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Well it has been a long time realing the board(s), I followed Gearedup here from another board (thanks Geared for all the help). I usually just read and not respond, trying to absorb all that I can. Well, I just finished my first cycle...
dbol - 40mg/ED - 1-5
sust - 500mg/week - 1-10
EQ - 400mg/wk - 1-10
Clomid at end - no Gyno problems.
5 Years ago I weighed 450 lbs. - now I am at 220 @ 10% - basically I gave myself a new body and thats hard to do when you are in your 40's. Here are the before and after pictures followed by a story from my local newspaper - hope you are as impressed as I am about my new bod!
STORY -
(City Deleted) man sheds pounds to save life
(writer name deleted)
Staff Writer
(city deleted)—(my name deleted) remembers being teased about being overweight in first grade.
Years later, when he hit 475 pounds, his doctor warned him that if he didn't lose weight he would die soon. But it wasn't until a little girl bluntly pointed it out to him that he decided to do something about his obesity. "She just walked up to the chair where I was sitting and said, 'You know what”, I said what, ‘You're fat!' " she said.
That was five years ago. Today, (my name deleted) is 255 pounds lighter. The girl's rude comment, he said, may have saved his life. "She told me the truth. Just laid it out," said (my name deleted), 46, of (city deleted). "That just really, really hit home that day, and I made up my mind. I started to adjust my eating program. I would start with eating fat-free salad dressing, little baby steps."
He created his own diet, eating five meals a day that are high in protein, low in fat, with few complex carbohydrates. He eats a lot of steamed vegetables but no fruit because of the high carbohydrate content. Once a week (my name deleted) lets himself eat any food he has been craving. He calls it a cheat meal – he has it at Saturday lunch, if he opts not to eat out of bound for that meal, he waits until the next Saturday.
He works out with weights five days a week and does 30 minutes of cardiovascular activity every other day. He wants to lose 10 to 15 more pounds and is in the process of building more muscle. (my name deleted) started his regimen in spring 1998 by walking around the track at a local high school. He could shuffle only a couple of hundred feet at first. Three weeks later, he was able to make it around the quarter-mile track for the first time.
"I would take 10 steps and start gasping for air," he said. "But it was that little girl's voice ... that kept haunting me. Every time I'd get discouraged I'd keep thinking about that. Eventually I could go around the track 12 times - three miles."
When the weather turned cool, he started joined and started working out at (my Gym name deleted), a local health club. By December 1999, he had lost 90 pounds, which he kept off for a year. He started losing weight again in November 2000 and lost 160 more pounds in two years. He now carries 220 pounds on his 6’1”-foot frame and has been measured at 10% body fat.
(my name deleted) used to take 20 pills a day to treat health problems and often called in sick to work. He used a freight scale at work to weigh himself. He couldn't fit between two cars parked side by side in a parking lot.
Today, his joints don't hurt anymore. He has so much energy that he awakes without an alarm clock. He no longer hides from cameras and doesn't shy away from meeting new people. He has had knee replacement surgery that had been denied because doctors said his weight and health problems made it too risky.
"I learned through this process how weak I was - that food had great power over me. I have a little more power over it now and it's something I'll probably not outgrow. It's the evil lurking around the corner," he said.
The struggle not to overeat is getting easier. And saying no to junk food is easy, he said.
"I enjoy something sweet but is it worth it? No." he said.
(my name deleted), an upper administrative professional at the University of (my work place deleted) , said the weight loss has changed him inside and out. But a co-worker said (my name deleted) is the same man in a slimmer, but extremely muscular body.
"His personality is exactly the same. He is every bit as friendly and giving and helpful to everyone as before," said (name deleted) of (city deleted). "We're definitely impressed – and sort of envious."
(name deleted), owner of (Gym name deleted), said (my name deleted) came to him often with questions about proper use of the gym equipment and workout techniques and supplements. Gym workers tried to encourage (my name deleted) enthusiasm while helping him to stay motivated during these years-long process.
"It's not going to happen overnight. You didn't get there overnight," (owner name deleted) said. "I just encouraged him to stick with it. I made it a point to give him positive reinforcement. I think this guy really, really wanted it so bad that he wasn't going to let anything stand in his way."
(Gym owner name deleted) introduces (my name deleted) to others in the gym who are intimidated about starting to exercise in public.
"There are so many people who think, 'I have to lose about 50 pounds,' and they're too embarrassed to go to the gym," (Gym owner name deleted) said. "You may think that 20, 40 pounds is unattainable. Here's a man that's living proof that it is and the sky is the limit. This guy is the great motivator for all those people who think they can't do it."
"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."
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