19 months...67lbs (pics)

McCloud33

So five more months of dieting in the books! Started again on January 1st and took my after pictures last night. Dropped from 192lbs to 168lbs and from ~19% body fat to ~13%. So in the last 19 months I've gone from 235lbs to 168lbs and 30+%BF to 13%BF. I've dropped down to a size 32 pants (what I wore in HS) and ran a sub 20min 5k just a couple weeks ago! I've also upped my longest distance run to a half marathon.
I'm actually able to see the outline of some abs in the right lighting I will say that these 24 lbs were A LOT harder to drop than the 50 that I dropped last year in the same time frame. Now I'm going to up my calories for the next 7 months and try and build some more muscles and then cut back down so that hopefully this time next year I won't have to rely on "good lighting" to see those abs

Oct13-May15


Progress Shots


Jan15-May15

nzchikky

Wow just amazing! Very inspiring

I_will_07

And extra bonus, you look far younger than before.

McCloud33

Here are a couple more of my before photos too.

fatblatta

Nice job!

DeterminedFee201426

congratz! you look nice ! Light shows all..! even if you used a light to see them abs still you've done very good progress in all aspects .. their defenately there! and with building them they'll get even better. :

maggierenee88

Amazing work! You look unreal!

McCloud33

Thank you @maggierenee88 @DeterminedFee201426 @fatblatta @theram01
@nzchikky

McCloud33

Finally made it to the end @sljohnson1207 thanks for the support along the way!

caffeinified

Great work! You look fantastic and like you feel fantastic!

blue_eyes1978

I hope you feel as good as you look!! You have made awesome progress, very inspiring for sure!! Thanks for sharing your success.

sljohnson1207

McCloud33 wrote: »

Finally made it to the end @sljohnson1207 thanks for the support along the way!

I'm very happy for you! You look great. Well done

martin_leeann

You look amazing! So proud of you!! I posted some before pics last week and I can't wait to post my afters once I hit my goal.

oedipa_maas

Amazing. You are such an inspiration!

praksindiafit

Well done..great progress n very inspiring

Becca281552

Great progress pics & congrats on your success!!

smkondy

What a transformation-you look fantastic!! Bravo!!!

McCloud33

blue_eyes1978 wrote: »

I hope you feel as good as you look!! You have made awesome progress, very inspiring for sure!! Thanks for sharing your success.

I do feel great! I'm finally liking how my body looks

LilannB

Congratulations on your success.

justjack18

Holy moly! Nice!

McCloud33

justjack18 wrote: »

Holy moly! Nice!

Thank you

McCloud33

One of the most flabbergasting things with all of this weight loss is that still, according do the BMI scale, I'm overweight! LOL Which is why I tell people to ignore it and use their bf% instead. I would have to lose 3 more pounds to be in the "normal" category. (I must have dense legs, because all of that muscle weight isn't in my upper body!)

kamakazeekim

You look fantastic! I would never guess the before pictures were the same guy!

McCloud33

@kamakazeekim your before/afters are pretty amazing too! nice work yourself!

McCloud33

Thanks everyone. Nice knowing that my story can be inspirational to someone. More than willing to answer any questions anyone might have.

creationscrown

Amazing work! What a transformation! Hotttt!

McCloud33

creationscrown wrote: »

Amazing work! What a transformation! Hotttt!

Thank you! Hotttt might be one of the best compliments I can get. Felt unattractive for a long time

cmsu64113

Great job! What was your diet like?

McCloud33

@cmsu64113 I had it set at 1500 calories, but ate back my exercise calories most of the time. I averaged around 2000 calories actually eaten per day. I would usually only eat a banana for breakfast and then break the rest of the calories between lunch/dinner. My usual meal would be some combination of grilled chicken, steak, or chicken sausage, cottage cheese with fruit, avocado, goat cheese, and several servings of vegetables. I laid off the carbs most of the time not because I had anything against them per-se, but because with the limited amount of calories that I gave myself, I just felt more satisfied on the higher protein/fat diet. Carbs were usually between 100-150, but most of that would come from the fruit that I had or if there were more sugary veggies like corn or something. Very little bread/rice/pasta stuff.

jorinya

Male model material. Wow, what a transformation! Amazing results! What an inspiration! You look fab BTW.

Marlene1667

Wow, amanzing transformations. You lost a lot of weight and years. You look so much younger it's shocking!