Four months after stopping cardio/counting calories - You should try it.

Long time no see. I made my first progress thread a while ago, showing how far I'd come from my biggest to smallest. Here are the pics I used:





But since then, My attitude has changed. I realised I was getting very skinny (albeit with certain areas of fat that wouldn't shift), and changed my focus somewhat. Out went the 1800/day calorie limit, replaced with trying to hit 4000 - over twice what I had lived on for a long time. As well as this, my gym regime of cardio 3/4/5 times a week ended. I moved over to the weights instead.

This morning while getting ready to go to work, I realised how I haven't gotten fat again, and in fact really liked how I looked. So here's a picture.



I'm not big by any stretch, although I'm starting to get compliments on my shoulders. Essentially what I've learned here is that eating a *kitten* ton of food and lifting heavy stuff is A HELL of a lot more fun than borderline starvation and running til I drown in sweat and CO2. For those of you worried that switching to weights from cardio will make you lose all your progress, It really won't. Try it, it's fun.