Guess i can say i got 10 pounds left to lose

[sonar1234]

About 2 months ago i decided to get into dieting, this summer i am gonna be 34, i been stuck with back pain for 5 years and i finally found a good osteopath that can give me good treatments and i will be good for summer time.

What happed 2 months ago is that i always add the perfect excuse to eat my sugar and crap and that weekend i pigged out in a major fashion, i was in sweat pants all weekend and hate like a pig, the next morning when i got up i couldnt fit into my already really tight 38 inch pants.

It is then that i decided to start what really works for me the protein diet.

I have been doing this for 2 months now and have gone from 203 pounds to 181 pounds right now.

People that see me think i am sick, that i am too skinny and blablabla but the thruth of the matter is the never saw me without clothes.

When you are dressed even i you weight 200 pounds you dont look fat at all you look big and built but when the shirt comes off its there that you see the real thing.

[wolfstriked]

About 2 months ago i decided to get into dieting, this summer i am gonna be 34, i been stuck with back pain for 5 years and i finally found a good osteopath that can give me good treatments and i will be good for summer time.

What happed 2 months ago is that i always add the perfect excuse to eat my sugar and crap and that weekend i pigged out in a major fashion, i was in sweat pants all weekend and hate like a pig, the next morning when i got up i couldnt fit into my already really tight 38 inch pants.

It is then that i decided to start what really works for me the protein diet.

I have been doing this for 2 months now and have gone from 203 pounds to 181 pounds right now.

People that see me think i am sick, that i am too skinny and blablabla but the thruth of the matter is the never saw me without clothes.

When you are dressed even i you weight 200 pounds you dont look fat at all you look big and built but when the shirt comes off its there that you see the real thing.

take peoples judgment of you in stride.Some really do think you look worse while others try to break your determination.I find it funny that when I got into the best shape of my life I had "friends" telling me that I looked bad and yet was getting whistled at by girls passing by in cars.

I also add this...when i am losing a good amount of fat I get depressed in that I start to look worse.Not full anymore and love handles sticking out in the big as sin glory is not a good sight.Perservere and a month later I get amazed!

[1buffsob]

Bro, I don't mean to come off sounding like a dick, but, do you work out? And by 'the protein diet', are you talking ketosis?

Either way, good job losing some fat. Love handles have really shrunken down.

1buffsob

[wolfstriked]

If he is on a ketosis diet that could be why he looks so flat.Ketosis diets are ruff and while they work fast they leave you feeling wiped out.

[sonar1234]

Thanks guys, i do look flat has shit, and no i havent lifted a weight in 6 months.

For the last 5 years after injury i tried many times to start training again but helas the pain came back each time.

All this was done on diet alone, if i could have trained i would have looked much better for sure.

I am not in the best shape of my life either. I plan to get back into martial arts this summer, and build a small home gym in my basement, of course nothing huge i am gonna get a chin/dip station, a bench that you incline, a quad/hamstring machine and some dumbells.

After all i wanna cut i dont want to gain mass and certainly dont want to get back to 200 pounds so i dont need the big weights.

I am in and out of ketosis, since i lost so much weight in such a short period of time i have added carbs to the diet in the form of oat meal, whole wheat bread and whole wheat pasta, of course all the carbs are still minimal.

I was able to get 3 good tae bo workouts in this week so in a month if everything is fine the lovehandles will be gone for good.

My main goal is feeling better and getting rid of back pain, being less tired, and building a good cardio base.

If i can get in a nice 6 pack in the run that would surely be great too.

[sonar1234]

For the part of people being jalouse well for sure they are many try to lose weight and fail, my manager at my job is very good at this, he says he lost 15 pounds in the last 3 months, he looks like he gained 25 but i didnt tell him.

He was the first to tell me i look like an HIV patient, but i am way pass that and has my girlfriend says all people that critic and laught are jalouse cause they just cant do it.

The protein diet is the hardest to do along with the ketogenic diet, but if you stick to it, the results are very impressive, not only for weightloss but inches lost has well and lovehandles that melt away.

[wolfstriked]

Lovehandles

How in the world did I let mine get so big

Have you thought of a good bodyweight routine.Pushups,pullups and bike riding for legs is real good.

[sonar1234]

Lovehandles

How in the world did I let mine get so big

Have you thought of a good bodyweight routine.Pushups,pullups and bike riding for legs is real good.

Yes sir i did, might not sound like much but i got the bootcamp dvds by Billy Blanks and he does a good amount of bodyweight squats, they pump up the leg real nice.

