Pintoca's 12 months results.

[pintoca]

Well, it has been 1 year already, amazing how fast the time past by when you are having fun...

I started bulking some 2 weeks ago, from spending a year at 1900-2100 cals,I jumped to 2500 for 1 week with completely different ratios and inmediately gained a lot of weight, no panic, mostly water (it has happened before when adding carbs), increase cals bit by bit.

Right now I'm at 3000 cals/day and NOT gaining weight, I will give it a shot till the end of this week and then up to my theorical level of 3400 cals for bulking.

As for results,

what a year this has been, I have learned so much and accomplished a number of my personal fitness-related goals (my final goal of sub-10% still remains one I need to get).

I went down 70lbs, while retaining ALL my muscle (yep, at the end, with the 5x5 I actually gained some muscle back!)

Here's the graph of the progress showing the lowest point and the current point. My bf scales says I have gained 10lbs of fat in the past 3 weeks I know is mostly water.

For those of you who didn't see where I started, here some before pics:

http://www.ccfiles.de/ef/update/9months_before.jpg

and the latest AFTER pics I took, before deciding to bulk for 2 months

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420808

That is all folks...

For the newcomers looking for some guidance on how to lose excesive body fat, take a look at this post, I explain all the details of what I did here:

http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=406047

 

[sawastea]

Looking solid borette!

 

[harbinator]

Very encouraging results Pintoca, Im about in the same boat, recently hit a plateu with weight loss but advice from my trainer helped kickstart the weight loss again, cycling between 50c/day and 200c/day seems to be keeping my body guessing now and dropping the weight. My year anniversary will be december 17th, so far ~55lb 12% bf lost hoping for 70lb 15-17% lost by my 1 year.

1 question I have for you, do you have any problems with loose skin? I don't notice mine much until I do a pushup without a shirt on and I start to get discouraged by it.

 

[pintoca]

Very encouraging results Pintoca, Im about in the same boat, recently hit a plateu with weight loss but advice from my trainer helped kickstart the weight loss again, cycling between 50c/day and 200c/day seems to be keeping my body guessing now and dropping the weight. My year anniversary will be december 17th, so far ~55lb 12% bf lost hoping for 70lb 15-17% lost by my 1 year.

1 question I have for you, do you have any problems with loose skin? I don't notice mine much until I do a pushup without a shirt on and I start to get discouraged by it.

not really man, a little bit in the abdome area. I wouldn't make any judgements until I hit sub-10% bf... only then will I think "Ok, now I need to think of something else".

there is still plenty of fat to be burnt

 

[SoreArms]

that's awesome bud.

I'm some where in the same boat as you were when you started, and after two years of trying I'm still pretty much there. I've read enough and learned enough to make the same progress as you, and to some degrees at several points in those two years I have. My problem is prolongued dedication, I can stick to a strict diet and training schedule for a while, but after 3-4 months either because of injuries, feeling burnt out or mental break down, the plan falls appart and it usually takes me 3-4 weeks to get back to it. By that time I've pissed away all the progress I've made.

I hope to change that this year though. Look forward to reading more of your threads and your advice.

 

[pintoca]

that's awesome bud.

I'm some where in the same boat as you were when you started, and after two years of trying I'm still pretty much there. I've read enough and learned enough to make the same progress as you, and to some degrees at several points in those two years I have. My problem is prolongued dedication, I can stick to a strict diet and training schedule for a while, but after 3-4 months either because of injuries, feeling burnt out or mental break down, the plan falls appart and it usually takes me 3-4 weeks to get back to it. By that time I've pissed away all the progress I've made.

I hope to change that this year though. Look forward to reading more of your threads and your advice.

Hello SA, I was going to send you a PM about this but decided agains it, since this post could be useful to some other people here.

Since your issue is motivation, and it would be much easier if you simply didn't know what to do, I will tell you a bit of that I have done to keep me motivated. Some of it may apply to you, some of maybe not:

1. We all think we are too clever. Truth is sometimes we are too clever for our own good. I was the one always against motivation books and whatnot, "What a bunch of crap" was my usual response. OK, I have not read any motivation book, but the first chapter (ONLY THE 1st ChAPTER) in Tom Venuto's "Burn the Fat Feed the muscle" book deals exclusively with motivation in a cutting environment, not from a bodybuilder perspective, but from an overweight perspective. The lowdown is simply: FIND THE REAL MOTIVATION BEHIND YOUR WEIGHT LOSS desire. Why do you want to do this?

The reason needs to be strong enough so it doesn't fade as you progress and hard enough as not to achieve it too early. (PM me for details on the book)

2. Start helping other people!!!. Selfish as it may sound, my main reason for trying to help other people was to help myself: By leading by example (or helping by example) you become accountable in front of the people you help. How could you look at your "padawans" in the eye if you go and blow your diet? You would loose all credibility.

3. Keep a log and post it. Not a day by day... that might prove to bothersome and you will fail at that... a month by month is good enough. By publishing, you are again taking accountability for your results. Even if nobody gives a fu... you will think they do

4. Speaking of results, 1/2/3 are all nice but what really keeps me going is seeing results, every week, every month. It is like a drug. If one week I don't get results I don't throw the towel, I get angry and BUST my ass for the next week simply cause I want my "fix"... grain by grain you build a mountain

 

[mm107]

Whats up Pint, great job bro. Really made Some Good Progress. I recently starting uping my cals too. Great news considering now i can take ur bulking tips =]. Thanks alot! And Good Luck.

And about the extra skin. I went from 240LBS to 160 and around 10%. My skin doesnt look stretched out untill u pull on it. If you pull on it i have a whole shitload of skin. But good thing i did loose it slowly and it should go back to normal by within the year. I hope. Ah but having fat skin is better then still being fat lol.