Woops- thought I posted to this thread and posted to the wrong one!

I have been eating more for about 7-8 weeks. I'm only down a 1/2 pound but lots and lots of inches, 2 pants sizes and just finished stage 1 of NROLFW.

Here is my before and after from when I started MFP at the beginning of the year. I think I might have been heavier than in the before photo by the time I started but hardly have any pictures of myself The after taken 2 days ago- and TOM is now so I'm even bloated :-)
Still much work to do!!!





Here is my before/after face shot. Admittedly an awful before picture. The after was from a few weeks ago, I think I may have thinned out a bit more, I can feel more bone structure when washing my face- ha!



I have some before starting EM2WL but they are on my jefit app on my phone and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to upload. I think you have to have the pay version to upload and sync to your online account- bummer!!!

Holy cats you look fabulous! Your before and after body shots look like 2 different people!! Go you!

Hello! This is my first post and I wanted to share my progress so far. I've started lifting heavy in early January and entered an 8-week transformation challenge at my crossfit gym around that time.

A little about me - I'm an ex-college athlete, 28 and 6'0" --

25-Jan-12/ 25-Feb-12 / 25-Mar-12 / 5-Apr-12

Weight 193 / 186.3/ 181.2/ 178.9
Natural Waist 30/ 29.5/ 29.125/ 28.675
Hip (not around bum) 36 / 35.75/ 35.25/ 35
Chest (over) 38 / 36 / 36 / 35.75
Chest (under) 33.25 / 33.125/ 32.5/ 32
Belly button 33.125/ 32.5/ 31.75/ 30.875
Thigh 25.5/ 25.125/ 24.75/ 24.5

The BIG ones --- 24-Jan-12 / 21-March-12
BMI: 26.1 /24.6
Body Fat %: 26.8 /22.3

I'm still a work in progress as I'm in the middle of a lifting program, but the results I've seen so far are very encouraging. I have to admit that when I first started in January that I was eating too little (1300-1450) and at my first 3-week weigh-in at our gym of the 6lbs I'd lost, 4.5 of it was muscle. Obviously that wasn't going to work, so I read some threads, read the NROWFW (as recommend by Lucia!) and started to slowly up my calories. I added about 100 calories a week, and though I've hit a few stalls/small gains for a week or two, I've been able to keep loosing throughout. I'm now eating about 2,000ish a day and am planning on bumping to 2,100 next week with the end goal of 2,300 as my daily goal for WEIGHT LOSS. Once I get to my goal weight of 175, I hope to be able to eat about 2,600 a day. Because I'm 6'0" and my BMR is 1895 (per dunk tank), with 6 intense workouts a week, this seems about right to me.

and now, photos!

January 24



March 21



Looking forward to more results and NSV's with weights - but most of all, I'm so relieved that I don't have to eat 1300 calories ever again to maintain my fitness! It's so nice going to bed satisfied and waking up feeling stronger, leaner and ready to work! This seems maintainable to me now, and I will never, ever, go back to starving my poor body. Pass the protein!!

I hope this works...

The first pic is me at starting weight of 219, second pic is about 199. I lost that first bit of weight eating 1200 plus exercise calories. Then the next pic is about 6 lbs less, 193. That is since starting to eat more so between 1900-2200 calories. There isn't a huge difference between the pics but I can see it and feel the difference. You can actually see the start of my arm muscles starting to show through the fat lol.

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167 lbs

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134 lbs

You look awesome! Keep up the good work!

Ugh! I give up! I'm never going to figure out how to post pictures.