It has a likely hood that there are other variables slowing your results rather than your gear...
- Overtraining!
- Clean diet can not be the best diet, it depends on how your body personally reacts and your carb sensitivity... I have mentioned it many times that I put on too much size with a clean diet consisting of starchy complex carbs etc... you may need to revamp your diet or maybe try a carb rotation.. there are so many ways of eating clean; finding the best for your personal metabolism is the key and the hard part
As per var helping you gain muscle but not lean you out... Congrats! The var is working

It is doing what it is supposed to do; BUILD muscle.. Its not a fat burner. More lean muscle = less fat. So back to my first proposal, me thinks its your diet or training...
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