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Well, I started jogging and trying to eat a bit healthier back in june. Did this for about 4 1/2 weeks, and then hurt my ankle. So I took about 3 weeks off, but still tried to eat right. Picked it back up towards the end of August, and started lifting the last week of August. Have been eating fairly healthy, i'd say about 80% on target. I do drink on the weekends, and splurge a little on my diet then. I went from 6;1 195 lbs, to 6;1 and 173 lbs. I want to add mass, but have been focsuing more on fat loss. But I am thinking of bulking in January,and cutting after to try and look better for summer. Feedback is welcome, whether good or bad. The first pic is 195 lbs, second is tonight. Sorry about the different angles and picture quality. I think I can see a small amount of abs. Very slight, but still more than I have seen in about 3 years.
 
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Best of luck my friend. First step is always the hardest! :)
 
Well done with the weight loss, your looking nice and lean to start a clean bulk! If it were me, but this is my opinion, i would start a bulk now.

Anyway, can you list your lifting routine? :D
 
Thanks for the pos. feedback. What all does a clean bulk entail? As for my routine, mon i do chest/tris, tues back/bis/abs, wed legs, thurs shoulders/abs, fri off, sat i do 30 min of cardio and abs, and sunday off.
 
Woosh.......................................We have an absolute GOAL WINNER in the house, baby!......He, he....YES! :)

You are the master of yourself biologically, emotionally, and within your environment.......

Like saturated fats, this tends to "saturate yourself" with the goals one seeks and clogs the arteries with undying motivation and spirit.......

Get friggen.........clogged up! Swell the arteries with it, baby!

It rules! :)

Look your progress......YOU FLAT ROCK!

Fantastic job!

And I leave you with an opinion:


The basic and fundamental guidelines of diet and fitness is what you need grab on to and hold on to for dear friggen life.

Once you obtain this knowledge, then being able to apply and modify this knowledge to your "specific" lifestyle in accordance to your likes, dislikes, and applicable activity, will be the key to guide you ("at your determined speed") to your goal (s).

Once you have the basics understood, and as time passes and you learn more advanced methods you then can take some science behind it and blend this in to tweak certain areas of diet and fitness to better or improve your goal path. Do not EVER leave yourself hanging, EVER!

Got that?!

The basic and fundamentals of diet and fitness is the absolute super glue that allows the more advanced methods to work, and don't forget it.

Knowledge is the essential key.

Persistence and consistency of this application into your lifestyle is the other essential ingredient.

In addition, you need to apply "enough of you" to get the goal you want and desire completed. You have shown you have it! ROCK-ON, brotha!

If hiring a personal trainer/nutritionist is out of the question, then YOU have to become the personal trainer and nutritionist within your lifestyle and work in something that works---Being your own personal trainer, like defending yourself in a trial, can be difficult.......but you are the MASTER.

Once you obtain this knowledge, believe me you can obtain enough information to be able to adapt to changing situations in your life, adjust on the fly, and still maintain your goal path, if you just apply "enough of you" to get it done---DON'T EVER FORGET IT.


Believe me when I tell you, all it takes is diet and fitness knowledge and being able to perceive it correctly and adapting it to you and to your lifestyle.

You will rock the heck out.......and never look back........


Keep on Rocken' on down the friggen......road, dude!


Best wishes


Chillen
 
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Really nice progress. Looking good ;)

Are you a model? You could be with that face. Your bone structure and symmetry is to die for. Absolute perfection.
 
Chillen, thanks for the inspirational words! I wish I had the money to get a trainer, but i am in college, and work about 15 hours a week. A buddy of mine has lost 50 lbs or so, so we try to keep eachothers diet in check as best we can. Hopefully I will have more progress shots in the next month or two!
 
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Thanks! No, im not a model, but my mom always told me the same thing, I just never listened to her.
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Well listen to me then :D

Your face ... it's perfect. It could sell anything. I'm almost rendered speechless by how perfect it is. You could be on the cover of any magazine.

If I had a modelling agency, I'd be begging you to come work for me. Seriously, you should think about getting a portfolio and see what happens.

If you don't want to be a "model", why don't you keep working out and seriously consider being a male fitness model so you can grace the covers of fitness magazines everywhere.

Just my $0.02 ...
 
Maybe I should consider it then! Make a little extra cash while im in school. I don't even know where to begin with it tho lol.
 
To be a fitness model, you don't have to have hollowed out cheeks (you know what I mean!). If you went to a traditional modelling agency, they'd say "lose 20 pounds" so you can look like you're starving. Not an attractive look in my books.

For fitness modelling, they look mostly at the bod, but if the face is there, too, you're a shoe-in. Besides, they get rid of any "imperfections". A girl who works out at the gym I go to is a professional fitness model, and when she showed me the cover of a magazine she was on, I hardly recognized her it had been photoshopped so severely. I wouldn't have known it was her if she hadn't told me. That's how much they tweak with those pics.

