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A year of working my fat ass out. Before and After. *PICS* :P

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Congrats congrats. I started a diet way back in high school, lost a lot, but college put it all back. Lookin to drop back down again soon 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ZaneNBK
Originally posted by: Koing
I see. It would suck to start out that overweight. Any reason why you think you have always been
overweight? Did you eat big portions or eat badly with lots of ice cream, chocolates and cakes?
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Big portions, zero excercise and parents that were also very overweight. I spent ALL my free time
playing computer games up until I started getting in shape. I still love computer games but I'm down from
about 40+ hours a week of gaming to maybe 10 hours a week if I'm lucky.

Might go back up to 20 hours a week if I ditch the girlfriend. We'll see. 😛
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So genetics may have played a role in being overweight. Wait, your not overweight now. That shoots that theory out of the water. I find it amusing that some people claim they are fat because their parents were fat. They don't look at their lifestyle as to why they are fat. I applaud your effort to change and not blame it on a fictious gene syndrome.

KK

 

First of all: GREAT JOB!

Second:

You say mostly BFL. How did you deviate, why, and did that work better than a more strict BFL program?

When lifting did you do 60 reps of each excercise in a 12 10 8 6 12 12 patern? Did you lift at home or at a gym? If at home, what equipment do you use?

When eating: Did you break up your eating into 6 small meals a day? How did you integrate that into your social life?

Did you discard the BFL 20 minute aerobic solution completely or extend it for your 30 to 40 minute workouts? Bill seems to be fairly hard over on the 20 minutes, do you think you would have done better or worse following the BFL regimen?

Did the martial arts aid in your mental discipline or just give you another way to huff and puff and a support group?

Which protien shakes did you like or did you make your own?

Do your suplements contain ephedra? Ok just looked it up: ECA stack stands for Ephedra Cafeine Asperin? Yikes you probably could have kept up the 40 hour a week computer game couch potatoe lifestyle and still lost a ton a weight on that Jr Speed...........





 
Originally posted by: trikster2
First of all: GREAT JOB!

Second:

You say mostly BFL. How did you deviate, why, and did that work better than a more strict BFL program?
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I used the excercise program specified by my trainer at the time. It's basically a generic 3-day split program. The diet was almost purely BFL, I just stayed away from some of the starchy foods he says are OK like potatos and white rice.

When lifting did you do 60 reps of each excercise in a 12 10 8 6 12 12 patern? Did you lift at home or at a gym? If at home, what equipment do you use?
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Most 3 set of 8-12. Towards the end I was going heavier with less reps (6-8 range) because that seems to work better for building strength for me. Lately I've been using the BodyBuilding.com forums to fine-tune my excercise program. There's a TON of info on that site.

When eating: Did you break up your eating into 6 small meals a day? How did you integrate that into your social life?
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Yes, 5-6 meals per day when loosing and now I'm doing 6-7 since I'm trying to build. 2-3 meals per day were good quality protein bars though, that makes it much easier to eat properly and still keep a normal schedule. No, they're not as good as real food but they're still fairly good. Just make sure you get a bar with no collagen. Right now I really like the Real Protein bars since they have no collagen and have a mix of slow and fast absorbing proteins.

Did you discard the BFL 20 minute aerobic solution completely or extend it for your 30 to 40 minute workouts? Bill seems to be fairly hard over on the 20 minutes, do you think you would have done better or worse following the BFL regimen?
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As stated above, I didn't use his excercise routine. I did great with my current routine so I don't necessarily think I would've done any better. Don't know if I would've done worse either, no way to tell really.

Did the martial arts aid in your mental discipline or just give you another way to huff and puff and a support group?
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I got into martial arts about 4-5 months into my program. I did it because it's good cardio and a lot more fun than a treadmill or stationary bike. I no longer do cardio in a gym, I get all my cardio from my 3+ 60-90 minute kickboxing classes a week. That's also partly because you need to do less cardio when you're trying to build muscle.

Which protien shakes did you like or did you make your own?
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Go to BodyBuilding.com and check in their forums. What I used wasn't necessarily the best or the cheapest. Now I'm using ProteinCustomizer.com so I can whip up my own formulas that fit in better with my diet and work-out plan.

Do your suplements contain ephedra? Ok just looked it up: ECA stack stands for Ephedra Cafeine Asperin? Yikes you probably could have kept up the 40 hour a week computer game couch potatoe lifestyle and still lost a ton a weight on that Jr Speed...........
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LOL, hardly Jr. Speed. You've been reading some of the rabid anti-ephedra sites I see. I'm not going to get too heavy into this because there have already been a ton of debates about this here and elsewhere but Ephedra's effect isn't anywhere near as much as you seem to think. It raises your metabolism and there are some SMALL risks that are really only an issue if you have previous heart/kidney (or liver, whichever it is I forget) conditions. I used it 3x's a day for 8-9 months and never had a problem (with about a week break every 3-4 weeks). For me it boosted my metabolism and gave me more energy throughout the day. It wouldn't have helped a bit if I'd stayed on my old diet without any excercise and even if it had I would've ballooned back up right after quiting. Despite what the commercials say (or used to), it's no miracle pill.

I haven't taken Ephdra much (maybe once a week on occasion) in the last 4-5 months and I've had no problem keeping the weight off and continuing to lower my BF%. Mainly I use it now on those days when I've had 4 hours of sleep and still have to go to work. 😛
 
dang...I'm really impressed. I took a double take at the second set of pictures. 🙂 Congratulations man, you must feel great.
 
