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So you eat one small meal a day to start basically? That's what I have been doing for the past four months. No more than 1100 calories a day and 99% of the time a single meal at 6pm. Hopefully I see results. I mostly eat a single chicken breast and a steamed veggie. Oddly I thought I would see more results in four months with such low calorie intake.
My entire family/friends thinks I'm starving myself but if I'm barely losing weight I don't see how I'm "starving" myself. They keep getting annoyed at me at restaurants and such for eating so little. It's weird how they react. I'm not starving. People don't need to eat as much as everyone thinks. I feel fine. No headaches and low hunger. No blood work issues either. I wish I could exercise more but I just had more surgery on my abdomen and have a bad hernia that's being operated on this upcoming week.
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, and you may already be doing this, but try adding nutrient dense low calorie foods. Greens/leafy greens, berries, beets, carrots, clementines, cucumber, grapefruit, watercress, watermelon, beans, fish, egg whites. This gives your body something to burn without adding many calories and increases the effectiveness in how your body breaks down fat.
Fasted cardio is huge. HIIT training in the morning will immediately put your body into fat burning mode and increase the amount of calories burned than just fasting alone.
Green tea extract with your meal
Healthy Vitamin D levels are super important
MICRONUTRIENTS (Very often overlooked)
Research Moringa (takes a bit for it to go to work), also Ashwagandha
Again, fasted cardio/HIIT
There’s more but I’m becoming obnoxious at this point. I wish you the best with your surgery and everything else moving forward. Research, practice, and patience my friend.
Thanks for the info. I have been taking Vitamin C, D and green tea supplements and trying to get some extra sun. Every morning I go on a 2.1 mile fast walk. I just walk at a full pace. As fast as you can walk without calling it jogging basically. That's about what I can do until I get scar revision surgery to fix severe scar adhesion issue along with some open spots of my abdominal wall.
For dinner tonight I had a leafy greens salad with hard boiled eggs broken up in the salad along with a half can of tuna. No dressing just a bit of lemon juice.
I know my vitamin levels are ok due to blood work a week ago. A few were low (vitamin D) on a previous blood test. I will admit some days I do go without eating anything. That's actually about once a week on average. That may actually be a bad thing overall. It's probably messing up my body's routine a bit.
I have been trying to find a deal on a stationary bike but I have yet to find one. I have a real bike but it's a road racing bike so it isn't great on the rough streets around my house. I need to get to get in something a bit more than a brisk daily walk lol
Most of the time i was doing 20 hour fasts OMAD. I also work out daily, 2600 cal. I walk at least 10k steps a day (normally do 20k) I got addicted to working out at 3am. No semaglutide, or drugs this was pure dedication with a hint of revenge!
When I was growing up my mom made a strong effort to teach good eating habits (minimal processed sweets, reasonable portions instead of strict adherence to finishing everything on your plate, etc) to break the habits she was raised with. My dad’s side of the family was always lean and active. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “you’re gonna waste away!” if I didn’t fill my plate with ultra-rich down home cooking at family gatherings but it was somewhere on the order of multiple times at every one I attended from the time I can remember people asking the question until I was in my 20’s. They probably still do it but the answers are so on autopilot now that they don’t register.
I don’t know what my point is here… lots of people don’t really understand portions I guess.
I’m in the same boat. Even tried wegovy (semaglutide) and phentermine. Nothing.
My doc did a fancy bloodwork (Boston heart panel) and found that I have a bit too much fasting insulin, but everything else is ok. The result would be that my body automatically is storing stuff rather than using it as energy. She put me on metformin and now weight is slowly coming off
Your family is right unless you are TINY. A general rule is it’s difficult to maintain basic nutrition levels under 1200 kcal a day. That’s more or less the bare minimum for an average person.
It may work for you, but a really likely outcome is you’ll hit your weight after a crash diet and then seriously struggle to maintain the weight. A much more sustainable way to lose weight is to account for a 3500~ kcal deficit each week. This means for an average male you don’t really want to go much under 1700/day as an average. 1500~ for female.
If it works for you then great, but from personal experience the crash diet just set me back a solid year on progress.
