**Transformations from FAT to FIT** Part 2

[QUOTE=machetegrrl;1418435101]Hi everyone!
Newbie here, to both the forums and Bodybuilding.com. I'm Talia or Machete. Not as in Danny Trejo (or even as awesome as he is!), but it's been my nickname for close to a decade now from my circus days. :D

I started my transformation in November 2015 (yes, I started RIGHT before Thanksgiving!) and am 11 lbs down so far. My first goal is to get under 200 lbs for the first time in 5 years. I'm 20 lbs away from that goal, through nutrition and free weights. Currently using the LiveFit training program. Anyone else using that one?






Thats a big difference for only being 11 pounds. Keep up the good work!

I've posted in here before but I've lost more weight since and today marks my 2 year transformation so here we go again.

[QUOTE=DonVdo;1419016701]I've posted in here before but I've lost more weight since and today marks my 2 year transformation so here we go again.[/QUOTE]

Man that's incredible
It really shows on your face, you look really good bro (no homo)

Keep it up man!

[QUOTE=machetegrrl;1418435101]Hi everyone!
Newbie here, to both the forums and Bodybuilding.com. I'm Talia or Machete. Not as in Danny Trejo (or even as awesome as he is!), but it's been my nickname for close to a decade now from my circus days. :D

I started my transformation in November 2015 (yes, I started RIGHT before Thanksgiving!) and am 11 lbs down so far. My first goal is to get under 200 lbs for the first time in 5 years. I'm 20 lbs away from that goal, through nutrition and free weights. Currently using the LiveFit training program. Anyone else using that one?

And very excited about going to FitExpo this weekend in LA! Anyone else going?[/QUOTE]

Well done! Keep it up... oh, and welcome! 😁

So many amazing transformations in this thread - figured I'd finally stop lurking and start posting. Been years! Anyway, this thread is seriously inspiring. Losing weight when youve been previously fat forever is life changing, I can attest to this. If you guys wanna check out my transformation, check out my bodyspace. I went from 300+ to just below 200 lbs. Uploading a youtube video later this evening with more pictures + info, cant wait to share it with the community!

Hey everyone this was my last years transformation now i am seeking advice on how to gain but maintain/ reduce my body fat %. Any help would be great!

[QUOTE=Joshdouce;1420009581]Hey everyone this was my last years transformation now i am seeking advice on how to gain but maintain/ reduce my body fat %. Any help would be great![/QUOTE]

Great job! Did you cut or bulk first? Weight change?

Hey Everyone!

I have been lifting since September. I have always been active, but after I got married a few years ago, I got lazy and ballooned!
One day I woke up and decided I just needed to change my lifestyle.. so I did. Changed my eating habits and my activity level and here I am 4 months later down 40 lbs and still going strong!

Grey tank top and the picture of me with the white and black shirt are at my highest.. Green tank top was taken yesterday.

[QUOTE=codsterlaing95;1420029411]Great job! Did you cut or bulk first? Weight change?[/QUOTE]

Thankyou, I cut heavily first dropping about 3 stone then went into a slower cut focusing on trying to build muscle and strength by having a small caloric defecit. In total list around 4 Stone.

Hey guys. I began my journey in 2014 here at bodybuilding.com. I was under the delusion that I still had my old "powerlifter physique". Back in high school (7 years ago), I was a powerlifter. I went from benching 95 lbs to 245 lbs in just 10 months. After a few injuries, I fell off the train. I still thought that I had kept my rock hard pecs but I was dead wrong. I looked in the mirror and saw a pudgy out of shape dude. I kept making excuses: my shoulders hurts (x7 dislocations), my hip hurts (x2 subluxations), etc. Even before I fell out of shape, I trained way too hard and screwed alot of my joints up so I was scared and intimidated by lifting. I was also fasting way too much when I first started. On January 1st at 1am, I started lifting again. I even got my buddy involved. I am down to 205 with a goal weight of 178. Here is my slow progress so far. I'm on a 2,000 calorie diet with 5x weightlifting workouts a week.

tl;dr I've attached a progress photo. I've got a long way to go. I like hearing about other peoples' stories. Keep up the great work guys!

[QUOTE=Joshdouce;1420142561]Thankyou, I cut heavily first dropping about 3 stone then went into a slower cut focusing on trying to build muscle and strength by having a small caloric defecit. In total list around 4 Stone.[/QUOTE]

How many people tell you you weigh too little? Seems rather common around these parts at least

Nice :)

Wow :)

[QUOTE=back2life;1397551943]Combining all my posts into one and a little update:

My heaviest was over 440+, my house scale couldnt go higher than that LOL.

