bit over a week since I gave up the ice cream, but weight loss is proceeding again.

The exercise program has been working like gangbusters, though. Like I noted earlier, my shape is visibly changing even if my weight has been the same.

I log everything I eat, so I need to go back through my logs, find when I started eating the ice cream, and correct the giant spreadsheet. {sigh} I track days in ketosis there.

Two weeks ago I finally managed to get the Tetherspout in.

As a recap, the Tetherspout consists of two pieces; a 6mm hollow tube with an 8mm flange on one end, and a “retainer” - basically a washer - that the spout fits through. The retainers come in various sizes on the French scale used by urologists. 3 Fr = 1mm; so 27Fr is 9mm.

The male urethra starts at the bladder, loops down, then out through the penile shaft until it gets to the glans. Between the glans and the shaft there’s basically a wall between different types of tissue doing different things. The urethra stops at the wall, turning into the “fossa navicularis”, generally shown as an olive-sized open space inside the glans. That’s what makes the glans spongy; it’s partially hollow. The far end of the fossa has the meatus, or pee slit.

Just behind the meatus there’s a tough fibrous ring. I don’t know the proper medical name for it; urology seems to ignore it. While the urethra is stretchy, the ring limits the size of things that can pass through the meatus; for example, large kidney stones can pass through the urethra and get stopped by the ring. The ring can be stretched, but only slowly. It took me several months to open mine up from 5mm to 10mm, the average being 9.5mm. That was one of the “strictures” I talked about in my rehab thread.

I have a set of hollow penis plugs from 6mm to 10mm in French steps; ie 8, 8.33, 8.66, etc. They fit handily in a .308 cartridge box. Nowadays I can start with the 7 or 7.33 plug and it takes five or six days to work up to the 10mm.

This last time I got up to the 10mm, then switched to a 10mm with a hinged glans ring, which kept it from falling out. I wore that for another week, putting a good stretch on the ring before letting it slide out.

Putting the Tetherspout in involves threading dental floss through two holes at the mouth of the spout, then pushing the spout down into the urethra a bit to get it out of the way. Then you pass the floss through the hole in the retainer, turn it sideways, and slide it in. Retainers come in various sizes; I used the 27Fr one, which is 9mm. The diameter is actually a lot larger than that, but when you turn it sideways it will pass through a much smaller slit, the same way a button works on your shirt.

You’re supposed to pull on the floss and manipulate the glans to line the spout up and pass it through the retainer. This had always been where I got stuck before; the damned spout wouldn’t line up, and I’d eventually get sore and give up. This time I had a good stretch from the days with the 10mm plug so I had more room to work. I still had trouble turning the retainer into the proper orientation; it felt very large and very tight. But once I got it into position the spout came right through.

Ta-daaa!

As I said earlier, most medical illustrations show the fossa navicularis as being a large open area shaped like an olive. But I found an illustration from an 1870s medical text that showed a fossa barely larger than the urethra, and heavily pleated longitudinally. Apparently my fossa is like that, so it took some extra effort to get the retainer turned.

I’m using a mid-length threaded retainer. I screwed a stainless steel nut on the outside end to keep it from slipping out of the retainer and down my urethra, like happened when I did the “fully internal pee plug” experiment with a 7mm plug. When I was laying on my back one night it decided to slip down all the way to my prostate. Urine pushed it back into the glans when I took the next leak, and presumably the same thing would happen with the spout, but I didn’t want the retainer to get twisted out of position if it lost the spout.

Anyway, there was a modest amount of discomfort at first. The retainer felt very large and sharp-edged, even though it’s nicely rounded. Occasionally I’d get shooting pains. There are apparently a lot of nerves in the fossa navicularis, and they didn’t care for the retainer, even though they weren’t bothered by the plugs. It took a few days before that went away. After that, sometimes my underwear would bend the external part of the spout to the side, which would move the retainer, which would require an ‘adjustment’ of the wedding tackle, but that has mostly gone away.

After a week I slowly resumed pumping and edging. No problem at all. Jelquing has been fine too, other than the burst blood vessel (not near the retainer) I got from being a little too enthusiastic. I haven’t tried clamping yet.

The best part is that I don’t have to carry the bag with the pee tube and wipes any more. Unzip, flip it out, pee, shake, tuck it back in, just like before I got that infection that damaged my meatus and made me piss like a lawn sprinkler.

