Hi,
Before / After pics are here : https://imgur.com/gallery/vATe1Yr
I'm turning 30 years old today and I finally achieved my year long goal of going from fat to "ripped". The before pictures were taken may 28th 2019. My starting weight was around 225 pounds/ 102 kg. The after pictures were taken today, my current weight is 169 pounds / 76 kg.
Backstory :
I was fat for most of my life. At 16 years old I remember seeing the number 250 pounds on a scale. I spent all of my time playing video games and would eat everything I could get my hands on. Once I got a job at a supermarket, the weight melted off a little. My job was mostly to gets the carts back inside at a pretty big and busy supermarket so I was walking all day. I probably lost 50 pounds at that point. I joined a gym a couple months later and started lifting weights. I lifted for a year or two, I wasn't taking it too seriously but I probably got down to 190 pounds.
The years went on and I got the weight back.
Three years ago I got a desk job in which the schedule rotated between Day/Evening/Night shifts. It got very rough, I wasn't exercising much. Every night shift I would eat so much food because my body was tired so I would eat anything I could find to give it energy. Most of the food I could get my hands on during the night time was McDonalds or other fast food. It got pretty bad, i was sitting all night at work and most of the time at home. It got to a point were I had chronic upper back pain. My posture was so awful, my head started going forward. Turns out I had Upper Crossed Syndrome. Somedays I wouldn't want to move because my upper back was in so much pain all the time. In order to fix my back issue, I started seeing a physiotherapist. Saw him for a couple months, it helped a little but I would still sit most of the time and couldn't drive a car for more than hour without feeling back pain. Then I tried a chiropractor for a couple months too, but again it didn't completely stopped the pain.
In May 2019 , my boss asked me if I would be interested in joining her team for the local ultra marathon. She needed 10 people to run 160 km in 24 hours. The race was in November so I had 6 months to get in better shape. I accepted and started running 3 times a week. My diet was still pretty trash but as I was getting a little more motivated everyday. At that point my only goal was to run 16km in November and not be the worst runner of the team. During that same time, my physiotherapist got me in contact with one of this friend who works as a private trainer in a Gym. I hired him started weight training once a week. He helped me figure out a sustainable diet and got me motivated to visit the gym more often.
When winter came along I had lost around 25 pounds and felt a lot better. My back pain was still there but way less frequent. My problem at that point is that I had no more motivation. The marathon was done and I had no more goal. So for the fun of it, I started telling all my friends that I wanted to see my abs before I turned 30 years old. I had 6 months left and I didn't think it was possible but because I kept telling everyone about it, I didn't want to fail. It gave me a new goal and motivation to keep going.
March 2020 arrived and CoronaVirus happened. My gym closed. I thought I was screwed and would never achieve my goal As it turns out, it actually helped me a lot because I couldn't go out drinking with friends anymore. I had so much free time to cook my own meals and workout. I downloaded the "chris heria" app and started doing his home quarantine workout. I live in a small apartment so I can't really get gym equipment so I had to learn to use my body weight only. Started doing calisthenics stuff and it turned out to be very fun. The weight kept going down but I knew i had to go down to 10-15% body fat in order to see my abs.
12 weeks ago I started "cutting" and it was so much easier than I tough it would be. I had this idea that "cutting" meant "starving" but it's so not true. All you have to do is find low calories recipes and binge eat on low calorie dense food. Also let's be honest, it's so much easier to not eat fast food and drink alcohol when all the bars and restaurants are closed. I went from 185 to 170 pounds in 12 weeks by mostly eating a shit ton of fruits and veggies.
Tl:Dr : Calories in, calories out.
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