What's your weight loss story?

papa lazarou,
 
that cut has left you in quality nick! what is your diet looking like at the minute then? thats inspired me to cut, i'm a little smaller than you but my shape is similar to yours in the first pic

thanks guys. diet currently involves a lot of fruit and veg! im still cutting so typical day will involve 
breakfast-banana and a low fat yoghurt
lunch- salad or sandwich on granary bread with more fruit
tea-reasonably healthy meals, always with huge portion of salad to keep me filled up.
if i get hungry during the day il just have some extra fruit or bags of snack a jacks which i find quite filling. 

I like this thread. I used Yoga for weight loss.

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OK, this is my first post, so here we go...

I’ve been weight training since I was about 14-15, but didn’t do anything for the last couple of years. In Feb 2009 my weight rocketed to 87kg/192lbs (from the usual 73-75kg). 





I joined the gym and spent 1 month killing myself with weights and cardio (treadmill) ....and it got me exactly nowhere; I was still at 87kg! That was without a proper diet, just basically doing weights and cardio. I was trying to eat healthier but not really paying any attention to the number of calories I was consuming (I thought that counting calories was for women, no offence :) )


Realising I’m basically wasting my time I decided to Google for some information and suprise suprise muscletalk came up.
After reading up for couple of days I took the following steps:

• Introduced more cardio; doing 5 days a week outside, instead of 2 x 20min session in the gym. I started with 20 mins slowly progressing to 1 hour (8 miles) and occasionally doing 1 hour 30 (12 miles) mins on Saturday/Sunday if i felt like doing a bit more. I use to absolutely hate cardio, but I do really enjoy it now!
• Started counting calories. The first time I counted how much I ate in a day I was truly shocked! It came to about 4500k! And that was after I sort of switched to a “healthier” diet. Had to completely change my diet, threw away everything I ate before; introduced plenty of veg, cottage cheese (love that stuff), turkey stakes, wheat bran (excellent filler!)

And after couple of weeks I got to a point where I was steadily losing 0.7kg a week (edit: was "a month")!

Sometimes I felt like it wasn’t worth it and was thinking of giving it up (that would usually be after a heavy cardio session J) but the next day I was ready to do more. I was also trying to spice up my routine by getting myself new toys every couple of weeks, either a new supplement or a gadget something like a watch with a heart rate monitor etc. Think that really helped the motivation J

In the very beginning of all this (Mar 09) I set a very very optimistic target for myself: to reach 72kg by 1^st of July 09 (15kg/33lbs loss). There was absolutely no way I could actually reach that target but still decided to keep to push myself harder.
Well, by 1^st of July my actual weight was 71.4kg! Could probably get it down all the way to 68kg but thought that at 68kg I would look more sick that healthy. (I’m 6’0)


This is me almost at the end of the cut (15 June 09 I think, at appx 74.5 kg)  




Since then I have been slowly lean bulking; I’m now 75kg and looking a lot fuller.


I know its not the most radical transformation but for me its a result :) I never actually lost any weight before!


Thank you to speak me! J
 

RussianDodger


OK, this is my first post, so here we go...

I’ve been weight training since I was about 14-15, but didn’t do anything for the last couple of years. In Feb 2009 my weight rocketed to 87kg/192lbs (from the usual 73-75kg). 





I joined the gym and spent 1 month killing myself with weights and cardio (treadmill) ....and it got me exactly nowhere; I was still at 87kg! That was without a proper diet, just basically doing weights and cardio. I was trying to eat healthier but not really paying any attention to the number of calories I was consuming (I thought that counting calories was for women, no offence :) )


Realising I’m basically wasting my time I decided to Google for some information and suprise suprise muscletalk came up.
After reading up for couple of days I took the following steps:

• Introduced more cardio; doing 5 days a week outside, instead of 2 x 20min session in the gym. I started with 20 mins slowly progressing to 1 hour (8 miles) and occasionally doing 1 hour 30 (12 miles) mins on Saturday/Sunday if i felt like doing a bit more. I use to absolutely hate cardio, but I do really enjoy it now!
• Started counting calories. The first time I counted how much I ate in a day I was truly shocked! It came to about 4500k! And that was after I sort of switched to a “healthier” diet. Had to completely change my diet, threw away everything I ate before; introduced plenty of veg, cottage cheese (love that stuff), turkey stakes, wheat bran (excellent filler!)

