Noob with quick question

[milkman dan]

Hey guys and gals,
I am new here, but I have been lurking for a while now. I have some quick basic questions for you guys, so forgive me if they are really noobish, because I am new to this. This will be sort of a long post, and the real questions are at the bottom, so skip if you want, but I think I drop a good story.

First I will give you a little background on me. I grew up playing baseball and soccer and I was always a good all around athlete. Then I met pot. It became my best friend for about... oh, lets say 10 years. I grew up with a real party crowd and we spent a LOT of time smokin, drinkin, and living a crazy life. I went to college, met a girl who liked to take X and drink A LOT. So I was generally a nutty bastard. I had gotten really out of shape and I was quite simply a fucking mess.

I took a desk job in insurance that I hate (notice this is present tense) after college and that is when I ballooned up. Within a year I had gone from about my "normal" crappy weight of 230lbs to 323lbs. I had gotten sloppy, lazy, and fat. Worst of all, I felt bad all of the time. I didn't want people I worked with to look at me funny so I withdrew heavily from everyone. Ditto for all my friends. And family. I was down to one person in my life on a daily basis, my girlfriend. I knew I was looking horrible and I knew she was going to leave me soon. She did leave me within about 4 months of my peak fatass-ed-ness, in July of 2004. I can't blame her.

Fast forward 9 months to today and I have turned a lot of my life around. I have been working out very steadily, I learned how to eat right, quit ALL drugs, quit drinking (well... maybe 2 or 3 beers a week), and cleaned up my act all around. I am down to about 250lbs, a 73lb drop from last year at this time (the 323 peak was in Feb. 2004). I lift 3-4 days a week, and run 3-4 days a week. I take multi-vitamins, whey protein (with dexrose on lifting days), Omega 3 fish oil pills (I hate fish), and I just got on creatine about a month ago. I have seen great gains in strength over the past 9 months, taking my bench from 145 to 225, with similar gains in all other aspects of my lifts (I just give bench as a "benchmark"... nice pun huh?). So even though I have dropped 73lbs total, I know I have lost more fat than that, because I am putting on muscle weight. What I have found is that I LOVE lifting! It is a great replacement for my bad habits, and I am so into going to the gym to get that pump. Maybe it has something to do with since I don't get loopy on drugs or alcohol anymore, it is a good way to get those endorphins rockin? So that is my background.

What I want to know is:
1. Will AS aid in fatloss?
2. If so, which ones?
3. I HATE needles, so do any of these come in tabs?
4. I think I am mentally ready for AS, but do you guys think I am physically ready? BTW, I had my blood, liver, thyroid, and testosterone checked recently, and they were all normal, so that aspect is covered. I mean are my bones/joints/muscles ready?

Here are my stats:
25 years old, male, 6'0", lifting on and off in high school (very sparsely in college), been seriously lifting for about 9 months, endomorph body type.

If there is anything else, let me know and I will provide the stats.

Thanks in advance for any and all replies! Please don't flame, you all started somewhere/sometime also.

 

[sparetire]

1. no. But good diet and training will. There is a theory that winny will cause fat loss due to it raising body temps etc, but I ran it myself and no it really didn't.

2. read above. I ran a winny/eq (winny orals) eq 400 a week for 13 weeks winny 6-12 - i did experience some fat loss, but that was due to my hard training.

3. You can run winny in pills, anavar but it's expensive as hell..my source is .80c per 10mg..most peeps run it 50mgs so do the math.

4. Most likely you are ready, but if you can't past the needle fear, then you shouldn't even consider using. You'll gain the best if you shoot. It's no big deal. Shoot in the delts and tell yourself it's the same as getting a flu shot - except this flu shot will make you big and ruff. You need to educate yourself a little more considering the 4 questions you raised. These questions are the basics and if you have been lingering on here you should know these by now. Educate yourself before taking the plunge bro...now slap some good karma my way please..lol..

 

[ruggermu]

Based on what you said I would hold off a bit. Are you still making good stength hains and loosing weight, if so you need to wait. Ride out the natural improvement as long as you can. If it's now though or once you do decide it's time you need to get over the neecle fear. I promise you it's easier than you think.

 

[azul]

Just give it some time. Once you're around 15% bodyfat, you can give it a go.

 

[slat1]

Keep going the way you are going. Take it natural at leat a bit longer. If you are still making strides why make a change.
I would recomend getting a 7 point body fat test done. That will give you a clear picture as to what is going on with your body!
Congratulations on the changes you have made so far! Keep it up!