I was overweight for probably the last 5 years. Unfornuately i dont have many pics of myself at that time for display purposes, but have some that will do. About 4 months ago i finally wanted to change my body. Ive tried before by exercising here and there, but obviously that isnt enough and i gave up. I would always eat junk food all the time. Cheesesteaks, multiple sandwiches a day, chocolate, ice cream, pizza. I honestly probably would eat somewhere around 4-7k calories a day. I was 220lbs at this point. When i finally got together, found this site, found out about nutrition and everything else i buckled down for 3-4 months and made a significant change. I went from 220lbs to 160lbs. A huge and very satisfied improvement. The process was rather simple. Although it sucks because i never really documented it. I just checked the scale everyday, saw the numbers going down and continued(some how) to stay on the diet and continue the workout.
My current Stats:
Age: 23
Weight 160lb
BF%: 14.5%(based on $40 scale) My Diet
I made it super strict. I cant really remember exactly what i did, and i didnt count calories. From what i remember this is what i was doing at the time and this is what i changed.
MY BAD HABITS
7am-Wake up
Never ate breakfast
8am-Banana,
10am-Snickers bar, philly soft pretzel
12pm-LUNCH-Sandwich, Yogurt, Chips, cookies, poptart, string cheese, Soda
3pm-Other random junk, chips, skittles
5pm-get home, eat a sandwich, 10 oreo cookies
6pm-DINNER-Steak, mashed potatoes, peas, noodles
8pm-Bag of chips, Bowl of cereal, maybe two bowls
10pm-Eat other random crap, maybe run out for fast food, a burger and frosty.
I was basically always hungry, always wanted to taste the joy of food.
MY CHANGED HABITS FOR THOSE 4 MONTHS OF SUCCESS
7am-Wake up
Breakfast-dont really recall what i ate. But i believe it was an alternative choice of a banana/tuna/chicken
8am-11am-ATE NOTHING, I probably would drink 4-5 glasses of water between these hours trying to make me feel full.
12pm-LUNCH-A bowl of salad with can of chicken or tuna in it. Two glasses of water
1pm-4pm-Ate nothing, again, drinking tons of water and hot tea.
6pm-DINNER-2 Cans of tuna or 2 Cans of chicken, or a salad with a mix.
11pm-Bed
MY EXCERCISE
I had no laid out workout program. As i dont have a gym membership or anything. All i really did was try to keep active. I would jump on the trampoline every night for 45 minutes until i was exhausted, go skateboarding two or 3 times a week, and run a mile or two every other night. I would also do EVERY NIGHT was a 15 minute ab workout from the p90x series. Only the ab video. Because that was my goal, i wanted to lose weight and get a shredded stomach. , id also do about 50 pushups and 3 sets or so of 15 pullups every night. Sometimes id miss a night of running or not do the pushups because i was so tired or lazy. But 90% of the time i forced myself to do the work.
About halfway in to my 4 month diet the lbs were just coming off. I couldnt believe it. I slowly started eating a bit more, adding a low fat yogurt halfway into my day, an extra banana between hours here and there. But for the most part, all i ate was 100% protein, no carbs. Tuna and Canned chicken for the most part.
I was probably in the state of ketosis for a long portion of these months based on the symptoms of me being super tired, and fatigued, etc, all the time. And like i said, i didnt know anything about counting calories or maintenance, etc etc. I just limimted myself immensely to a low amount of food i ate every day. I i would be surprised if i was eating anymore then 1000-1200 cals a day.
After the big transformation and finding the forum, i changed my diet a good bit about 1.5 months ago. I started eating oatmeal and eggs in the morning, cooking chicken, tilapia, salmon, anything that was still high protein and low carb.
I was probably eating around 2000-2200 cals for a period of time. But it was still all super healthy food. Now my exercise also slowed a lot. Since i saw the success, i guess i figured i could back off a bit. Except i think i hit a plateu, because for the past month or so ive been at a solid 160lbs. No more fat is coming off, im seeing or feeling no differences. Its gotten depressing and ive been binging alot, eating alot of junk, mainly at night when im sitting here on the computer. Thinking of the food gets me going and i just go crazy, eating 1000cals at a time. Now surprisingly it doesnt seem to be impacting my looks or weight numbers that much.
But to get to the point, im ready to buckle down again. And this time try to do it more properly. I guess my problem is i dont want to waste the 2 weeks trying to calculate my maintenance and follow all these hitting macros and such. Since everyone says its just about Calories in and Calories out. So this is what i figured im going to try to do. Im going to start this log of my progress and record everything, Cals/protein/fat/carb taken in every days with my 6 meals. Im going to start limiting myself at 1500CAL a day for a week, and see what happens. This number is probably super low compared to what my maintenance is, but im not sure what else to do.
MY NEW WORKOUT
Starting tomorrow morning, ill be documenting my weight, food intake for that day, and supply pics once or twice a week. I feel like this might be the only way to keep me motivated to try to do another 1 months of a diet to get my BF% low enough to have a awesome aesthetic chest with abs.
My workout routine is going to be kind of random, like i said i have no gym membership, so i cant really do a weight lifting routine, but will be doing things like lifting dumbbells randomly throughout the day(i usually do like 3 sets of 20 each @ 40lbs, dont know if this is even doing anything for my body), riding my stationary bike 45min a night(burns about 350cals), doing what i did all before. Just trying to keep active along with the calorie deficit. What im going to add in this time is following the whole P90X LEAN Program for one month. I figure with this extra amount of intense cardio and exercise, change should happen.
MY NEW DIET PLAN
Like i said im going to limit my cals to a strict 1500cal a day. Just as a starting base to see if i start seeing and feeling differences again. Im going to eat 6 meals a day, them all being high protein 0 to no carb sources. Fish, meat, eggs, etc. My question is, should i include fats too. Im guessing i should try to get into keto mode again, to excel the fat burning. Im learning more things everyday, and also getting confused by all the information. But im guessing i should start including extra fat in my meals like olive oil, etc.
I plan on my meals to be something along the lines of this.
Meal 5
Canned Tuna-100cal
Some other peice of meat, steak/pork/lamb/chicken/sausage
hot sauce, pepper, salt, onion salt, etc
My last meal will be no later then 6:30pm
Now for the past, and current photos. Including ones i just took. Im hoping you guys can give me insight, tips, and anything else helpful that will help me towards my goal of getting dropping body fat.
Heres a collage of pictures, where the ones up top were the old me(4 months agoish, and the other ones were from about a 1-2 months ago. It actually looks like i had a lower bf% a month ago then i do now.
Picture taken tonight, current physique.
Front Relaxed
Front Flexed
Side Relaxed
Side Flexed
Last edited by emerica243; 09-29-2011 at 12:27 AM.
I really didnt want to do this but was really craving oats. I guess ill need to make sure its 0carbs for the next 2 meals. I now plan to go lift weights and do start P90X.
Pretty sure im in a plateau, weights been the same for ever. Thinking im gonna up the cals more towards maintenance for the next few days then drop back down and see what happens.
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