This is not the place to give any measurements, so I’ll just say I was fat 7 months ago and I’m not anymore.
I put on a lot of muscle mass while losing quite some fat, so I can lift rather heavy (on my own perspective), but when I mock my friends about lifting more than them even though they’ve been training for years they all go “well, you used to be fat” or “that’s easier for you because you were bigger” and I have come to understand that’s just how it works because of the Internet too, but I don’t really know why.
I don’t know if it’s the language causing a misunderstanding here, but when I say “mock” I mean we joke with each other playfully in a way that everyone’s comfortable with.
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When I was in boot camp, I was ~225lbs, that had always been my natural weight at 6’2″, they would often send me to chub club, and as soon as I got there, the Chief would tell me to leave, I didn’t look fat at all, though I was caring more weight than I should with the poor condition of my body. As the weeks went by, I took exercise very seriously, often going out of my way to do proper pushups, sit-ups, up-downs, jumping jacks, and running, whether I got screamed at or not for not being able to maintain an upright position from exhaustion are falling behind, I put everything into correct form never bullshitting like a lot of the other guys would do behind the RDC’s back. It began to really pay off at the 6-week mark, I got down to ~190lbs, and even though they would still send me to chub club, and I would turn around and go back to my Division (those fuckers in the division who measured me kept saying I was 6’1″ I’d get down to the Chub Club and be measure at 6’2″), I began to get ripped. One of the guys who would stand next to me at the mirrors who came in skinny and remained skinny began cussing, and asking me how I was so muscular now, how I had abbs and shoulders popping out, I just shrugged. My point is you can really do something with that extra weight, they are like your building blocks for muscle. After I got out of boot camp I continued lifting for many years, and at one point got all the way up to ~247bls on my ship when I was trying to add more muscle and 3 months before pulling in, we began a shredding program where I dropped back down to 225lbs except this time I looked much closer to what I did at 190lbs at bootcamp, though my abs were just a little less visible but much larger over all. My lifts were above average as well, and over all I’d say I was one of the strongest outside of some of the older Chiefs and those who were obviously using steroids. As far as my eating habits, I did very little, though I did eat the whites of the hardboiled eggs they had in the galley salad bar, which was open nearly 24/7. I would recommend to anyone trying to gain muscle to put on as much fat as is healthy while lifting, it makes a big difference when coming down in weight.
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