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.

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)

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

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

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...

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!