Sup, GG1 here
Just a tripfag lookin' to slowly cut to 205, as I'm trying to maintain all of my strength. I was 245 at the beginning of the year (****ing lol) and I'm currently 218, give or take. Changed my goal from 215 to 205, so hopefully I'll make it in time by October.

I often make videos of myself working out, so drop by my youtube if you're into that sort of thing
http://www.youtube.com/user/Carrionlust

log your meals and get those gains. We're all gonna make it

Hey everyone, been lurking on /fit/ for quite a while and decided to stop killing myself with food and get off my *kitten* and do something about it. I was 378 lbs at the end of January when I started turning my life around. I am now 34 and was diagnosed with MS June 2011, I weighed roughly 330 then. Felt hopeless and sorry for myself, the usual **** people do and I took comfort in stuffing my face, at the time...

I have since stopped eating fast food, fried foods basically anything processed and not whole or natural. I drink only water, occasionally coffee or green tea and a little unsweetened almond milk with my oats. I have embraced this new way of living, I can not stand to sit around the house and will not eat the stuff that most folks consider to be food.

Working my way towards 220 and will see how my MS is treating my body, if everything is decent I am going to start lifting more since what little lifting I have been doing has seemed to help with the fatigue I get.

Hello all.

So I was looking through old photos and was just generally unhappy with the direction that my body was going. They opened a gym within a 2 minute walk from my office, so I've become quite addicted.

I'm about 6'3"/6'4" depending on which ruler you trust. I'm 215 at the moment, not sure of bodyfat, will measure this evening. I think my height it really why I want to lift. I have so many shorter friends that say that I am wasting a good frame. They are big, but want to be taller -- well they can't get taller but I can get bigger, so they say I'm wasting what was given to me.

I think I'm progressing nicely, and am generally a more happy person now that I have a goal to improve myself.

Howdy! I guess where it all started for me was in highschool. I was quite cynical towards weightlifting/working out and people in general. I thought to myself, "What's the point of getting muscle? it's all going to go away anyway.". Then one day someone came along that i could really look up to, that i could aspire to be. I guess my admiration of him, my newly found love for Tennis, and looking back at old homecoming pictures is what kicked me out of that dark mindset. after all my years of soccer i never lost much, if any, weight, but after playing tennis for one season, i lost ~30lbs and people and myself began to see me in a whole new light. i didn't want to stop. So, while i was at a friends house, i usually got bored and used the home-gym his father had in the meantime. Began going to the gym and here i am. i think i'm around 5'10.5". I'd say like 10-13% body fat. Gotta admit i'm not too punctual about counting calories, but here i am hoping that a sense of community in calorie counting will motivate me to put a little more effort into not just calorie counting, but with most things in life.

Hey guys, I'm Luke. OP of the thread on /fit/. I am a 6'3" tall, 19 years old, and currently in college.

In my freshman year of high school (2008), after football season was over, I was diagnosed with a herniated disc. (L4-L5, look at my pictures for an X-ray) Because of my back, the doctor said no sports for the rest of my high school career. Sports were pretty much my only source of activity, so consequently I became a lot more sedentary. I gained a lot of weight and by the end of 2010 I was around 225-235.
But in January of 2011 I found MyFitnessPal and my family and I decided, that as a New Years resolution that, we were all going to use MyFitnessPal religiously and lose weight. I was actually really successful, and ended that year at the weight of 180 (height 6'2.5"), and got compliments from everybody on how skinny I was (I didn't feel skinny). But, I never got into lifting, because I was concerned about injuring my back. So now its mid-2013, and while I had kept the weight off until recently, starting college and working a job has put me in the position where I am eating stuff like McDonald's and other fast food a lot more than I'd like, simply due to the convenience of fast food and my lack of time. Right now I'm back up to 195 (but I did gain a little height, I am 6'3" tall). I realized this recently, and the other day I finally gave myself an ultimatum: I need to get back on track diet-wise to stop the slow slide back into obesity.

Now on the topic of body-image and such. I've never had a "nice" body per-sea. I've always had what I believe to be above average size thighs, and a strange pear-shaped body (like a woman). My goal is to fix that, and gain a nice body that I won't be ashamed to show off at the beach, and that will have all the qt3.14s 'mirin. Also I want to gain some self-esteem and confidence.

Right now I am cutting. Trying to get down to anywhere from 150-170, and get rid of the fat on my thighs, sides, and buttocks (yes I know about spot reduction). Also at the same time I am trying to work on my core, so I don't have to worry about re-injuring my back. This is still a concern of mine, and I will probably be removing certain lifts from my future bulkin' routine, the most major one being Squats (doctor specifically warned me about that one). I haven't had pain in my back for a while now, but the injury is still there. My worst fear is aggravating or re-injuring it.

So that's it guys, nice to meet everyone, and I'm glad my thread was such a success. I've been lurking on /b/ for years now, but I'm new to /fit/ and I already really like it! You guys are awesome, and I've already been learning a lot.

- Luke

18,187.5 cm,90kg
Today i started my second cut (first from ~100kg to 90kg), not lifting currently (waiting to get drivers license in end october if all goes wel), started running today-c25k and i felt amazin Eventhough i got up early, the run and shower after worked magicly
I need to get back to fixing my posture again though (computer guy....).
cya all around

Hey, just set up my profile so it's still mostly garbage.

19 yo college student in germany. About 6'2" 210lbs (not quite sure if 100% accurate, not my unit of measurement).
Been slacking off on my fitness during the semester, time to get back in shape over the break. Main goal is to reduce bodyfat and maybe gain a bit of muscle along the way (want to finish a cut before starting a bulk, just so I know I can do it).

Hope we can all support each other

Hi, everyone!

I'm in my second year of college. Fairly new to lifting (started at the beginning of June), but I absolutely love it. My main goal right now is fat loss.

well mines already been posted, but nonetheless, its great to meet all of you

16 M

Training for powerlifting, on SS, did multiple routines in the past figuring out what I wanted, etc.

Currently cleanly bulking.

Sup /fit/izens,

I'm a 20 year old college kid in Wisconsin. I decided it was time to stop fatass'ing it when I began to outgrow 38" shorts and was contemplating the next size up. At this point I decided I could get my life in order and lose weight, or be a fatasfatass and buy new clothes and do nothing to better myself.

6 months and 51 lbs later I'm at 185lbs (down from 236), and looking to get down into the 150's-160's before starting a good bulk. I know I'm still a long way off from my goals, but for the first time in my life I think I'm going to make it.

I've taken up cycling in the last few months, and have been enjoying it, good way to get the heart pumping w/o worrying about the impact of running.

Hey there, 17 y/o fatass here. Only started cutting back on food this week due to laziness. Decided to man up and stick to an actual routine. Hope we all make it.

Sup everyone, 22 year old former land whale here (used to be 300 lbs. at 5'9" when I was 17. I'm still fat, but thank god I'm not that fat anymore). I've been making decent progress the last 5 years just from cutting down on junk food/soda, but I now I'm trying to get serious about it by lifting, doing more cardio, and getting a little more strict about my diet.

Hello /Fit/zens

21 yrs, 5'0 (well, 4'11.75), somewhere around 119 lbs

Not lifting yet, focusing on getting back into fighting shape (MMA). Trying to be ring-ready by December. Went to university 4 years ago at 98 lbs and was up to 128 mid-way through my 2nd year. Got it under control and then started to slip again with all the stress and excessive partying that comes with senior year. Trying to cut down to 100-105 by early-mid Sept and then may start lifting.