I think she does quite well with the fitness modelling thing. Her last shoot was in New York :)

If you like, I can ask this chick how she got into it and whether or not she has any advice or "connections". Do you live in the US or Canada?
 
Yeah, that would be cool if you could do that. Yeah, I really dont want to lose 20 more lbs, 173 is light enough for me. I live in the US, im in the DFW area in Texas. I would like to make the extra cash, if it was something I could get into.
 
I'll PM you with any info I get ;)

You're in the Dallas Ft. Worth area? I used to work in oil and gas and spoke with our Dallas office everyday :)

Nice people in Texas. Really friendly, down to earth (and they don't put up with too much crap, either)! Southern Albertans are pretty much the same, probably because we have so many Texans and Oklahomans up here and all your good qualities have rubbed off on us :D
 
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I'll PM you with any info I get ;)

You're in the Dallas Ft. Worth area? I used to work in oil and gas and spoke with our Dallas office everyday :)

Nice people in Texas. Really friendly, down to earth (and they don't put up with too much crap, either)! Southern Albertans are pretty much the same, probably because we have so many Texans and Oklahomans up here and all your good qualities have rubbed off on us :D
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Awesome, thanks! Ya, been in DFW my entire life, and probably will never move away. I didn't know a lot of people from down here moved up there, i bet its a great weather change. The heat down here sucks during the summer.
 
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Awesome, thanks! Ya, been in DFW my entire life, and probably will never move away. I didn't know a lot of people from down here moved up there, i bet its a great weather change. The heat down here sucks during the summer.
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Maybe not so many move up here nowadays. But we've got a lot of head offices up here. I think we have the most head offices in Canada now (especially in oil and gas).

We are pretty dry here, so even when it's 30-35°C (that's about 85-95°F), it doesn't feel that hot because it's dry heat ...

Yeah, the winters are a bit challenging. You need a block heater for your engine so you can plug your car in to keep the fluids heated up so your car starts when we get that -30 cold snap ... and winter tires are a must.

There is always a big bash for the 4th of July. The American Consul General hosts that:

The reason for that is Calgary has the largest US population (per capita) outside of the US. And Calgary wouldn't have an oil and gas industry if it wasn't for the Texans, Oklahomans and Louisianans who came up here to help us develop the industry 60 odd years ago (we didn't get much help from the federal government). So we have maintained a pretty good relationship with our southern neighbors ;)
 
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Maybe not so many move up here nowadays. But we've got a lot of head offices up here. I think we have the most head offices in Canada now (especially in oil and gas).

We are pretty dry here, so even when it's 30-35°C (that's about 85-95°F), it doesn't feel that hot because it's dry heat ...

Yeah, the winters are a bit challenging. You need a block heater for your engine so you can plug your car in to keep the fluids heated up so your car starts when we get that -30 cold snap ... and winter tires are a must.

There is always a big bash for the 4th of July. The American Consul General hosts that:

The reason for that is Calgary has the largest US population (per capita) outside of the US. And Calgary wouldn't have an oil and gas industry if it wasn't for the Texans, Oklahomans and Louisianans who came up here to help us develop the industry 60 odd years ago (we didn't get much help from the federal government). So we have maintained a pretty good relationship with our southern neighbors ;)
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I would love to spend a winter in that kind of weather! When it snows 3 inches here everybody goes crazy lol.
 
It's better in the Rockies (way more snow!). That's just an hour's drive from Calgary. It's breathtakingly beautiful.

You'll never be the same once you've been to Banff/Lake Louise. They don't call us God's country for nothing ;)



You'd love it! It ain't cheap, though :(
 
All this talk about the rocky mountians and texas and canadian states... reading it from a freezing room in a rubbish part of England's capital city. :-(

Is it true canadian's keep there doors unlocked in certain places?
 
Yep. Lots of people do.

When I'm at home, the back door is always open and the front screen door has a teeny-weeny lock on it that could easily be kicked in, but if somebody's coming over, I actually leave the front door open, too, just in case I'm in the bathroom or listening to music and I can't hear the doorbell.

I figure if anybody is stupid enough to come into my home with unsavory intentions, they are simply begging for the punishment I'm only more than willing to dish out. Which is death or severe maiming.

I live in a city of over 1,000,000 with horrible drug crime and gang activity. So I'm pretty retarded to do this. But the crime rate in my district is really, really low.
 
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All this talk about the rocky mountians and texas and canadian states... reading it from a freezing room in a rubbish part of England's capital city. :-(

Is it true canadian's keep there doors unlocked in certain places?
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Canada has provinces, not states ;)

Come to Alberta. It's the best place in the world :) Calgary is totally insulated from the rest of the world. Translation: there is no recession here. And we won't feel one, either. We're too gung-ho on making money. Throw us sh*it and what we'll do is figure out how to turn it into fertilizer so we can sell it back to you and make huge profits. That's how we work here in Calgary -- it's capitalism at its finest ;)

However, there isn't much to do in the city ... it's a bit boring ...

But we are close to the Rockies :D
 
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