Any big lads? 300lb+

Well maybe this will help you maybe it wont.



In the top pic I had already lost about 40 lbs and as you can see in the bottom pic I am a total and absolute failure. I failed so bad in every way. Maybe I hit all my weight lifting goals and diet goals 5 or 6 days during the whole year and few months it took me. I would eat to little some days or to much others and looking at all the other people and how they did it, my god I did everything all wrong.


This is another pic of how bad I failed to build any muscle. All the gurus on here will tell you how you cant lose fat and build muscle at the same time. I should have listened to them. Oh boy do I have egg on my face, I should have listened to them, I feel so bad now. I would be so much farther ahead if I would have just taken their advice. Just look at my tiny arms, do I even lift!


Also because I should have taken longer then a year and a half to lose the weight, didn't drink a single drop of water or lift any weights at all, I ended up with lose skin. Oh no, I am sure it had nothing at all to do with the fact I have been overweight from about the 4th grade, and over 100 lbs overweight almost my whole adult life. No no no, it came from the fact I didn't listen to the great advice from random people on the internet, telling me I should drink water.


This is a pic of me from a few days ago being the only thing I know how to be, a total failure. Now every so often people will tell me how great I have done but I don't let that fool me for one second. Not when everyone on the other parts of this forum will always tell me how badly I have done.

So my advice to you is, don't ever try and live up to what others expectations of you are, because if you do you will always fail to meet them. I wont lie sometimes it can be real hard, having put in all the work, not gotten the results you were hoping for, and then have others throw it in your face because of their hangups. Success is something you are going to have to achieve on your own terms, you shouldn't let little things like some extra skin keep you from it. Yes the journey will be a tough one but I wouldn't trade mine because in the end it wasn't about some numbers on a scale but I became a better person for it.

Well maybe this will help you maybe it wont.



In the top pic I had already lost about 40 lbs and as you can see in the bottom pic I am a total and absolute failure. I failed so bad in every way. Maybe I hit all my weight lifting goals and diet goals 5 or 6 days during the whole year and few months it took me. I would eat to little some days or to much others and looking at all the other people and how they did it, my god I did everything all wrong.


This is another pic of how bad I failed to build any muscle. All the gurus on here will tell you how you cant lose fat and build muscle at the same time. I should have listened to them. Oh boy do I have egg on my face, I should have listened to them, I feel so bad now. I would be so much farther ahead if I would have just taken their advice. Just look at my tiny arms, do I even lift!


Also because I should have taken longer then a year and a half to lose the weight, didn't drink a single drop of water or lift any weights at all, I ended up with lose skin. Oh no, I am sure it had nothing at all to do with the fact I have been overweight from about the 4th grade, and over 100 lbs overweight almost my whole adult life. No no no, it came from the fact I didn't listen to the great advice from random people on the internet, telling me I should drink water.


This is a pic of me from a few days ago being the only thing I know how to be, a total failure. Now every so often people will tell me how great I have done but I don't let that fool me for one second. Not when everyone on the other parts of this forum will always tell me how badly I have done.

So my advice to you is, don't ever try and live up to what others expectations of you are, because if you do you will always fail to meet them. I wont lie sometimes it can be real hard, having put in all the work, not gotten the results you were hoping for, and then have others throw it in your face because of their hangups. Success is something you are going to have to achieve on your own terms, you shouldn't let little things like some extra skin keep you from it. Yes the journey will be a tough one but I wouldn't trade mine because in the end it wasn't about some numbers on a scale but I became a better person for it.

Sexy!!!!! :flowerforyou: :blushing: you are one beautiful man! Amazing job!

I am not a lad but I started at 400 plus and am down to 250. THere is lose skin for me but no where what I thought it would be and I will take it any day over what I was As far as back pain I used to have it now I don't

I'm interested in seeing some successful transformations from some big guys, I started at just under 300lb myself although at my heaviest I was probably closer to 320lbs. The thing that scares me most about losing weight is being left with lots of extra skin which I can't afford to have removed.

I've got loose skin on my chest, stomach and legs--some on my arms too. It's a fair trade-off for a 250 pound loss. As I slowly introduce resistance training I'll get it to a minimum.

Another question for you big guys, did you suffer with back pain? I have awful backache right now which prevents me from standing or sitting for extended periods without extreme pain. I was wondering how much the weight loss helped reduce your aches and pains?

Used to. Aside from eating too much and moving too little, in my early 20's I messed up my back pretty bad from a nasty fall. Sitting and laying down I had no problems but any kind of moving hurt. Nothing unbearable that required meds but it just hurt. So I avoided physical activity when I could. I was like this for most of my 20's. When I began at 29 it sucked. It really, really sucked. Walking 1 mile would take me a little over 1 hr to complete because of the soreness I felt and needing to sit down and rest. My doctor reassured me it would get better and as I dropped the weight and became more active, it did. After losing a little over 110 lbs the aches and pain I had went away. Hasn't returned since.

Yes, I had what I generally referred to as a 'bad back' for years. Not any more, no problems with my back whatsoever any more, that's having gone down from 330lb to 178-180 (ish).

Started at 297.5 lbs on June 1, 2014 now at 257 lbs. Slow but steady progress. Didn't put the weight on overnight and don't expect it to miraculously disappear, but I am looking forward to the day when I can report that I've hit my goal. Until then, good luck to all of us!

Started at 297.5 lbs on June 1, 2014 now at 257 lbs. Slow but steady progress. Didn't put the weight on overnight and don't expect it to miraculously disappear, but I am looking forward to the day when I can report that I've hit my goal. Until then, good luck to all of us!

Dropping 40 pounds in 3 months is pretty damn good. Congrats on your progress.