Been following this thread for years, only dome something about my weight this year though!
Jan 2nd I was 281lbs, I'm currently 203lbs and I'm going to keep cutting until the end of the year.
Here's a progress pic
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Been following this thread for years, only dome something about my weight this year though!
Jan 2nd I was 281lbs, I'm currently 203lbs and I'm going to keep cutting until the end of the year.
Here's a progress pic
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Hi guys, newbie here. Used to be fit, now fatter than I've ever been.
Just wanted to thank everyone in this thread for the motivation I needed to get back in the gym. This is without doubt the best thread on this whole site.
I'm planning on posting weekly progress pics in here during the early stages to keep me accountable and motivated (and because it's the only way I'll ever get to 50 posts!)
[QUOTE=reeymar;1522570251]This is very very insipirational and hope i could get this too. I'm Erymar Torres (you guys can call me reymar). Its my first time going to gym cuz i just realize i want to be fit. I weight about 85kg with this Belly fat I would say 30% body fat. The last two weeks I start gym workouts and i got this workout plan and I'm on my 3rd week this coming monday. I started out a diet like 1 cup rice caloric deficit and etc. and for me it feels like my belly fat is still same but what i notice is my pants during my work office is kinda loose. i dont know if im not being patience, but I want to know how long i could transform cuz my goal is to be on 70kg or 75kg with a muscular body. The reason i want to know so i could not be wasting my efforts working out and came out fail :(. so can anyone help me out guys what is the good workout routine (I LOVE GYM WORKOUTS THAN CARDIO) and i want to know also the good budget diet. I hope someone could help me out.
sorry for my bad english.[/QUOTE]
You need to be at a calorie deficit while eating enough protein. It's very important. Cardio is an easy way to create the deficit, but you can also achieve it by being really muscular so that your body needs more calories simply to function, though it will be much slower, and you will need to monitor your food anyway. Check out forum.bodybuilding.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16 and the logs in particular.
Create an account at MyFitnessPal (google it), enter your body parameters and aims, and log your food there. It will be a little time-consuming the first time, but then you can add frequently used food. I guarantee you will be surprised at just how fat- or carb-rich some foods are, while others are perfect in your situation (e.g., white fish or shrimps). Check out their forum, it's a bit more active than here when it comes to weight loss. Whether or not you want to lose body fat, it will be helpful to have MFP to monitor your protein intake.
Guessing the macronutrients of foods instead of checking them out, not eating enough and then going on a huge binge, forgetting that you already had some heavy food today - those are some mistakes to avoid.
I do think you need some cardio at 30% in addition to strength. If you _really_ hate it, maybe try some more strength-focused things like the rowing machine?
[QUOTE=OrangeKilomonth;1522801411]You need to be at a calorie deficit while eating enough protein. It's very important. Cardio is an easy way to create the deficit, but you can also achieve it by being really muscular so that your body needs more calories simply to function, though it will be much slower, and you will need to monitor your food anyway. Check out forum.bodybuilding.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16 and the logs in particular.
Create an account at MyFitnessPal (google it), enter your body parameters and aims, and log your food there. It will be a little time-consuming the first time, but then you can add frequently used food. I guarantee you will be surprised at just how fat- or carb-rich some foods are, while others are perfect in your situation (e.g., white fish or shrimps). Check out their forum, it's a bit more active than here when it comes to weight loss. Whether or not you want to lose body fat, it will be helpful to have MFP to monitor your protein intake.
Guessing the macronutrients of foods instead of checking them out, not eating enough and then going on a huge binge, forgetting that you already had some heavy food today - those are some mistakes to avoid.
I do think you need some cardio at 30% in addition to strength. If you _really_ hate it, maybe try some more strength-focused things like the rowing machine?[/QUOTE]
Oh thanks for the reply man, Just done gym today and i check for my weight from 85 to 82kg but still this belly fats i dont notice anything :) my waist is getting smaller too. i hate cardio and i love lifting workouts but if i need to do cardio just for the sake of this belly fats tummy i will do it :(
Good job to everyone, i hope to have the same results as yours!
