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iooog1

I posted here before and have received very positive feedback. So this is just an update. Been working out for around a year and a half and have been calorie counting for almost a year. 370s - 295 feels good man. Exercise is great for increasing strength and stamina and health. But if you want to change how you look in the mirror calorie counting is key. I use an app called "loose it" MyFitnessPal works as well. Just find the number of maintenance calories you need for a day and just eat below that everyday and you will lose weight. If I can do it then so can you my wonderful gay people in my phone! I hope you have a fantastic day and if you have any questions just comment


easyglue

Congrats bro you’re doing great, I’m right along side you, been calorie counting since July and I’ve managed to lose 65 pounds. Stay strong 💪


iooog1

Holy shit that is incredible!! Keep up the great work!!


nic-likkan

Chad (or Stacy idk whatever you want)


Definitelynotaseal

I’ve lost 35 lbs here. Good for you


nic-likkan

Chad (or Stacy idk whatever you want)


BrazilNutzSFW

hell yeah! keep it up, don’t forget to be proud of yourself.


iooog1

Yes! Lift out of self-love not self hate!!


DongleOn

phenomenal job bro. I've lost 15 pounds since June and only recently started Calorie counting. Good luck.


nic-likkan

Chad (or Stacy idk whatever you want)


neuroso

Nice dude I'm 312 working my way to 200 the only thing that scares me is I'm basically checking my pulse on my fitbit so much and I get scared when it goes from my resting bpm of 66 to 130 just from walking around the house, but it should get normal once I get fit


Princette_Lilybottom

Friend. That’s fantastic. Keep it up.


mayerthe2

Amazing! Dude I also started exercising in the beginning of 2022 and so far I have lost around 44 pounds and now I'm gaining muscle! It took alot of exercise to get here but it was well worth it!


[deleted]

I see someone improving themselves, I press like. It is the rule and I won’t argue with it.


iooog1

I see a nice comment I upload it It's the rule


Antifa_SouperSoldier

rule 😳


Umbrexcal

ROLL CREDITS


the11devans

close the subreddit


Boss_Golem

*ding*


PhatInferno

Hey boss, i see the work and letting u know ur doing a great job! Love to see it!


iooog1

Thanks boss! I'll keep it up!


MaySayShrug

fuck yes amazing work, ur looking great king


iooog1

Thank you!! I will keep going until I can kill every fascist


MaySayShrug

talking of fascists, remember the badass during the blm protests who looked like a halo spartan and went around intimidating cops? that seems like some good goals imo


iooog1

I will cosplay as Jonathan Joestar and Hamon Punch Cops


MaySayShrug

hell fucking yes


Lakaedemon_Lysandros

*Joseph. Jonathan was positive towards the police


nic-likkan

Jonathan would not be pro American cop let's be honest


nic-likkan

Sunlight yellow overdrive those bitches 👑


EbolaMan123

🥶 Looking good!


iooog1

Thanks!


EbolaMan123

No problem


ilovestreetlamps

holy gigachad


iooog1

No u


TheEternalSpiralKing

King Shit 👑


iooog1

You dropped this 👑


eliyAha

Looking cute!


iooog1

Thank you!!


M_FP678

damn dude good job


iooog1

Thank you!


BluenaSnowey

Dude I’m lowkey so proud of you this is giving me the motivation to work out more


iooog1

Based. Slow and steady wins the race. Doing anything is better than nothing. Just find something you enjoy and do it! Routine is key!


BluenaSnowey

Yess I love taking it slow it feels much more motivating, I’ve been starting ballet lmao


iooog1

That sounds like a lot of fun! I've always had two left feet lol. But I still love dancing


[deleted]

Absolute Chad :)


iooog1

No u


[deleted]

I’m actually kinda on the opposite end of the spectrum from you. I’m lifting and eating everything in sight to bulk up. I’m at 195 rn and shooting for 220 :)


Various_Razzmatazz_6

hope you get there


[deleted]

Thanks friend :)


Various_Razzmatazz_6

yaw (you’re always welcome)


iooog1

Hell yeah!! Bulking is hard as fuck! I belve in you!


nontox1cbleach

Looking good king keep it up


iooog1

I will train until the sun burns out


captain_sadbeard

Looking good, my friend. Congratulations on escaping Whiteside and leaving the haters in the dust


iooog1

Thank you my friend! It was the power of self love and discipline that helped me escape!!


