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Reluctantly sharing but hit my 164 lbs milestone today 😅💪🏻

Starting point was end of March 2025, at both my heaviest weight and lowest headspace 😞 Fast forward to today however (19 August 2026) and feeling healthiest in years!

Not looking to be the next bodybuilding champ or whatever, but just want to be functional and healthy. Happy to share any tips / things that worked well for me as requested 🙂

PS - Weight loss journey was all done through diet and exercise, no enhancements or Ozempic along the way as I'm a poor bastard 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

I gained a lot in pregnancy and the scale just kept going up. One of my favorite moments was in month 9 stepping on the scale and it saying 90 something and the nurse saying “that’s in kilograms btw” lolll I very much did not believe I was under 100 pounds. Anyways, breastfeeding and chasing around a baby definitely help. Trying to stay active and also focus on building muscle and building back my core have been huge priorities. It took postpartum for me to realize I don’t think I ever was doing ab exercises correctly and engaging my transverse abdominals. Anyways if anyone is currently in weeks 35-40 of pregnancy and feeling real swollen, I promise it will go down!!

Started off losing weight for health benefits but it turned into a love of the gym and really helped me focus on myself.

This is my transformation through a period of around 17 months now.

I had started at 100kg, have now worked my way to 68kg, probably around 18-20% body fat.

It's been an amazing journey and everyday in the gym is now a challenge to my body as to what it can achieve.

I've always been a fat kid, so doing this kind of a transformation was never going to happen under any normal circumstances. It was the birth of my daughter in Jan 2025 that made me realise that I have to be alive and healthy for her.

The journey continues, I have a few more kilos to lose, just to see what it feels like to reach 10-12% body fat.

Cheers guys :)

When I was in my 30’s I was 190 and 11% body fat. When I hit 40 for some reason I just decided fitness wasn’t worth the effort anymore and really let myself go. Lol Trying to get it back is so much harder now. I’m 200 now and this last 10lbs is hanging on for dear life.

I’m currently on TRT and was killing it in the gym for almost a year so some of the weight loss was negated by some minimal muscle gains, but how much more should I lose before this damn fat goes away?

Time between forst and second photo was about 14 months. Had a bout of the old depression shortly after so went off track a bit, but now back to photo 3. Hopefully this can be my final cut for a while! Just wanted to share my progress.