Wooooooow! Congratulations, Zane. I'm amazed sometimes and find it hard to believe that two pictures tell the story of the same person. You look so different. Kudos to you for your determination to succeed. I'm quite impressed. I would give you a hug if I could. 😉 LOL! Congratulations again, gentleman. Hopefully you'll be a living proof and motivation for others with similar issues or even people with non-similar issues. I hope your motivation stays intact so you never revert to the same condition you were in before.

P.S.: Jehovah, never say "never" in such context 'cuz you never know.
 
ZaneNBK

Thanks for the bodybuilding.com link. Looks like great prices. Just ordered the accufit myotape for $4.99 and the cheapest www.froogle.com would turn up is $9.99

So you saved me $5 bucks... Thanks!

Picked up a couple of the bodybuilding.com $1.99 26oz shakers too. Look pretty decent first I've seen with a tight screw on lid and a great size.

If it lives up to it's description a lot better than the GNC pop off if you look at it sideways lid shaker I almost brought for $4.99 yesterday. So that's another $6 saved and potential laptop soaked in protien mix disastor avoided. Thanks again!

> You've been reading some of the rabid anti-ephedra sites I see.

No my ephedra came from the uncontrolable shakes, paranioa and racing think I'm going to die heart palpitations I got when I tried out my wife's "Stacker2". Almost called 911 but got online and found out the symptoms are well known side effect of ephedra and most people don't die from it.

Also, the "Jr Speed" comment came from the warning we got at work that use of ephedra could lead to failing a drug test due to a false positive for speed. And if that happened you were SOL. Might be just anti-ephedra scare you straight B.S. as I have not not seen that claim any where else

But I totaly believe you when you say it works for you and you had no bad side effects. My wife never has had a problem with it that I know of, she was surprised when I warned her about it. I just caution people who are "into" supplementation to take it easy on anything ephedra based until they see how it effects them.

Once again great job!

 
ZaneNBK,

I read this thread (or at least the first page) a few days ago.
I just moved back into my parent's house for the summer and after I took a shower this morning, I noticed my pants (which fit like a month or two ago) were tight.

So I got on the scale. I was suprised to discover that one of my big *fears* had occured - I am over 300 lbs.

I am very glad to hear your success story. I have already started eating healthier foods (grilled chicken salad tonight). I am going to get into an exercise routine soon.


I have a few questions: how do you deal with eating 5-6 meals a day when everyone else (in my case, at least) eats 3. How do protein bars and shakes come into play here? What are they used for? How effective are they for weight loss, etc.


I'll be in contact with you. 🙂

 
Originally posted by: technogeeky
ZaneNBK,

I read this thread (or at least the first page) a few days ago.
I just moved back into my parent's house for the summer and after I took a shower this morning, I noticed my pants (which fit like a month or two ago) were tight.

So I got on the scale. I was suprised to discover that one of my big *fears* had occured - I am over 300 lbs.

I am very glad to hear your success story. I have already started eating healthier foods (grilled chicken salad tonight). I am going to get into an exercise routine soon.


I have a few questions: how do you deal with eating 5-6 meals a day when everyone else (in my case, at least) eats 3. How do protein bars and shakes come into play here? What are they used for? How effective are they for weight loss, etc.


I'll be in contact with you. 🙂
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Technogeeky. I'm just starting out on "the program" but here is my experience:

The 6 meal a day thing is doable.

For me what works is this:

Preplan meals. If I need to think about what I am going to eat when I am hungry forget it. the battle is over my stomach has already won. Let your mind win by giving it a head start on your hunger.

Pre-mix protein shakes and store in 20oz coke bottles. I'll throw two 20z coke bottles and a protien bar in a ziplock bag for my between meals meals at work

If eating "out" with friends plan on eating 1/3 to 1/2 of what you order at the most. Even if it is a salad. Save the rest for a later meal.

A typical day for me will go like this:

0600 Breakfast: Scrambled Egg beater in a low carb/high fiber tortilla
0900 Protien shake (about the time I will normail have a pop tart)
1130 Premade lunch like salmon with wild rice or brocoli. (I get frozen pre-packaged individual serving salmon at sams club. boil several of those at once, make wild rice mix in rice cooker, package in ziplock/glad cheap containers).
1400 Protien bar
1600 2nd protien shake
1800 Dinner: Salad (organic bagged, I'm lazy) with white chicken breast (baked/grilled en-mass at the begining of the week).

Do that and most importantly work out six days a week and you'll fit back into your size 42 pants in no time...

Oh and drink WATER. Not diet coke, not iced tea lots of water.

I don't necessarily like doing 3 meal substitutes a day BUT if you look at the garbage I was eating before (poptart addict) yikes.

www.bodyforlife.com and www.bodybuilding.com have a lot of good info. bodyforlife actually has little movies of each workout you can do with a cheap $50 set of barbells and an excel spreadsheets for tracking your progress. They also have a meal planner. Warning, if you use openoffice it tends to choke on the spreadsheets (at least under windows) as the spreadsheet has tab for every single day of the 12 week program. I have a laptop with me in the workout room and watch the low res videos to help correct my form. (if just starting out weight lifting start light VERY light and focus on form or you WILL injure yourself) The bestselling book bodyforlife is pretty good but you can get the basic info at the web site.

ANANDTECH: How about a fitness forumn to help combat the amazing trend towards obesity in todays society especially geekdom.

Tipping 200 a week ago kicked me in the but (6 foot tall). 197.6 when I started a week ago 192.4 this morning. I know the rapid weight loss is mostly water weight and will level off but what I hope does not level off is my energy level. Even though I ache all over from lifting for the first time in years the small high quality meals really does seem to keep your metabism up, even better than chain drinking diet cokes like I used to.




 
i just started my workout...hopefully i will be able to start a thread in a month or two with pics of my new body 🙂


congrats man, i was doing pretty well on my own, but this has truly inspired me to keep going
 
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