The last pic is me on the left, struggling to walk through epcot theme park in disney in 2011. on the right, is me hiking in iceland in July of 2015.

Still lifting, still eating consciously, but also allowing myself to enjoy foods and drinks.[/QUOTE]

Incredible! Well done turning your life around. Keep it up!

Nice to meet you all, my name is James. I started at 298 down to 260 currently....Pic attached....

[QUOTE=kaileak89;1420033331]Hey Everyone!

I have been lifting since September. I have always been active, but after I got married a few years ago, I got lazy and ballooned!
One day I woke up and decided I just needed to change my lifestyle.. so I did. Changed my eating habits and my activity level and here I am 4 months later down 40 lbs and still going strong!

Grey tank top and the picture of me with the white and black shirt are at my highest.. Green tank top was taken yesterday.[/QUOTE]

Awesome work!!

[QUOTE=Joshdouce;1420009581]Hey everyone this was my last years transformation now i am seeking advice on how to gain but maintain/ reduce my body fat %. Any help would be great![/QUOTE]

awesome man.



to all - keep going you look great!

[QUOTE=KLIVEKRAVEN;1421238431]Nice to meet you all, my name is James. I started at 298 down to 260 currently....Pic attached....[/QUOTE]




Good job man! What is your goal weight?

I've posted this elsewhere on the forum but after having a proper look around it would appear it also belongs in here.


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[QUOTE=CatFunt;1421607971]I've posted this elsewhere on the forum but after having a proper look around it would appear it also belongs in here.


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Awesome story man! Great post and congratulations.

[QUOTE=Joshdouce;1420009581]Hey everyone this was my last years transformation now i am seeking advice on how to gain but maintain/ reduce my body fat %. Any help would be great![/QUOTE]

Awesome progress. How much times between the before and after?

Hello all, noob here. Just wanted to share my story.

Before (taken December 2013) starting weight: 103kg or 227 pounds
Now 72kg or 159 pounds

My height is 5'7 and 1/2

What I did/do

Did loads of cardio in the first 6 months (some times twice a day) for like 30 minutes at roughly 5 mph. Now I am more focused on weight lifting and only do cardio as warm up for 10 mins. My current
work out plan for 1 week is as follows (not necessarily in the order but I will try to cover chest and back twice a week since they are such large muscle groups)

Day 1 Back
Day 2 Arms or Shoulders
Day 3 Chest
Day 4 Arms
Day 5 Back
Day 6 Abs + Legs
Day 7 Chest

back/chest/arms involve a total of 10 different exercises ( 5 sets at 10 reps each).

[QUOTE=jko1988;1421932391]Hello all, noob here. Just wanted to share my story.

Before (taken December 2013) starting weight: 103kg or 227 pounds
Now 72kg or 159 pounds

My height is 5'7 and 1/2

What I did/do

Did loads of cardio in the first 6 months (some times twice a day) for like 30 minutes at roughly 5 mph. Now I am more focused on weight lifting and only do cardio as warm up for 10 mins. My current
work out plan for 1 week is as follows (not necessarily in the order but I will try to cover chest and back twice a week since they are such large muscle groups)

Day 1 Back
Day 2 Arms or Shoulders
Day 3 Chest
Day 4 Arms
Day 5 Back
Day 6 Abs + Legs
Day 7 Chest

back/chest/arms involve a total of 10 different exercises ( 5 sets at 10 reps each).[/QUOTE]

Congrats! Great change bro

Hey everyone. I have wanted to post in this thread for years as you have all inspired me so much. So I really wanted to share my journey with you guys and by doing so, I hope to provide a little motivation to someone out there. Just like many of us here, I was overweight/obese for the majority of my life. By the time I reached 18 years of age, I weighed a whopping 120 kg (260 lbs) and possibly more as I stopped looking at the scales by that point. A lot of us have a certain event that triggers the weight loss (e.g. a health scare) but I didn't. I simply woke up one morning, looked at myself in the mirror and decided that I wanted to lose weight and so I did. Something you have to understand about me is that once I make up my mind, there is rarely anything that stops me. And so, I started losing weight. I starting learning more about nutrition. I started to move more, all I did was walk the dogs each and every night for 30-60 minutes. After a year of weight loss, I decided I wanted to start going to the gym and lifting weights and so I did. A few years down the track, I have lost around 120 lbs and have never felt better about myself and what I have achieved. Sure I had my ups and downs, like many of us do. I had my binge eating days and my fasting days whilst I was still learning how to develop a healthy relationship with food. But in the end, I am a much better person than I was a couple of years ago and am so full of life. I was trapped in a prison of my own making, but now I am free to enjoy life to its fullest. I did all this whilst studying full time at university in a degree that is labelled the most demanding in the country. I just wanted to say that if I could do it, so could you :)
As a result of my journey, I decided I wanted to help others with theirs. So, I started a Youtube channel (FatToFit) in order to do that. If you want to see my transformation for yourself, feel free to check this short video out ([url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNiSfJyEhU[/url]).
Good luck on your journeys!

