BEFORE AND AFTER TRANSFORMATION BS!
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My best friend is one of the women who does workout programmes and provides before and after photos for a couple of companies. She works her butt off day in and day out and works out very hard, and lost almost 90lb doing so. Not all of them are frauds. There are quite a few legitimately hard working people out there who really dedicate and push themselves to work out and transform their bodies.
No?? REALLY!?!?! You mean like all of us on MFP?!?!?
*head! DESK!*
Some people obviously didn't get the point of the post.
Your friend presumably models for quite a few companies whose products she didn't rely on to get in shape. Rather, she "works her butt off day in and day out." Hmmmm... maybe that was the point of the article, had you read it. Being: these before and after pics used to sell crap is used to sell crap the people in the pics didn't use. And instead, they probably, like the guy in the article (and your friend) ate healthy and worked out.0 -
Why did they shave his head...? lol
More importantly, why did he shave the beard?0 -
Why did they shave his head...? lol
More importantly, why did he shave the beard?
To show off his cut jaw line, of course. The beard was used to hide his double chin when he was all fat and stuff.0 -
i still don't believe that the photos were done in under an hour. he looks 20 lbs heavier in the first. but yeah, i guess it goes to prove all the smoke and mirrors in not only before/after photos but in the commercial advertising/modeling industries.
He cut his hair, shaved his chest, and used overhead lighting in the "after". And was likely pushing out when they took the 1st pick to make him look bigger and sucking in on the 2nd...definitely possible!0 -
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This is kinda funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M957dACQyfU
That was AWESOME
and hilarious
And made me think... hmmm... maybe I should not eat chips or diet soda before I do a photoshoot. Thanks for the tips!0 -
I think it would be AWESOME if some of us did our own before/after transformations with good lighting in the after and puffed out stomachs in before.
Also, the easiest way to do it is to take the "after" picture while looking great, then eat whatever and take the "before" picture.0 -
At the bottom of the article, they have a slideshow of people who lost a lot of weight and their stories --- I'm not sure what the point of that article really was
Of course advertisement photos are photoshopped -- same with magazine covers and related pics0 -
I never trust the before and after pictures that I see on any site that is asking for money... can't say I'm surprised!0
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Personally this guy does not look like a different weight in his "before and after" photos. You can see it in his legs, arms, pecs and face - they are the same. The only thing that changed is he's sticking out his stomach before and he oiled and shaved after. In real before and afters you can see it in their face, arms, legs, everywhere.0
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This makes me sad. Not all before and afters are gimmicks. Mine are true. They are the result of a lot of hard work and dedication. Not just good lighting. Of coarse I flexed in my after to show my new amazing arm muscles. Don't think all before and afters are fake. In my before I did not push out my stomach. I was not bloated.
I think there is more than an one hour difference in these photos.
Edited because of my phones autocorrect.
Um. Well, the article isn't about YOU. Or ME for that matter.
My before pics, I was 40% body fat, weighed 174 lbs.
I got down to 123 lbs and 19% body fat.
My pics aren't fake.
But what I *DO* think is really awesome about this article is this guy (if anyone actually read the article) is a personal trainer. He, one day, was feeling kinda bloated and sorta on a whim asked his GF to take a pic of him. Then he shaved his chest hair and head, worked out to get that post work out muscle POP and flexed his muscles and adjusted he lighting to get an after pic. The difference is astonishing.
What IS positive about this is for those of us, like myself, who have lost a lot of weight and work out hard sometimes see pics of ourselves and think "I look like crud! I must be fat" because all the pics we see online of "fit" people are these glam shots.
Here's my point, this chart shows different body fat percentages on women:
This is my current profile pic:
based on my stomach alone, I would put myself at 30% body fat, looking at the pics on that chart. But guess what? It's more like 20%. I just look like crap because, like the dude in the article, I was bloated this day.
Here's another pic of me at 20% body fat:
That's my point. When you are at maintenance, or near it, or in that place where you have lost the excess fat, you can still look like crap in a pic now and then because a lot of these "after" pics we see in the industry about are posture, flexing, bloating, etc.
NOTHING IN MY POST IS MEANT TO UNDERMINE the hard work of MFPers.
I thought that was a no-brainer.
LOVE THIS!
I can relate, and sometimes I have trouble understanding its just a "bad day" so things like this article really help with my thinking on those bad days where it seems I will never reach my goals. Especially after losing a lot of weight, its already hard to see yourself "thinner" sometimes you look in the mirror and still see your old self staring back at you... Then when one day you feel like you look great, and the next day you get bloated and look in the mirror like
"WHAT HAPPENED?? WAS I CRAZY YESTERDAY WHEN I THOUGHT I LOOKED GOOD??"
