who here has lost 20% or more body fat?!

[DeadLift21]

I am interested in hearing success stories from folks on this board.

Did you or a person you know personally has lost 20% or more than that body fat? How young/old were they. How long did it take? What inspired them? What did their workout and diet regime looked like?

C'mon people, share your success stories!!

Your posts could just rescue someone who is almost about to give up!! Or provide the much needed encouragement to those currently involved in fighting years of bad nutrition and diet!

If you did it, tell us all about it!

[woody350ep]

well i dont know my bodyfat right now, but my BMI last april was over 35. i weighed 277 pounds then. i worked out, lost 10 pounds, then stopped working out. i started again in december and have since lost 17 more pounds, and im not stopping this time. so, ive lost 27 pounds total since last april, not a lot in perspective, i know, but 17 in the last month and a half, and my new BMI is 31.5. still dropping too

[wnxmaximus]

I think I have lost around 8-10 percent. Last Christmas I was 275. I could bench 185 one or two times. I just started eating better and was down to 245 by May. I started lifting in July. I am 232 now, with 20-22% body fat...and my bench has gone from 185x2 to 185x16....that was the first week in december, so Im even stronger now.

So there you go, success story. I am in college, so its even harder than me than it is for most people, because I am doing this eating cafeteria food. I cant even have a stove or grill in my room, so I dont et to cook anything but oatmeal.

PLus, dont get discouraged, if I remember correctly, you just started dieting in the last 4 weeks or so, right. Thats not long enough to tell man. Do it a year, and then if you dont see results, get discouraged. LOL, in a year, you should definitely see results. Doing this slow and the right way, will help you more in the long term than like crash dieting or something, just to see immediate results. Just stick with it, its not easy, but the easy things in life dont seem to be worth much. What really matters always seems to be the hardest things.

[mywetnightmares]

Poobah's had some great body comp. changes.

[DeadLift21]

Originally Posted by wnxmaximus

the easy things in life dont seem to be worth much. What really matters always seems to be the hardest things.

Word.

[woody350ep]

right, dont i know thats true

[Fats[]]

you should try to look at poobah's logs or something. then youll be amazed for sure.

[Hannainnc]

I lost 46 lbs, but it took me awhile...a year and 9 months. I was a fattie.

[TRAZ]

I had no idea Hanna...good going!

[juggalo24]

Hey, well I dont know what my body fat was or is, but I know it's quite a bit lower than what is was, when I started dieting.

I gained about 100 pounds in 3 1/2 years eating pizza and fastfood everyday in college. I weighed 295 after graduating college, so I decided to go drastic and went for low carb.

I now weight 190, so that's a loss of 105 lbs. Not to bad huh

It took me roughly 2 years, and that is with breakes. One thing about the low carb diet, you have to take brakes, or you will just go off and start binging. I would go off for Holidays for a few days, when I would visit back home, but after a few days I would get back on it strict.

Also, a few times I just decided to go with healthy foods to give my body a rest from the low carb diet. I didnt loose as fast that way, but I did continue to loose.

So 2 years 105 lbs. I want to loose about 20 more.

[Curlingcadys]

3yrs ago I lost 87lbs I think, can't remember exactly I'd have to dig out my old log but it was right around there. Over a period of a year. What motivated me? 1 to many times taking off my shirt at the beach and getting laughed at, 50 too many times climbing my basement stairs losing breath, way to many times buying new clothes cause I got fatter, being embarassed to look at myself in the mirror, being capable of wearing my wifes bra's, overall just being phsyically pathetic..pick one!

I just finally removed my head from my asss and quit the train of thought that losing fat was a type of rocket science when it really isn't. I finally decided to apply all I read on forums like these and rearranged the diet, started counting cals, then started cutting cals, then cardio and cardio and cardio, cut a few more cals and cardio cardio cardio..........did I mention cardio and a good diet yet?

Sure its hard work but the "game plan" or "strategy" to do so isn't brain surgery.....knowing what to do to achieve the goal isn't hard....its the commitment and dedication with a splash of will power that bites most fatties in the ass including myself, you just have to "nut up" and do it or be fat and develop a happiness with lard.

