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03 Sep 10 First journal: Down 62lbs so far. Now started training with Mastover

Hey guys,

Decided to post a journal here as some of the others are so inspirational. I'm hoping that this might both be a useful tool for me to increase/maintain my motivation, get feedback/advice and maybe even inspire others.

My background: I'm 22 years old, living in Australia and have always been overweight (since maybe the age of 6). At the end of last year, just after I turned 22, I finally decided to do something about it. I started at 337lbs on December 15th and weighed in today at 275lbs so I'm definitely getting there. My initial goal is to reach 220lbs, which I'm hoping to do so by February.

A before and after pic of my current progress (sorry, not ready to do shirtless just yet):

Before:

Current:

I've lost the weight so far by doing a LOT of cardio and a bit of weights. I realised that I was obviously losing muscle and so cut down on the cardio and hired a personal trainer to show me how to do weights. Diet throughout this whole time was never exact but I tried to hit between 1600-1900cals a day at about a 40:40:20 split.

Recently I hit a bit of a plateau and decided that I wanted to start doing this right so signed up for Mastover's service. I've now completely a week of that and results have been great so far as I've lost 6lbs this week (part of that is water loss as to be honest I wasn't exactly on track nutrition wise between when I signed up with Mastover and he sent me the plan).

Anyway, so that's my intro: I'll either be updating this daily or weekly (not sure yet). Tomorrow I'll post a week 1 summary of training with Mastover.

Daniel

03 Sep 10 Some progress

Profile, Feb. 28, 2010. 23 yrs old. 6'0 295lb (Heaviest ever)





Began Feb. 28, 2010. 23 yrs old. 6'0 where I was my heaviest ever at 295lbs. Definitely not my proudest moment. 3 months of diet and exercise gets me down to 250. June, July, and half of August was a wash. It completely lacked exercise and a diet but I maintained 250-255 the entire time. THe recent pics were take Aug 08, 2010 at 248lbs

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Been watching the food intake (but by no means strict. Only been strict the past week) and lifting again for the past month and currently 236 and still goin. Least I've weighed since probably 8th grade. Gotta keep it up and take another pic sometime this month :) Face erased for modesty, ha.

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