And after couple of weeks I got to a point where I was steadily losing 0.7kg a month!

Sometimes I felt like it wasn’t worth it and was thinking of giving it up (that would usually be after a heavy cardio session J) but the next day I was ready to do more. I was also trying to spice up my routine by getting myself new toys every couple of weeks, either a new supplement or a gadget something like a watch with a heart rate monitor etc. Think that really helped the motivation J

In the very beginning of all this (Mar 09) I set a very very optimistic target for myself: to reach 72kg by 1^st of July 09 (15kg/33lbs loss). There was absolutely no way I could actually reach that target but still decided to keep to push myself harder.
Well, by 1^st of July my actual weight was 71.4kg! Could probably get it down all the way to 68kg but thought that at 68kg I would look more sick that healthy. (I’m 6’0)


This is me almost at the end of the cut (15 June 09 I think, at appx 74.5 kg)  




Since then I have been slowly lean bulking; I’m now 75kg and looking a lot fuller.


I know its not the most radical transformation but for me its a result :) I never actually lost any weight before!


Thank you to speak me! J

Good work man, how old are you you've got a proper babyface in the first picture (from what you can see anyway)

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I'm 27 and the first picture was taken in Mexico, end of Jan 2009.

Wow, I was thinking more like 20 or thereabouts, probably because of all the fat you were holding

good work anyway

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Its the fat... Thank you 

great story, well done!!all should to take you as an example that they can do it!
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Thanks a lot!
 
I didn’t expect to do that well myself. Not that I think I’ve done exceptionally well, but in the beginning I thought I would be able to lose couple of kilos, well max 5kg and then the whole thing (diet & exercise) would become so intolerable that I would eventually give up. I was shocked to find that actually I was enjoying it even more everyday and as soon as I started seeing noticeable results in the mirror (2 months) I was determined to go all the way. 

Next target: lean bulk to around 80kg and get absolutely ripped (7-9%) for my holiday in Jan 2010  

Update (22 Aug 09)
Wanted to ask for a BF% estimate in another thread, so took a new picture this morning.

RussianDodger


OK, this is my first post, so here we go...

I’ve been weight training since I was about 14-15, but didn’t do anything for the last couple of years. In Feb 2009 my weight rocketed to 87kg/192lbs (from the usual 73-75kg). 





I joined the gym and spent 1 month killing myself with weights and cardio (treadmill) ....and it got me exactly nowhere; I was still at 87kg! That was without a proper diet, just basically doing weights and cardio. I was trying to eat healthier but not really paying any attention to the number of calories I was consuming (I thought that counting calories was for women, no offence :) )


Realising I’m basically wasting my time I decided to Google for some information and suprise suprise muscletalk came up.
After reading up for couple of days I took the following steps:

• Introduced more cardio; doing 5 days a week outside, instead of 2 x 20min session in the gym. I started with 20 mins slowly progressing to 1 hour (8 miles) and occasionally doing 1 hour 30 (12 miles) mins on Saturday/Sunday if i felt like doing a bit more. I use to absolutely hate cardio, but I do really enjoy it now!
• Started counting calories. The first time I counted how much I ate in a day I was truly shocked! It came to about 4500k! And that was after I sort of switched to a “healthier” diet. Had to completely change my diet, threw away everything I ate before; introduced plenty of veg, cottage cheese (love that stuff), turkey stakes, wheat bran (excellent filler!)

And after couple of weeks I got to a point where I was steadily losing 0.7kg a week (edit: was "a month")!

Sometimes I felt like it wasn’t worth it and was thinking of giving it up (that would usually be after a heavy cardio session J) but the next day I was ready to do more. I was also trying to spice up my routine by getting myself new toys every couple of weeks, either a new supplement or a gadget something like a watch with a heart rate monitor etc. Think that really helped the motivation J

In the very beginning of all this (Mar 09) I set a very very optimistic target for myself: to reach 72kg by 1^st of July 09 (15kg/33lbs loss). There was absolutely no way I could actually reach that target but still decided to keep to push myself harder.
Well, by 1^st of July my actual weight was 71.4kg! Could probably get it down all the way to 68kg but thought that at 68kg I would look more sick that healthy. (I’m 6’0)


This is me almost at the end of the cut (15 June 09 I think, at appx 74.5 kg)  




Since then I have been slowly lean bulking; I’m now 75kg and looking a lot fuller.


