Progress

thanks user. the diagnosis made all of the difference in the past couple of months.
I was lifting mostly and dieting, but as I said previously, I was unaware of an underlying condition which was diagnosed in July and has made a huge impact having my metabolism in check now.

my progress so far has been
253 lbs 205 lbs
start was 16th june
last weigh in was today, ive stagnated since a week att this one, will stabilize att 200 lbs for about 3-5 months while i build and try to maintain 200, and after that im going even lower

Those stars, are a Russian criminal?

Wtf? A year? A year to lose 20 whole pounds and a tiny 9% BF? What did you do, take a six month long “rest day?”

Yeah I second this. OP where you from?

Did I do well guys.
4 years. 2 years ACTUALLY lifting. 2 years pretending I lifted because I could do 20 pushups in a row.

God I was such a faggot. At least now I'm closet-ed.

Hypothyroidism is a meme and only accounts for an extra 5-10 pounds of water weight.

You're gonna have to kill yourself, bud. Sorry.

Some of this is teen growth but yeah , you did good.

A year for this?

Nigga CUT. Trying to 'recomp' and you'll look like Jason Blaha for 20 years.

About two and a half years, maybe a bit longer.
Not the best progress but whatever, I've made it out of skinnyfat now at least.

Where is the skinnyfat picture though

I didn't really take many pics in between, but this was around the start of 2016. I went from 58kg to 76, then down to 65 and now I'm currently 68.
The two pictures above are 58 and 68kg, i.e the beginning to current day.

In 2016 I was mainly running, no lifts or not so much. At the end of 2016 I bought dumbbells and started to lift, but I had completely no plan, just did cardio and lifts in chaotic way. Then in August 2017 I started to note down weights and reps and invented a plan on my own. Starting from September 2017 I chose a Strength-Lean program to cut down. Now I'm stuck in current BF% and it's hard to go down more. I'll try to cut a bit more and then I start bulking.

Still a lot to cut man.

teach me your ways, share your routine

To cut I followed this:
truth-dealer.com/physiology/fat-loss/strength-lean-01.html

Quite a lot to read through, but it's definitely worth it. I also modified it a bit to fit my schedules, but main idea stays the same.

And I do completely different resistance training then the guy reccomends, because I wanted to continue my own program, however I think his routine may be better than mine, as I invented mine completely out of my inexperienced head. So I rather recommend to take this guy's program, but I still can share mine if you want.

My (fasted)cardio days are Monday, Thursday, Saturday

On Wednesday I do a martial arts training that is somehow mixture of cardio and resistance training, not fasted.

I lift on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, not fasted, my routine:
-30 reps dumbbel bench press
-2 sets 20 reps dumbbel bicep curl (single bicep at a time = 1 rep, so it's 10 reps per bicep)
-2 sets 8 reps dubbel bicep curl (both biceps at a time)
-30 reps dumbbel row (1 set at one side)
-60 leg lifts up/down with a dumbbel between feet
-30 pushups/20sec plank/20sec "plank" but hands bendt and body low next to the floor - repeat in sets without a break as much as you can
-30 crunches with weight
-30 cross-crunches also with weight
-30 "backs" with weight

>I lift on Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
small mistake, I lift on Tuesday Friday, Sunday

Do you regret certain decisions in your life? Like those godawful tattoos? What were you going for/ why would you EVER think that looks good?