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    • 2.5 year transformation +33 lbs.

    Posts: 59 Member
    edited November 2024 in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
    first pic is june 2015 when i first started lifting @6' 147 lbs, didn't think i looked that bad at the time lol second is October 2017 @ 171, and last is current @ 180. hoping to hit 190 before i cut in the spring.
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    • Posts: 1,004 Member
      Great gains with out putting on too
      Much fat
    • Posts: 292 Member
      Great job. My hubby was your size when younger (the starting size). He lifted 6 days a week for years and finally had gotten to a place he liked. In his head he sometimes still sees the "skinny kid" so that takes time to get past. Great job sticking to it.
    • Posts: 59 Member
      had no problem with the way I looked back then now I still feel small and look back and can't even imagine being like that again. It amazes me that I probably getting around 2000-2500 calories at most (never tracked them before) and allways maintained the same weight but when I tried to gain weight it takes me 4000 which it took me over a year to find out.
    • Posts: 72 Member
      Looking fine, you've done an amazing job of redefining your physique ... Well done B)
    • Posts: 1 Member
      99JT wrote: »
      had no problem with the way I looked back then now I still feel small and look back and can't even imagine being like that again. It amazes me that I probably getting around 2000-2500 calories at most (never tracked them before) and allways maintained the same weight but when I tried to gain weight it takes me 4000 which it took me over a year to find out.

      Congratulations!

      May I ask, how many calories above your calorie maintenance level is your daily intake now?
    • Posts: 59 Member
      edited December 2017
      My maintance is around 3500-3750 I'm currently getting at least 4000 a day I would say more like 4250 on average. Its like a full time job between cooking and eating.
    • Posts: 1,285 Member
      You've had amazing progress! Looking forward to seeing that additional 10 lbs!
    • Posts: 402 Member
      Wow amazing job.
    • Posts: 759 Member
      Great dedication and transformation! Impressive work.
    • Posts: 59 Member
      Thanks. Still nowhere where I wan to be but making progress.
    • Posts: 1,449 Member
      good for you! Nice work!
    • Posts: 263 Member
      those are big gains. well done.
    • Posts: 59 Member
      up to 186. been sick so i haven't been hitting my calories.

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    • Posts: 583 Member
      What's your work out routine and diet like? Good progress! I need to work on my back more so by my shoulder blades/scapular region?
    • Posts: 583 Member
      We're very similar! I started around 2013-2014 and I was around 135-140 lbs. Currently I'm close to 180 lbs at 14-15% body fat. My goal is to be 180-185 lbs at sub 10% but I want to see how big I can get before I cut because I cut before and went back down to 160 lbs which looked good but too small for me.
    • Posts: 59 Member
      Seth1825 wrote: »
      What's your work out routine and diet like? Good progress! I need to work on my back more so by my shoulder blades/scapular region?

      here is a link to my current routine im on the 5 day split.
      https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=172565211

      basically on a see food diet i aim for 4000 cals minimum and 250g protein its not all good quality food but its pretty hard for me to get over 4k.
    • Posts: 1,285 Member
      99JT wrote: »
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      here is a link to my current routine im on the 5 day split.
      https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=172565211

      basically on a see food diet i aim for 4000 cals minimum and 250g protein its not all good quality food but its pretty hard for me to get over 4k.

      I also do a rep/goal system for my lifts.
    • Posts: 4,206 Member
      Lean59man wrote: »
      Congrats. Keep it up. You are building a fine physique.

      You were seriously scrawny in your original pic.

      >:)>:)>:)>:)
    • Posts: 583 Member
      99JT wrote: »
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      here is a link to my current routine im on the 5 day split.
      https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=172565211

      basically on a see food diet i aim for 4000 cals minimum and 250g protein its not all good quality food but its pretty hard for me to get over 4k.

      I can barely take in 3,400 so I can't imagine trying to do 4,000. Why so high for Protein?
    • Posts: 1,001 Member
      Seth1825 wrote: »
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      I can barely take in 3,400 so I can't imagine trying to do 4,000. Why so high for Protein?

      Barely take 3400? I only take in 2500 and I still gain, a slow 1 lb per month but still a gain. I couldn't imagine 3400 every day!
    • Posts: 583 Member
      richardgavel wrote: »
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      Barely take 3400? I only take in 2500 and I still gain, a slow 1 lb per month but still a gain. I couldn't imagine 3400 every day!

      lol haha yea it's so much easier for me to lose weight than gain weight, I was always skinny although now that I'm 31 it's easier to put on the weight but still takes at least 3,000 a day but that's because I lift like 5 days a week, about 1-1.5 hr long work outs.
    • Posts: 935 Member
      I wish I had problems gaining weight..lol
    • Posts: 59 Member
      Seth1825 wrote: »
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      I can barely take in 3,400 so I can't imagine trying to do 4,000. Why so high for Protein?

      I get roughly 1000 cals from shakes which helps a lot as for the protein I was aiming for 1.5g per lb which is weoverkill but I'd rather be higher and getting over 4000 calories it's not that hard to get the protein in.
    • Posts: 583 Member
      true especially if it's in liquid form!
    • Posts: 6,626 Member
      Pretty damned close to the same place where I started lifting (5’10”, 150), after spending some years cutting from my FFG level of 265. I’m a year and a half in, and up about 25 lbs. from my start. Our caloric stuff isn’t too different either.

      Excellent work thus far. Keep at it, and know there’s at least one other person running the exact same tract.
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