From chunk to hunk in 7 months

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http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/04/guy-g...tching-the-pasties-and-fried-chicken-5733064/

A man who was called ‘Keith Lard’ by his mates has gone from bloated to ripped bodybuilder in just seven months after giving up his pasties and fried chicken.

Twenty-eight-year-old Sebastian David from Burnley used to eat around 5,000 calories a day. He would spend around £140 a week on Greggs pasties, fry-ups and KFC buckets.

But, over seven months, he has gone from 14st 6lb to just over 10-and-a-half stone – and from six pints of lager on a Friday night to a super toned six pack.
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How true does GD think this is? The picture of the guy on the left is definitely overweight but not someone eating 5000 calories per day type fat.

After being a chunky monkey in my youth and going on a strict diet, weight training and/or CV workouts for over a year, I was fit but nowhere near the 1% body fat on this guy.

So is this just someone with good genes making the most of what they've got, and creating unrealistic expectations for the real fatties? Or is this possible for anyone with the right mental attitude?
 
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It sounds like he had a terrible diet and didn't exercise much to start with so it's no surprise he's buffed up well. There are also those who gain weight having been fit and healthy just to come up with a before/after photo like this.
 
I don't know whether that's achievable in 7 months. But I do take issue with people thinking this kind of thing puts unnecessary expectations on real fatties. Everyone can achieve what this man has (or at least get some of the way towards it). It takes a genuine decision and dedication to improving your life. But why wouldn't we all want to make the best of ourselves?

I put on a lot of weight in 2014 and worked for several months to get from almost 13st down to less than 11st. I'm back up to 11.5st now but the addional weight isn't fat.

Wasn't it Feek that made a massive change to his weight by hard work and decication to improving himself?
 
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It sounds like some crap you'd hear someone say at the gym but I wouldn't doubt it is possible.
 
The original picture is designed to make him look a lot worse than he is to be fair, if I stand totally relaxed pushing my gut out in crap lighting I look like I've never set foot in a gym. (Inb4 some gym rat says I don't no matter what)

The after photo on the other hand is crafted to be absolutely perfect in terms of lighting and retouching to show definition.
 
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People putting it down to anything other than hard work and research belittles the leaps made by the people who achieve the most. Also, see my first comment on the picture of the right being aimed at emphasising his figure. Would not look anywhere near as impressive if he was in the same pose and lighting as the first.
 
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People putting it down to anything other than hard work and research belittles the leaps made by the people who achieve the most. Also, see my first comment on the picture of the right being aimed at emphasising his figure.
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I'm not saying hard work and research weren't included. Which they quite clearly were. And I'm not belittling it at all.

But you're not doing that in 7 months without help.
 
danielanthony said:
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/04/guy-g...tching-the-pasties-and-fried-chicken-5733064/

After being a chunky monkey in my youth and going on a strict diet, weight training and/or CV workouts for over a year, I was fit but nowhere near the 1% body fat on this guy.

So is this just someone with good genes making the most of what they've got, and creating unrealistic expectations for the real fatties? Or is this possible for anyone with the right mental attitude?
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This guy isn't even close to 1% body fat.

I would say he is double digit still!

Also he was far from a chunky monkey before hand, maybe a 2-3 stone overweight but at 1-2lb per week of weight loss (average to 1.5lb per week) that's 3 stone in 7months.

Consistency is key here, the guy has done well, but this is miles away from any kind of miracle transformation.
 
as far as the objective info is concerned (losing 4 stone in 7 months) of course it is achievable

photos on the other hand can be taken to make someone look more ripped than they are and indeed fatter than they are - for example the below two taken moments apart in order to illustrate this:

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so it wouldn't be surprising that someone with some real change (increased muscle mass and loss of 4 stone overall) can show a dramatic difference in carefully staged photos. He clearly has some muscle mass in the first photo anyway, he's not got skinny arms and a pot belly but muscular arms to begin with albeit with a crap diet. Upping his training and changing his diet has mostly eliminated fat
 
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I'm not saying hard work and research weren't included. Which they quite clearly were. And I'm not belittling it at all.

But you're not doing that in 7 months without help.
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I agree but i dont think it took longer than 7 months, i just think the end result cant be directly compared with the first picture without taking into account clever tricks and lighting.
 
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How true does GD think this is? The picture of the guy on the left is definitely overweight but not someone eating 5000 calories per day type fat.

After being a chunky monkey in my youth and going on a strict diet, weight training and/or CV workouts for over a year, I was fit but nowhere near the 1% body fat on this guy.

So is this just someone with good genes making the most of what they've got, and creating unrealistic expectations for the real fatties? Or is this possible for anyone with the right mental attitude?[/QUOTE]

Bear in a mind a lot of those photoshoots are doctored it is entirely possible to achieve.

5000 calories isn;t that much really, I eat nearly 4000 a day at the moment.

This guys is also not 1% nowhere near. He's be very very ill. He's maybe around 8%.

Furthermore he was already carrying a fair bit of muscle mass, he just stripped away the fat, and his before picture is made to look worse.

You can achieve remarkable transformations in a short period of time - but there are a lot of factors here which skew this article a lot.
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Jesus, what sandwiches was she eating?

Wasn't there that super fat guy that became a subway rep by losing tons of weight through giving everything up BUT subway sandwiches?
 
You can lose weight on tubs of Ben and Jerrys if you wish as long as you're consuming less calories than you burn.
 
He is clearly pushing it all out in the chunk shot and clearly airbrushed to oblivion in the hunk shot.

Yeah hes been to the gym for 7 months.... Good for him but that's about literally all i get from the report, unless someone's trying to sell some supplements or diet pills somewhere?
 
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