The manufacturer says the bits should be removed periodically and cleaned, but he doesn’t have a specific recommendation as to when. Presumably scrunge of some sort builds up on the steel. Apparently a lot of his sales are to the male chastity crowd, who use the spouts to lock their cock cages on; just as secure as a Prince Albert piercing, but no pissy mess. Those guys wear them for months at a time, without any problems as far as the search engines have turned up.

At two weeks, I not only don’t notice it, I have to reach down and touch it to make sure it’s still there. It’s about time to remove the nut and try the plastic cap again. It was a little too sensitive to install the cap at first, but now that I’m used to the spout it shouldn’t be a problem. The cap prevents drippage going out and (hopefully) any UTI-causing bacteria from getting in.

You still on the celery seed extract?

Also how’s the cut going?


Big cock, tight abs, fit body, strong mind.

240 is great from where you started. I’ll bet your inflammation levels are a lot lower on your diet as well. One thing I notice about going carnivore was I went from constant pain to zero pain. It’s incredible what an anti-inflammatory diet can do for pain.


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Originally Posted by AndyJ
I cycled off for a couple of weeks, then got back on it. Still working OK.

Down to 240 pounds now. Hopefully the loss rate will go back up now that it’s warmer and I’m not as sedentary.

Sounds good. I started my cut last week.


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Originally Posted by memento
It’s incredible what an anti-inflammatory diet can do for pain.

It’s worth it *just* for the inflammation control, even if the weight loss part worked like any of the other diets I’ve tried. (not at all)

I spent more than half my life taking anti-inflammatories of various types, just to be mobile enough to get around. Some of those anti-inflammatories have bad side effects, like heart problems.

Clicking on that “thunders.place” link was one of the best things I ever did.

You’ve gone down 100+lbs (can’t all be water)?!?

I didn’t realize that you found the diet key here. That’s cool. I guess this place is useful for more things than pulling your dick.


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Originally Posted by memento
You’ve gone down 100+lbs (can’t all be water)?!?

Yep!

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I didn’t realize that you found the diet key here. That’s cool. I guess this place is useful for more things than pulling your dick.

You had made some references to keto in a thread somewhere, and I dropped a link to it in this one so I wouldn’t lose it. [Thunder’s is a bit large.] You followed up with some replies. So it’s all your fault.

Also the zinc thing for the beef allergy and some other stuff.

I don’t believe 100lbs of water.

Ah, OK. I didn’t realize that was the very start of it. A lot of people research things for ages and do nothing, then something clicks. The zinc thing I remember. Sometimes it’s trivial puzzle pieces that cause a failure.

I’m happy to take the blame for that.


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I had another doctor’s appointment today. It had been six months. Primarily, I needed a referral for an audiologist since the tinnitus has gotten so loud it has made meatspace communications iffy. I also wanted an oxalate test to keep an eye on potential kidney stones, and to see if my current D3 supplementation is sufficient. I haven’t started using the UV lamps yet.

I had a bunch of other lab work I wanted done, with a sheet listing why for each test. He said he could probably only get my medical insurance to pay for a handful of them since now they want certain specific symptoms before they’ll pay up, and I presented as far too healthy for most of them. He was impressed as how much better I am after a year and a half on keto and half a year on the exercise program.

As usual, I had printed out a spreadsheet with all my lab test results going back to 2016, and another spreadsheet with general medical information. I had them unrolled and taped to the wall before he came in. He liked the daily printouts of raw data - I usually bring a week or two of it for him to look at - but he gets overwhelmed with a movie-poster-size sheet of numbers. It took 33 sheets of 8-1/2x11 printout taped together to print this last one, so, yeah, I can see that. I ran my finger down some of the columns showing him the trends; he said to leave everything taped to the wall so he could study them when he had more time.

I think he’d be happier with some nice graphs, but even with web help, I find Libre Calc’s graphing functions to be obtuse, and even simple examples from the support/documentation site usually don’t work like they’re supposed to. Which, since it’s a slavish copy of Microsoft Excel, is probably intentional. As far as I’m concerned Excel’s user interface is random.