I don't miss my big black t-shirts... don't miss em one bit lol

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awesome motivation

Hi there,

I personally reached my highest point at around 235lbs, around a year after quitting sports. I'd been active as a kid, but lost motivation to play when I wasn't recruited by any decent high school - mostly because I suffered injuries and trained too hard without proper rehabilitation. In my late teens, I went on to spend most of my awaken hours in front of computers, both at school and home.

I wasn't happy with how I looked, but I had bigger problems than that - I started to fail classes and barely graduated high school. My grades and SAT were not good enough to enter any good education, so I decided to start working instead. After only a few months, I was getting tired of lifting wood in a factory every day, so I decided to take prep courses and all that stuff, and also tried to re-do some high school courses to fix my grades. At the week of 3 exams, I was hospitalized for a busted appendix. I saw it as a sign that I need to just get out of this place, and started searching for jobs far away from my rather small home town.

I got a decent job in IT far away from home, got my own place and decided that I could finally dedicate energy and time to my health. I started out with intermittent fasting without any exercise, and went down to about 210lbs before I started hitting the gym somewhere in September 2015. I started out with just hitting the gym 3 times a week, with decreased calories on rest days.

I was happy to hit 195 pounds during x-mas, and started increasing my training volume to 6 times a week, still with a 3 day split, pretty much following arnold's blueprint.

Today, I'm 190 pounds and I will keep cutting since I'm aiming to hit 8% body fat in July. I'm thinking about moving back to Sweden to resume studies and compete again, either setting a goal for a smaller men's physique contest in 2017, or traditional sports.

[QUOTE=Kushkiss;1422529421]I don't miss my big black t-shirts... don't miss em one bit lol

[img]https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/t31.0-8/12711123_10153505405439702_8598451383164038978_o.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

wow! really good progress!

[QUOTE=IzzoN95;1423284031]Hi there,

I personally reached my highest point at around 235lbs, around a year after quitting sports. I'd been active as a kid, but lost motivation to play when I wasn't recruited by any decent high school - mostly because I suffered injuries and trained too hard without proper rehabilitation. In my late teens, I went on to spend most of my awaken hours in front of computers, both at school and home.

I wasn't happy with how I looked, but I had bigger problems than that - I started to fail classes and barely graduated high school. My grades and SAT were not good enough to enter any good education, so I decided to start working instead. After only a few months, I was getting tired of lifting wood in a factory every day, so I decided to take prep courses and all that stuff, and also tried to re-do some high school courses to fix my grades. At the week of 3 exams, I was hospitalized for a busted appendix. I saw it as a sign that I need to just get out of this place, and started searching for jobs far away from my rather small home town.

I got a decent job in IT far away from home, got my own place and decided that I could finally dedicate energy and time to my health. I started out with intermittent fasting without any exercise, and went down to about 210lbs before I started hitting the gym somewhere in September 2015. I started out with just hitting the gym 3 times a week, with decreased calories on rest days.

I was happy to hit 195 pounds during x-mas, and started increasing my training volume to 6 times a week, still with a 3 day split, pretty much following arnold's blueprint.

Today, I'm 190 pounds and I will keep cutting since I'm aiming to hit 8% body fat in July. I'm thinking about moving back to Sweden to resume studies and compete again, either setting a goal for a smaller men's physique contest in 2017, or traditional sports.[/QUOTE]

Awesome bro keep on going!

Hey, I'm Nathan, I've gone through a year of working out hard and fixing my diet/nutrition, however I've seemed to hit a wall with the weight/fat loss. I've seen great strength gains and am doing my first 5K in March, I lost 50 lbs in about 5 months but from August-present put it all back on plus, I'm probably sitting around 230 from the 252 where I started, however I'm wondering if you have any advice on how to get some better results. Is caloric restriction really the only way? I have been diligent with tracking macros/cals/food logs with mfp and iifym, however I didn't like being weak so I kind of allowed myself some room to get stronger, the added weight/ not looking where I want to be after a year is disheartening. I know this is a long process, but if I need to keep my cals in check to get the results I will do so. I don't want to discredit myself, each day is a lot of little battles won and many lessons learned, I am able to eat better and eat less each day and that is great, I guess I just have long ways to go. Thanks, inspiring thread!