284lbs
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182lbs
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VERY nice dude, insane transformation.

Btw- those sleeves are SICK.

awesome! You look great.

Off topic but I have been wondering did your tats look different when you lost the weight. I have 3 different tats I want, but Im nervous that they will look bad when I loose the weight so I have been holding off on getting them. How are yours looking?

thanks for the compliments
no the tats didn't change. i even have one on my upper stomach for the last 50lbs or so and that didn't change either.

Wow! You look great, and *SO* much younger. Great job!!! You must be so proud of youself =D

Amazing transformation. Congratulations!!!!

Very cool! Congrats.

How did you go about accomplishing it?

Wow..That's a big difference! Congrats!!

Nice work! You shaved years off your appearance! Looking great!

Very cool! Congrats.

How did you go about accomplishing it?

i started with just running everyday working up to 3 miles a shot. that snowballed into eating healthier and working out with weights. it took about a year and a half to get to were i am at. i will probably lose a few more pounds but i dont see much more coming off. i think i will just keep doing what i am doing and build muscle while losing fat. i used exercise to lose it more than diet. being a high school athlete when i was younger helped, but i was a fat lineman and graduated high school at 240lbs and that was 16 years ago. i still eat things i shouldnt and dont keep track of calories and such, but for the most part i eat healthy foods in small portions. i am still running 3 miles a day and lifting every 2 days. i did it in my basement by myself. this is the best shape i have ever been in at 34 years old.

looking great! The sleaves are awesome!

GREAT Transformation!!! WELL DONE!!

I thought the first set of pics that you posted were impressive, but you're right, these do show it better! 102 lbs... wow... just, wow!

WOW!!! great job, Keep it up.


Matt

I thought the first set of pics that you posted were impressive, but you're right, these do show it better! 102 lbs... wow... just, wow!

yeah, i finally bought new clothes that fit and took pictures. i thought it looked more impressive than the shirtless pics.

Congrats!! You look awesome!!!

Looking good. Did the weigh-loss affect your tattoos at all? Everyone's surprised, with the amount of weight that I've lost, that my tattoos weren't affected by it. I think perhaps it has always been a myth that they'll get distorted.

thanks again everyone and no the tats didn't change. i even have one on my upper stomach for the last 50lbs or so and that didn't change either.

Myth busted. I don't think tats distort with weight fluctuation.

Myth busted. I don't think tats distort with weight fluctuation.


My friend had a tat on her stomach and when she got pregnant it stretched pretty badly. I think it depends on the person and their elasticity of their skin. I got attacked with stretchmarks when I was pregnant.

And heres a quote

"Will the tattoo change if my body changes (working out, weight loss or gain, pregnancy)?

Dogstar Tattoo Company
Yes it will. Depending on how much your change will depend on how much it affects the tattoo. Typically when men workout, they have to drastically change to stretch out a piece on their arm. The result in this case is that the tattoo may be lighter as well as somewhat distorted. Pregnancy will definitely alter tattoos on the stomach, usually permanently"

Pregnancy is a different thing. Your stomach stretches out dramatically within a very short period of time which often leads to irreparable damage to the skin in the form of stretch marks. Once the skin becomes physically damaged in that way, if there's a tattoo there of course it will be damaged as well.

But I'm willing to bet tattoos that are in places where a person doesn't get stretch marks after they get the tattoo, won't be affected by gaining and losing weight.

hit 179lbs thats 105lbs lost. still trying to figure out when enough is enough. i am happy but think i still have a few more pounds on me.

Congratulations... you look wonderful. Very much younger. It's funny how the fatness hides our beauty. How long did you take to lose all these pounds?

Wow! You look SO much younger!!!! It looks like you shaved 20 years off!

Looking good chief, and I have those same air turbulence shoes

took a year and a half to get most of it off. been working at the last few pounds for a few months though now. gets harder towards the end.

thanks for the compliments everyone. it seems as though everyone thinks i have rediscovered my youth.

Amazing transformation, its good to see for those of us still in progress that it can be done because it has been done.

Wow. Big difference. You look like a whole new person. Congrats!

What a difference. You have done a great job. Keep up the good work on maintaining that new you & congratulations!!!:hurray:

Very impressive, and encouraging for all of us who are still working on getting the weight down!! Good job!! :hurray:

And I love the sleeves...any chance of getting a close-up for all the tattoo lovers that seem to be among us?? :Angel_anim:

You look fantastic, and about 10 years younger! Way to go!

lost some more weight, down to 174lbs, thats 110lbs lost, figured i would post a pic of before and after again
284lbs
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174lbs
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Good jod dude, you look like a totally different person now!!!

:)

:eek2: FANTASTIC!!!

You look great! If it weren't for the tattoos, I would have thought it was a different person.

I hope you are happy with your results, because you've done good!:hurray:

amazing you look like another man!
just great!! =)

brilliant transformation.. really inspiring.. congrats man:party:

What a huge transformation.... You look great Bro! :party:

Fabulous, fabulous transformation. Well done.

thanks everyone. it has taken a lot of work and the compliments make it all worth it.

congrats bro..