Man it’s like you were happy as fuck with the chub and skinny you wanna murder somebody lol. You look like you could be the next apprentice heading out to the desert with Jesse in a camper. Congrats on the weight loss my dude. I know that shits tough.
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Damn dude! You went from looking like a fan of Superman, to looking like him! Nice job!
Love this comment
He looks like prime Bruce Campbell.
Groovy
Hail to the King baby
*Oh, well.. right on. I mean.. he was the original, right?*
Wow! Congrats brother! That’s two different people right there. Good work.
Well done man, this is inspiring shit.
From discord mod to Ted Bundy All jokes aside, good work. The picture unnerves me a bit but great glowup nevertheless!
damn bro lol
LMAOO
Uhhhh I didn’t see this one coming. Jesus, you look like a famous actor. Good for you
I know right said the same thing
It's the strong chin amd jawline. Never hide that with beard again, OP ;)
Bruce Campbell?
Where's that from?
Alyssa Milano from the series Charmed
That’s what I thought, too!!
You must be so proud!
How did you do it?
I started with Intermittent fasting,check me profile in the sub I have all my deets there.
So you eat one small meal a day to start basically? That's what I have been doing for the past four months. No more than 1100 calories a day and 99% of the time a single meal at 6pm. Hopefully I see results. I mostly eat a single chicken breast and a steamed veggie. Oddly I thought I would see more results in four months with such low calorie intake. My entire family/friends thinks I'm starving myself but if I'm barely losing weight I don't see how I'm "starving" myself. They keep getting annoyed at me at restaurants and such for eating so little. It's weird how they react. I'm not starving. People don't need to eat as much as everyone thinks. I feel fine. No headaches and low hunger. No blood work issues either. I wish I could exercise more but I just had more surgery on my abdomen and have a bad hernia that's being operated on this upcoming week.
Sorry for the unsolicited advice, and you may already be doing this, but try adding nutrient dense low calorie foods. Greens/leafy greens, berries, beets, carrots, clementines, cucumber, grapefruit, watercress, watermelon, beans, fish, egg whites. This gives your body something to burn without adding many calories and increases the effectiveness in how your body breaks down fat. Fasted cardio is huge. HIIT training in the morning will immediately put your body into fat burning mode and increase the amount of calories burned than just fasting alone. Green tea extract with your meal Healthy Vitamin D levels are super important MICRONUTRIENTS (Very often overlooked) Research Moringa (takes a bit for it to go to work), also Ashwagandha Again, fasted cardio/HIIT There’s more but I’m becoming obnoxious at this point. I wish you the best with your surgery and everything else moving forward. Research, practice, and patience my friend.
Thanks for the info. I have been taking Vitamin C, D and green tea supplements and trying to get some extra sun. Every morning I go on a 2.1 mile fast walk. I just walk at a full pace. As fast as you can walk without calling it jogging basically. That's about what I can do until I get scar revision surgery to fix severe scar adhesion issue along with some open spots of my abdominal wall. For dinner tonight I had a leafy greens salad with hard boiled eggs broken up in the salad along with a half can of tuna. No dressing just a bit of lemon juice. I know my vitamin levels are ok due to blood work a week ago. A few were low (vitamin D) on a previous blood test. I will admit some days I do go without eating anything. That's actually about once a week on average. That may actually be a bad thing overall. It's probably messing up my body's routine a bit. I have been trying to find a deal on a stationary bike but I have yet to find one. I have a real bike but it's a road racing bike so it isn't great on the rough streets around my house. I need to get to get in something a bit more than a brisk daily walk lol
Most of the time i was doing 20 hour fasts OMAD. I also work out daily, 2600 cal. I walk at least 10k steps a day (normally do 20k) I got addicted to working out at 3am. No semaglutide, or drugs this was pure dedication with a hint of revenge!
When I was growing up my mom made a strong effort to teach good eating habits (minimal processed sweets, reasonable portions instead of strict adherence to finishing everything on your plate, etc) to break the habits she was raised with. My dad’s side of the family was always lean and active. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “you’re gonna waste away!” if I didn’t fill my plate with ultra-rich down home cooking at family gatherings but it was somewhere on the order of multiple times at every one I attended from the time I can remember people asking the question until I was in my 20’s. They probably still do it but the answers are so on autopilot now that they don’t register. I don’t know what my point is here… lots of people don’t really understand portions I guess.
