Running with the Demon- my long, long journey to the stage.
Hi everyone, I've been lurking this forum for a long time and have pulled a lot of inspiration and information from everyone here. This is really the best community on theses forums that I have seen, everyone seems to genuinely care about everyone else. I am starting working with Stan from Team Demon in my quest to first lose the weight that I still have to lose(a lot!), then bulk, then prep for the stage. It's going to look like 6-9 months of continued cutting, followed by 1-2 years of bulking depending on how it goes, followed by however long Stan decides my prep needs to be. As you can see, I'm going to be around here for a while and anyone who wants to follow along with me, thank you.
I'll give the my history in short form as I tend to get long winded and don't need to bore anyone. I've been fat my entire life, even as a little kid. Senior year of high school I went from 295 to 235, got the girl I was after, and in the next 1 1/2 years before we got married ballooned back up to 280. Year and a month later we have my first daughter and I'm 320. Run the medifast program and lose 70lbs in 7 weeks. Over the next few years gain it all back and more. 3 years ago I weigh in one night after talking with my wife and I'm 342. Ouch! Proceed to lose 84 lbs to a low of 258 the right way through diet and exercise. My wife gets pregnant with our twin boys and stops working and we struggle for a while where I live off of ramen noodles and stop working out.
That gets me to my latest weight loss journey. Start of the year this year I weigh in at 354, double ouch. I decide we are going to go to Jamaica for our 10th anniversary and vow to lose weight before we go. Start out the same way I did it the last time through diet and exercise. I start off good and hit 310 before I wreck my back and gain back 20 while working with the chiropractor to fix me. That brings me to July and I'm getting close to my trip over thanksgiving and decide to do medifast again. I run that for 10 weeks and drop 63lbs. I then slowly brought my intake back up from 500cal to 2100 by adding 300cal a week.
That brings us to today. I weighed in for Stan yesterday at 254.4. So 100 lbs so far. Probably another 70-80 to go before we can start building my lbm back up. Seeing how ill be going to an all inclusive resort in 2 weeks Stan decided it was best to ramp up my calories the next 2 weeks before my trip to hopefully reset my metabolism. I'll be updating everyday with my diet and workout and any other musing I may have. Any questions or advice you have for me I would love to answer them.
Here's the only pic I have at my highest
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Here are pics from this morning that I had to take for Stan. I have never posed before so these are my attempts at front side and back relaxed lol.
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