Hey guys, in my introduction I told you I would mainly be doing fitness posts. I want to use this first gym blog to tell my fitness story before I start giving tips and so on. I feel like I need to back my knowledge up in advance so you don't need to wonder that I'm not just copying things of the internet or making things up. This will be a story with some advice, but to me it is more of a second introduction focussing my fitness posts. The adviced focused posts will follow.
My "fat" childhood.
I've always been a bit chubby and I have been called names for it since kindergarden, I got bullied in primary school but not severely. When I was about 13 years old (75kg) I loved video games, especially World of Warcraft. I was a really dedicated player and I had the bad habbit of playing an average of 8 hours a day in school weeks. This resulted in me being bad at school because I was absent a lot and it also gave me a pretty bad relationship with my parents. Anyway, it made me gain about 35kg in 5 years of bad eating habbits and spending 90% of my time seated. I did enjoy gaming a lot and I had some friends but deep inside I was not happy with myself. DESPITE THAT I was never able to find the motivation to change. I don't have any mobile pics of myself without a shirt at that time because that was not done for me at that time. But as you can see from my face on this picture I was pretty heavy.
THE KEY: Accepting yourself so others will accept you.
After a change of school at 18 (110kg) I met some really great friends that still stick around today. No one judged me for being fat. It was a new thing for me, strangers not laughing at me because I'm fat?? People being nice to me although I was the perfect target to pick on?? This was the time I first felt appreciated by people my age in real life instead of online.
As you can guess I completely flurished! I lived life like a normal 18 year old, going to parties, getting drunk, got a few girlfriends,... and all that because I had confidence now. I was still over weight and unattractive, but I had a group of people who loved me for who I was.
Changing for YOU not for THEM!!
When I looked in the mirror now I was still unhappy about my looks and weight but I was grateful for the life I was living, it had never been better. When I was lonely and sad the reason I wanted to change was so people would like me. At that time my problem weren't my looks. My problem was that I had no confidence. When you realize this a lot of pieces fall together. This counts for a lot of things in life in my opinion. Look deeper then the surface and see what's really going on. At that time all my major problems were out of the way and one day I decided to do something about my excessive weight.
The real journey.
Once I had this all figured out it was time for the real deal. I joined a small gym very close to my home. When I look at it now it has been a very good choice. I tried to be social and open during the time I was in the gym. I asked a lot and got a lot of answers. After a few weeks I caught the vibe. I started enjoying my time at the gym a lot! As I became more interested in the healthy lifestyle I started looking things up and reading articles about nutrition and supplements and became well educated. From that time on it went fast. I started making a plan to seriously lose weight. Because I had been fat my whole youth cardio was almost impossible for me. Taking the stairs to the second floor made me feel exhausted. I felt embarrassed going on the threadmill or other cardio machines in the gym. Running outside was not very different. So I changed my food. I got on a 1400kcal diet I made myself and went to the gym to smash weights 5-6 times a week, I also started drinking more then 4 liters of water a day. From that moment on the kilo's flew off. I followed this diet for 4 months and I noticed my metabolism was changing a lot! Its true there are different types of people and genes and it determines how fast you gain fat/muscle/weight BUT your body changes to your lifestyle aswell. Photo after 4 months I went from an XL to a M in underwear sizes and lost about 25kg (110-85). Blurred out gf's face because I don't know if she's ok with me uploading pics like this :')
One yourney ENDS the next one BEGINS!
I reached my goals of losing 25kg's but I had a new addiction instead of being unhealthy. I LOVE the gym! So I changed my view. Instead of just losing weight and looking normal, why not gain weight and look better? Going to the gym was already a routine for me at that time. I resetted my goals. I want to lose another 10kg fat and gain 5kg muscle. This would get me on 80kg. This took me some more balanced dieting, it gets more complex when its not just low calorie intake, some good insight about training and natural supplements. I reached this goal about a year later.
The real gym life!
After achieving the 80kg level and spending an entire summer looking 'fit' there was no way back. I didn't understand why I didn't do this earlier in my life and there is no way I would want any other life style! Since then I had the real gym attitude and I also love to teach people! I'm currently training my brother who is 16 and alos over weight, might make a post about him in a few weeks. My girlfriend started working out some time ago aswell so I had to do a lot of researsh in how training a boy and a girl is different from each other. This is going good so far.
Remember from this post:
-Don't be hasty when it comes to solving your problems and look deeper to the real issue
-Find people who accept you for who you are
-Accept yourself or you are not ready to make changes
-Be clear to yourself in what you want to change and how you will achieve it
-Set goals, smash goals, set new goals
-Join a gym close to your home rather then a super equipped one
-Ask a lot at the gym, most real gymrats are ready to help at any time
-In the beginning you need perseverence, a few weeks, then the results will motivate you
-Be sure to check out my next post :D
Me NOW
I took the picture below just now with a post-it saying my steem name just to show that its me right now.
Future posts
- Anything about fitness, weightlifting, bodybuilding, food, nutrtition, supplements that gets ASKED by other users in comments! ( I would love to talk about things YOU GUYS want to hear about)
- My training schedule and excercises for different muscle groups
- My diet and weight control these days
- Cardio routines that WORK for me
- My supplements
- Motivational speaches
- Illustrated progress
- Cutting/bulking
- ...
After this story I hope I earned some credibility from the commity.
KEEP STEEMING!!
Inspiring! I can't wait to see future blogs
Thanks for the reply.
You will not have to wait long!
Amazing story & progress!