I'm 5'6 and started at around 190 pounds, size 12, and over 40% body fat (shortly after high school graduation)... Am now down to around 117 pounds and size 0, which I've been maintaining for some time. I do HIIT, yoga, light weights, squats, lunges, etc and have a fairly active lifestyle because I get everywhere by walking, cycling, and public transportation (no car). I thought about being a personal trainer but my friends are urging me to do modeling instead. If that's the case, I probably have 5-10 more pounds to lose (do-able). Nevertheless, it's been an interesting weight-loss journey lol :)
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1 week in, 4.4kg down.
Can't see much difference in the photos yet obviously, but I did say I would post weekly progress in the early stages to help keep me accountable.
2 weeks in, 5.9kg down.
good morning guys anyone can help estimate my bodyfat? and should i start bulking or keep cutting? already lost abouyt 33lbs so far :D
[QUOTE=NovaVita;1524189951]2 weeks in, 5.9kg down.[/QUOTE]
Well done bro, keep pushing yourself and those abs will show in no time!
3 weeks in, 6.7kg down.
[QUOTE=edge131;1524585481]Well done bro, keep pushing yourself and those abs will show in no time![/QUOTE]
Cheers man. Don't think I've seen my abs since I was about 14, but here's hoping.
Good job
I can't post links or images yet, but I've documented my progress photos and transformation on my bodyspace profile. Good job everyone.
4 weeks in, 7.8kg down.
fat now((
6 weeks in, 10.8kg down.
Went from 87kg to 63kg losing a lot of muscle and ending up skinny fat, then up to 76 kg and back down to 64 kg being more careful on the cut, that is the last pic and my current physique.
Here is my change from fat to fit
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Started back in march weighing in at around 300Lbs. After 8 Months of hard work im finally where i wanna be.
Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1539009371]Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg[/QUOTE]
Just WOW!
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1539009371]Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg[/QUOTE]
Holy ****. Congrats
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1539009371]Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg[/QUOTE]
Wooow... Congratulations! And you look very good now :-).
[QUOTE=brysondalton;1538141111]Started back in march weighing in at around 300Lbs. After 8 Months of hard work im finally where i wanna be.[/QUOTE]
Sadly it looks like you're juicing, are you?
Amazing!
Wow so much motivation
Holy! Wow man that’s a lot of motivation for me to be honest!
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1539009371]Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg[/QUOTE]
Amazing! Congrats!
Would you mind sharing with me your story and routine?
I don't have a photo without my shirt on at the start (it wasn't pretty), but I'm sucking in my gut hard in the attached photo.
Stats:
43 years old
6'5" tall
Start NOV 2016 - 250 lbs, roughly 28-29% BF, 36/37 inch waist.
Lost 60 lbs in 6-7 months down to 190ish.
Photo is from OCT 2017 - 198 lbs, roughly 15% BF, 31 inch waist @ about 4 months into a planned 1 year lean bulk to 215 lbs.
I still have a long way to go to get where I want, the journey continues...
Not sure I'd say I'm fit now but here's me since I got back into the gym a year ago or so
[img]https://i.imgur.com/wWSxFSJ.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=AndreSerra;1540208461]Amazing! Congrats!
Would you mind sharing with me your story and routine?[/QUOTE]
Not at all
I was a guy who had always been heavy and had really low self esteem and didn't really think I was able to lose weight, even though I knew it was physically possible I didn't think I had enough discipline or character to do it.
At 2015 I was at my heaviest at 168kilo and a friend talked me into trying a 5:2 diet, it was real easy to maintain since you could eat whatever you wanted for 5 days a week and stick to 600calories for just two days. Being healthy for just those two days carried over to trying to be healthy the other 5 days a week aswell, to some degree, and I started losing some weight. As I mentioned in my previous post, I literally googled "fat people losing weight pictures" or something along those lines, hoping to find some pictures of other people who had done it and maybe get some inspiration. I found the first Fat to Fit thread started by Craned and when I saw what people had gone through, the time it had taken them and the stories they told about how they never thought they'd be able to lose weight but still did it got me motivated enough to go down to the gym and get after it.
