62 LBS Lost-Love of Fitness Found (pics-before and current)

bbgraine wrote: »

Wow!!! You look amazing! This is what I am trying to achieve. You give me hope that if I stick with it I'll get there.

Question for you. How did you set your goal weight and when did you decide to move to maintenance? I'm 5'9 and am sitting at 154 lbs(down from 212 at my very heaviest). My thought was to get down to 135-140 and then do a bulk and cut cycle. Ultimately I could care less what I weigh. I'm more concerned about body composition. How did you know when to switch focus?

So I initially set my goal weight of 135 pretty arbitrarily. I just thought it was the number that many 5'6 foot women said they wanted to weigh so I got it stuck in my mind that that was the number that I needed to achieve. When I hit 145 pounds I was really happy with the size I was but not 100% happy with my level of leanness. I decided to still continue to lose and ended up as low as 133 but I REALLY wasn't happy there. At 133# thought I looked way too thin and many others around me commented the same. I ran a couple of mini bulk/cut cycles this past year and am now sitting back at 145, the same size I initially liked with much lower body fat. It's also a number that is pretty easy for me to maintain and since i'm a weightlifter and prefer to lift as a 63kg (139#) that weight is always in striking distance if I want to cut for a meet.

I think you just kind of need to go by your own feelings as far as when to start maintenance or bulking/cutting. If you're feeling thinner than you like it might be a good time start. I will tell you that I am glad I started bulking at a weight that was a little lower than I liked, it made it easier to deal with the emotions that can come from being overweight and than having to gain/lose weight intentionally again.

hrod215 wrote: »

Keladelphia wrote: »

62 LBS Lost-Love of Fitness Found (pics-before and current)

In ten days I’ll be hitting my one year streak anniversary on MFP. I wanted to post some before and after pics from this past year to celebrate since so many of your success stories really helped me to get started. I have been so inspired by all of you! While I may not post on the forums much I’ve creeped them quietly almost every day for a long time and I’m so grateful for everyone’s contributions whether I agree with them or not. I’ve picked up some great information and tips, learned what information to ignore and been inspired to research as much about nutrition and fitness for myself as possible. Learning about nutrition and fitness (and doing it obviously) is honestly one of my favorite things now. I lost 62 Pounds mostly during the first 9 months of the year; while I might want to lose 5 or so more my focus now (and for the past few months) is on recomp and getting as strong as possible. I could honestly care less what the scale says, I finally love my body not for the way it looks but for the things it can do which is the absolute best feeling in the world. What a year it’s been! I didn’t want to make this too long but if I can answer any questions or help anyone in any way I’m more than happy to. Anyone can do this it just takes the motivation and commitment to be a healthier you.


Also, thank you so much to my sister @Krock83, you are the reason I found my passion for heavy lifting and the thing that kept me logging into MFP in the beginning. Thanks to all of my other MFP friends too! You guys keep this place interesting

Before and After Weight loss pics





A few current muscle progress pics

Every time I see this post I am more amazed by your success. Can you share what you are doing in terms of lifting? Are you supplementing with other workouts? Thank you and continue to SLAY honey!

When I posted these pictures that you quoted I was pretty much doing crossfit classes 4 times a week (an hour or so) and doing about an additional hour and half of squatting and olympic lifts and their variations (snatch, clean and jerk, pulls, push presses etc.) about two days a week. It's hard to say exactly what I was doing at that time because the crossfit classes were different everyday but always included strength work and some kind of a metabolic conditioning workout (cardio-esque). I wasn't following a particular program when I lifted, I was just working on my weaknesses to get better at crossfit.


My programming now is much more intensive as I’m training to compete in crossfit/olympic lifting. What I do now isn’t necessary to achieve results like those initial success pictures you quoted (I posted a current picture, you can see how different my musculature is from training this way compared to the original success post that you quoted). I generally train around 3 hours + 30 minutes of yoga a day six days a week. An example of my current programming looks like this:

Today- Warmup and ROW
500 meters X2

First Lifting

Power Clean + Jerk
60% 4
70% 5
80% 3
85% 2x1
90% 1X1

Clean LIFT OFFs (deficit)
80% 3X1
90% 3x3

Back Squats
65% 2x3
70% 1x3
75 % 2x2
80% 2x2

Then

One hour training with my gymnastics coach working on Strict Muscle Up technique, FreeStyle Hand Hold Mobility, strength and progressions.

Then (metcon)

30:00 Each minute on the minute
Min 1: Max Double unders in :45
Min 2: 1 – 3 Strict Ring Muscle Ups
Min 3: :30 Freestanding HandStand Hold

Then

Aerobic Accessory work
10x 400 Meter run. Rest 1:1 pace should be held to within :10 of first run


*Edit to Add if you have any specific questions just shoot me a message