How did getting fit change your life?

One year took me from irredeemable fatty to "he might lift"

How long did it take you to get fit?

3-6 months for me to see real visible progress

6-12 months co-workers and friends notice physical changes

1-2 years strangers and new acquaintances say things when they first meet me regarding being in shape, etc

Just passed the 2 years in April. Don't know what happens next.

What was your starting weight bro? Did your stretch marks become less visible?
I started at 240 currently 210, and mine are pretty noticeable and it makes me really insecure

diet/supps?

pls no roids

made this pic for a transformatin thread a while ago. 135lbs skinnyfat to 155lb in pics tonight.

diet: IIFYM, 1g protien per lb of lbm. when bulking no more than 300 calories above maintenance. You don't need roids for this, my man.

how tall

since you do iifym, whats your cut?

and pls how tall

5'9, average of all manlets.

Depending on how aggressive i'm being, at least -500 up to -1000 calories/day below maintenance TDEE. I always opt out of cardio, hence having to go further below -500.

>opt out of cardio
Ayy lemao

What supplements do you take on your cut and in general? I've been struggling cutting from my winter bulk the last 3%, heard yohimbine and shit like that is good (not rlly into supps except whey/creatine)

And whats your routine? inb4 brosplit

Have you tried Yoga? Instead of going out running or biking, I'll usually do Yoga or Swim. Good job btw, looking juicy. How long was the transformation?

Only daily sups I vouch for are fish oil, multi vit, and creatine. Preworkout is life too.

Routine:

(A) Chest and Biceps
(B) Legs and Triceps
(C) Shoulders and Back

ABCABCx

Triceps
Cable kick backs
Straight bar push down
Rope push down
Skull crushers
Tricep Ext Machine

Legs
Weighted Hyper tensions extension bench
Leg curl
Leg extension
Leg press
No squats, simply because I don't enjoy them.

Shoulders
Front raises
Side raises
Lat raises
Overhead press
Rear delt fly

Back
Pull ups
row machine
Straight arm pull down
Dumbbell rows
Lat pull downs

Chest
Incline dumbbell bench press
Cable crossovers high
Incline bench machine
Pec Dec chest flys

Biceps
Preacher curl
Side hammer curl
Rope curl
Curl machine
Hammer curl

I was already a shitlord who hated fat women I hate them so much one of my best quotes is
>fat women are the scurge of the earth their should be a concentration camp for fat women.
I started getting Veeky Forums I am around 15% body fat an finally my v line is showing.
I don't get women it actually made things worse because I became a even bigger shitlord constantly telling fatty women off telling them they eat like pigs so they look like pigs.
I am on my way to getting the body I always wanted it's what I want in life not for women but for my self.

Damn, I'm a skinny lil bitch right now (slowly gaining weight back to 150lbs). Loss a bunch of weight cuz of my job, I was trying allpros beginner routine...thinking about trying out this routine you have.

>I've gone on 7 dates this year, and none of them have amounted to anything.
How about you leave and never come back normie?

I look like you were in the left now, did u cut to lose the belly or just bulk and it went away?

First thing I did was waste 3 months cutting just because I was desperate to see abs. Didn't realize I would end up looking like an emaciated runner, hugely dissapointing. So from then on I lean bulked for at least 6 months before taking a 1-2 month cut, then repeat.

Vintage balcony shit when from that regretful cut (down to 125 in this pic, my lowest ever. Bad move when I should have been focused on building a solid foundation of muscle.

btw I fell for literally everything (except SS) back then, just like everyone does.

>eating chicken/eggs, rice, & broccoli every meal
>getting a speeding ticket driving home from the gym cuz that 30-60minute anabolic window, hurry my muscle is eating itself im shrinking as we speak fuuuuuuu
>eating almost 250g protein/day, literally twice as much as I needed.
>many many more idiotic fit memes/outdated broscience

Please list more of them. The people must know.

>doing any ab isolation work (not necassary, wont help in revealing abs, only diet will. it will help with core strength to assist in compound movements, though)
>squats and deadlifts are the only way to have good legs (I do neither)
>a whole shitload of other sups that didn't do anything

>can only wear like 5 shirts in my closet now because most are oversized
>if I pretend to play fight someone they get scared like I'd actually hit them and walk away
>get several tinder matches every day
>girls still get bored talking to me unless we're flirting
>have eaten nothing but chicken and lentil soup for a week

>eating chicken/eggs, rice, & broccoli every meal

what is so bad about it?

what is the alternative?

meh

nice bodyfat %

>>have started jerking off to traps and occasionally some gay shit but i dont consider myself gay

Not doing abs fucked my back up in the long run.
A couple sets of ab rollers wont hurt.