There is also some push ups and when you use the bands you get some pertty heart pounding workout.

Dont worry about letting the lovehandles get so big, man i got theses suckers get so big in the last 5 years, this is my picture at 231 pounds about 2 months after i injured my back will squatting.

[lc1987]

first of all, i would like to conratualate you for losing fat bro. but no flames or not to sound like a complete dick, some people still train to recover from injuries. if you let it sit for a long time, it will get use to it and it will be harder for you in the future. start really slow and maybe work your way up. start with really light weights just to get some workout. just my .02 man btw good luck with your future plans.

[lc1987]

and also, lay off the ketosis diet. i did this a couple weeks ago and i do regret it. if i could just go back and redo things....

[chest6]

10lbs? Dont mean to sound like a dick but I think more like 30-40

[1buffsob]

I wasn't gonna say it, but yeah. You're close to 18-20% bf.

1buffsob

[wolfstriked]

Sonar I am 5ft9 and my heaviest was 285.I was a walking love handle.They were the size of basketballs.

I just wanna say that I have had many injuries in my 8 yrs of training many that I thought would never heal.Rotator cuff,wrist knees and lower back.Right now the only injury I have is heel pain.

I just started lifting again and my strength is rapidly gaining to where I started squatting at 200 I am now at 365.What I do is when I rack the weight I do 1/8 a rep then 1/4 then 1/2...then I rack the weight.Do the same sequence again and then go full at which point I start counting my reps.At this point all the muscles I will use seemed to have tightened and I do my 6 reps.Might work for ya.

I dont touch flat benches as they ruin my rotator cuff and never hit my chest.Theres ways around injuries.Try leg presses as they reduce risk that squats bring and when I used em my legs grew like crazy anyway.

Anyway around it you have made some great gains in fatloss

[sonar1234]

History is very simple guys, when i got injured i went to this chiro she gave me 21 sessions of treatments and at the 13 one i just stopped cause it was doing nothing.

I went to another chiro which injured me even more, after that i went in a spree going from massage therapist to acuponcutre and more, til i finally found an osteopath that add the sense to give me a good examination and reajusted my pelvic.

All of this was in a spam of a year and a half, after that i add to work on my posture but again i got into physio therapy with a lot of numb nuts and assholes that stir me the wrong way.

I did take it easy when training but since my posture was so bad even then the pain, and the muscle spasm all came back.

Last summer i was really mad and decided to train even if the pain was there, yeah the weight went up really fast and all but after one month the pain was back and even worst, me and my girlfriend where on vacation and i wasted 2 weeks, i could barely walk.

If finally found another good osteopath she is very good she does viseral, cranial osteopathy and works bones, tendons and muscles. I seen her once and feel a lot better.

Has i said my goal isnt to get big i just want to feel good thats it, i dont know where i could lose 30 pounds since i am at 180 now?

At 34 i did my time i trained since i was 16 years old was 5 feet 9 at that time and 138 pounds, i got to 220 when i was training hard.

Now i rather concentrate on cardio, i started the bootcamp dvd by Billy blanks and there is a lot of shoulder work, leg work and some pertty good bodyweight exercices.

In September i should be good to start martial arts again, the dojo has a small gym and if you pay for the martial arts classes you dont pay for the gym so i might give it a try again in September.

I have lost a lot of size, and muscles has well but i feel a lot lighter, i have lost a lot of inches too, and even if i dont look my all time best i sure has hell do feel better.

[sonar1234]

Has for my bodyfat % i am not surprised at all that its still this high.

I do not have any excuses to give, even if injuy is present i did undulge in sugar, fat and all kind of shit.

My first step when i decided to act was to lose the weight, that i did 203 to 181, now my next step is to lose the lovehandles.

After this i can slowly begin another goal of lowering my bodyfat %.

[wolfstriked]

Being thru the ringer and back and getting slammed on a forum sucks,trust me I know,I have been banned from another forum I go to.

These guys here seem hard to please I guess with the name anabolic steroids.com for the name you have to expect hardcore guys.I like it better here anyway as the other site seemed very fancy pansy type people hurt by the simplest comments.And the owner of the site turned my stomach for some reason.

Just stick with it as your almost there and at 165--170 you will look really good.

[1buffsob]

Being thru the ringer and back and getting slammed on a forum sucks,trust me I know,I have been banned from another forum I go to.