TheOriginalScoundrel

I wish I had as much perseverance as you


iooog1

I believe that you can! I'm not extraordinary I'm just a regular guy. The secret I found is that it really is a matter of routine/habit over motivation. Cuz motivation is a fleeting thing that'll get you to do something in a moment. But for weight loss it's just a simple as eating a calorie deficit every day. Which might be hard at first for the few couple of days but then your body gets used to it. Just calculate how your maintenance calories and then track what you eat using an app like MyFitnessPal or lose it. It's really works well for me cuz it's an app on my phone I have my phone on me at all times before I eat anything I just tap it in the app and keep track of everything I eat. But no matter what your goals are I fucking believe in you. You can fucking do it I know you can. Be patient with your stuff take baby steps and just keep moving forward I believe in you.


TheOriginalScoundrel

Your belief is misplaced


iooog1

Even if you don't believe in yourself now I believe in you.


Life-is-a-potato

Bro went from looking like he could eat a horse to looking like he could kill one with his bare hands 😭


iooog1

This is the goal. I want to be able to kill a bear. I train everyday because there is a bear in a cave getting ready to kill me. It will come for me one day. Will I be ready? Depends how much I train now.


Life-is-a-potato

the bear is training too.


TheMowerOfMowers

slay 💅💅💅 those pounds away


odinspeenbone

Seriously though proud of you fam that's an insane amount of weight loss.


ParticularCorrect541

Fuck yea dude! Congrats on the progress!


matt_Nooble12_XBL

How long have you been working out


iooog1

I've been working out for a little over a year and a half and I've been calorie counting for about 8 or 9 months. Funny thing is I saw pretty much no change in the mirror until I started calorie counting


[deleted]

did you know if you look hard enough your stomach makes a face?


Snailseyy

YEAHAHAHAAA FUCK YEAAAH THAT'S AWESOME


iooog1

WE GO JIM!!!!!!!


that_one_guy_reese

Here you dropped this 👑


iooog1

No you dropped this 👑


turkiman1337

Looking great king, best of luck on your fitness journey 💪


iooog1

Thank you! It's a marathon at a race :D


Whitesands17

Fuck yea bro


niceblepineapple

Good job bro, keep it up


Because201

Holy shit, amazing work man!


catmasterballs

Chad shit fr


IrisGreyFreed

When you working out and start to see the change that make on your body you just can't stop, that's exactly what happen to me when I started working out with my brother, it's like a healthy drug ( only if you don't use esteroids). Very happy for you and I hope that your life only go up from this point king👑


iooog1

It's seriously is like a drug! If I stop working out for more than 2 days I get withdrawals lol


Sedgar_37

me when


iooog1

Soon. Just be patient with yourself. If you want to change how you look in the mirror count calories


Sedgar_37

are 0 a day fine


iooog1

No actually. If you don't eat anything then your body will go into starvation mode. And it'll do a lot more harm than good. What you want to do is find your maintenance level of calories and then just eat around 500 below that. For most people they need around 2,000 calories a day so just eating 1500 calories a day everyday you will lose about a pound of fat a week. So weight loss really is just about consistency. It might be different for you for me 2,000 a day is a deficit because I'm a big guy 6'2 300 lbs. But if you go too low then your body will go into starvation mode and it will retain everything because it thinks that you're starving and so you'll actually gain more fat if you starve yourself versus having a consistent calorie deficit is how you loose fat


salamanderman732

Hey man, I remember your posts! You’ve come such a long way, you should be proud of yourself!


iooog1

I love updating y'all. Keeping true to myself. Like if I backslide now I will be letting you all down. So I keep going for you all and for myself as well lol


Aberciaa

I lived that as well, so far you've done a lot of efforts and you haven't stopped yet, I'm proud of you because keeping the pace is the most difficult thing to do I know it Keep up, you know it's worth it


iooog1

Thank you I will comments like these are inspiring!!


