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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: United States
Age: 27
Stats: 5'11", 183 lbs
Posts: 70
BodyPoints: 14944
Rep Power: 6 
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All You Need To Know.........
I am a 24 year old male that was always skinny. Ffor about 2-3 years in my early teens i gained some fat due to puberty. I remember my best friend's dad came up to me and pinched some fat under my chin and said, "uh oh, what do we have here?". I had never heard that or thought i would ever hear that in my life! How can this be?? I am the athletic one of my friends and family. I was always thin and active. I took drastic measures to lose the fat. I was sitting in 7th grade science class and my teacher Mr. Gerwig told the class about how smoking toxins shrink fat cells and surpress appetite. Now I was raised ina family of smokers, atleast my mom and dad. They smoked like feens. I never thought i would do that, I was into sports and such. But I thought, why not both, I could pull it off. Now mind you I also had a older brother with cystic fibrosis (terminal lung disease) who was restricted as he got older to do "physical" things. But at the time, all was ok and i thought what the hell. So comes the dumbest health choice I would make in my life. I started stealing mom and dad's squares, smoking and playing ball. I was young i can take it! I was hooping all day, smoking a square right afterwards. The weight was starting to come off, people were shocked to see me play ball all intense, no coughing, then light up right afterwards. I always heard, "You smoke?!" when i got done playing. I used to play for ciggs in some cases. As i got older my priorities changed. Graduating and working were what is was about for me, not bieng outside and playing sports. But one thing remained, the smoking. I was getting older so my metabolism was dropping and i couldnt eat the things i used to, well i could, and i did, but lets say my body didnt "do its part" getting rid of that fat like it once did. My older brother started to get sicker and my best friend accidentally shot himself and died. I started to put a lot of things in perspective. I was working and going to school, smoking about a pack a day(never thought i would get to that) and eating fast food and drinking pop like crazy. My skin was not looking good at all and my teeth were straight, but starting to get stained. I was trimming my hair one night and was looking in the mirror to trim the back of my head when i saw something that i would never forget...i had dimples in my lower back above my hips. What the **** was this?! I saw pictures of me at the beach and my arms that once were pretty big for my size, were starting to disappear in soft skin. In life you have moments when enough is enough, and i had that moment with graduating high school and I had that moment with not just losing weight, not just getting back into shape, but being in the best shape of my life! I went downstairs and crushed my box of ciggs and never smoked again. That was feb.21, 2001 at about 10:00 p.m. I started to just watch what i ate a little more and i gained some more weight due to absence of smoking. I knew I had to due some cardio. So i got out and started plaing ball again, and talk about pain! It was rough but i knew i had to do it. I went into this mad man mode. All i did was exercise, but i forgot one very vital thing, my diet. I wasnt eating at all and at the time i was working a physcial job. I would get back pains and headaches. I am 6 foot tall and when i quit smoking i was at 175lbs, in about 4-5 months i got down to 150-155lbs. My g/f who is always a sweetie to me said one day, "you are starting to look really skinny." I was so offended. I thought i was ripped! Ya right! I took a pic of myself, and i saw it and it hit me, i didnt look healthy. I was skinny but i didnt have abs, now thats weird looking! Twas that day i realized how important DIET....THE HOLY GRAIL OF ANYONE THAT WANTS TO GET INTO SHAPE, SKINNY, LEAN, RIPPED, MUSCUALR, HUGE, WHATEVER, DIET IS THE MAIN PART OF THE BATTLE! I read, and read, on what to eat, how much to eat, when to eat. I was going to gain weight again. I was scared, i worked so hard to lose it, now iam trying to gain lean mass. What if i read the wrong thing? what if i get fat again? Do or die! I would never know unless i tried it. I stayed at it for about 1 year and had people coming up to me saying my arms look bigger, my chest. People i didnt know started to ask what gym i worked out at. I was flipping out. I mean i wasnt big by any means. I was about 175 again but not the same 175 i was before. i was a lot leaner. I ate so much though to gain that quality mass. I threw up a few times, but then would have to eat a few hours later. But it was all good food! It was good for me. My g/f though i lost my mind. Whatever revelation I had it hit me hard. I didnt even work out at a gym. I had weight bench my oldest brother had when he was in the 6th grade. So it was about 15 yrs old. I had some d/b's and a medicine ball and i started to read about different workout splits and all. I changed my diet constantly. Lower fat here, up protein here. The i read baout carbs and when to take them in. The knowledge was building, so was my progress and my body. i NEVER WANTED TO GET HUGE, just in shape like a fitness model you know. I Started reading about plyometrics and setting physical goals for myself like dunking a basketball. I could always jump, i just would never invision that high. At the YMCA that i was a persoanl trainer at I was in the gym after months of jump roping and plyos, I thought I would try it. I went up and missed it due to the fact that i was in utter shock I got up that high! Oh my body was flipping out. I went up again and dunked the **** out of the ball and screamed like crazy. My life physcially had done a 180. A healthy body does equal a healthy mind. You gain more confidence in every day things. You might of been shy, now you can go up and talk to people.(If you look good enough other people will come up to you*wink*) This whole getting into shape thing all starts with you! Your mind will demand, and your body will follow. Trial and error is a big part of it. No one is perfect, and understanding that is key. But there is nothing wrong in striving for perfection. I will never be "happy" with my body, but its that mindset that will keep my physcially healthy for the remainder of my life, atleast what i can control. Failure is a part of success. You might relapse, eat the wrong thing, skip a workout, whatever. Its a hard battle! But when you start to see results you will want more! Sometimes the results dont come when you want them, but they do come! I swear on that. Instead of taking fat burners drink water! Lots of it. It will do so much more for you than you realize. If you dont stick with a program, or get fed up with the results being too slow, you must not want to reach your goal bad enough. Because trust me, when you tell yourself enough is enough, you will know it straight up! Progress is a very slow process. Remember it starts with you, and only you. I will post my new pics soon...stay easy people and stay fit!(excuse my typing, when i get going i mispell a lot of words or forget to add some words to form a logical sentence:-)
Last edited by Boomer81; 04-30-2006 at 01:25 PM.
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