Started 5g a day last Monday, no loading. Up 1.5kg on the scale, feel a bit puffy, stomach a bit off for the first 3 days. I am cutting so watching the scale go the wrong way is doing my head in.
Is this normal and does it go away, or should I just drop it until I am not cutting?
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This is exactly why the weekly average matters. Mark the day you started creatine on your chart and judge the trend from there, not from before.
Update: stomach fine after day 5. Scale sat at +1.5 for about 10 days then started dropping again at the same rate as before. Waist never changed. Should have just trusted the first reply, cheers all.
Stomach thing went away for me after about a week. Taking it with food instead of on an empty stomach helped.
Normal. It is water inside the muscle, which is where you want it. It does not go away while you keep taking it, it just stops going up. After about 2-3 weeks your weight trend resumes from the new baseline.
Keep taking it during the cut. The 1.5kg is not fat, your waist will tell you that. If you drop it and restart later you just get the jump again.