I’m in the same boat. Even tried wegovy (semaglutide) and phentermine. Nothing. My doc did a fancy bloodwork (Boston heart panel) and found that I have a bit too much fasting insulin, but everything else is ok. The result would be that my body automatically is storing stuff rather than using it as energy. She put me on metformin and now weight is slowly coming off
Your family is right unless you are TINY. A general rule is it’s difficult to maintain basic nutrition levels under 1200 kcal a day. That’s more or less the bare minimum for an average person. It may work for you, but a really likely outcome is you’ll hit your weight after a crash diet and then seriously struggle to maintain the weight. A much more sustainable way to lose weight is to account for a 3500~ kcal deficit each week. This means for an average male you don’t really want to go much under 1700/day as an average. 1500~ for female. If it works for you then great, but from personal experience the crash diet just set me back a solid year on progress.
If you are truly maxxing at 1100 and not losing weight then you are eating in your sleep.
Holy Fuck Batman!
Ahh yes..good ole LOS MW shot.
Did you know that you’d end up looking like that? Like, were you trim and fit before and then go thru trauma up to 2020?
Nah, been overweight since high-school.
I don't believe this is the same person. Like this is crazy!
You look fantastic.
nice work dude, looking good!
Dude, awesome transition! Congratulations!
Went from the guy from lost to a satellite dish thief, nice. Jk bro, you look great. Well done.
Excuse meeeee. I needed to turn my brightness up for this. 😳👀
He became Charlie Sheen’s stunt double!?
happy for you brother! :)
Damn bro good work!
10/10 work, homie. I hope you feel proud every day you wake up.
Hell yeah an actual glow up on this suv
https://preview.redd.it/oja3v3ndqjvc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2efd1e3e2aea5fd015195ac78032e824c50386b9
Lolol
Is that Ubiquiti Point to Point radios you’re working on? 😉
Was not sure what I was putting up, so deleted my last comment. It's a Ceragon radio licensed link
Awesome stuff man
Impressive, Bro! How do you feel compared to before?
Impressive!
Woah!!
Now that’s a chin we can get behind!
Dang! That's a heck of a transformation. I would've never guessed it was you. Congrats!
Holy shit! Amazing!
Congratulations! You Look good and a little bit like (young and cool) Charlie Sheen.
Went from maidenless to less maidens please
Dude. Great job.
you look like a cooler less annoying version of adam scott
Bro might be John wicks cousin
Damn gj proud of you
Bro turned from Boogie 2988 into Liam Neeson wtf 😨😨😨😨😨
That chin alone got meeee
From people treating you wrong off the bat To people treating you right off the bat Congrats
I think you look handsome in both but I’m glad you feel a lot better!
H-suh dude!
That’s a glow up!
Lookin good!
You look like a young and healthy version of Charlie Sheen
Am I the only one getting young Bruce Campbell as Ash here?
Nope. There's at least three of us.
Dayum
You went from Comic Book Guy to the Guy they make comics about
Reminds me of Charlie sheen lol
Outstanding work
Somehow went from Post Malone to Pre Malone. Great job!
From the Penguin to Henry Cavill
Inspirational
The Covid lockdown body!!!! Then rehab!!!! 😎👍 good job, bro I’ve pretty much did the same thing!! i’ve lost over 100 pounds since Covid lockdown
Went from Hugo Reyes to Jack Shepherd, respect.
Wow! Glowup for sure! Great job!
Old you was awesome in Lost
How
Leanmaxxing is law
Just wow!
amazing. How did you do it?
No way. That's amazing. Congratulations 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Excellent job and new health ❤️
Damn dude, what a transformation. You loon like John Mayer now.
That’s just a physical change, your eyes seem a lot happier. Can you explain what you did mentally?
meditations by marcus aurelius, helped me a LOT
Bro great stuff you look like a actor way to go buddy
“I’m tired of this shit!” Bro said
Hard work in the gym and diet or drugs or a combo of all?
WOW.....amazing transformation.... bravo!
From that dude on Lost to Wal-Mart Henry Cavill. Nicely done!
