haha ur abs look sick chillen, altho im not convinced sadly since u started out with a six pac in those pics and ended up with a 12 pac hehe... but thanks i appreciate it , always do
mo
Okay, Mayb. Let me speak some plain truth, in rather simple terms:
You are going to be "required" to convince yourself you can do this, or you are done, stick a fork in it. Its over.
You are in charge of the outcome. No question about it. No one will care "enough" more than you when you want something.
I have being extremely careful with my diet and fitness training for 2 years and about 10 months.
What I have accomplished didn't come over night. It has taken some sacrifices, discipline, and most importantly hard work around my daily life, work, and other things we deal with as we live life. I began looking like crap. So get off, that I started off with a 6 pac, because this isnt true: I earned it.
I did NOT begin with a so-called six pack. I had earned every thing I have accomplished within diet and fitness, through my own blood, and have experienced tears, aches and pains, and many obstacles, that many on this forum have or will experience in their goal path. I have earned it. It wasn't handed to me as gift.
I was 35 pounds overweight. I couldnt see my abs, and was basically an old friggen fart, and new "nothing" about diet and fitness. I was like alot of new persons on this forum just beginning a goal to gain or lose weight. I had no idea if I was going to meet my goal (meaning if my aging body in my 40's was going to allow it to happen), but I was determined to see it come true.
After I read extensively on information pertaining to my personal goal, a lot of the information seemed to settle on some "basic" truths that I had no choice to accept if I wanted my goal. No matter what I felt inside about these truths, these truths would never change, so it was either suck it up, or be stuck with my personally despictable fat body I possessed.
The first pic I showed was about 6 to 7 months of of dieting where I had already lost about 15 pounds of unwanted fat tissue. In most persons (not all as it depends on their genetic composition), the first two muscles of the upper abdominal wall begin to appear when body fat begins to drop. Though that first pic doesnt look like much, I had worked my "ass" off just to get to that point. I still had about 15 pounds of unwanted fat tissue, and like most males, I had a lot of fat tissue around the lower abdominal area, and some sagging skin (which got worse as I continued to drop weight in the forthcoming months).
The second pic, is after about 1 year and 4 to 6 months. This is the point I joined our fabulous forum. The pic is after fighting some lower abdominal fat tissue for about 2 1/2 months (it just wouldn't come off), but I kept at it, and found "my personal answer". I had to kick UP my fitness activity extraordinarily high and make some "tweaks" in my diet (adjust carbs, and go keto, along with fluctuating between deficits and surpluses), to get the last "bitchingly" stubborn fat to come off the lower abdominal area. But, I was determined that it was coming off and nothing else short of that was personally acceptable (got that?). I had sagging skin, too But, not no more. Its knocked out......stoned cold....out. I "jabbed" it into friggggggggggggggen submission.
I had the
fuse, gave the lose skin the
bruise and it took a
snooze, because I had the "correct" internal
"views"
Change yours. Mayb....to win.
I could have put a diaper on and whimper to mommy--but what does this do? The fat is still clinging to my old ass as before--as I am crying like a little baby. If I quit.....it will still be there, but this time, its laughing at my "defeated @ss". This is unacceptable.
Got that? I wear the balls around here.....my body swings them and I use them.....
The greatest competition of all time is within yourself. Either one wins it. Or the go the f@ck home. I dont compare myself to someone else. They are not me. I am unique (as we all are from one another).
I am going to become
"The greatest" (Muhammad Ali), master my
"internal competition", and become the champion.
Got that? I will defy the odds, and
"shock the world" (Muhammad Ali). I am supremely confident, have the internal talent, have the heart, and will apply the
"rope-a-dope" (Muhammad Ali) and wear the crap out of any resistence.
Got that?
I will make a winner out of me. I may get knocked down, but I have a chin like a granite, and continue to fight. I can and will take a punch, because I expect it to come.
Know your enemy and draw it close to you. Know it well. You will be able to win the battle
knowing your enemy, as you learn its strengths and weaknesses, and then you knock it the f@ck out!
Got that? There is no 10 count, its friggen knock out cold, flat on its back. Who is laughing now...biaaaaaatch?!
Got that?!
After the second and third pics, I went into maintaining mode for about two months (or so). Then "about" September 2007, I decided to go into a mini bulk for a few months. After several months, I went from 154 lbs (and extremely lean) to about 174-176 pounds. I stopped my bulk short because I learned a lot about "who I am" and where I feel the best, personally, as far as within diet and fitness. About February 2007 (approximately), I began to diet down (in my personally designed methods that is supported through what I have learned the previous two years in dealing with myself). I set a goal weight of (161 pounds, and sub 8% body fat, or to improve slightly than what my body fat was before, while clinging on to about 7 pounds of muscle I had gained prior. So approximately (6-months) of very SLOW fat loss-on purpose, I earned my goal as stated.
And here is the current upper pic:
You have a six pack within you. And, you can lose the lower portion of the skin you want gone. But, you are going to have to earn it, Mayb. You are going to be required to convince yourself you can do it, Mayb. And, you can.
Take a look at this thread:
How bad is my lose skin
If you want I can locate the various posts I have written on how I approached my diet (and may add things to it that I may have left out), and training, to help you. Its more plausible to just direct you to the link, or post it here, than to rewite it again.
Let me know, and I will be more than happy to post them for you.
Mayb, you have to educate yourself on your goal problem (remember KNOW YOUR ENEMY), in order to conquer it. What have you done in ths erea to serve you?
Are we what we think, lets see:
The thoughts that you think, regarding those things that you want, set into motion the creation, and eventual fulfillment, of that which you want. And likewise, the thoughts that you think, regarding those things that you do not want, set into motion the creation, and eventual fulfillment, of that which you do NOT want.
The thoughts that you set forth in combination with great emotion are the most powerful of your thoughts.
Understand that all thoughts create -- and the more emotion that is present at the time that a thought is set in motion, the faster the creation will be received -- and as frequent thought is given in any direction, without the hindrance of negative thought, there is certain creation, eventually.
Your emotions are not from your physical world. They come forth from the inner world and are directly communicated to you from your Inner Being.
As you are feeling positive emotion - such as love, peace, happiness, joy, excitement, exhilaration ... it is your Inner Being communicating to you in that moment that you are feeling the emotion - that your thoughts are in harmony with that which you are wanting, As you are experiencing negative emotion - such as fear or doubt, anger, hatred, jealousy, stress, guilt, anxiety .. it is a communication from your Inner Being telling you that in that moment - that which you are focused upon is not in harmony with what you are wanting.
A belief is nothing more than a thought that you have thought before, that you continue to think.
Your thoughts are powerful creators, and your words are even more powerful than your thoughts, but your actions are more powerful than your words or your thoughts--------
GET IT TOGETHER.
Best wishes,
Chillen
months or so a drop of about 10 kilos, however after my 2 month progress it only took me 1 month to ruin it and another month to go above of my starting weight. i began at 80 kilos dropped down to 70 and now back up to 90 kilos... 