At the end of 2015 I had pretty much given up on 5:2 but I still went to the gym, at this point I didn't have a training program I just lifted and moved some weights around I saw laying around. But going to the gym without progressing got to me eventually and by the end of the year I changed to a ketogenic diet and found a beginners training program somewhere on the internet where I trained legs/back/chest/shoulders/arms monday til friday.
I did that for about a year and went down to 137kilo by the end of the summer of 2016.
But I felt that the ketogenic diet was too hard for me to stick to, as I was often cheating on it and didn't have the character to stay strict for a long enough period of time for me to progress. I dare say I used to cheat ALOT when it came to that diet in particular. In the fall of 2016 I started counting calories as a very basic level and in the spring of 2017 I got on the Growth Stimulus Training program I found on this forum. It worked really well and I got down to 92kilos in no time.
Latesummer/Early fall of 2017 is when I decided to really step up my training, I changed training program once again to The Viking's the bare bones upper/lower split program, a program I am on today still, also found on this forum. I started controlling the nutrient in the food I ate and I still control my calorie intake, I'm trying to stay at a caloriebalance at the moment. I also took upp running on the side after getting inspired by ultramarathonrunners and ran my first 6mile race in October of 2017, I really liked it and I've kept running since then and signed up to run Stockholms Marathon this summer. I also took up swimming this winter but I havn't gotten that far with it yet, there is only so much time but I try to go atleast once or twice a week.
This is only the beginning though, Chapter one just ended and it's time for chapter two of my life to begin and 2018 will be the year I get to where I want to be, which is alot stronger, alot faster and have alot more endurance. And also do something about that excess skin I've got.
Maybe I'll come with another update in 2019 =)
What was ur weight in b4 pic? Did u lift and lost body fat or bulked in between?
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1539009371]Man, this thread in particular have been such a motivation since I started getting healthy so it doesn't seem right not to share.
Before: 168kilo
After: 92kg[/QUOTE]
holy ****!
first pic start of 1st november 2017 170 lbs 5 ft7 ....second pic 14/1/18 150 lbs..... third and 4th picture today 148lbs 10 days after starting keto
[QUOTE=lajfy88;1540467571]Not at all [/QUOTE]
Thanks for sharing your story with me.. you've been where i'm at now, so you know how inspiring you can be. thank you and, one more time, congratulations. you're the top 1% in terms of achievement. Very few people can achieve that kind of change, in any area of their life.
My story is similar to yours. I've always been fat, lost a lot of weight, put it all back, lost a bit again, put it all back again and even more.. now i'm focused again. Right now I'm lacking a good lifting program to follow, I'll take a look at the ones you mentioned.
I'm eating around 2400 kcal a day, a very healthy diet.. a bit too much calories but this time I'll try a more feasible diet.
I hope that by january next year I'll be able to post my story here too.
Thanks!
[QUOTE=AndreSerra;1541639751]Thanks for sharing your story with me.. you've been where i'm at now, so you know how inspiring you can be. thank you and, one more time, congratulations. you're the top 1% in terms of achievement. Very few people can achieve that kind of change, in any area of their life.
My story is similar to yours. I've always been fat, lost a lot of weight, put it all back, lost a bit again, put it all back again and even more.. now i'm focused again. Right now I'm lacking a good lifting program to follow, I'll take a look at the ones you mentioned.
I'm eating around 2400 kcal a day, a very healthy diet.. a bit too much calories but this time I'll try a more feasible diet.
I hope that by january next year I'll be able to post my story here too.
Thanks![/QUOTE]
No problem, and thank you for your kind words. But the truth is everyone can achieve what I've done so far, it's only the beginning that's tough. I know everyone who loses weight says this, but if I can do it anyone can, and it's true. I had absolutely no discipline in any aspect of my life, no belief in my self and no character at all, that is why I thought I would never be able to lose weight eventhough I knew it was physically possible. But all of those characteristics can be built over time by, in my case anyway, just showing up and continuously failing.
It will take time, it took me years but by just showing up to the gym and going back to your plan, even when you fail at sticking to your diet for a day, or ten days. 80% of your success is just showing up, even when you don't want to. Even if you're not going to get anything done, show up. Also failing was a huge part of it and I know it's a huge cliché to say but it's true, it's from failure you'll learn and grow and through your journey, if you fail alot, you will grow alot and learn alot, just stick to your plan and don't give up.
