yes, i am saying those changes spurred/contributed to the change. one of my goals over the last 15 months was to experiment with a variety of workouts and eating plans so i could find the one that works best for me. i don't want to spend a shitload of time in the gym, i don't want to always eat skinless chicken and 2 cups of vegetables every 4 hours.

so meni, on another board, let me know about a program called lean gains. it's not based on what you eat but when you eat. basically it involves fasting every day, so for 16 hours (from 9 at nite till 12-1 the next day, i do not eat anything at all. then between 1 and 8 i eat whatever i want to.

there's research that backs up the benefits of intermittent fasting in regards to not only keeping lean mass but adding lean mass as well. in addition to many other benefits of fasting, such as hormone output.

for the protocol to work, it has to be coordinated with resistance training, not much but the right stuff- compound movements 3x a week, about 2.5 hours total.


so i decided to give it a whirl and it does work for me and fits very well with my lifestyle. :)

i'm 46, it's also called body recomposition. call it what you want. it's simply a thread. feel free to post your results.

thx peeps, hopefully some are motivated by this to continue their fitness and wellness goals or maybe some newbs will be motivated to get going on a program. if i can do it, most anyone can.



thanks
neither, see above.

:)

tinypic doesn't like gfy.

let's see how long this stays up this time

15 months ago & now
http://oi51.tinypic.com/20a5v5t.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/foyeU.jpg

Heres mine !

I saw the other thread "The downfall to sucess, and happyness..."
Your transformation is amazing :thumbsup

are your pics on some suppliment site? could of sworn i saw the from your old avatar there.

basically when you get to a certain point of muscle/fat ratio it becomes harder to gain back the fat. You become such a fat burning engine that you can't even sabotage it if you wanted to.... or in other words it would take a lot of time to gain the fat back. He seems to be well past the yoyo stage so he's safe to experiment with just about anything at this point I would say.

nice work dyna_mo

Congrats man!

I've had a slump over winter :( but I am going back at it soon. I want my body back!

yes. :1orglaugh

thanks, this has a lot to do with it and part of why i titled the thread 15 month update. yoyo-ing is a big problem i wanted to make sure i dealt with, slow and steady is the best response i think. + muscle growth is not the speediest of things either, lolz. but i also have to say i think the intermittent fasting is revolutionary and also needs to be considered.

Interesting, I'll have to look into it. Initially it seems to go against much of the normal rhetoric we hear of making sure you don't skip breakfast, avoiding high fat, high carb foods and eating smaller more frequent meals, but its worth checking out.

it throws all of that out the window. i haven't had breakfast in over 5 weeks, i have had many days where i've eaten 1 meal- and that meal had 250 g protein. which is another myth IF challenges, only being able to digest 30g protein at a time. not so. frequent meals, not necc., fat is good for you. the myth that any one of the macros (fat, carbs, protein) is the cause of obesity has also been debunked imo.

i'm not seeing any pics in your post, weird. just seeing your avatar. lookin good though...

Isn't a massive helping of protein in one go bad for your kidneys or something?

Fuck knows how you manage the fasting - there's no way I could go 16 hours without eating.

it's my understanding that kidney issues resulting from protein are due to very high protein diets that also restrict carbohydrates.

the fasting is really super super easy. i grew up not eating breakfast, so that's a no-brainer, so it's all about after 9pm, which is also super easy, because i've stuffed my fat face with all kinds of fun foods over the previous 8 hours. so the hardest time is from ~10 am to 12. so i just keep busy during those hours and get work done. viola, 2 hours is done. on the days i exercise, i then consume 10g of BCAAs which give me a quick burst of energy, i work out fasted then fucking gorge myself with tons of food, i'm eating ~5000-6000 cals on workout days. that's double what my daily cal rate is.

:)

here are 2 links i recommend,

www.leangains.com

http://www.eatstopeat.com/index2.shtml

that eat stop eat is an ebook and well worth buying if you are interested in intermittent fasting

i call foul!
the pic you claim is "now" has been your avatar for quite a while..

guessing the toughest part is to work off the fat around the waist area..
you never answered the guy who asked hgh or tst?

no, the avatar pic was several months old, januaryish i believe.

and i did answer the question you pointed out.

:)

old avatar pic

http://oi54.tinypic.com/107vul2.jpg

Good job.
The old avatar and the new pic looks pretty close to me.

Have you ever tried surfing? Could make some of that work out fun for you.