I know its not the most radical transformation but for me its a result :) I never actually lost any weight before!


Thank you to speak me! J

Just wanted to say what a great achievement and ask if you noted down a typical day/weeks diet that you could share?

Terrier, thank you

Not the best diet in the world, but here it goes (typical 4 days)


P.S: If I were to do it again I would change few things:  would drop the protein shake completely, add more fiber and eat a bit more in the evening

Weight: 170lbs/77kg
Height: 6'0ft/183cm
BF: <10%

ive cut out junk eating healthy and weight is falling off.
lost 6lbs in 2 weeks and im not going hungry.

average days eating in last 2 weeks

5 eggs breakfast with 1 yolk
protein shake mid morning
1 tin sardines in tom sauce dinner, 3 dry riveta
protein shake mid afternoon
gym 5.30
protein shake straight after
then 2 chicken breasts with sweet potatoes

as i say weight is coming off very well and feel so much better for it.
used to get a lot of tired spells through the day on old diet

fell so much better all round
 
thought i would feel week in the gym but still feeling strong

i dont know how to put photos up so ill try posting my fb links to my albums :/

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=622705110#/album.php?aid=244732&id=622705110

^^^ this is my first week of training weighing in at just over 16st, or 104kg


http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=622705110#/album.php?aid=259318&id=622705110


^^^^^ this is me after week 6 roughly around 15st 8lb


http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=622705110#/album.php?aid=278017&id=622705110


and this was me after my 12th and final week weighing at about 14st 12lb, this was a 12 week build cycle, i was doing low reps of heavy weights.


im currently week 4 into my low weight high rep cycle and im currently 13st 10lb, i have no body photos but do have a few face shots to which you can see the weight loss on my face, will bang up the next lot of photo links when i finish

http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=622705110#/photo.php?pid=7840837&id=622705110

^^^ most recent picture of me

What I've learned about weight loss is that, all we need is a lot of patience, lot of hard work and most importantly consistency....
 They lead us to the perfect result...

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hello everyone
 
Its been gud reading your stories and its given me a boost in motivation at a time when im flagging  and frustrated with my own progress. Im 38 and 6ft  2 and current weigh 196lbs. Not overweight by any means an bin weight training a few years now so bit ov bulk to. I started cutting to loses the spare tyre that woz developing around my waist. and ive dropped from 210lbs to wot i am now in about 14 weeks. Still have stubborn fat deposits more at the back of my waist front is flat but not showing six pack yet. Do i just keep going and these stubborn pockets will eventually go an the skin tighten or is it a sign of my age or wot? any ideas coz im getting frustrated at mo but if its just a case of patience then i can handle that. Also I started on a chicken and veg or chicken and rice diet supplement with MRP drinks inbetween but lacked energy got dizzy spells  and depressed so switched to a juice diet but thinking about going back to it as got better results.....are these symptoms normal. thanks for ur imput and its a great site!!

This is a great thread. some really inspirational stories which have spured me on to keep plugging away. I will post up my details and before and after pics when ive finished with my cut if all goes to plan!

Just a quick hello first post on the forum but been looking for long time now!! just thought i would post a few picks as i have just lost a bit of weight!! gone from 235 down to 182 in 9 weeks!! no storys honestly 9 weeks!!
 

 
 

 
 

 

 
 cheers sorry if pics are wrong! oh and camera date is wrong slimmer pics taken 1-2 hours ago!

drich1


hello everyone
 
Its been gud reading your stories and its given me a boost in motivation at a time when im flagging  and frustrated with my own progress. Im 38 and 6ft  2 and current weigh 196lbs. Not overweight by any means an bin weight training a few years now so bit ov bulk to. I started cutting to loses the spare tyre that woz developing around my waist. and ive dropped from 210lbs to wot i am now in about 14 weeks. Still have stubborn fat deposits more at the back of my waist front is flat but not showing six pack yet. Do i just keep going and these stubborn pockets will eventually go an the skin tighten or is it a sign of my age or wot? any ideas coz im getting frustrated at mo but if its just a case of patience then i can handle that. Also I started on a chicken and veg or chicken and rice diet supplement with MRP drinks inbetween but lacked energy got dizzy spells  and depressed so switched to a juice diet but thinking about going back to it as got better results.....are these symptoms normal. thanks for ur imput and its a great site!!

