Artist....wow ripped!! 😳
loling at bigblackshed.
down from just under 15st in 36" waist jeans to just shy of 12st and 32" jeans need a belt to hold them up (dont want to by 30" just in case i dont fit then i'd depress myself lol)
6foot tall on the dot like artist.
more than doubled/tripled what weights i can lift depending on the muscle group and on my first ever commute on tuesday this week i did 16miles at an average of a little over 20mph.
now have visible abs but not super defined unless i stretch. still got the love handles though and they wind me up a bit!
i could happily post how i did it if anybody is interested, but i wont assume they are 🙂
a year or so since I last saw you Phil, but how much weight have you gained? I'd confidently say last time I saw you that you were skinnier than me,
the bonus of being 6' tall and having had a fair amount of muscle in the past is that when i lost that muscle and put on fat, the fat sat proprotionaly around my whole body, i stil had pecs that looked like good hard pecs, but they were fat... same with the rest of my body, looked less chubby than i was because it was held around big muscle groups as well as the belly
phil I am interested.
yes phil i am bi curious too
I have lost a kg last couple of weeks...Good luck to th OP
junky you tart, you told me it was my man boobs only..
OK, here's basically how i did it:
[b]Diet:[/b]
The biggest factor in diet was getting the support of mrsconsequence, she's a chocolate fiend and would always persuade me to join her in pudding, she's also a pizza lover. I sat down with her and we discussed how important it was for me to lose the weight, not only for my mental health but my long term physical health (degenerative back problem, type 2 diabetes in family). She went from getting frustrated with me if i didnt join her in eating badly to proud of me for saying no when she slipped up and offered stuff 🙂
No more takeaways unless special occasion, Friday is no longer a special occasion 😆
Biggest meal of the day is lunch time so my body has a chance to burn it a bit before i settle down for the evening.
Dinners are small, this often means i dont eat with/the same meal as mrsconsequence... initially this caused friction, but the change in my body has meant she has now adjusted her diet for the better too.
Think of the basic principles of the iDiet, but not beating myself up for the odd bit of sugar or bread. Try to make as many changes as you can handle, doesn't have to be all at once. It was only about 2 months ago i stopped having sugar in my morning coffee, but still have some milk.
If i'm slipping up then i try to ensure i slip up before 5pm, knowing i've had a a fair amount of treats at lunch helps motivate me to have a smaller/healthier dinner.
No puddings. This is a difficult but important habit to break i think. you don't need them.
Protein for breakfast (for example: protein shake, scrambled eggs, tin of tuna) and only eating after exercising in the mornings.
[b]Exercise[/b]
I [u]try[/u] to do 2-3 rides a week with friends, these could be anything from an hour's mess around to 3 hours and are never that intense.... I find it important to keep MTB as a fun activity so i dont fall out of love with it. Last year mrsconsequence and i found ourselves riding like we were training, but only training to maintain some base fitness, it sucked the fun out of it.
Spinning - 2 mornings a week, 45 min sessions. I love spinning because you only get out of it what you put into it... setting your own resistance means you make it as hard as you're willing to push 🙂 Making friends with other people in the spin class really helps, i can chat to nearly everyone there and that makes it easier to get up for!
Weights/core - the other 3 weekday mornings. 30mins worth of upper body (for me this is shoulders, pecs and back... no biceps or legs, riding takes care of the legs and i dont care about biceps (they do grow naturally as a result of being used in most back work-outs though), 15minutes of core work using those swiss/gym balls and crunches/sit-ups, then 5-10minutes of stretching.
This adds up to only 1 hour at the gym each morning which i do on the way to work after having my morning coffee. By going in the morning i dont feel guilty about coming home from work and doing nothing 🙂
So as you can see, there was no magic formula: regular cardio work-out (riding, spinning) regular weights (increases metabolism, changes body shape for quicker/more visible improvements) and healthy changes to my diet... nothing super strict, and i dont beat myself up for buying a sandwich at tescos instead of a mixed bean salad for example...
I think the beating yourself up leads to giving up completely, it has for me in the past so i've made a concious effort to just keep going 🙂
Again, the support of your partner: them understanding you might not eat the same meals as them and them not trying to push their unhealthy stuff on you to make themselves feel better about eating a bar of chocolate whilst you say 'no, i'm trying to be good remember'...
It's very easy to feel like you're being a fatfatfatty if your partner refuses to eat what you eat remember that and make sure you support your partner if they're supporting you in your healthy endeavours!
Count me in as interested too Phil might help toe next 25 kgs of blubber
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If everyone in the world had the same body fat as you, it would remove 63,932,487 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population
Still got a bit of weight to lose though.
its worth remembering that as a general rule the lighter you are, the less you burn naturally throughout the day so weight loss slows the more you lose. hence the SSF (stubborn stomach fat as solo used to call it) being the hardest to shift. the bigger you are the faster you'll shift weight if you work hard, but you will need to work MUCH harder to maintain that rate of weight loss as you get healthier.
its amazing how many calories the body burns just staying fat 😯
its amazing how many calories the body burns just staying fat
Haha, yes! It's why the super porkers (not your average slightly obese wannabe) you see on those stupid shows always seem to eat in excess of 6000 or more calories per day, every day. Now I can eat for England, but in order to be able to get 6000 calories in me in a day, I'd have to work up one hell of an appetite for it through exercise.