[kel]

I was 276lbs 3 years ago. After lots of cardio, hitting the weights and cleaning up the diet I am down to 185lbs. That's 91lbs, and i never checked my body fat % before so I'm not sure how much I lost but it's most likely around 20%.

[Weecrack]

I lost alof of weight , but i put it back on sicne my injury, Hard to say how much i actually lost and how much, muscle i really destroyed with that low carb diet

[Dr. D]

Well...I recently have read the forums of this website...ive been using...well...hmm...i started with weighing 96kgs due to my ultimate diet plan of 6 SQUARE MEALS A DAY!...I had a body fat percentage of 22%

Now, today my percentage is 10.5% and my objective is 8%. My weight is 80kgs. I have achieved this in a matter of 4 to 5 months of proper training and diet control. Im proud to be now known as one of the body builders of my class.

Anything is possible, all one needs is determination and focus.

Anyway peace out homies,

Dr. D

[Poobah]

Okay, here's the first 38 weeks of my weight loss progress...

I will point out, that I lost my first 80 pounds completely naturally.. no drugs.... I did use some eca after that.. but soon found I didn't like it.. and I don't use it no more.

I started on atkins.. gota love it... It let me eat very enjoyable foods at a time, when I just wasn't ready to eat chicken breast and egg whites all the time.. plus the atkins diet works well for very over weight individuals.

I worked a 3 day split.. in the max ot principles.. more or less.

I did cardio 5-6 days a week.. every morning before work... first walking and eventually jogging the streets of my neighborhood, at 5:00am.

I made alot of strength gains during.. even though i ran at the time what I know now to be a bit extreme in terms of calories... 1500-2000 calories a day... but I feel someone of extreme fatulance, can easily produce the energy deficit from fat reserves... and I gota tell you I was had stupendous amount of energy during this time....

As time went on though, I switched from atkins, to more of a body builders diet, aimed at growing and maintaining muscle mass... And unfortunately since then, my weight hasn't really gone down, and in fact it flucuates up and down... currently up. But my muscle mass grows steadily.

only other thing I keep kicking myself over, is that I've been cheating far to often and frequently.. that it makes real fat almost impossible... but I don't want to loose the muscle..It's frustrating. I may institute a bigger calorie deficit once more in the future... hmmm

