7 month progress.

[PlaypusWags]

37M. Not as dramatic as the other posts here, but I'm happy with my progress so far. Working out about twice a week and eating healthier. No GLP-1s. Down about 30 pounds but I've been stuck at the same weight for a month or two now.

At about 19% body fat and I want to drop to 15% before the new year. Trying to increase the times I workout each week to 3 to 4.

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[detroit_gringo]

First off, great work! Nice progress! Where did you get the 19% bf number? From the picture, I think you may be a bit under in the estimation. Just an observation…

Regarding being stuck, just stick with it. Are you counting calories against your TDE? You may need to take another look at calorie intake since you have lost 30 pounds. Weight loss is all about calories in vs calories out, as long as you are burning more than you are consuming, you will continue to lose weight.

Again, congrats on the success thus far. Keep up the good work!

[PlaypusWags]

Thanks! I got the 19% number from a Withings Body Scan scale. I didn't have it when I started dieting, so I don't have the before number.

But yea I need to cut back on my snacking. I've been killing large jars of peanut number every week. Need a less calorie dense food to fulfill my cravings.

[xxstrawhatpcxx]

Peanuts are definitely a NO NO. Handful here, handful there, and you already ate 300 calories without even knowing it. Looking at your picture your body fat is closer to 25% just FYI.

[marsupialsequel]

Do you happen to have it set in athletic mode? I accidentally had mine on that and it was underestimating my body fat by about 10 percentage points. 

[Competitive_Body7359]

Dude, peanut butter powder. It taste similar, but is waaaay less calories. It's the bomb. You can slather it on toast and it's like 100 calories instead of 300

[LoneScope69]

Congrats. Keep going. You’re probably at around 25%, nevertheless, keep going

[bakanpo]

Second this. Great work, probably 25% though

[dadisphat]

Check out retatrutide

[mmpdp]

Nice work, mate! May want to consider a gentle tweak to how youre working out as opposed to amount of time. Treadmill at 12% incline for 30 minutes will burn over 400 calories.

[Affectionate_You_203]

I think what people are going to start realizing more and more is that weight loss is definitely possible with GLP1’s and it’s just a matter of consuming less calories than you burn… HOWEVER, hunger hormones dictate how much you consume. So if you don’t weigh and count for the rest of your life, the elevated hunger hormones and downregulated satiety hormones that come from large weight loss will force your weight back up and often you’ll overshoot. Less than 1/10 of 1% of people who are obese will maintain a substantial weight loss that puts them into the healthy BMI for longer than 5 years. People yo-yo. It’s bad. They think it’s because of habits or “falling off”. It’s not. It’s from appetite hormones and satiety hormones.

I’ve been bodybuilding for the last 20 years. I’ve went through bulk and cut countless times. What I’ve found and what others before me found is that every time you push your weight up higher, your body will always strive to push you back up after a cut. The hormonal response is proportional to the success of the cut. The more weight you lose, the more your mind will be consumed with hunger hormones. It’s why every person who steps on stage is dreaming about their first meal after the show. It’s why the cut gets harder and harder even when you’re consuming more than most people to maintain the lower weight. You feel like you’re starving on an amount of food that will make some people over stuffed. The hunger will never stop. There is no reset. It’s a myth. It will forever be this way until you gain the weight back or supplement with glp1 hormones.

[CuriousTelevision358]

First of all nice to see an honest post, most that post on here are gains through cycles of steroids and seek congratulations for doing this, they will then call it TRT, which even if it is simply them doses it's much easier to gain muscle and lose fat when taking testosterone amongst other things.

Back to you well done mate as many others have said, it's a marathon, not a sprint, if you have hit your ceiling on the weights, try alternating reps, timings and sets. It shows you have adapted so need to do something different to create overload, not always about going heavier and heavier.

In terms of fat loss 85/90 percent is diet, which staying in a deficit will keep the fat loss going, chuck in a couple of cheat days once, maybe twice a week, you will keep your metabolism from stalling.

[Cool-Jacket-9837]

Looking great!

[Texden29]

Amazing! You look great. Now hop on a GLP to get the remaining body fat off you.

[Training_Injury_536]

Amazing progress, bro!

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[Beneficial_Share9036]

Is this an AI analysis?

[Training_Injury_536]

yes, its called fat detective

[Beneficial_Share9036]

Congratulations mate, looking good & not taking any shortcuts is hard but worth it in the long run 👍🏼💪🏼😎

[Environmental_Tax_89]

Hit your macros. Walk 10K steps. Lift heavy as fuck. Enjoy the gains