My Dad was recently 16st but eating a normal(ish) 2500 calories or so per day. He's currently unable to do any strenuous exercise through various health problems related to his joints (not helped by excess weight), but decided to do something drastic to shift the weight. Just by cutting his calorie intake in half, he shifted 20lb in 6 weeks. Obviously I'm not saying this is recommended for everyone, but it has also helped him marginally gain the ability to at least go out for longer walks with his dog again.
BANana Can you give a brief outline of The Threshfield route? Looking for some new gentle routes to get me back on the bike. Ta
Come on Phil, its not all about the x and y. Credit where credits due and all that.
[s]besides which, I already stalked his forum activity and saw he has a wife [/s] 😉
this thread is wrong on so many levels, I am off to have my memory wiped 😀
I am off to have my memory wiped
After that pic of TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR, I am off to have my screen wiped.
Anna, if you're perving over him anywhere near as much as i am then he's now classed as a vulnerable adult.
remember, if the police ask, it's not stalking, its 'recreational following', or 'urban hide and seek'
EDIT - DAMN! forum rules dictate he's only got an imaginary wife 😀 plus he took the photo of himself, it wasn't taken for him by his 'wife' so that mean's you're in with a chance
[b]mboy - Member[/b]Seriously though, if you did it in that length of time I'm pretty sure everyone on this thread wants to know how.
[b]Kinda my thoughts too, though I know people who have achieved similar. It takes hours and hours of endless gym sessions and being ultra strict with your diet though, but can be done. One of my mates was 16st or so last year, mostly chubby (he's under 6ft), now he's about 13st and has a washboard stomach just like STR's.[/b]
I think you should be able to find the dates on the pics somewhere - might have been 4 months between them being taken actually, but the weight loss took 3 months.
I just sorted my diet, stopped eating junk, too many spuds and bread - stopped eating too late at night and watched the calories (easily staying between 1500 & 2000 per day. I've mentioned my diet on here a few times, so won't go into it again, but it's not too dissimilar to the iDave. I'll happily post what I eat in a week if anyone want to know though. The heaviest I've been was 15.5st a few years back when office bound. I got that down to 12.5st in 6 months by eating less and riding my bike. Junk food and lack of riding saw that creep up to 13.5st and I decided to make it stick this time.
Training wise, I do about 1hr 10mins at the gym, Saturday & Sunday - 20 mins of that is cardio (on rower, or treadmill), the rest is weights. I can't remember the last time I rode my bike (don't have time) and other than that I do a few press-ups, dumbell curls and crunches for 20 mins a couple of nights a week.
There was a bit of muscle under the fat to start with - always had reasonable pecs masquerading as moobs and reasonable sized biceps, other than that I guess I'm just lucky that I don't have to put a massive effort in. I'm not that fit cardio wise.
Phil forum rules dictate that it's not really a picture of him!
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someones drawn on your arm swede!
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Thankfully The Swede doesn't!
So can I post nudie pics of me now?
yes, yes i believe you can
*i am not a mod
bet trout didn't expect this to happen
You'll all have to wait until I get home and spruce things up a bit.
I'm pretty sure today is dress down Friday. So taken literally, I think it should be fine to get one's junk out.
*i am not a mod also
spruce things up a bit.
Best make sure you warm your hands first.....
grade 2 front and back? 😆
I was going to go for a clever fade... getting shorter towards the little fella.
Make him look real big an' all.
shave an arrow pointing down towards it
*i may or may not have done this before.
I might just plait it.
Make him look real big an' all.
A warm room will help this, a cold room will not help at all and could well make things worse.....
STR if that's "all" you did to achieve that shape, then you've made even me jealous! I'm on a gym break right now (got boring, going back next month though), but at 3 gym sessions similar to yours and at least one bike ride every week, I look nothing like you! I had to gain weight too to get any muscles (and in 6 weeks off the gym, I've lost 7lb and gained tubbiness too. Muscle does weigh more than fat people!), maybe I really need to continually be stricter with what I eat rather than just sporadically so.
Reminiscing over some of my best ever posts on here should help.
hot bath, photo taken just after pleasuring the fellow, angle him towards the lens, second log-in ready for after the ban
*warms up gifs for TSY's show and tell*
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They clamped down on all my log-ins. Can't even use Mrs Yeti's anymore.
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STR if that's "all" you did to achieve that shape, then you've made even me jealous! I'm on a gym break right now (got boring, going back next month though), but at 3 gym sessions similar to yours and at least one bike ride every week, I look nothing like you! I had to gain weight too to get any muscles (and in 6 weeks off the gym, I've lost 7lb and gained tubbiness too. Muscle does weigh more than fat people!), maybe I really need to continually be stricter with what I eat rather than just sporadically so.
I've specifically tried not to bulk up in the gym, as I don't want to be big, just ripped - so I don't go too big on protein. I think most of the muscle was there to start with, just latent and covered with a bit of fat. Pecs are a bit bigger now than that photo and biceps are nicely cut.
Oh, I'm 40 too - just wish I'd done it in my 20's & 30's
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my eyes!
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Dont know if im brave enought to post a picture of myself up here but here it is, i am 5'9'' and weighed a healthy twelve to twelve and a half stone, then i was given venlaflaxine (sp?) and jumped up to a fatty sixteen stone in 9 months, a year and a bit later i am off the medication and around tweleve and three quarters. Piss taking welcome, yes my upper body is far too broad for my legs but thats what i was given.
Certainly didnt expect it to go to 90 posts but its a good chuckle
hopefully it wont get locked so I can show a ripped Trout in a few months
for the after pics 😆