Since November 2021, I’m down over a hundred pounds, I don’t need the cane to walk any more, I don’t shuffle when I walk, blood pressure is fine (and I’ve been off the BP meds for six months), allergy symptoms are now almost absent (it’s the season here, so I’m showing some minor ones) and breath volume is way better than normal for my age. Flip side, I’ve lost a bunch of hair since starting testosterone replacement therapy, but I knew that was likely when I started.

Lab results should be back on Monday. Then I’ll find out which ones my shitty insurance paid for, and I’ll see how much it will cost to have a private lab do the others.

Last Saturday was five weeks with the Tetherspout in. I was entirely comfortable with it, but I felt it was time for a cleaning. A while before I had inserted the Allen wrench to take the hex nut off, and the wrench didn’t want to go. I had to work with it for some time before it finally passed through the hex at the base of the spout. Calcium or uric acid buildup from urine, I guess. Also, the spout didn’t want to slide inside the retainer any more.

It took about half an hour of manipulating the spout and retainer before it broke loose and slid freely. Given the difficulty in getting it freed up I expected I would be sore and have to try the removal after giving it a day or two to recover, but everything was fine.

My only real concern was getting the retainer out. My meatus (pee slit) is normally very small; I can stretch it over days or weeks using tapered probes or hollow penis plugs. It used to snap back to 5 or 6mm in an hour or so; then it started taking days, and finally it would slowly shrink over months. It also became easier to stretch; what used to take weeks could be done in a few hours.

I’d done a 10mm stretch, and the short axis of the retainer is 9mm. I figured I’d drop to 8mm or so given the usual rate of shrinkage, so I bought a “urethra expander” toy, intended for the CBT penis torture types. It’s basically a cock ring with two adjustable rods that can be pulled sideways to stretch the opening. I figured an evening with that ought to loosen things up enough to get the retainer out.

I used forceps to push the spout through the retainer, then used my fingers to push it down into the urethra. Then I pushed the retainer back - it sort of “snaps in place” just behind the opening - and started trying to turn it. It didn’t want to turn sideways. I worked on it for about half an hour, took a break, then poked at it some more. I was finally able to use the forceps to push one side down enough to get it turned, but I had to work for every degree of rotation. Then I was able to push it forward until I could see it in the opening.

The instructions say to just push it out, but it only came out partway. The TP guy said the retainer was hardened and it was okay to use the forceps on it to tug if you needed to, so I clamped on and began a gentle pull. A few minutes later the retainer popped out. I ran a finger up my urethra and pushed the spout out. My glans was a bit sore from all the poking and prodding, but no problem.

I thought I’d take a week’s break, but I’m putting it back in today. I like not having to carry the pee bag whenever I leave the house. I can do all my usual PE work with the spout in.

So, another visit to the doctor last week, and he’s freaked out over the lab work again. This time it’s oxalates, almost 5x normal, and I have a referral to a nephrologist (kidney doctor).

I have mixed nuts as a snack occasionally, and there are some almonds in there, but not many. The keto wraps I use for burritos are some kind of de-carbed wheat product and don’t have any almonds. I might have broccoli once a month. Other than that, I don’t eat anything with oxalates in it.

It’ll probably be at least two weeks before I get an appointment. Except for the ice cream screw-up earlier this year, I’ve been in ketosis for over 300 days. Since the nephrologist will probably run his own labs, I’m going to drop off keto until then, but instead of “eat what I want” like last time (where I gained more than 10 pounds in two weeks!) I’m going to stay low-carb and hopefully low-calorie, though the calorie charts are mostly bullshit.

Mem, any recommendations for a low but out-of-ketosis carb limit?

We are all in ketosis at certain parts of the day (unless we awake for snacks every 4 hours or so). I’d just add some fruit add the end of the day to pull yourself out of ketosis for a period. Whatever quantity seems to work. How’s your sleep?

If your oxylates are high, there’s probably a source you’re unaware of or the nuts are higher oxalate than you think. Raspberries, tea, stevia, sweet potatoes. I’d interrogate these wraps because anything you don’t make yourself from fresh ingredients is suspect (look for the latin for almonds - prunus something). My best guess is it’s the nuts. Check out the nut section here:

A List of 112 Foods High In Oxalate (Oxalic Acid) - Nutrition Advance

Find out and remove that source as quickly as possible!


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