Starting my body Transformation, PT .1 - Weight Loss
What's going on guys? My name is Rion Gardner and I am 24 years old. I am about 5 foot 10, and overweight. I have a very large frame, to give you an idea, my senior year during the football season I weighed about 206 pounds, with what I would consider a fairly low body fat percentage. 6 years removed from that, I started my transformation at 242 pounds last week, which is just simply embarrasing to post. Basically, I am not just looking to lose fat, I am looking to gain some muscle, and to look even better than I did when I graduated. So I figure, the first thing I need to do is lose some weight, so thats what I am focusing on at this point.
I was a little skepitcal about posting this topic in the progress picture or transformation forum, so I am glad I have found this forum, because for right now, I need to get into shape before I am in the same thread as guys getting straight ripped.
So anyways, I guess I will track my progress here as well as my body blog and youtube channel. This is mainly for my own personal motivation. Simply stated, if I know I have to come here and update my progress, I know that I will keep up the hard work.
So anyways, here goes:
[b]Start - 241.4 pounds[/b]
Up to this point my diet has consisted of basically whatever I wanted. Hot wings, pizza, beer, and chinese buffet.... all the stuff that makes you fat fast. In addition to this, no exercise really. With the exception of the occasional flag football game, the most exercise I got was my thumbs on the xbox 360 joystick playing gears or cod.
[b]Week 1: 235.2 (-6.2 for the week, -6.2 total)[/b]
In week one I didn't eat extremely healthy but did keep my caloric intake below 1800 calories a day. I ate things like frozen meals, and cereal. I am moving to heathly things, but I am making it a slow transition, starting with things my body is used to at small amounts, moving into healthier things as I progress. I tend to have major stomach issues when I change my diet. lol. I also lifted high reps, high sets ( 4 sets of 10 ) with lighter weight to get myself back in to groove, and help with cardio. I did back, biceps - chest, triceps - shoulders, abs. On monday I did legs. For cardio, I am walking,jogging, using the elliptical, and stair machine. I usually try to hit 300 calories on one machine and 200 on another. I am not sure how accuate the calorie counter is on the machines, but I use it as a progress indicator anyway.
I will update weekly with new photos and videos on my bodyspace.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to changing my life!
[b]P.S.[/b] - The profile pic is not from my senior year in highschool. Its from a alumni game a year or so ago.
Some Progress Pics 11/28/2011
Well, Nevermind I just realized I cant post progress pics them. They are in my bodyspace and side by side shots are in my videos. I'll do an update tommorrow morning.