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SergeantSausage
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If this isn't success, I don't know what is.
Inches and inches and inches ... and still going.
Inches and inches and inches ... and still going.
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Well done Sergeant. I do, secretly, find you very inspirational.
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Awesome!!0
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Well done Sergeant. I do, secretly, find you very inspirational.
How many lbs?
It fluctuates. Right now, today, it's 51 pounds from the high ... but over the weekend it was 54. Only 15 since I've been here, though.
Non-linear, right?
I'm not actually in it for the pounds or the inches. I'm after the abs. Doesn't much matter to me weight or size - it's all about look and feel for my goals - but weight and size correlate positively, right?
I'm not exactly there yet, but I'm on the trail, I'm marching hard, and have the destination in sight.
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You have lovely abs already, if that's you in your photo. What an incredible transformation 51 -54 lbs will have made to the inside as well - and all those inches. You must feel amazing.0
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Fantastic work!0
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... if that's you in your photo...
It's me a few days back (28 Jan).
I do my best to squeeze the grease from a few tens of millions of adipose cells and burn it every day, so they look ever so slightly better day after day.
Now it's just probably simply a matter of defining "done"
I don't know where exactly that is yet, but it ain't here ... just up the trail a bit, maybe ...
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Is is ever done???
But I'd love to be where you are in this journey. How long has it taken?0 -
Is is ever done???
But I'd love to be where you are in this journey. How long has it taken?
Fits and starts on-again-off-again since Fall 2011. Dropped a quick 36 pounds in 6 months and left it at that, then bounced up and down with the running training/race seasons and off seasons 12 to 14 pounds or so up 12, down 14, up 10, down 13 -y'all know the drill, right? . Then nothing for over a year - neither gained nor lost then injured last year and stopped running for recovery, but still wolfed down food like I was logging 70 miles week (oops!) ... until a week before Thanksgiving 2014 and then continuously through now.
Actively dieting/restricting for probably a year's actual time spread out over the last 4.
In that 4 years I probably gained and lost 100 pounds 10 or 12 pounds at a time - it seems to be a normal adaptation for me to lose 12-ish during a training cycle and regain during the off season as I pick up more couch time.
I have goals, but I'm in no hurry. I'm confident it will happen but it never has been my highest priority. I can wait it out as long as it takes. It'll happen.
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So the Sausage Fingers that used to fat finger the wedding band enough that it wouldn't come off, ever, no matter how hard it was pulled ...have now slimmed down and shrunk up so much that the wedding band won't stay on anymore. I got no solution. Wrapped it with yarn to shrink it down a bit. It works. Sort of.
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Haha yeah.... I moved mine to my middle finger and it's getting loose.0
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Isn't it a bit greedy to want more? You could always lose some of my pounds, as you're so good at it, and send some of your spare abs here to snowy England?SergeantSausage wrote: »
Seriously though, I don't think you should lose another ounce. You look great, like a professional athlete. What a transformation!
It's interesting to read your journey as well - definitely not linear, mine neither. Sometimes I've had to take time off. But that doesn't affect the commitment or the fact that this is a lifetime change.
Well done Sargeant, be very proud.
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Isn't it a bit greedy to want more? You could always lose some of my pounds, as you're so good at it, and send some of your spare abs here to snowy England?SergeantSausage wrote: »
Seriously though, I don't think you should lose another ounce. You look great, like a professional athlete. What a transformation!
It's interesting to read your journey as well - definitely not linear, mine neither. Sometimes I've had to take time off. But that doesn't affect the commitment or the fact that this is a lifetime change.
Well done Sargeant, be very proud.
I'm not sure "greed" is the right word here. It's *somethin'* ... but I wouldn't label it "greed".
Some have called me "crazy", but that ain't it either.
I'll think about it on the afternoon run today ...
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You are clearly very driven, and wanted your ab definition more than anything else. I think it's great to want to be the very best you can be. I'd like to have abs, and beautifully defined muscles everywhere - a dancer's body. But I'm not sure I want that more than my wine on a Saturday night, more than my indulgent holidays, my daily chocolate. Not sure I can have both either.
-Can you have such low body fat and defined muscles and still be eating the sugars and fats daily? Is it all dependent on hours in the gym?0 -
You are clearly very driven, and wanted your ab definition more than anything else. I think it's great to want to be the very best you can be. I'd like to have abs, and beautifully defined muscles everywhere - a dancer's body. But I'm not sure I want that more than my wine on a Saturday night, more than my indulgent holidays, my daily chocolate. Not sure I can have both either.
-Can you have such low body fat and defined muscles and still be eating the sugars and fats daily? Is it all dependent on hours in the gym?
Body fat% is exactly the same old thing we're used to dealing with: calories, calories out. I'd estimate mine went from over 30% to right around 11% at the moment, purely with CICO with a metric crap-ton of miles keeping the deficit. I've never had it professionally done, but the caliper estimates tell me I'm around 11 at the moment.
Priorities and goals on the other. Enjoy the wine if that's what's important to you. We only get one turn on this ride we call "life", right? Live *your* life the way *you* want and fook everyone else.
Wine and Chocolate it is!
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I think you're very profound.0 -
Well done!! and your sauciness can not be beat
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Nice! (*)0
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