Well maybe you are holding water..? Maybe too much sodium. There are a lot of factors to it. But to say it is the just from the Test..? I don't know about that one.
He cycles the way he does, because he has found that is what works best for him. We are all different, and react differently. Maybe you will have great success doing a cycle without Test. But I don't know that for sure.. I just know that I personally would not take that approach. At the end of the day, you need to find out what works best for you. There isn't an exact science to this.