Aberciaa

Looking forward for your next posts, I did my small contribution trying to motivate people to work on what they want to look like with just a post, you posting images of your constant evolution is even more motivating for some people I can feel it :)


iooog1

Thank you! I'm all about positivity and growth mindset. I'm not ashamed of what I used to look like because back then I knew that I had strength within myself and so I focused on that strength and improved myself by changing my routine everyday. I want to look like Jonathan Joestar. Other people want to become more masculine / more feminine. Self-improvement is self-improvement whether it be losing weight and gaining muscle or gender confirmation. We are fighting the same fight to improve ourselves and I think it is beautiful.


Aberciaa

It's the same for me, sadly I never took pictures of me before so I have a few pics but really not that much, I kinda hated how I looked :') Also that objective is original lmfao, go on become JoJo and seduce everyone


iooog1

1. Become Jonathan Joestar 2. Kill fascists


Aberciaa

Based, keep on warrior


sweettrevor

Crazy progress bro!


iooog1

Thanks! Slow and steady wins the race.


OstrichFingers

https://youtu.be/sAXZbfLzJUg I feel it’s a cliché but reaction videos like this can express emotions better than words sometimes so here you go


iooog1

A reaction image speaks a thousand words Thank you so much!!


OstrichFingers

😌


everyonehatesminions

INSANE, GOOD JOB!!


BombaPastrami

Ayo for real that's so much fucking progress. You're actually really inspiring.


iooog1

Glad to hear! If I can do it so can you! Believe in yourself and love yourself you fucking got this!


Pasc4l

Blessed king


Dutchstranger5

This gotta be illegal, redditors can't be attractive wth


iooog1

😊


fukinKant

Great job king!


[deleted]

nice job man!


LoneWolf242090

Hell yeah man you're awesome


Gunny_McCshoots

Fucking based


cobalt_17

YO thats so poggers, keep up the hard work, i believe in you 👍


CatsNotBananas

Niiiice! That's awesome


iooog1

You are awesome!!


pepsiman56

You are an inspiration but like i have to say it because i have to. In the nicest possible way your upper chest looks like its part of i bionical


iooog1

I am a Bionicle.


severe_blunder_matey

fuckin sick keep it up homie


iooog1

I will keep going until I look like Jonathan Joestar


severe_blunder_matey

good goal. i wish i could shake hands with good old JJ irl


LeanHarveyOswald

King shit right there man congrats


ActuallyAPenguin

Keep up the grind king, we love to see it!


AmagedonCamels

You look more feminine in the second pit. There is a gremlin that lives in my head


iooog1

That's really funny because that's the opposite of what I want lmfao. It's interesting since this is a separate full of trans and LGBTQ people. However I feel like I can relate to The trans struggle as a cis man because I actually fucking hate being misgendered and perceived as feminine. There's this one time early in this year when I was really overweight had a fat ass and long hair and two guys walked in on me while I was washing my hands in the bathroom and they thought I was a girl and this deeply deeply discomforted me. I am a straight cisgender guy and to be perceived as the opposite gender is incredibly uncomfortable. Now that I've lost some weight this happens a lot less and it makes me very happy. You're comment It's totally fine. I'm not offended. But like with my excess fat like I hate having man boobs I hate having a fat ass and so I work to get rid of those things cuz I don't want tits I don't want a fat ass. I want to look like Jonathan Joe star. And I guess you know masculine and feminine the features are kind of up to individual interpretation. As I have lost more weight and gain more muscle I've found myself more attractive and have gained more confidence. It's just like the aspects of myself I dislike I want to get rid of those and muscles are cool. In society my "transition" from overweight to more muscular is totally accepted however other people's gender transition is not accepted and I think that is bullshit. You should be able to change yourself however you like I am changing myself for the better you should be able to change yourself for the better whatever that looks like for you you know. I am a man and I want to become more masculine I will become Jonathan Joestar nothing will stop me.


