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  • You can always give calisthenics a shot. You can literally build your whole body with nothing but bodyweight movements if you choose to pursue it. There's a lot of beginner references out there. And you can also search things like the street workouts, bar workouts, calisthenics competitions, or guys like frank medrano for…
  • Funny you mention the beard. I just cut it down a lot a little while back. Since I'm posting pics. Here's a few full bearded pics from my first ever mud run (Rugged Maniac) that I did this summer.
  • It's good to hear from all of you. I have kind of lurked (for the most part) on here for so long just feeding off of everybody else's success stories and transformation pictures. I figured it's probably time to get involved. Already racked up a bunch of really positive friends this week. (Plus I took some current "during"…
  • @Behxo glad to hear you are getting better and back to it! @priscillam31 congrats on signing up for your first 5K! I used to hate running with a passion, but lately I'm loving it. It took me a while to get my pace, form, and stride right, but now going for a run is actually relaxing (still hard work though) and not so much…
  • Nice! Yeah, I still am shooting for about 25 more myself. But I am focusing more on fitness rather than just pounds lately. I am looking forward to the big "199.9" on the scale though. Haven't seen it since sometime in high school.
  • Somewhere around the 275 pound mark Recent pics, 205ish (Ignore the clothes in the bathtub. Lol. They were from a rugged maniac(mud run) that morning)
  • I usually take comments very well, and like hearing it, but I had a strange one the other day. Someone I hadn't seen in a while looked at me (in a crowded public place mind you) and said quite loudly "Oh my god! Did you take a 160 pound s***?". We had a good laugh.
  • Thank you! Thank you!
  • Thank you! Btw, sorry for the serious/angry look in the recent picture. Lol. I was concentrating very intently on getting the same angle for a good comparison.
  • Coke Zero (and all of the other brands new diet versions... i.e. Pepsi Max) are just the original diet version with the ratios of ingredients changed around a little bit to affect the taste. One of the main reasons that they did this was to market to men, as traditionally diet sodas were primarily purchased by women. They…
  • Well, I went out for a run/jog/walk again, only this time with the intention of seeing what my 5k time really is. I ended up going 3.1 miles in 34:37 with a first mile split of around 9 minutes with the next 2 dropping off a bit. I really am quite pleased. Oh and today I also just hit the halfway mark to my goal weight. 40…
  • Thank you for the kind words, I hope to join the ranks of all of the real success stories on here soon when I can say that I reached my goal.
  • Im in. Ive got 67 pounds to lose, so 50 by 2014 (and my B-Day is Jan 7 so that's cool) is perfect. Maybe I can hit the 200lb even mark as the clock strikes midnight. Yep that's my new goal...
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