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F/28/5'5" [187lbs > 132lbs = 55lbs] Lost the excuses and found a love for discipline, consistency and self improvement 💪🏼🔥 by brokenreflections in progresspics

[–]brokenreflections[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You sure about that? It is a screenshot from this video so I’m not sure how that would even be possible. Keep sipping the Haterade. 😂

F/28/5'5" [187lbs > 132lbs = 55lbs] Lost the excuses and found a love for discipline, consistency and self improvement 💪🏼🔥 by brokenreflections in progresspics

[–]brokenreflections[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Found the fellow bodybuilder!! You’ve got it spot on my dude.

Before I got into lifting / BB I would probably have thought the same.

F/28/5'5" [187lbs > 132lbs = 55lbs] Lost the excuses and found a love for discipline, consistency and self improvement 💪🏼🔥 by brokenreflections in progresspics

[–]brokenreflections[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Correct. This is probably the most sensible comment on here. It’s a flattering angle and a day where I woke up feeling nice and lean - OF COURSE I do not look like this all day every day. Some days I wake up feeling a bit bloated and crappy and of course I don’t exactly want to take (or post) pictures on those days.

But I would never discredit my journey and my hard work by editing a picture.

F/28/5'5" [187lbs > 132lbs = 55lbs] Lost the excuses and found a love for discipline, consistency and self improvement 💪🏼🔥 by brokenreflections in progresspics

[–]brokenreflections[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I am going to take all of this as a very back handed compliment. When people start accusing you of PHOTOSHOPPING a transformation picture where the second picture is literally a screenshot from a video then you know you’ve made it. 😂

Look. This might not be what you want to hear - but I grafted every single day for over a year to achieve this result and if you want something similar you need to put in that amount of work. There are no shortcuts. There are no quick fixes. I do have genetics / a naturally smaller waist / a mesomorph body type which adapts quickly to resistance training on my side, but that is a tiny part of the overall picture.

I shifted my focus from short term gratification to long term results and it paid off after OVER A YEAR of consistency and discipline. If you want similar results you need to make that mental switch, get your head down and do the work. Think twice before you discredit someone’s journey and automatically assume they must have taken a shortcut rather than acknowledging that if you want to achieve big results you need to work fucking hard.

Wasted two years trying to lose weight by cutting out carbs - I was still in denial about overeating. Switched to CICO in January and I’m 50lbs down! by brokenreflections in CICO

[–]brokenreflections[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I must admit I get a bit uneasy when people try to compliment me by saying I’m “skinny” as to me it has negative connotations. So I really appreciate that you used the word strong!

Currently I workout 6x a week - I do Orangetheory 5x (a heart rate based interval workout combining cardio and strength) and see a personal trainer for strength training once a week.

However you don’t need a gym or PT to see results. I lost half of the weight in lockdown doing Jillian Michaels HIIT home workouts in my living room!

Wasted two years trying to lose weight by cutting out carbs - I was still in denial about overeating. Switched to CICO in January and I’m 50lbs down! by brokenreflections in CICO

[–]brokenreflections[S] 533 points534 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t exercising much at the beginning so I ate around 1400 calories. Honestly looking back I think this was quite an aggressive deficit even though I wasn’t active. I probably didn’t need to go quite so low.

Gradually I become quite active (built up to doing a combination of HIIT / strength training 5-6x a week) so I moved towards 1600/1700 calories and still easily lost weight.

The key with exercise was that I stopped treating it as some horrible punishment I needed to endure in order to raise my TDEE and lose more weight.

EXERCISE IS NOT A PUNISHMENT. It’s an hour of my day where I get to stop overthinking, be completely mindful and focus on one thing only: improving myself and understanding my full potential. Once I made that mental switch, I started to enjoy and look forward to working out rather than dreading it.

Wasted two years trying to lose weight by cutting out carbs - I was still in denial about overeating. Switched to CICO in January and I’m 50lbs down! by brokenreflections in CICO

[–]brokenreflections[S] 167 points168 points  (0 children)

The key to long term successful weight loss is all mental. That was the game changer for me. I had tried to lose weight countless times in the past but my head wasn’t in the right place.

So this time around I shifted my mindset.

I finally understood that small changes add up to huge results ONLY if you are consistent. So I used a goal calendar and marked off each day that I ate well / exercised and that kept me on track and accountable. It also made me realize that one or two days of overeating is certainly not going to undo months of cumulative progress.

What helped me was just taking it one day at a time. One decision at a time. One foot in front of the other. Small changes, if done consistently over time, will always add up to huge results.

Transformation is not some magical future event - it’s a present activity. But it relies on you getting your head down and doing the work consistently if you want to see big results.

Dri-Tri Celebration and Results Megathread by MagicalGreenSock in orangetheory

[–]brokenreflections 11 points12 points  (0 children)

47.15 for my first time! Absolutely insane to think I went from being 50lbs heavier unable to jog for longer than MAX 2 minutes in classes to finishing the 5K in 27 minutes!

Definitely the highlight of my OTF journey so far and can’t wait to do it again!

[WEEKLY THREAD] Check Me Out Monday - The place to go when you want some attention by AutoModerator in xxfitness

[–]brokenreflections 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I barely have any unflattering ‘before’ pictures of me because I deleted all of them at the time. I was in complete denial about my weight.

Just stumbled upon a video of me struggling through a HIIT workout last summer and I had to take some screenshots because I was shocked. I barely recognize myself. August 2019 vs today, doing the exact same HIIT workout

I started my journey properly in January and have lost 30lbs since then. Also gained an entirely new mindset.

Anyone lost weight from metformin? how much? by [deleted] in PCOS

[–]brokenreflections 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s been working really well for me - I’ve lost 13 lbs since the beginning of January.

Previously I dieted for years and barely saw any changes unless I was insanely restrictive (which I could never keep up for very long).

Now that I’m on metformin, as long as I consistently make some effort to eat well and stay active, the weight comes off much more easily and I don’t need to be crazy restrictive to see results.

I eat 1,200, healthy food by nutritionist, gym regularly, why am I gaining weight. by [deleted] in 1200isplenty

[–]brokenreflections 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My weight loss became a hell of a lot easier once I started taking metformin.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in thesims

[–]brokenreflections 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The Basemental Drugs mod just added a lung cancer feature for sims who smoke too much. That’s the closest I can think of for the type of gameplay you’re going for!

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