This is what junk food does to your body.
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jonnythan
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Taco Bell and McDonald's 4,5 times a week. Microwave frozen stuff for breakfast and lunch just about every day. Subway all the time. Eating out once or twice a week.
Cholesterol went from 240 to 204; HDL went from 40 to 59, and triglycerides from 92 to 72. My blood pressure was borderline high then, and now it's normally around 115/65.
Wait.... you didn't think the before picture was the one on the left, did you? No. That's after. Before is on the right.
The after picture was actually in late 2011. I tore a muscle in my back shortly after that was taken and spent about a year rehabbing and getting better enough to get under the bar again. I gained maybe 8 pounds in that time and now I'm back trying to cut a bit of the fat away for tennis season before going on a slow bulk in the fall.
Anyway, here's what all that "junk food" is doing for me right now:
So if you don't want any of this to happen to your body, then by all means don't eat foods that people on the internet or TV call "unhealthy." Don't pay close attention to your calories, protein, fat, sugar, and vitamin intake; instead, eat "healthy" foods and avoid all the "unhealthy" ones that you really like. That's a great long-term plan for the future.
Cholesterol went from 240 to 204; HDL went from 40 to 59, and triglycerides from 92 to 72. My blood pressure was borderline high then, and now it's normally around 115/65.
Wait.... you didn't think the before picture was the one on the left, did you? No. That's after. Before is on the right.
The after picture was actually in late 2011. I tore a muscle in my back shortly after that was taken and spent about a year rehabbing and getting better enough to get under the bar again. I gained maybe 8 pounds in that time and now I'm back trying to cut a bit of the fat away for tennis season before going on a slow bulk in the fall.
Anyway, here's what all that "junk food" is doing for me right now:
So if you don't want any of this to happen to your body, then by all means don't eat foods that people on the internet or TV call "unhealthy." Don't pay close attention to your calories, protein, fat, sugar, and vitamin intake; instead, eat "healthy" foods and avoid all the "unhealthy" ones that you really like. That's a great long-term plan for the future.
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Great transformation! The food itself didn't get you that way, though. Eating it didn't transform you. You make a good point that these foods aren't the evil people say they are.0
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*Applause*0
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*Applause*
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you must be special! lol btw I can't stop looking at the pic :bigsmile:0
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Wow!!!!!!0
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Thank you! I try to eat healthy but with peeps on the market around easter i just love my peeps. Everything stays in my macros for the most part too.0
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Great progress!! i m guessing you dont fit into your old shorts anymore.... lol!0
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I love you.0
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Awesome!!!
(PS- I noticed you blacked out your head(s) -snort-! Ahem, but isn't that you in your profile pic.....or.....?)0 -
Awesome!!!
(PS- I noticed you blacked out your head(s) -snort-! Ahem, but isn't that you in your profile pic.....or.....?)
I blacked it out for posting elsewhere, and I am way too lazy to go back to the original pics and include the head just for your benefit0 -
Awesome job!0
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Junk food turned your junk into a funny looking black bar. So sorry man!
Great job on the loss.(i am talking weight now)0 -
Junk food turned your junk into a funny looking black bar. So sorry man!
Great job on the loss.(i am talking weight now)
Once you go black....0 -
So junk food makes your head go from round to a rectangular shape. Got it!0
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Once you go black....0
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Huge eye opener!!0
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That's what TOO MUCH of ANY food will do to your body. Junk food didn't do it, over eating did.0
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Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.
I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?0 -
That's what TOO MUCH of ANY food will do to your body. Junk food didn't do it, over eating did.
I was wondering how long this post would take.0 -
So junk food makes your head go from round to a rectangular shape. Got it!
lmao!0
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