Once you get to the point where you've built up the necessary characteristics to stay disciplined, to stay motivated and you've reached your goal, eventhough I havn't quite reached mine yet, it will carry over to other aspects and areas of your life aswell, atleast this rang true from me.
Looking forward to see your post next January.
[QUOTE=benusso;812336051]I have a question to you, what about your skin after transformation ? Is it terse ? What do you do to have terse skin on stomach after transformation ?[/QUOTE]
This! Genetics? Some kind of shapewear? Any magic pill?
Have seen some drastic changes in relatively short time... Some of them messed with loose skin...others didn't have a sign how fat they were.
[QUOTE=umadbroski;1536015431]Went from 87kg to 63kg losing a lot of muscle and ending up skinny fat, then up to 76 kg and back down to 64 kg being more careful on the cut, that is the last pic and my current physique.[/QUOTE]Great Progress!!
[QUOTE=AmandaLaughlin;1519665461]Here is my personal transformation! I was a yo yo dieter and exerciser for years and never lifted heavy weights (I dabbled in crossfit but never lifted super heavy there) until I met my husband who introduced me to powerlifting. Approximately one year separates these photos although my "before" physique stayed the same until this January. We began lifting and hitting conditioning workouts consistently in our garage gym and also began incorporating a lot of strongman movements into our workouts which did wonders for my physique. We began cutting in June for our first physique and bikini competitions which are coming up on November 4th and with our nutrition dialed in were able to take our transformations to the next level! I'm very excited to compete! [/QUOTE]
Great transformation wow!!
Still along way to get but we are getting there
It took about 18 months or so but here's mine. Approximately 70 pounds lost.
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Hey guys!
I'm pretty new to this forum, hopefully I can get your input.
So I've always been a pretty tall (6'0), yet kind of weak guy, especially hips up. My weight is alright, a bit overweight (185 lbs) and the way I lose weight is flat out weird: my waist and chest get smaller and my lower belly and love handles store all the fat. I've lost 40 lbs and hit a plateau.
Do you guys have any tips for guys with an uneven body type like myself (skinny chest/arms/torso and fat legs/lower belly/love handles)?
Thanks guys!
Well played!
hey everyone! havent posted any updates in a while. love this place, it's one of the main things that motivated me. i would sit and scroll through the pages for hours every night.
anyone just to recap. I lost over 220lbs through weight training/cardio and dieting!
the pics were coming out super zoomed so ill just post the gallery!
[url]https://imgur.com/a/npy1Z[/url]
Hi everyone,
My first post :)
I started a plan in october with help from a friend with a lot of knowledge and I'm trying to lower my body fat.
in october i was 202lbs now im 178.
i know there is a forum for bodyfat estimations but cant find it. can anybody advise.
[QUOTE=back2life;1544054731]hey everyone! havent posted any updates in a while. love this place, it's one of the main things that motivated me. i would sit and scroll through the pages for hours every night.
anyone just to recap. I lost over 220lbs through weight training/cardio and dieting!
the pics were coming out super zoomed so ill just post the gallery!
[url]https://imgur.com/a/npy1Z[/url][/QUOTE] Wow man awesome, thought my transformation was great, you beat me.. Also packing some real mass under there.
I guess you got your skin removed eh? Thinking of having mine but too expensive....
I was inspired by this same thread a year and a half ago, told myself I'm gonna post here someday, now it's the time I think as my cut is finally done and starting to bulk up..... 280lbs to 170.. 17 months. Still have a long way to go but getting there
[QUOTE=akj92fu;1544260921]Hi everyone,
My first post :)
I started a plan in october with help from a friend with a lot of knowledge and I'm trying to lower my body fat.
in october i was 202lbs now im 178.
i know there is a forum for bodyfat estimations but cant find it. can anybody advise.[/QUOTE] I'd say around 13-14
[QUOTE=brysondalton;1538141111]Started back in march weighing in at around 300Lbs. After 8 Months of hard work im finally where i wanna be.[/QUOTE] Natty? doubt it.