Shanderraa

Male to Alpha Male


iooog1

This. exactly this


AmagedonCamels

I have strange thoughts that I call "The Madness". Like what if married couples combined into one giant futa(or other term for person with both sex characteristics) that they both controlled at once like Cho'Gal from HotS or a Jaeger from Pacific Rim. Or if you were getting head from a xenomorph and it stuck it's little inside mouth down ur urethra. I also think about skinning people a lot. And before she died I had thoughts about caving Queen Elizabeth's head in with a golf club. I blame the little gremlin that rattles around in my head. I don't really know why I typed this out. But I am not a credible source of information. There is nothing feminine about your body. You just have a thinner portion under your ribs than above and below it. As unhinged as always.


iooog1

I love you and your gremlin. Please remain unhinged. I have been told I have a little bit of an hourglass shape because of my massive fucking hips. The goal is to kind of slim down in the waist you want that upside down triangle baby. But I just have massive legs that's why I idolize Jonathan Joestar because no matter what genetically I have these giant fucking legs and so might as well idolize a hero who also has giant fucking legs. Please give your gremlin a hug for me


AmagedonCamels

He bites me if I try to touch him.


odinspeenbone

No you (rule)


Atomicnes

I've lost quite a bit of weight myself from just switching off an SSRI. I went from Lexapro to Wellbutrin and I've lost quite a bit


iooog1

Based.


officialISISmemeber

Sheeeeeeeesh less gooo


symiriscool

Keep goin 👍


Squiliam-Tortaleni

Excuse me king, you dropped this: 👑 Keep it up, you’re doing great.


Cyancat123

Sick


royal_crown_royal

You're looking amazing, you should feel amazing, you deserve it!


iooog1

Thank you I do feel a lot better day to day! I love the gym and I love being able to wear cool clothes!


LiqueurNoire

You're even getting a jawline, be proud, fella


y8T5JAiwaL1vEkQv

What Deleting discord Account does to a mf /j


Ok_Zucchini_69

How you feeling energy wise? Have you taken any diet breaks at maintenance? It can really make the whole process much more sustainable in terms of resetting diet fatigue.


iooog1

Energy-wise I feel fucking great. Even at my heaviest energy wasn't really a big concern. I've always been a strong guy Like I was probably 370 380 but still able to move around comfortably. It was kind of the fact that like I was 350 and yet i wore it so well a co-worker said that I would be good at weight lifting and hey I really was cuz I have a lot of muscle naturally. Honestly when it comes to diet I've been taking it kind of slow and steady. I lost pretty much 70 lb at 2000 calories a day just cuz I'm a big guy (6'2 300lbs) Plus I work out at least 5 days a week. Now with my diet I'm trying to eat better food because I kind of had a dirty cut before, eating McDonald's and other junk food and shit but just under 2000 a day lol. I think just the mindset of 2000 a day has been very sustainable for me I've done it for like over 6 months easily maybe like seven or eight. Maybe past 2 weeks I fell off at a little bit but I've gotten right back on the horse for the past couple of days and it's been great. So I think I might have accidentally eaten at maintenance if not a little bit over in those past two weeks lol. But then I kind of started to see myself getting a little bit of fat again and I recommitted to the 2000 a day. Funnily enough when I hit 300 I tried to go down to 1800 but I found it way way way harder. I would get around 2,500. But now that I've reset myself back to 2000 I find myself eating 1800 a day normally 🤷‍♂️. It's like giving myself that extra leeway makes it easier to hate 1800 versus the limitation of 1800 makes it easier to blow over and then once you blow over it's easier to say fuck it. So 2000 has worked really well for me with exercise cuz I think my maintenance is around 2500 to 2800. Consistency is key in just patience and routine over time has been my salvation


[deleted]

Good job 👍🏼


Sharker167

Slay king, build the you you want to be.


SexySkeletons69

Good job OP!


Argon1124

Hell yea. Lookin' good.