Amazing man. I'm about 6 months in now, I should be able to do 105 or more by a year. You may have inspired me to sprint for the finish line. (I wish, we all know it's a lifelong journey right? haha)

Amazing man. I'm about 6 months in now, I should be able to do 105 or more by a year. You may have inspired me to sprint for the finish line. (I wish, we all know it's a lifelong journey right? haha)

we all inspire each other and keep each other going. as for the finish, once you are where you want to be, it gets a little easier even though it is a lifelong journey. at this point it doesnt even seem like a task to eat healthy and exercise. it is something i look forward to and it makes me feel better. sure there are days you want to slack, and some you will, but you work through it.

It is absolutely amaaazing how much younger people look when they've lost alot of weight!!!congratulations!!!

its funny, people are saying i look like i am loosing more weight, even though at this point i am pretty much sitting at 174lbs. i think my stomach is still tightening and the weights are building muscle and burning more fat, but my weight is staying the same. i was even told i look skinny and have a tiny little waist. i hope thats something you all will hear someday.

im so envious of being where u are and having such a great weight loss. i keep my fingers crossed i do as well as you have

Holly crap
differnt person I swear. xD

good job.

yeah a lot of people barely recognize me, at work there always looking at my name tag. its a big place so you don't see everyone a lot but i have been there 6 years.

on another note i was 170lbs this morning, 114lbs down. not really trying to lose weight anymore, just toning, but i had a busy week and burnt some lbs off anyway.

thanks again everyone, keep up the good work

That is really an amazing transformation. It takes some real determination and you've shown that you can set a goal and keep it. You must feel incredible. Thanks for the inspiration.

bro please tell me how u did it good job man

good job bro how long did it take u to loose that weight

bro please tell me how u did it good job man

well i decided i wanted to lose weight and going on vacation gave me a reason. so i started running dec 06 about 1/2 mile each day and doing 1/2 mile on the elliptical and a good amount of ab exercises. i was up to a mile a day 2 weeks later. i pretty much just focused on the exercise for about 4
months which netted about a 40lb loss.

then i decided to cut back on my eating and add in some weight training. this took off about another 20 lbs and i was pretty much just running 3 miles a day no more elliptical. so at about the year mark i was down 60lbs.

at that point i decided to take it further and focused more on diet which i had avoided up to this point and upped my exercise adding in pull ups push ups and more abs. this got me to were i am now.

i am currently 169lbs, thats 115lbs lost. i eat very healthy and dont over eat. i dont count calories, but i know what to eat and what not to. i do about 2000 reps of ab exercises every night, run 3 miles a day, weight train for about an hour 1 day on 2 days off, and do 250 push ups 100 pull ups and 100 floor sweepers the days i dont lift.

i do have some loose skin on my lower abs, buts thats to be expected. i use a cocoa butter, aloe, vitamin e mixture to help tighten my skin and it has helped. im sure in time it will tighten more. its been stretched for over thirty years, it will take a few to tighten.

next month will be 2 years since i started losing the weight. i have not only maintained weight loss for 2 years but i have been consistently losing for the 2 years. i think i am more happy that i have kept it off and maintained a healthy lifestyle for that amount of time than i am the amount i have lost.

good luck with your weight loss, it is a great feeling.

i started with just running everyday working up to 3 miles a shot. that snowballed into eating healthier and working out with weights. it took about a year and a half to get to were i am at. i will probably lose a few more pounds but i dont see much more coming off. i think i will just keep doing what i am doing and build muscle while losing fat. i used exercise to lose it more than diet. being a high school athlete when i was younger helped, but i was a fat lineman and graduated high school at 240lbs and that was 16 years ago. i still eat things i shouldnt and dont keep track of calories and such, but for the most part i eat healthy foods in small portions. i am still running 3 miles a day and lifting every 2 days. i did it in my basement by myself. this is the best shape i have ever been in at 34 years old.

I was a fat linemen as well in highschool. I got to say getting up to where i was at 400 lns from 265 lbs in HS, I have a long journey a head. But im all ready down to 372 pounds and having that experience in football has helped me considerabley. It allowed me to know that i can push my body to exshaustion and i wll survive it.

Keep up the good work man you are an inspiration

I was a fat linemen as well in highschool. I got to say getting up to where i was at 400 lns from 265 lbs in HS, I have a long journey a head. But im all ready down to 372 pounds and having that experience in football has helped me considerabley. It allowed me to know that i can push my body to exshaustion and i wll survive it.

Keep up the good work man you are an inspiration

thanks

its funny no matter how much i weigh and what i look like, i will always be a fat lineman. people wouldnt even believe me if i told them i was a nose guard in high school.

i truly believe that being an athlete was a huge part of my success.

i will take another update picture soon just to show the toning. i am maintaining the same weight (around 169) but the 34 waist pants i bought a few months back are huge. im thinking my waist is more like a 30 now

pics from this morning. still trying to get rid of the turkey day food :)

oh i almost forgot. since today is the first day of december, it is two years this month since i started my weight loss journey
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WOW you look great! very handsome!!