These guys here seem hard to please I guess with the name anabolic steroids.com for the name you have to expect hardcore guys.I like it better here anyway as the other site seemed very fancy pansy type people hurt by the simplest comments.And the owner of the site turned my stomach for some reason.

Just stick with it as your almost there and at 165--170 you will look really good.

No one is slamming sonar. He's one of our bros on this board. A good guy. We're just offering honest opinions and advice. It's hard to keep up with the lifestyle being injured, and it shows character for him to continue to do the best he can. Once he gets healed and a couple months pass, I suspect we'll see a whole new sonar1234.

1buffsob

[sonar1234]

Nah this board got the best members ever, i never felt i got slammed at all, its discouraging for me cause i tried so many things in the last 5 years, went to see so many professional and each time i am back to where i started.

Never forget that you are your only judge, i am very pleased of the progress that i have made, most people tought that at 200 pounds i add a pertty decent shape but when i told them that i was far from having some abs they looked at me all weird, you know the kind the ones that know nothing about bodybuilding.

I have a strong feeling that this new osteopath that i am seeing will improve me greatly, she took a different approach to treating me, she studied viseral osteopathy, and she worked on some of my internal organs, after all it makes sense that if my pelvic moves from my bad forms will squatting that some organs might have followed.

She said that my stomach and some other organs needed to adjustment too, so with some weird pressure she sort of moved them back in place, that was the weirdest thing i add ever seen and she did adjust my neck too.

I am not someone to make promesses or anything, in a couple of months you might not see a whole new sonar, but be sure that my cardio will be a lot better, and i wont always feel sleepy, i will have more energy and i will be able to practice the sports i like.

I do not consider myself to be a bodybuilder, and my goals have changed so much since my injury, that 165 pounds sounds really nice.

When i was younger i competed in tae kwon do in that weight class and i was very slim (No abs LOL).

Like i said before its when your start losing weight that you realize how damn much you need to lose.

[wolfstriked]

1BuffSob.....hehe,ok I was wondering with all the post sonar has made.I still say you guys are hardcore and rude and thats why I like this board.

Sonar,you aint kidding about when you lose weight you realize how much you need to lose.Im down to 188 and remember when I was 200 saying that 180 and Ill be looking gooood.

The way things look right now and from a new found eye towards how much fat I "really" have I say 170 and Ill be where I want to be.Probably be 165 though .Dam im gonna feel like a featherweight.

[sonar1234]

1BuffSob.....hehe,ok I was wondering with all the post sonar has made.I still say you guys are hardcore and rude and thats why I like this board.

Sonar,you aint kidding about when you lose weight you realize how much you need to lose.Im down to 188 and remember when I was 200 saying that 180 and Ill be looking gooood.

The way things look right now and from a new found eye towards how much fat I "really" have I say 170 and Ill be where I want to be.Probably be 165 though .Dam im gonna feel like a featherweight.

I feel like a featherweight already at 180 pounds, its been well over 12 years since i weighted 165 pounds, i am just not gonna set any bodyweight, just take my time and get rid of all the fat around the gut.

[wolfstriked]

I feel like a featherweight already at 180 pounds, its been well over 12 years since i weighted 165 pounds, i am just not gonna set any bodyweight, just take my time and get rid of all the fat around the gut.

Then your gonna feel like a prepubescent boy I for one cant wait!!!

[sonar1234]

I dont think i will get that low, even then i might be talking out of my hat cause i started doing bootcamp training and its pertty draining, the resistance band dont look like much but they sure get the workout intensity up and gets you huffin and puffin.

[wolfstriked]

Way to go.Defenitely get some resistance training in there.Heck bootcamp training is tuff stuff.Ive had friends come back from boot camp looking amazing!!

[sonar1234]

I am a big fan of Billy Blanks, i was quit chocked when i saw him on the infomercials advertising tae bo back in 1998, i bought the tapes and did it for a while was great.

He got a new serie out now call the bootcamp training and this aint a joke, i got them all and the basic bootcamp is hard has hell.

You start off with some basic warm-up then move on to bodyweight squats about 30, then push ups, then some more streching, more bodyweight squats, and when he puts the resistance bands on your almost drained.

He does a lot of shoulder work, front back side, triceps, biceps, holding the bands up for 15 seconds, burning the whole muscles, then punching and kicking with the bands.

After that its mat work and more cardio, i aint 100% yet with my back pain but getting there, i do a bit and try to get in about 100 bodyweight squats a day.

Its hard but has you say it will bring some good results and since i plan getting back in kenpo karate in September i will need to be in shape.