REAL MFP women, weight training Befores and Afters

Bump...curretly doing strong lifts 5x5...but I don't have progress pics that I am comfortable posting interested in seeing what others have done, but my profile pic is my current arm, if only I could get rid of the excess skin (and of course fat), it would look way better

I want to see the pictures of the black thong girl or whatever that everyones saying is photoshopped?? where is it?

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LOL black thong chic is totally photoshoped! Not that weights can't do that to you body, but you can totally see where someone did a bad job of bringing in her waist and legs. I'm a photographer so I speak from exp...

Love love love this thread!

4 weeks ago I upped my calorie intake to 1700 -2300 and I started lifting weights on the machines (the free weights section at my gym is literally dumbells). 4 weeks on I am only 3lbs down but I feel a massive difference and I took measurements yesterday....5.5 inches lost BOOM!

I'm no where near at my goal weight and ladies I know it's scary to start because you're worried to see the scale slow down, even go up but I figured if you start weight training at your goal weight you're going to see it go up anyway so why wait? plus the inches still come off. I had so many compliments last night at how much weight I've lost (38 lbs in total) and people seem to be noticing the difference after I began the weight training. All you ladies on here are in inspiration, I'm seeing so many brilliant abs on here I love it!

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WOW! You look Fabulous! Great Job! Thanks for being an inspiration to others

Before:


After shedding 120-ish pounds doing mostly cardio with some strength training but not a whole lot:


After focusing primarily on strength training for about 3 months:





I do strength training about 3x/week and eat about 2300 calories/day and about 180 g protein on average.

WOW!!! And I love the dress in the end with the femanin still!

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BUMP!!!!! definitely want to hang on to this for later!

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So, where are your results from the next stage?? BTW, you look great! It's amazing how different you look and hardly any weight on the scale...muscle definitely weighs more than fat!!

Not sure if you are talking to me or not but this is my most recent progress picture from 4/1:

Somewhere under all the fat, I bet my tummy looks like that. I'm working on increasing my weights, but I still have almost 50 more lbs to lose before I'll be able to see the muscle. Except my biceps, since they're the only muscles not covered in fat. :ohwell: Someone else asked about ChaLEAN Extreme, and that's a program I'm saving up for. Does anyone know if you would get comparable results using CLX compared to NROL4W?

Somewhere under all the fat, I bet my tummy looks like that. I'm working on increasing my weights, but I still have almost 50 more lbs to lose before I'll be able to see the muscle. Except my biceps, since they're the only muscles not covered in fat. :ohwell: Someone else asked about ChaLEAN Extreme, and that's a program I'm saving up for. Does anyone know if you would get comparable results using CLX compared to NROL4W?

Is there any reason why you can't go to a gym (and do New Rules or another program)? I don't know much about it but I don't think it does the big compound lifts with enough weight to be really effective, but I do have a friend who does it and likes it.

Gym membership isn't in my budget right now. I'm expecting to be able to later this year, though. My heaviest weights are 10#. The program I'm doing now uses mostly bodyweight. I had planned to get CLX as my reward to myself when I get 10 lbs from goal, but I've been reading so much about New Rules and Strong Lifts that I'm starting to rethink it. I love Chalene's workouts, though.