Hi there and welcome to MT,

May I suggest you start a seperate thread in the weight loss forum, then you will be able to get more specific advice and hopefully more members will see your questions and be able to help accordingly

Bazzrico


Just a quick hello first post on the forum but been looking for long time now!! just thought i would post a few picks as i have just lost a bit of weight!! gone from 235 down to 182 in 9 weeks!! no storys honestly 9 weeks!!
 

Hello,

Welcome to MT and well done on the weight loss!
I'm sure many members would like to know how you have achieved such fantastic results.  Could you do a short explanation of what you regime was like?

Thanks!

Thank you!

I started off with breakfast ceral bar at 7 with black coffee then 2 shredded wheat with skimmed milk and a banana at 10 and 1 then weight watchers ready meal at about 6 after i had done either excersice bike or a run!. Started at 15 mins and just incresed more and more think i have had 5-6 days of no cardio in the whole 9 weeks!!

Now changed in the last 2 weeks to doing 3 day split weights and cardio on the other 4 days run or bike (now running for 30-60 mins)

Now eating around 150-170 grams protein porridge oats,rice cakes etc (not had one cheat item the whole time as of yet!!)

hoping to lose more fat and regain or build as much muscle as poss and would love to see my 6 pack as never have!!
 
ps would love to know what bf% i might be?

I'm not very good at judging bodyfat from pics, hopefully someone else with a better trained eye can help!

thanks redhotf thats a good idea will do :o)

hi m8
 
suggest u buy some bf calipers from ebay £10 - £15 then you will know for sure. dont rely on the scales mine tell me im 25 but the calipers put me at 14. good luck

Bazzrico


Thank you!

I started off with breakfast ceral bar at 7 with black coffee then 2 shredded wheat with skimmed milk and a banana at 10 and 1 then weight watchers ready meal at about 6 after i had done either excersice bike or a run!. Started at 15 mins and just incresed more and more think i have had 5-6 days of no cardio in the whole 9 weeks!!

Now changed in the last 2 weeks to doing 3 day split weights and cardio on the other 4 days run or bike (now running for 30-60 mins)

Now eating around 150-170 grams protein porridge oats,rice cakes etc (not had one cheat item the whole time as of yet!!)

hoping to lose more fat and regain or build as much muscle as poss and would love to see my 6 pack as never have!!
 
ps would love to know what bf% i might be?

Calipers are useless. BF% is just a number and most confuse water under the skin with BF. Go by the mirror, the tape measure, and how your jeans fit

Stonking progress Bazz, should be proud of yourself!

Brilliant progress Baz!

Other members should note, though, that 4 stones in 9 weeks is not going to be achievable for many, nor is it really advisable, so progress for themselves shouldn't be measured against Baz's superhuman effort

Thank you all very much for the comments very good point about jeans fitting and mirrors!( cant stop looking in them!!) waist has gone from only 1 pair of jeans  that fit being 38" waist and skin tight not wasing them so they fit next time!! to baggy 34" waist and about 4 pairs and counting!! tops xxl to medium!! roll on the muscle growth!!

Baz,
 
That's pretty impressive. If you could bottle it you would be rich!

Amazing transformation and in only 9 weeks. It's amazing what can be achieved with hardwork and consistency

Bazzrico


Thank you!

I started off with breakfast ceral bar at 7 with black coffee then 2 shredded wheat with skimmed milk and a banana at 10 and 1 then weight watchers ready meal at about 6 after i had done either excersice bike or a run!. Started at 15 mins and just incresed more and more think i have had 5-6 days of no cardio in the whole 9 weeks!!

Now changed in the last 2 weeks to doing 3 day split weights and cardio on the other 4 days run or bike (now running for 30-60 mins)

Now eating around 150-170 grams protein porridge oats,rice cakes etc (not had one cheat item the whole time as of yet!!)

hoping to lose more fat and regain or build as much muscle as poss and would love to see my 6 pack as never have!!
 
ps would love to know what bf% i might be?

Nice work mate

did you take anyhing to aid you?

My story is still goin on..

21st7 back in may..down to 15st now and still a lot of work to do.

reading this thread has motivated me further.