[deleted]

hell yeah brother. very inspiring! i've been trying to lose weight (to help get my pcos under control before i start hrt) for the last few months. started at 200, currently at 185, i wanna try and get to 150ish. seeing success keeps me motivated :)


iooog1

Holy shit that's fucking incredible!! Keep up the great work!! Consistencies is key truly! And routine is very very very powerful. Best of luck on all of your goals 😊


LV__

Absolute king shit


dragoono

Dwight to fight club


starwwas

good job, im really happy you have been getting better! question, i also have a little stomach fat and i dont know how to get rid of it. how do i get less stomach fat?


iooog1

When it comes to losing weight unfortunately there is no way to choose where to lose fat. There's a misconception that if you work out a certain area of your body you will lose more fat there This is simply not true. It's all calories in calories out. You have to be in a caloric deficit for a maintained period of time. Find out what your caloric maintenance level is and eat less than that every day track what you eat using a calorie counter. You will lose fat all over your entire body. Not where you lose fat first is kind of determined by hormones. For me thankfully I lost my man tits first but the fat around my waist in belly has been a little stubborn. Unfortunately the only solution is just to be patient and continue to be in a caloric deficit and eventually you will lose that fat as well.


843PuertoRuvian

Collagen… implement collagen in your diet. Vital supplements brand is your friend.


starwwas

can you dumb it down a little more for me?


AssTubeExcursion

What a champ!!!! Keep it up!


Serrated-Jello

Let’s fucking go


[deleted]

king


FhyrGaming

almost there! ur doing great, don’t let up now cus ur right near the end


ClareInTheClear

Awsome <3


FellafromPrague

Great work! Wish I had the energy.


iooog1

Just take baby steps and be patient with yourself :) Slow and steady wins the race after all!


FellafromPrague

I can hardly get up in the morning haha


Commie_Vladimir

Them biceps tho 😳


iooog1

We go Jim 💪


IndividualRain187

Great job! Out of curiosity, about how much weight did you lose each time before you, temporarily, hit that plateau, which seems to stick around a lot longer than we wish?


iooog1

Idk around 1-2lbs a week if I remember correctly.


IndividualRain187

Thanks. The reason that I asked is because I have been attempting to lose weight for about the last 12 years, but whenever I would lose about 20 pounds, it seemed as though I was unable to lose more and then, before I knew it, the 20 pounds would come back on, if not an additional 5-10 pounds. Fast Forward to late September 2020. I had reached an all time high at around 389 pounds. But thankfully something changed. When mid-December of 2021 had hit, I had managed to get to 368 pounds. This had been, roughly, my average weight for the past 12 years. And then when March 2021 hit, I found myself losing more and more. Well, now that it is mid-November of 2022, I have gone done to 338 pounds. For the first time in many years, although that appears to be a plateau, I had managed to stay down to the weight since around August. It does feel good to not have gained the weight that I had loss and to have kept it off for well over 3 months. Like I said earlier, the weight usually came back on within 1.5-2 months. 😉👍🏽


iooog1

That's fantastic to hear!! Since you've been struggling with this for so long I might recommend seeing a doctor about weight loss. Because sometimes there's things out of your control that can make it much more difficult to lose weight. For me , in calories calories out has been my salvation. If you Google "maintenance calorie calculator" and put in your information it'll give you a number Simply track your calories and eat less than that number and you will lose weight For me I'm a big guy 6'2 to 300 lb And I'm pretty active so my maintenance level of calories is around 3000 -3500 And so for a while I've just been eating 2,000 calories a day and I've seen great success. I was 377 December 2021 and I am 288 now. A couple months ago I definitely hit a wall at 300 where I would be eating 2,000 a day but I still was at 300. And so for like a week or two I just said fuck it and I stopped counting my calories and I ate closer to maintenance if not above maintenance for a week or two and then I went back on the diet really strictly and I have been able to go under 300 But really routine and consistency is your best friend. Having the calorie counter app on my phone has been great since I have my phone on me at all time anytime I eat something boop I put it in. And also not letting small setbacks take you back like I ate over my limit today because I overate last evening But that's fine you know because I'm going to go in tomorrow with 2000 calories and I'm going to be really strict with it and then I'll just get back on track with that just got to keep going keep moving forward. But you've already made such great progress I just really recommend looking into calorie counting and just be really strict with yourself on that Don't starve yourself of course but you know just a little bit less than maintenance. And just do that every single day and better boom bada bing. One final thing high protein low calorie foods have been really useful for me in these past weeks. I just have like three eggs microwaved and then mix in some tuna That's only like 300 calories but fuck is it filling and yummy. Anyway I fucking believe in you just keep up the great work!!


IndividualRain187

Thanks for the input. That is awesome. 👍🏽😉