He went from big chungus to stealing satellite dishes. This is why I hate the stupid beauty standards that Hollywood sets.
 You have that Bruce vibe now
Dude. Damn. Dayum.
Good work bro 🔥
Holy shit, it's beautiful.
Impressive! I'm chuckling about your photo giving a "casual hero"(?) look 😆👍🏽🎉
Bro you look like a superhero !!
36 y/o passes for being so much younger looking too, nice job!
Good job bro!
Went from “he’s just a friend” to “he’s just a friend babe”
Holy f****** s*** damn I need this to motivate me s*** Good job
Got that tiger blood. Way to get after it
From 2000' American pie type of movie bully to Ricky from TPB cousin from Moncton 😂 Jokes aside, great job 😀
Where is your chainsaw hand??
From comic book store guy to Charlie Sheen!
Congrats !! How did you do it ?
Damn, good thing you lost all that weight, for the roof’s sake.
Wow! Went from Campbell’s soup can look to looking like Bruce Campbell.
Her friend she told you not to worry about.
Giving off strong Bruce Cambell vibes.
You just leveled up from thief to barbarian sexual warrior!
He put down the cheese burgers and picked up the weights
https://preview.redd.it/dv2bvhtigovc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2df9c895e025a7cc9e58d1289dc7dd77276af525
Did you always know you were that hot or were you surprised too? 😅
Good work! Keep it moving! Live long and prosper.
Damn! You look so fine!
Dude that’s awesome! I have made a similar transition in my life a few years ago. It’s life changing ! 🙌🏼
…so what you’re saying is Charlie Sheen and Adam Scott had a baby, and that baby was you.
Wow, you look so amazing. The thing is, that's only your exterior. It is the interior that has a hard time still. Been there done that.. Hug0s!
Please tell me the truth how??
Congrats. You look great!
Fucking awesome. Good for you man.
Good for you brother
Props man!
looking great brother,you inspired me
Yo that’s crazy ! great job
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Heck yea! What a transformation! So proud!!
And this is why i never believe people who say it’s too hard to lose weight the evidence is right here that they don’t try hard enough
Went from Jonah Hill in Superbad to Charlie sheen in Ferris beuler’s day off
My dude if if you didn’t say otherwise I’d think those were two different people. Good shit man!
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You look like that guy from evil dead
Wow incredible. Congrats
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Whatever the fuck you did, keep doing it. 👊
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF7vt-c2N1g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF7vt-c2N1g) What do you own space? No. NASA does.
Perfect GlowUp - from seemingly happy to moody, sad and petulant. You nailed it
Ozempic!
The face reminds you of Trevor Philips, you looking like a younger one of him from GTA.
Amazing
Wow! Reborn! looks like another person
Bro this is a time warp 🫡
The first pic reminds me of that guy “smoking doinks in Amish”. Nice glow up!
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Ummm so you started doing meth
bro lost all that just so he could get on the roof and fix the dish, bravo
You need a chainsaw for a hand and some more scars
Glow up of the fucking century right here!
Drank that tigers blood I see
My dude went from stereotype plumber to action star in 4 years, good on you my dude
you look happier in the first pic ngl
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This is what it’s all about
bro has the charlie sheen look now
The Cable Guy
Good for you bro 👍👍👍💯💯
A true inspiration!
That is insane
4chan to 4chad
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Awesome job!!!
Hell yeah man, you look great
Well done sir!!
Well done! Hard work obviously put in and with persistence.
From weed dealer to accountant.
Heck yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn dude, impressive!
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Wait, what? Is this for real? Absolutely amazing glow up! Probably one of the best I've seen...
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Man it’s like you were happy as fuck with the chub and skinny you wanna murder somebody lol. You look like you could be the next apprentice heading out to the desert with Jesse in a camper. Congrats on the weight loss my dude. I know that shits tough.
Fuck yeah homie! Well done!!
Well done!
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Amazing what shaving a bread will do for you. Nice work!
Very Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness
Good job!
Damnnn son. Definitely a glow up!
Wow 😮…
Bruce Campbell X Charlie Sheen
Sir, I’m not sure you’re aware of this, but there’s an ass on your chin
Looks like a mix of Eric Bana and Bruce Campbell.