Great to hear all the positive feedback and most say thank you very much! Sounds crazy but this is the 3rd time in 5 years i have done this! iam all or nothing trainning eatting running or absolutley nothing kebabs pizza cakes biscuits. But hit 30 this year so really dont wont to go back to where i was as gets harder and harder the older you get!. After my run yesterday which took about an hour probably 5ish miles down to 176 (12 stone 5) so was pleased but trying as hard as poss to gain muscle now!

Oh and did take some pills called ripped for 3 weeks got them from Asda £6.98 a tub but to be honest only took them as they were cheap and i was sticking very well to my diet and trainning!

 
A fantastic story!
 
Do you now stay the same? As in not bulking or cuttin?

Just try your hardest

trying to clean gain as much as possible eating about 200g protien and just porridge salad and rice cakes chicken cottage cheese normal sort of stuff!

 


This is my favortie picture on the web...... (no im not gay, hear me out lol)
Every time I get a bit disheartened about my loose skin and think "oww **** it just binge you look alright with a top on now" I come back to this photo and it inspires me to keep cutting !!
I was pretty much the same as the bigger version of iopener above....
 
I was about 19.7 stone and went down to 12.8 stone in about 5 months...... I balloned back up (thanks to a psychotic ex girlfriend that did nothing but feed me ??) to 17 stone but a couple of months ago got back on it AND IM STAYING ON IT FOR LIFE NOW !! im currently sitting around 13.4 and im not stoping until Im in the 9(odd)% BF catagory....

Hi All,

I guess this is probably not the easiest thing to post up but I hope that this post might help some other people that are just starting out and trying to lose weight / bodyfat.  This forum has been a huge help when I have struggled so if this post helps just one person it will be worth it.

I was always very lean as a teenager and played a fair bit of sport but gradually this tailed off as I entered my twenties and by the time I hit thirty I was very overweight and unfit.  Things were not going well for me at this point and I ended up getting divorced not being allowed to see my kids etc and became virtually alcoholic.

The years passed and a very unhealthy lifestyle was taking its toll I was drinking very heavily to try and escape my problems and would eat rubbish the whole time.  Anyway at my heaviest I was just over 18st with a 42" waist and I am 5 ft 11.

I dont recall exactly what the trigger was but one day I decided enough was enough and so decided to start my journey.  I look back on the initial few months and shudder now I still feel disgusted with myself for getting in such a state.

At the outset I struggled to do any cv without my heart pounding and feeling like I was gonna keel over and die!

Over the next twelve months I cut right back on my drinking and cleaned up my eating habits, I didn't follow a 'diet' as such just cut out all fatty / sugary foods, takeaways etc.

I am not gonna say there has been a few wobbles along the way because there has and I have struggled to motivate myself from time to time.  I have been really committed this past five months and train six days a week which is usually a 45 min cv session in gym or road run and every other day I train in the morning fasted for thirty mins.  I also do abs exercises every other day.

Recently I have asked for some help with a weights routine to introduce although I am very inexperienced at this side of things.  Hopefully this will help me progress even further.

My current stats are age 36, waist 32" and weight is 12st 9 lbs.

My main goal is to try and have a decent set of ABS for next summer and be confident to take my top off in public or on beach. 

I am not sure what my bodyfat % is although the research on here leads me to believe a low bf% is as much a part of good abs as exercising.

In summary if you are reading this and you are just starting out please believe it can be done and you must not despair.  If like me you looked at every way to cut corners like ECA etc forget it there is no way to achieve it in a short period of time I have learnt that.

My other advice would be not to let a bad day put you off everyone has wobbles along the way surely?

I have better self esteem now, am more confident and love having fitness as part of my life.  If you are just starting out I cannot begin to describe the feeling when someone you havent seen for a while compliments me it is the best feeling in the world.

Finally a big thank you to all that post on this forum it has been a huge help esp Red Hot F's story that motivated me right at the start, good luck to everyone.

Sean





 

Life is a journey, travel it well....

aintquitting

PS Cant get the pics up can anyone help? 

go to www.photobucket.com, sign up, upload your photos to that site.
 
the post the links here
 
 
 
well done on your weight loss too

IvanDrago

aintquitting

PS Cant get the pics up can anyone help? 

go to www.photobucket.com, sign up, upload your photos to that site.
 
the post the links here
 
 
 
well done on your weight loss too

All sorted cheers Ivan

Life is a journey, travel it well....

aintquitting





 

What a difference, you have done so well!   Brill!
....and thank you for taking the time to share your story with us all.