(Hopefully this response made sense, I am really tired right now! LOL)0 -
This is kinda funny:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M957dACQyfU
Yeah, I've seen this video! It is really good!0 -
I watched this one a while back:http://youtu.be/M957dACQyfU
5 hours rather than 1, but illustrates the point.0 -
I've shown friends that if I slouch and stick my stomach out I look much fatter than I am. Doesn't mean you should question every transformation photo. Most people paid by supplement companies to pose in the ads don't even use the supplements. I have several friends who are sponsored athletes and have never used the products they promote. The company pays to use the image and the athlete accepts payment to promote the products.
agreed! Posing can have a lot to do with that, too. I also agree you should not let this one instance make you think all transformations are fakes.0 -
I watched this one a while back:http://youtu.be/M957dACQyfU
5 hours rather than 1, but illustrates the point.
Realised it's the same one! Oops!0 -
LOVE THIS!
I can relate, and sometimes I have trouble understanding its just a "bad day" so things like this article really help with my thinking on those bad days where it seems I will never reach my goals. Especially after losing a lot of weight, its already hard to see yourself "thinner" sometimes you look in the mirror and still see your old self staring back at you... Then when one day you feel like you look great, and the next day you get bloated and look in the mirror like
"WHAT HAPPENED?? WAS I CRAZY YESTERDAY WHEN I THOUGHT I LOOKED GOOD??"
(Hopefully this response made sense, I am really tired right now! LOL)
Yes, it made sense. The point for me, more than anything, was that you can be fit and still occasionally look like crap. It wasn't meant to imply that no one ever makes any change in their lives. Here's my before and after:
I think I look basically the same, just smaller. *shrugs shoulders*
But for me seeing this helped me because I have been trying to cut my body fat to below 20% for a year now, and pics like my current profile pic make me wanna cry. I work so hard! Why do I look horrible! Well, it's cuz I'm bloated and my belly is full of wine and I didn't just come back from the gym, I'm not sprayed with spam, and I'm not flexing and the lighting is off. That's what it takes to have a glam shot.0 -
LOVE THIS!
I can relate, and sometimes I have trouble understanding its just a "bad day" so things like this article really help with my thinking on those bad days where it seems I will never reach my goals. Especially after losing a lot of weight, its already hard to see yourself "thinner" sometimes you look in the mirror and still see your old self staring back at you... Then when one day you feel like you look great, and the next day you get bloated and look in the mirror like
"WHAT HAPPENED?? WAS I CRAZY YESTERDAY WHEN I THOUGHT I LOOKED GOOD??"
(Hopefully this response made sense, I am really tired right now! LOL)
Yes, it made sense. The point for me, more than anything, was that you can be fit and still occasionally look like crap. It wasn't meant to imply that no one ever makes any change in their lives. Here's my before and after:
I think I look basically the same, just smaller. *shrugs shoulders*
But for me seeing this helped me because I have been trying to cut my body fat to below 20% for a year now, and pics like my current profile pic make me wanna cry. I work so hard! Why do I look horrible! Well, it's cuz I'm bloated and my belly is full of wine and I didn't just come back from the gym, I'm not sprayed with spam, and I'm not flexing and the lighting is off. That's what it takes to have a glam shot.
*****, I already told you. You're fabulous!0 -
My best friend is one of the women who does workout programmes and provides before and after photos for a couple of companies. She works her butt off day in and day out and works out very hard, and lost almost 90lb doing so. Not all of them are frauds. There are quite a few legitimately hard working people out there who really dedicate and push themselves to work out and transform their bodies.
No?? REALLY!?!?! You mean like all of us on MFP?!?!?
*head! DESK!*
Some people obviously didn't get the point of the post.
Your friend presumably models for quite a few companies whose products she didn't rely on to get in shape. Rather, she "works her butt off day in and day out." Hmmmm... maybe that was the point of the article, had you read it. Being: these before and after pics used to sell crap is used to sell crap the people in the pics didn't use. And instead, they probably, like the guy in the article (and your friend) ate healthy and worked out.
She has done a total of three, two for one company, one for another (i.e a couple of companies, not "quite a few"), and is in the process of completing a fourth for the second company. Yes, she does follow the programmes to the tee, eating plan, workout schedule and all, without adding to them. She used them to lose probably 70 of the 90lb she has lost, and the fourth, the one she is currently doing, is more for toning and whatnot instead of weight loss.
I did read the article. No need to get snappy with me. The point of my comment was that while some companies and people do fake the photos, not all of the before and after transformations are faked.0 -
My best friend is one of the women who does workout programmes and provides before and after photos for a couple of companies. She works her butt off day in and day out and works out very hard, and lost almost 90lb doing so. Not all of them are frauds. There are quite a few legitimately hard working people out there who really dedicate and push themselves to work out and transform their bodies.
That's interesting. So she does before and after shots for various companies? Did she lose the weight and get fit on her own, or did she use the companies weight loss tools that she's doing the pics for?
No, she doesn't gain weight to do the before photos. She had children, and because of complications and having multiples, she gained a significant amount of weight (around 90lb) and she used the programmes to lose most of that.
She's worked with two companies to provide before and after photos. During her weight loss, between programmes she did do some of the healthy eating and working out on her own, but since she knows people in these companies, she was asked to be an example of what their programme can do.0 -
I've seen something similar before and it's interesting.
