tigerdactyl Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Greetings all. I stumbled upon this site via reddit, seems like a great community. Here's my backstory:I've always been a big guy, most of my family is. I have three brothers, we're all over 6 feet tall and have all struggled with weight issues. I'm 6'4" and at my heaviest was over 350 pounds, I'm not sure how heavy I got because my scale threw an error message once I eclipsed 350. That wasn't a fun moment, as you can imagine. I'd tinkered with diets before, jogged a few days for 10 minutes, and other random half tries, but something finally clicked and I began watching what I ate for good. Once I had gotten down to 250 I let myself slide a little, figured that's where I'd stay, but when I crept back up to 260 in December I was finished messing around and decided to rededicate myself, as I'd just gotten married and found out that I had a kid (I now know it's a boy) on the way. I started actually counting calories (thank you, myfitnesspal) and doing cardio. My cardio included the couch to 5k program (which I finished) and joining one of those huge gyms with 95% machines. I'm now down to 222 and ready to get fit. I still have lots of body fat to lose but I need to start packing on some muscle and being awesome. So I'm reading starting strength and quit that crappy gym, and joined one that's basically a basement with bunch of benches, racks and iron. I think they have one treadmill in the corner. I begin starting strength tomorrow, and have a bunch of 5ks lined up for the summer. I'm ready to step this whole thing up a notch and become a physical bad ass. I look forward to sharing my progress with you guys, and rooting you all along on your own journeys. Nerd power!tl;dr: Was fat, lost some weight, dicked around, lost more weight, ready to lift heavy and be a bad ass Link to comment
LRB Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Welcome! You've made tremendous progress on your own already; I can't wait to see how far you'll go with the encouragement and support of this amazing community! LRB, Lifelong Rebel Badass || June 3 challenge thread"What I lack in ability, I make up in stubbornness" -me"Someone busier than you is working out right now" -my mom Link to comment
tigerdactyl Posted May 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Thanks! I'm trying to figure out how to upload a profile photo now, that'll be my big progress for the day haha Link to comment
Crizomaticus Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Welcome guy with awesome name.You'll find weight loss and weight lifting are related. Lift more, sprint more, lose weight faster.I wish there was a gym like that around here. Fitocracy | @chriiiiso Link to comment
21katykat01 Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 Hey! I also second you have an awesome name. Lots of congratulations are due to you - new baby boy on the way, all your success so far, being awesome! Now - be more awesome! Blog | MyFitnessPal | Twitter for Fitness/Weight Loss | Twitter for Real Life Link to comment
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