Start.. 02/18/2004 - 410 3 days into my diet
Week 01 02/25/2004 - 401, 9 pound loss
Week 02 03/03/2004 - 392, 9 pound loss
Week 03 03/10/2004 - 395, 3 pound gain, Quite Frankly I'm Upset.
Week 04 03/17/2004 - 400, 5 pound gain, I can't take another week like this.
Week 05 03/24/2004 - 381, 19 pounds Loss... I know, it's ridiculous. (Enter Snoopy dance here)
Week 06 03/31/2004 - 380, 1 pound loss, I'll take it.
Week 07 04/07/2004 - 372, 8 pound loss, Flabergasted
Week 08 04/14/2004 - 365, 7 pound loss, More then I thought considering I'm sidelined.
Week 09 04/21/2004 - 364, 1 pound loss, I haven't been able to walk for 8 days so, considering this.
Week 10 04/28/2004 - 356, 8 pound loss, so kewl. hunting down 60 pounds now.
Week 11 05/05/2004 - 354, 2 pound loss, I'm alright with that I was expecting worse.
Week 12 05/12/2004 - 352, 2 pound loss, Not what I was hoping for, but well above my long term goal.
Week 13 05/18/2004 - 346, 6 pound loss, wooosh! Wooh HOoooo!
Week 14 05/26/2004 - 342, 4 pound loss, Up to 25-30 carbs a day the last 2 weeks and I'm still loosin.
Week 15 06/02/2004 - 341, 1 pound loss, I thought I was having a good week...
Week 16 06/09/2004 - 341, 0 pound loss, And I thought 70 pounds was a sure thing.
Week 17 06/16/2004 - 334, 7 pound loss, Very welcome change.
Week 18 06/23/2004 - 330, 4 pound loss,
Week 19 06/30/2004 - 326, 4 pound loss, I seem to be on a roll (Hmmm bad terminology.
Week 20 07/07/2004 - 324. 2 pound loss, will have to do.
Week 21 07/14/2004 - 322. 2 pound loss
Week 22 07/21/2004 - 320, 2 pound loss Another Notch too.
Week 23 07/28/2004 - 318. 2 pound loss... Feelin positive.
Week 24 08/04/2004 - 314. 4 pound loss... Excellent... + another notch.
Week 25 08/10/2004 - 308. 6 pound loss... Hard to believe really.. One more Notch.
Week 26 08/18/2004 - 305. 3 pound loss... No Notch this week
Week 27 08/25/2004 - 304. 1 pound loss... Good enough huh?
Week 28 09/01/2004 - 300. 4 pound loss... Almost in 2's Another notch aswell.
Week 29 09/08/2004 - 300. 0 pound loss... Another Notch.
Week 30 09/15/2004 - 297. 3 pound loss... On the move again.
Week 31 09/22/2004 - 295. 2 pound loss...
Week 32 09/29/2004 - 289, 6 pound loss... Woosh fafiry returns. And a NOTCH!
Week 33 10/06/2004 - 287, 2 pound loss... No cardio..
Week 34 10/13/2004 - 282, 5 pound loss... 7 Consecutive days of Cardo. NOTCH!
Week 35 10/20/2004 - 281, 1 pound loss... Another Notch.
Week 36 10/27/2004 - 280, 1 pound loss... Even with me being very bad.
Week 37 11/03/2004 - 276, 4 pound loss... Simply Awsome.
Week 38 11/10/2004 - 275, 1 pound loss... Good boy.

[jimsiff]

I don't know what percentage of body fat I lost, but I went from about 290 to 200 between last June and now. I severely cut down on the junk food, ate a reasonable balanced diet without limiting my choices, and tons of cardio. I ride my bike to work M-F (8 miles r/t), walk 2 1/2 miles M-F, and hike 4-10 miles at least once a weekend.

Now I've started to work out again, and I'd like to bulk up to 215 or so. I had my body fat tested and it's currently 22%. I'd like to get my body fat down to 12-15% and add 15-20 lbs of muscle. I'm just starting phase two of my journey.

[Ubadonut]

guess ill post mine. Not too long ago i was in a serious car accident. Was in a coma for a week, had a rib thru the lung, and was overall just banged up. Before going into the coma i was bout 200lbs, and like 5'8, i was in highschool at the time. After getting out i found myself unable to move very far or very fast and i quickly put on another 20 lbs cause i started intaking solid foods again. That christmas i received The Encyclepedia of Bodybuilding, by Arnold, and it changed me. Now, i weight 180, im 5'10, and i can put up in the neighborhood of 400 on the bench. I am currently working on acheiving my six pac but there is still a thin layer of fat on my abs i need to work off. Thats my story.

[kenseth17cd]

Last year I decided to get in really good running shape in order to make the track team at college. I went from 150 to 115 in about 6 months. I ran 15 minutes a day or about 2 miles and never drank a soda or ate fried foods. Now, I am bulking back up and I am back to 135. I have went through a lot of change in this last year.

[Milkman44]

I have gone from 7% body fat about three years ago to 19% body fat now. From 188lbs to 205lbs. It's all in my gut. I've worked out off and on over the past three years, but instead of playing football, I now play poker for a living. Defiantely not enough cardio.

[alwayzontilt]

5 months ago I weighed 230 and now I weigh 180. From 23% bodyfat to 13% bodyfat. I did cardio 4 days a week M/W/F/Su.
Starting off with the treadmill for 10 minutes (5.0mph)
then move to the life cycle thing (kinda like the gazelle thing from TV) for 10 minutes.
Lastly, stairmasters for another 10 minutes since this is the last cardio workout I would try go all out on it; atleast level 10-13. It did this cycle for about 6 weeks and change your routine.
Hopefully this routine can help you lose some weight!