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From chunk to hunk in 7 months
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yup... while no doubt a more dramatic change it is a bit different to achieving the gains some bodybuilders achieve. A very fat person essentially needs to turn their lifestyle into that of an average healthy person to drop a load of weight(granted there are no doubt significant psychological hurdles for some in order to do that). On the other hand to get that ripped look you'll need to train pretty hard too. Granted there is clearly some carefully staged photography (and potential airbrushing) involved here but the guy in the OP would have needed to put in some serious physical effort over time too whereas a fat person just losing weight needs to just maintain the willpower aspect(if applicable) and put in no more physical effort than any other healthy person.
Agreed, and this is from someone who's been there. I lost 115lb over the course of a year, and while it was great to have family and friends comment on how much better I looked, I never saw it as anything other than fixing something that I broke. My friends used to joke about me trying to sell my "secret", calling it the "get rid of your fat ass by eating less and exercising more routine". Really, that's all it is for the vast majority of people.
Indeed. To lose weight you just need to stop stuffing your face. To get as cut as that will have required some serious physical effort.
You hid this well
I underlined it!
I was about to call outrage on your superior video-linking skills!
Somewhere between highly exaggerated and completely fabricated.
As you say yourself, 5000 calories a day (in a person doing little exercise in a temperate climate) would have resulted in him being much fatter than he was. Particularly since it was, supposedly, mostly in the form of pies and pasties and fried greasy chicken.
Also, £140 a week spent on the food mentioned should be quite a bit more than 5000 calories.
So my guess would be an exaggerated story, a condensed timeline and a combination of photo editing and a huge difference in the skill of the photographers.
I got rid of 23Kg without even really eating less overall, at least in terms of frequency and volume. I just reduced my fat and sugar intake a bit at a time, in easy steps I didn't notice all that much. I think the biggest difference was probably down to completely cutting out sugary drinks. It's surprising how many calories a person can drink without noticing the intake. It seems much less than eating the same amount.
Getting a body in reasonable shape can be done in a pretty simple and even quite haphazard way by just eating a roughly reasonably healthy diet and doing some regular exercise. It'll take much longer and you won't get anywhere near as far as you would if you applied knowledge and effort and dedication to efficiently optimising your body, but it'll get the basics done to an adequate extent. Without superfood wonderberries at ludicrously inflated proces.
I'm reminded of the Absolutely Fabulous episode:
Saffie: Look, mum. All you've got to do is eat less and take a bit of exercise.
Eddie: Sweetie, if it was that easy, everyone would be doing it. Anyway, I don't know what you mean. I do take exercise!
Saffie: You get out of bed, it ends there.
Eddie: I know what I'll do, I'll wait 'til Patsy gets here and phone her doctor. He'll do anything. And if that doesn't work, darling. I'm gonna go down to that Chinese clinic...
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I am 22 and weigh 8stone 9 ATM. Last year however I was 7stone flat.
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Ah but reducing the fat intake and the sugar intake does reduce your calories. 1g of fat is equal to over 2g of carbohydrate or protein in terms of calories.
1g fat = 9cals
1g carb/protein = 4cals
The sugary drinks will also hugely affect your insulin levels which is a fat storage hormone (well it's more than that, but just simplifying it a little).
Either way, well done on improving your lifestyle
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I fancy KFC now.
You've come to the right forum my friend
It doesn't say how long he's been in the gym for. Looks like he's been lifting for a while and just done a dirty bulk eating everything in sight before doing an extreme 7 month cut, probably with some sort of stack.
5k calories isn't difficult even just adding a bit of junk food every day.
5k calories isn't difficult even just adding a bit of junk food every day.
My brother works in Wetherspoons in Burnley, so i'll have to ask him if he knows him. The figures seem like a load of rubbish, it's been massivly exagerated to make it more of a story. Also the after pic has been messed with in photoshop and no doubt hes pushing his stomach out in the first.
Still a good achievement.
Still a good achievement.
Anabolic lighting plus he looks like a stick (insect) which appears to be the trend these days.
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You don't get that from just giving up pasties and chicken.
Dude looks like he's packed on solid 2-3 years worth of mass in 7 months including the fat loss....(or it could be photoshop of course / lighting I know how huge a difference it makes)
I'll leave the rest to peoples imagination, forever trenbolone.
Dude looks like he's packed on solid 2-3 years worth of mass in 7 months including the fat loss....(or it could be photoshop of course / lighting I know how huge a difference it makes)
I'll leave the rest to peoples imagination, forever trenbolone.
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As someone who has lifted consistently for over 7 years, there are only two explanations for this.
1. He has worked out for a long time, and just put on a bunch of weight and watered up for the before picture. He then spent 7 months cutting to get there.
2. He has REALLY good genetics, his diet was 100% on point, AND he was on gear. Even the greatest bodybuilders of our time with the best genetics would struggle to get that look in less than 1-1.5 years. In 7 months? He would have to be one of those guys and have ridden a bike.
1. He has worked out for a long time, and just put on a bunch of weight and watered up for the before picture. He then spent 7 months cutting to get there.
2. He has REALLY good genetics, his diet was 100% on point, AND he was on gear. Even the greatest bodybuilders of our time with the best genetics would struggle to get that look in less than 1-1.5 years. In 7 months? He would have to be one of those guys and have ridden a bike.
He looks to have some muscle on him even in the "fat" photos so to go from exceptionally bad diet and no exercise to a well structured and strict regime would produce fantastic results as long as one has discipline to stick to it. If you have previous experience then all the better and he may have used a little "gear" on the way so this is hardly an impossible act.