I wanted to post my journey. I don’t have many pictures of when I was overweight and middle school and high school. In the attachments the top left is when I was 17 years old(year 1999I am 5 foot 11 I was about 235lbs there probably close to 40% bodyfat. I had a 1994 twin turbo Supra that I got clocked 178mph in a 45mph zone. Got my license restricted for one year and during that time I figured maybe I’ll start going to the gym and eating healthy. Whenever I do something I usually stick to one thing and it becomes an obsession. And that is what happened. I lost about 60 pounds the first year from just normal exercise and cardio and a healthier diet. But then I didn’t look right I looked “skinny fat“ then I met a few guys at the gym who were natural bodybuilders and did competitions so I started training with them. I built back up to around 200 pounds and then did a contest where I dieted down and competed at 167 pounds on stage. I was 100% natural never even took a pro hormone then. That was around 2003. Also had no tattoos and was innocent back then LOL I did not have enough training under my belt to build enough muscle which is why I was just way too small to compete even though I took third in the natural light weight class. A few months after that show I went to watch the Mr. Olympia in Las Vegas and then I decided screw it I’m going to try steroids. I did a couple cycles and then from there I made the decision to stay on forever and I would cruise between cycles with testosterone replacement therapy doses. The bottom left(tanned) picture is when I feel I looked my best. That was about 2011-2012. I was around 235-240lbs not shredded but lean enough for me. If I get to shredded I lose fullness in my muscles and it doesn’t look right plus I feel uncomfortable too lean and it’s really not healthy to be too lean unless you are naturally and ectomorph. The Right hand top 3 pics were after my last cycle I did where I got the biggest I ever got. I was almost 270lbs there. I personally loved that looks the best and like filling out 3XL shirts but is just too big and not healthy. That was around 2014. Then after having kids I pretty much just stayed on hormone replacement therapy and still trained hard bodybuilding style up until around Sumer 2017. I then opened my nutrition store in training went on the back burner little. But the past 8 to 10 months I pretty much fell off the wagon I only trained maybe once a week these days I don’t count proteins I don’t eat healthy I got involved in a lot of recreational drugs and was watching my life go downhill which is why I sold my store to get back on track now. I don’t have any current pictures but the picture on the bottom right is basically how I look right now. Still around 235-240 someone lean but softer and not as full. January 2019 is when I’m going to get back into it again. Probably going to do a couple more cycles but nothing overboard and not going to try to gain anymore weight just more of a body transformation type of a cycle. Also no plans to train legs hard anymore. 1600lb leg press and 700lb squats did some damage to my disks and I don’t want to be that old dad who can’t play baseball with his kids so legs are genetically my good part anyway they still stay big I’ll probably just train them once every 10 days moderately.
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