I have my own real before and after transformation though lol0 -
My best friend is one of the women who does workout programmes and provides before and after photos for a couple of companies. She works her butt off day in and day out and works out very hard, and lost almost 90lb doing so. Not all of them are frauds. There are quite a few legitimately hard working people out there who really dedicate and push themselves to work out and transform their bodies.
That's interesting. So she does before and after shots for various companies? Did she lose the weight and get fit on her own, or did she use the companies weight loss tools that she's doing the pics for?
No, she doesn't gain weight to do the before photos. She had children, and because of complications and having multiples, she gained a significant amount of weight (around 90lb) and she used the programmes to lose most of that.
She's worked with two companies to provide before and after photos. During her weight loss, between programmes she did do some of the healthy eating and working out on her own, but since she knows people in these companies, she was asked to be an example of what their programme can do.
The guy in the article worked hard too.0 -
My best friend is one of the women who does workout programmes and provides before and after photos for a couple of companies. She works her butt off day in and day out and works out very hard, and lost almost 90lb doing so. Not all of them are frauds. There are quite a few legitimately hard working people out there who really dedicate and push themselves to work out and transform their bodies.
No?? REALLY!?!?! You mean like all of us on MFP?!?!?
*head! DESK!*
Some people obviously didn't get the point of the post.
Your friend presumably models for quite a few companies whose products she didn't rely on to get in shape. Rather, she "works her butt off day in and day out." Hmmmm... maybe that was the point of the article, had you read it. Being: these before and after pics used to sell crap is used to sell crap the people in the pics didn't use. And instead, they probably, like the guy in the article (and your friend) ate healthy and worked out.
She has done a total of three, two for one company, one for another (i.e a couple of companies, not "quite a few"), and is in the process of completing a fourth for the second company. Yes, she does follow the programmes to the tee, eating plan, workout schedule and all, without adding to them. She used them to lose probably 70 of the 90lb she has lost, and the fourth, the one she is currently doing, is more for toning and whatnot instead of weight loss.
I did read the article. No need to get snappy with me. The point of my comment was that while some companies and people do fake the photos, not all of the before and after transformations are faked.
I apologize for my snappiness. I was just so annoyed with people not getting the point.
I'm still of the mind your friend is at where she is at because of her diet and exercise and tenacity, and not because of her involvement with any company.0 -
Um. Well, the article isn't about YOU. Or ME for that matter.
My before pics, I was 40% body fat, weighed 174 lbs.
I got down to 123 lbs and 19% body fat.
My pics aren't fake.
But what I *DO* think is really awesome about this article is this guy (if anyone actually read the article) is a personal trainer. He, one day, was feeling kinda bloated and sorta on a whim asked his GF to take a pic of him. Then he shaved his chest hair and head, worked out to get that post work out muscle POP and flexed his muscles and adjusted he lighting to get an after pic. The difference is astonishing.
What IS positive about this is for those of us, like myself, who have lost a lot of weight and work out hard sometimes see pics of ourselves and think "I look like crud! I must be fat" because all the pics we see online of "fit" people are these glam shots.
Here's my point, this chart shows different body fat percentages on women:
This is my current profile pic:
based on my stomach alone, I would put myself at 30% body fat, looking at the pics on that chart. But guess what? It's more like 20%. I just look like crap because, like the dude in the article, I was bloated this day.
That set of pictures always makes me sad. I'm an apple. I look more the the 40% picture even though I'm under 30%.0 -
Um. Well, the article isn't about YOU. Or ME for that matter.
My before pics, I was 40% body fat, weighed 174 lbs.
I got down to 123 lbs and 19% body fat.
My pics aren't fake.
But what I *DO* think is really awesome about this article is this guy (if anyone actually read the article) is a personal trainer. He, one day, was feeling kinda bloated and sorta on a whim asked his GF to take a pic of him. Then he shaved his chest hair and head, worked out to get that post work out muscle POP and flexed his muscles and adjusted he lighting to get an after pic. The difference is astonishing.
What IS positive about this is for those of us, like myself, who have lost a lot of weight and work out hard sometimes see pics of ourselves and think "I look like crud! I must be fat" because all the pics we see online of "fit" people are these glam shots.
Here's my point, this chart shows different body fat percentages on women:
This is my current profile pic:
based on my stomach alone, I would put myself at 30% body fat, looking at the pics on that chart. But guess what? It's more like 20%. I just look like crap because, like the dude in the article, I was bloated this day.
That set of pictures always makes me sad. I'm an apple. I look more the the 40% picture even though I'm under 30%.
THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT!
The guy in this article is in fact 16% body fat. He is in fact in good shape, but due to posturing, bloating, etc, he can look wildly different. It's not just body fat percentages that make these ladies look how they look in these pics. When I was overweight, I looked like the 45% pic, but I was really more like 40%. Now i'm probably 21% but in a lot of my pics, I look like the 30% gal (but with more of a belly).0
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