Over the years, having grown up a very skinny guy, I’ve always felt skinny and now after being relatively consistent with the gym and now aerials and pole dancing, I’m heavier than I’ve ever been at 81kg (178lb) I’m starting to realise that gone are the days that I can eat what ever I want. My diet is fairly bad through the days. I try and eat well at night but burgers and chips feature too heavily in my diet.
So I’m going to be more disciplined with my food and I’m also going to try and get myself measured properly, like biceps, legs, chest and all that stuff so that I can get a better idea of progress. I may never look like Tyler here, but a lower body fat percentage wouldn’t hurt me.
It’s a journey, my friend. Yesterday, today, and — yes — even tomorrow. We’ll always be traveling the road to changing, adjusting, fixing, enjoying.
Challenging yourself is all nice, but why don’t you put some skin in the game? Share your goals (specific waist or chest circumference, single-digit body-fat percentage or so) with your loving audience via the http://www. If you do not reach your goals by a certain date you promise to do something you really want to avoid like singing a Kylie song a capella and put the video up on Aussielicious, putting up full-frontal pictures (I know, I know), taking pictures of you in drag on a crowded day at Bondi, you know best what scares you most.
Nobody looks like Tyler. I’m not even sure Tyler does. Do these people actually exist? If so, I hate them. lol
I wonder how much cardio you do? Like obviously gym is all well and good for building muscle but you don’t burn calories like you do if you’re spending time on the treadmill. Maybe you are spending time on the treadmill?
Burgers and chips are pretty dodge. I stopped eating things like Maccas last year and now I’ve just gone off the taste, too greasy for me to enjoy. Just a matter of finding out what kind of healthy foods you actually enjoy eating. Also, muscle weighs more than fat etc
Don’t loose the fun things in life Brenton, nobody looks like Tyler.
Dropping weight and increasing tone when you’ve always been the skinny guy does require making some changes in both diet and exercise. I was the heaviest I’ve ever been last August (158 lbs at 5′ 6″) and decided to act. I cut out ice cream (was a daily habit), reduced beer, and increased exercise. The latter primarily by getting back on my bike and riding with a goal of 100+ miles/week. Progress was slow, but I’m now down to 140 aiming at 135 (I weighed 120 at age 18). Body fat was measured (impedence scale) in February at 16%, which isn’t bad for this 54-year old body. I felt very comfortable in my skin on our local nude beach this afternoon, but certainly don’t have the definition of the guy in the photo. That’s a goal, but probably an unrealistic one that will never be achieved.
Honey! Welcome to reality. Plus the more you age the harder it is to keep those unwanted pounds off. I too was a skeleton in my 20’s and 30’s. Then came 40 - EEEEK. Now it’s really hard!
Not even Tyler looks like Tyler when he’s not at a photo-shoot, and then only with a small army of assistants for lighting, lubing up, make-up and photoshop. Why do John Does with 40+ hour jobs try to look like Supermodels for a split-second during a shooting? Comparing yourself to others is one of the unhealthiest things you can do, there will always be someone else with a bigger chest, longer, fatter dick, bigger guns, whiter teeth… Set realistic, achievable goals and celebrate every small success on the way, not necessarily with ice-cream and chocolate. Rant over.
for now.