I’ve been steadily losing hair since my early twenties. I’m currently 48 and figured, let’s finally do this! Kind of wish I had done this a long time ago.

God she's so hot

I am so happy! I used to be one of those people that hated looking at themselves in the mirror, hated being recorded, hated wearing clothes that showed personality, etc. It was a mix of me being an introvert, how I grew up, and of course, my body. Even when I was 125-130 in high school I was self-conscious.

I avoided the mirror like a plague, even in the gym. I would make sure I was faced to the wall during my workouts.

I never knew how important it was to look at yourself. I am sad at the lack of photos I have of myself over the years. It really is a kick in the pants to motivate you when you see how you look. It's even more of a motivator when you see your progress!

I love this sub so much and it has helped me immensely. If you are in the same position I was in, don't be scared!Look at yourself!!

I didn't have any surgery, weight-loss medications, or peptides!

I am thinking about getting a 360 tummy tuck and a breast lift. I have so much loose skin T_T

Song: Nobody New - The Marias

To lose the 79 pounds I did...

Cardio - Everyday
- 10,000 steps (4 miles for me)

ABS - Everyday
- 1 min crunches
- 1 min side toe taps
- 1 min slow bicycle crunches
- 1 min slow frog taps

Full Body - Everyday
- 3 x 10 shoulder shrugs with weights (20lbs)
- 3 x 10 gorilla rows with weights (20lbs)
- 3 x 10 superflys with weights (8lbs)
- 3 x 8 bicep curls with weights (15lbs) (ngl I stopped doing these after a bit)
- 5 Alternative pushups (girl pushups? My goal was 20 but for a while I could only do 5)

- 60 glute bridges with resistance bands
- 60 donkey kicks with resistance bands
- 3 x 8 quad squats with weights (one 20lb dumbell) (idk what they're called but they're squats that you do with your heels slightly elevated on something and you feel them in your legs)

Nutrition - Everyday

Breakfast - MAX Ensure meal replacer

Lunch*** ***- 2 fried eggs, sardines, olives, spinach

Dinner - Usually some healthy meal I searched up on Pinterest. If I didn't have any ideas, i'd just make what I had for lunch again.

Snacks - sliced almonds/ beef jerky/ chia seed pudding/ fruit.

I didn't count calories then.
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RECOMP ROUTINE

Workout:

- Gym 3x or 4x a week. I do full body days because I'm not consistent with the upper body/ lower body day splits

WARMUP - MWF + maybe a weekend

- Stretches: I do a 15 minute stretch routine using the content creator, Movementbydavid! I also add in a few calisthenic movements like scapula raises.

- Abs: Afterwards, I start off with abs. Its the same workouts as before but instead of doing a minute, I only do 50 reps (5 x 10) for each one.

- Pushups: my goal for this year was to do one real push up. I struggled with the girl ones for majority of the year but I can do 4 real pushups now🎉 I start off with 4 push ups and then do the girl version until failure.

Upperbody- HEAVY AND SLOW
After my warmup, I start upperbody. I do progressive overload, so I add more weight each time (usually in increments of 2.5 or 5). Each week I try to go up in weight as well.

My workouts are upper-body dominant because I have a an injury in my c5 and c6 vertebre. I'm sure you don't need all of these!

Warmup Dumbbells only:
3 x 8: shoulder shrugs
3 x 8: gorilla rows
3 x 8: superflys or around the worlds
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Machines:
3 x 8: shoulder press
3 x 8: bicep curl
3 x 8: low row
3 x 8: chest press
Optional ~ Lat pull down
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Lower Body: HEAVY AND SLOW
3 x 8: leg extension
3 x 8: leg curl
3 x 10: weighted glute bridges
3 x 8: seated leg press
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At home (usually during stretches or sometimes on the rest day if i'm too lazy to do them later)

- 30 donkey kicks with resistance bands
- 1 minute glute bridge pulse
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Nutrition - Everyday

Breakfast - 2 scrambled eggs with diced turkey meat, onions, and tomatoes in it. Drink with creatine water and have fruit if need be.

Lunch - cheese grits or protein oatmeal. If still peckish, eat a fist full of spinach or have chia seed pudding. If still hungry toast sourdough bread. If still hungry drink water.

Dinner- Big dinner. Usually very meat heavy with lots of veggies. I make sure i'm not full when I eat, just satiated. I usually go to sleep a bit hungry.

As of now, i'm doing 119 grams of protein and 1,400 - 1,200 calories a day. I only go down if I splurged the day before.

Help us name our kitty! He was found abandoned on the side of the road and we can’t decide on a name for him! He is very spunky and full of energy.

Matéria 21/10

I remember being fascinated by these as a kid born in ‘81. I can vividly remember being in the back seat of our car watching these. The station near my aunt’s old house had them and we’d regularly stop there.

I read that they were for visual proof that the machine was actually pumping fuel, but someone please correct me if they had another function.

I work at a coffee shop and no one knows how to pronounce espresso. There's no x. It's EH-spress-oh not EX-press-oh

Any ideas?

Source (DulcePlum)

An update on the two Filthy babies Criminals I arrested this past Friday. The vet says they are in good health, took test samples and dewormed them just in case. They eat regularly and in this girl's case, unfathomably messy. We haven't yet convinced her to just eat the food, and not live in the middle of the dish. These incorrigible heathens continue their reign of terror in my household. I submit to the Court Exhibit 'Mew', a video recording of repeated attempts of violence against my self. I feared for my life. Aaagh. (Further evidence of uncleanliness shown in video. We fed her, and she practically treated it like a Slip'n'Slide. I swear we try to keep her clean, but she's just terrible and staying that way.) The sentencing has been passed, consecutive life sentences, no parole, and we are on to naming them now.

From the fireside chat presumably. Tbh I don’t know any other BIG Anime Matchups. My guesses are Goku vs The Big 3, Sailor Moon vs Madoka or Goku, Eren vs Ken or Baki vs Ohma.

Lemme know if there’s any other big Anime MUs.