This is what junk food does to your body.

jonnythan
jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
in Success Stories
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:

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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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  • pspetralia
    pspetralia Posts: 963 Member
    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.
  • The1iceQueen
    The1iceQueen Posts: 119
    *Applause*
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    *Applause*

    Seconded.
  • mona_patty
    mona_patty Posts: 170
    you must be special! lol btw I can't stop looking at the pic :bigsmile:
  • Bonny619
    Bonny619 Posts: 311 Member
    Wow!!!!!!
  • kcallas88
    kcallas88 Posts: 192
    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.
  • xMissy6x
    xMissy6x Posts: 347 Member
    Great progress!! i m guessing you dont fit into your old shorts anymore.... lol!
  • eggsmilkbread
    eggsmilkbread Posts: 184 Member
    I love you.
  • Chris99mu
    Chris99mu Posts: 352 Member
    Awesome!!!

    (PS- I noticed you blacked out your head(s) -snort-! Ahem, but isn't that you in your profile pic.....or.....?)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    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 benefit ;)
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,217 Member
    Awesome job!
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    Junk food turned your junk into a funny looking black bar. So sorry man!







    Great job on the loss.(i am talking weight now)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    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....
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    So junk food makes your head go from round to a rectangular shape. Got it!
  • iulia_maddie
    iulia_maddie Posts: 2,780 Member
    Once you go black....
    I won't believe that till it's on Mythbusters.
  • H00ahwife
    H00ahwife Posts: 3
    Huge eye opener!!
  • xLyric
    xLyric Posts: 840 Member
    That's what TOO MUCH of ANY food will do to your body. Junk food didn't do it, over eating did.
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.

    I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    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.
  • mona_patty
    mona_patty Posts: 170
    So junk food makes your head go from round to a rectangular shape. Got it!

    lmao!
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.

    I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?

    I have renounced clothing in favor of Photoshop.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    That's what TOO MUCH of ANY food will do to your body. Junk food didn't do it, over eating did.

    Did you even read his post?
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.

    I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?

    I have renounced clothing in favor of Photoshop.
    Yea, well how bout you un-renounce it...for all of our sakes.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.

    I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?

    I have renounced clothing in favor of Photoshop.
    Yea, well how bout you un-renounce it...for all of our sakes.

    I'm starting to fear that you might not be a very nice person.

    (The pic on the left is from 2011.)
  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    Great work sir.

    Some people will just never believe that you can be healthy and still enjoy foods you like.
  • Sublog
    Sublog Posts: 1,296 Member
    IIFYM
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,659 Member
    I used to be thin & fit ....... and then I got married :laugh:

    20 years of fast food, pasta, bread, baked goods, salty snacks, beer and no exercise did this .......

    MaryAnn2001.png

    Am still married, but 5 years of healthier eating & hitting the gym did this ......

    MA5-1-12.png
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Grats, but I don't suspect this post will last long.

    I mean, cm'on, would some shorts have killed you?

    I have renounced clothing in favor of Photoshop.
    Yea, well how bout you un-renounce it...for all of our sakes.

    I'm starting to fear that you might not be a very nice person.

    (The pic on the left is from 2011.)
    Whether or not I'm nice has little to do with the fact that I don't wish to open up a thread, fully thinking it would be SFW, when it is in fact, not.

    Black bar or not, MFP has a "clothes on" rule.
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
    would it have killed you to put on some swim trunks or something?
  • jiggy_gibby
    jiggy_gibby Posts: 197
    why block your face if it's in the profile pic? and dude, lots of places sell underwear....

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