I've been overweight and antisocial pretty much my whole life, but half a year ago I decided that I wanted to change myself for the better and I've lost about 60 pounds so far, from 230 down to 170. However, my body fat % is still pretty high, currently 27%, and this is obviously not very good.
I'll be starting a new university this September, and I want to start this new chapter of my life feeling confident in my appearance. I basically have just 4.5 months to get as close to my ideal body as possible. I would like to get to somewhere around 16% body fat. Is this possible given the amount of time? If so, what should I be doing to ensure this? I've already bought a membership for the local gym recently and I've been going about 2-3 times a week for the past month to do cardio and weight-lifting, which I'm relatively new to. I also take long walks almost every day. My diet is average, no junk food, no soda. I'm 5'11" and 18 years old. Should I be going to the gym more often? Any tips I should know? Please help me out if you can, I'd appreciate it a bunch.
you're not going to be able to safely get to 16% bf in 5 months from where you're at.
Keep what you're doing and focus on studies instead of trying to get laid your first year. The Weed-Out classes are all Freshman year and it gets easier from there. You'll be set going into sophomore year and then you can slay the pussy
Chase Ross
Eat home cooked whole foods. Drink only water and black coffee When it comes to eating, you have to do two things, eat less food overall, and eat less frequently.
Exercise? Basic barbell lifting of any kind or calisthenics can get you where you want to go. Daily walks up to 1-4 hours are also suggested.
You can do a full on rapid fatloss type thing, intermittent fast, or just fast for 1--7 days a week and only walk for your exercise...but...that would be kind of tough.
Luke Robinson
While getting laid would be fantastic of course, that's not really what I'm aiming for. I want to feel confident in my appearance so that I can be confident in just making friends in general. I used to be "friends" with a bunch of losers who were even worse off than I was simply because I had no confidence to approach anyone better. But now my social skills have improved quite a lot and I'd like my body to match that. What % do you think I can safely reach by the deadline?
Yo listen here pal, if you’re only giving yourself 4 and a half months to get your ideal body, you’re already gonna fail. What happens when you get to college? Are you gonna stop working out? Probably not, so why sweat it?
Just make sure you sticking to your goals and don’t overtrain and burn out. With any basic routine that’s simple and not to overbearing, you’ll look way better than you do now in 5 months. Maybe not chad that slays all time, but you’ll look better, and in a year, ooof you’ll look hot bb.
What you’re going through right now is pre-post HS grad anxiety that makes you feel like your teenage years all sucked because you were fat and what’s gonna happen is you’re gonna try do a 360 for college but what you won’t realize is that regardless of the setting you cannot run away from your problems and the only way to fix things is gradually. Plus one fat year of college plus 3 really fit years is better that 4 years burnt out.
Good luck bb, have fun in college. Make sure to talk to lots of ppl, make lots of friends. Do you homework and your laundry. Just enjoy yourself.
Love, Graduating senior
Michael Morales
Well to be fair I've already been at this for 6 months working towards this same goal, I'm not just starting out now, but regardless I still appreciate what you said. I definitely agree that one fat year and 3 Jow Forums years is better than four burnt out years, but at the same time your first year is extremely important for establishing your friend groups and your place in the school community, so I don't want to fuck up this new opportunity for a fresh start. I'll just have to do my best and see what happens I guess!
Jonathan Turner
>tfw almost a year out of college and unironically wish I could do it again simply because freedom
Can I ask you why establishing a friend group and your place in the community is only limited to your first year?
Jose Reyes
You can lose about 2 lbs of fat per week without losing any muscle (I know this because it's what I'm doing since January). You need to lose around 22 lbs of fat (without losing any muscle) to be around 17%. If you do lose 2 lbs per week you'll be around 8% bf by September.
Nicholas Kelly
>tfw 25 Kill me
Benjamin Russell
Not op what's your diet like, fasting? Im at 15% wanting to get to 8 but feel like cutting calories below maintenance will cause muscle loss.
Christopher Baker
It isn't limited per se, but it is definitely pretty important to get those right or at least decent enough in your first year. The people you associate yourself with in your first year have a big impact on what your time there will be like for a while, even if you do change friend groups throughout. If you associate yourself with a sociable group, you'll be seen as a sociable person. If you associate yourself with the outcasts like I did in high school, you'll be seen is a "loser", even if you're a sociable person yourself. My friends weren't outcasts for no reason, they didn't fit in and by being with them that reflects on you. I just didn't have any confidence at all when I met them and now that I've grown as a person I'm just not interested in being around those types of people anymore. My appearance has a massive affect on me due to severe mental health issues and so I want to look good so that I'm confident enough to make the friends that I want to make.
Connor Reed
Seems like you’re applying a lot of hs logic to what you think you might encounter at college
Nicholas Sullivan
It’s definitely an immature mindset, but what would make college any different? The new environment doesn’t automatically make people any more mature, in fact I’d say it makes them even less so since everybody is out of their element and not sure who to associate with. This is the best time to establish yourself.
Kevin Clark
i'm gonna tell you now. college isn't going to be as fun as you imagine if you are a stem major (which you should be because anything else is a waste of money).
Mason Long
aren't you just automatically going to get some conversations going with the other gymbros?
just the fact that you are working out impresses people, don't sweat it too much and just keep going with what you are doing
sorry i don't have that much stuff to say i just want to wish you the best of luck on your way
we are all going to make it and all that fuzz
Julian Lopez
Are you on steroids? If not, don't bother trying to get to 8% bf.
Bentley Rodriguez
>5'11" >170lb >27% bodyfat One of these isn't true, post pic. Either your scale is broken, you aren't 5'1" or you've grossly miscalculated your bodyfat.
OP obviously won't post so I'm going to say go more than 2-3 times a week and fucking eat less. You lift 3 days a week doing SS or SL or whatever and do an hour of cardio the other 4 days with eating 500 calories below maintenance and you'll look a lot better in 4 months than you do now.
Ian Parker
Meant 5'11" whoops.
Anyways even if all your info is right and you just have 0 muscle weight, 4.5 months is roughly 18 weeks, at 2 pounds a week you'll be confirmed Auschwitz mode by the time you get to college.
Aaron Kelly
Now you’re overthinking it. What the issue is here is that your going nervous. As long as you make the slightest effort in making friends at college you will make friends, I guarantee it.
But let’s say you don’t (a .01% chance). You’ve still got the year after that. It’s not like high school where if you were cool freshman year or a dork freshman year you’ll stay a dork. Unless you go to a small af school, there will always be new people to meet and you can start social circles at any given year.
And don’t sweat so much about meeting the wrong ppl. If you’re a decent person doing decent things at decent places, you tend to meet decent ppl.
Finally, the worst thing you can do is make assumptions. Sure, there are immature ppl at college, a summer doesn’t change that. But I bet your ass the ppl who don’t get their straight won’t be there after the 1st semester.
This is a hard truth for a lot of ppl on fit to accept because there’s no SS for being social. You can’t 3x5 meeting ppl. It’s not quantifiable. You’re a senior. You know a lot. But 4 years from now, you look back and wonder why you were so nervous. All it sounds like is that your negative thinking is holding you back. Don’t worry so much. I swear, high school scares you into thinking that everything is permanent, and the beautiful thing college does is teach you that on any day of any year you can be a new person.