I do ab-roll and planks. Nothing feels better than a blasted core.

Filtered. Fuck off attention slut.

The fact that there is an entire world of food to eat. You can still enjoy any variety of food and make the exact same gains so long as your calories and macro's are on point. If you are someone who doesn't et enjoyment from food and only see it as an inconvenient necessity in life, brodiet is just fine. That's not me though. Love cooking and love sweets, so IIFYM works best for me.

Does that mean you can eat more sugar and starches at evening iiffym?

what pootine though

youtube.com/watch?v=WX-bE70F4Kg

any programs you can recommend?

You got a recipe for that lentil soup? I bought some and I need more ways to cook them.

Why would you snap the EXACT SAME PICTURE 4 TIMES?

Morning coffee time fitfam.

100% yes, that is what it means.

Hah, when I read this my mind went straight to "why does this dude want to know what poutine I like? answer: salsa verde + cheddar". Realizing now you meant routine... I've always run my own 3 day hypertrophy routine:

A) Chest and Biceps
(B) Legs and Triceps
(C) Shoulders and Back

ABCABCx

Triceps
Cable kick backs
Straight bar push down
Rope push down
Skull crushers
Tricep Ext Machine

Legs
Weighted Hyper tensions extension bench
Leg curl
Leg extension
Leg press
No squats, simply because I don't enjoy them.

Shoulders
Front raises
Side raises
Lat raises
Overhead press
Rear delt fly

Back
Pull ups
row machine
Straight arm pull down
Dumbbell rows
Lat pull downs

Chest
Incline dumbbell bench press
Cable crossovers high
Incline bench machine
Pec Dec chest flys

Biceps
Preacher curl
Side hammer curl
Rope curl
Curl machine
Hammer curl

Laptop's webcam snaps them that way.

You could take just 1 picture to get more details of your physique in, instead of 4.
Btw, even cheap smartphones have better picture quality than webcams, so you could use one instead to get more sharp and less grainy pictures.

Webcam on laptop is substantially easier for capturing physique updates as I can set it down and move, opposed to buying a selfie stick or something for my phone.

>tfw no qt3.14 live-in gf to take gratuitous pictures of me, gotta do it all myself

it made me realize the only people who matter are Hitler and Taylor Swift

I don't know if it was getting fit or just growing up that changed my life, but I've pretty much turned my life around in the past two years.

Earlier I was a lazy fatty fighting with depression and anxiety. I was in an abusive marriage with a woman I didn't love. Too whipped and scared to do anything on my own. Trying (and failing) to make sense of my shitty childhood and get over it. Basically a depressed child at the age of 25.

At some point I decided to start changing things. Got my ass to the gym, got my diet in order, made big changes in my habits.
Went from 253lbs to 190 in just under a year, got out of the shitty marriage, started to act like an adult.

Now I have a really sweet and beautiful gf, I'm in a better shape than ever before and I'm actually managing my life myself. I'm still poor and uneducated but I'm working on those things next, looking to start my own business in the near-future.

It all started when I started frequenting this mongolian basket-weaving forum, so thanks guys.

>168 cm
>dating chances

I've been where you are right now. Sort of at least. When you are fit, even as much as normal with a bit muscle going, you stop giving a fuck. There are always shitty dates, you just brush them off and go back to your regular mirings, flirt with them a bit, and get back on track.

Confidence boost is extremely important for you, more than being healthy and having feeling of power once you drop that shitty weight. You feel like you can do a standing backflip (don't, it's much harder than that), or pretty much anything, and that eases up talking to people or caring what they think about you. Because you know you are magnificent fucker that can do whatever and fuck this broad, she has fat ankles and there is always another one.

Mirin' progress

The literal definition of "making it". Congrats bro, I'm jelly.

Is this achievable natty?

OP here.

So I'm losing about 1 kg a week, but I'm supposed to be on a 1000 Calorie deficit. What is my actual deficit?

-1,000 calories per day equates to 2lb's of fat loss per week. This doesn't factor in any additional calorie deficit from cardio. Rule of thumb (not taking into consideration possible muscle atrophy when cutting): Each -3,500 calories through diet and/or cardio = 1 lb of fat loss. Keep it up man, great progress.