Weight Gain

[lou7]

I've read that T can cause weight gain. I'm working out and eating less and I have been losing weight. I haven't started T yet but my date should be very close. I was wondering if anyone has had a problem like a lot of weight gain that hard to get off due to taking T?
The idea if I don't put the food to my lips it can't go on my hips will still work?

[chuck]

Yup. The laws of pysics still apply regardless of testosterone or not. Eat more cals than you burn = weight gain. Burn more cals than you eat = weight loss.

It will be easier to put on muscle after testosterone though. 

[Magnus]

221.6 ~ 09/19/12
221.2 ~ 09/21/12 ~ -0.4
228.0 ~ 09/25/12 ~ +6.8
225.2 ~ 09/26/12 ~ -2.8
229.0 ~ 10/01/12 ~ +3.8
233.6 ~ 10/16/12 ~ +4.6
232.0 ~ 10/20/12 ~ -1.6
230.0 ~ 10/22/12 ~ -2.0
231.0 ~ 11/03/12 ~ +1.0
237.0 ~ 01/05/13 ~ +6.0
234.4 ~ 02/04/13 ~ -2.6
229.0 ~ 02/15/13 ~ -5.4
228.2 ~ 03/05/13 ~ -0.8
228.0 ~ 03/15/13 ~ -0.2
227.6 ~ 07/25/13 ~ -0.4
225.2 ~ 09/19/13 ~ -2.4
223.8 ~ 09/22/13 ~ -1.4
228.0 ~ 11/08/13 ~ +4.2

I have not been exercising or lifting and nor have I been dieting (I'll add, I don't eat horribly but I'm far from "health nut"; I sadly can't afford "health nut" or I would be there). This is all my basal metabolism from T here. The gains were not in fat but lean body mass. The last one however was absolutely fat (hey, dark European chocolate is almost irresistible lol). Now imagine what I could do when I can really workout and adopt Keto (hopefully very soon; just waiting on a gym that's been dragging its opening out since April).

YMMV but T has really improved my health and weight situation (alright not so much the weight situation going off of the numbers alone but my body mass composition has changed considerably for the better despite that). I have no complaints.

[Sly]

I experienced some weight gain on T and had to put in the extra effort to dial it back.  Part of it is your appetite goes insane.  Cutting back on snacks may seem easy now, but soon you'll have to fight the urge to eat your entire house.

As long as you stay active, you shouldn't have a lot of trouble with weight.  You'll probably mostly gain muscle-- I'm still heavier now than I was before T, but it's not because of fat.

[aleon515]

I actually have lost weight. But I hired a personal trainer (very reasonably) and have been workign out and eating an excellent diet. Just like my old one but with much more veggies and a little more fruit and very low sugars and fat.
I'm a little more motivated because I am gaining a little muscle. But I can't pretend that I really don't want to eat a LOT more.

--Jay

[Jack_M]

Overall I've been losing weight but not much. I've put on a fair bit of muscle while losing fat.

It just depends on what you want. I've been slowly losing weight since the beginning of the year, I don't think T really affected that much, it just slowed it down a bit on the scales because I'm gaining muscle now as I lose fat.  But I'm working to get that. I think if you don't really do anything, nothing much will change, though can't speak to that from experience, of course, just roughly based on my results, but for muscle gain, not changing much.