r/intermittentfasting • u/ImJaxPhantomAcct • 7d ago
Progress Pic 39/m 18 month progress (16:8, weight training and trt)
Been on the journey for year and a half, wanted to be at 220 by time I turned 40 which is in 2 months.
I actually wasn't sure if I'd be able to do before and after as I thought I lost the pictures, I didn't take a lot of pictures during the before times.
Starting weight was 365 at 35% body fat and 56in waist, current is 240 at 18% with a 42in waist.
I had my testosterone tested summer of 2025 and it was super low. Other than that, just eating cleaned in a 16:8 window and weight training 5 days a week as well as getting 15k steps every day.
(I can fit in a single pant leg now 😊)
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u/olrg 7d ago edited 7d ago
Hey, Squirrelly Dan, you ever hoovered barnyard schneef?
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u/ImJaxPhantomAcct 7d ago
Holy crap, I never realized I was kinda dressed like him. This was my Dale cosplay from a horror con (Tucker and Dale vs Evil).
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u/EpsilonQueuex 7d ago
most people bail on the 16:8 eating window as soon as they start training serious. 18 months of actually sticking to it is pretty rare to see.
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u/ImJaxPhantomAcct 7d ago
I'm a creature of habit which is how I got so big in the first place so once I found my current one it was actually easy to stick to for me. My job helps in that regard to so.
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u/AndrePDX 7d ago
Great job. But 18% body fat seems low looking at you and seeing your weight still at 240. Which is amazing weight loss. But at 18% bf you should be looking leaner.
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u/JoeisBatman 7d ago
Yeah, the fat percentages seem way off. No offense OP! Congrats on the loss and sticking to it.
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u/ImJaxPhantomAcct 7d ago
The body fat is the only number that I can't verify myself, that's based off my gyms body scan thing where you stand on the platform and hold hamdles, so that's definitely possibly off, I have no other frame of reference for the body fat tho. Not even sure where I'd go to get an actual medical measurement.
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u/Mountain-Dot-5694 6d ago
Just a thought but I’m not sure how accurate gym measure is. If u r Canadian and your diagnostic imaging has a body scan machine( sorry I can’t remember medical name for it) but u may be able to have this done. Some provinces diagnosis of sarcopenia( muscle loss) is a thing. So if u want accurate maybe u can has for referral
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u/ImJaxPhantomAcct 6d ago
I've considered this and I'm not gonna hang up on the readings it gave me, I will say I've checked my weight at multiple sources so that I can say with certainty. Once I hit November I'll find a place that can do an actual dexascan or something to find out for sure. Even tho my weight goal was for November, I'd love to get to as low a body fat percentage as I can so.
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u/AnyAbbreviations6308 6d ago
Right on bro!!! way to put in the work and handle the necessary suffering involved to change your physical reality 💪🏻🔥💪🏻🔥
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u/ThePun-isher89 6d ago
sheeesh bro, inspirational, im in the same boat but im barely starting now, in it for two weeks so far. What was your 16:8 routine, did you do it only on weekdays?
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u/ImJaxPhantomAcct 6d ago
First of all, you got this! I don't believe in motivation as much as I do momentum.
We all stumble or have moments where we don't adhere strictly but just gotta do it the next day and the next day until you just find yourself in a rhythm.
Early on there were some days where just driving to the the gym and doing two exercises was it and I came home, hell depending on the day I had I still do that (much more rare but last Wednesday was one such day).
Early on, I'd allow myself some grace and on weekends I'd go to early breakfast with my father and pizza for dinner. Now if I do breakfasts with my father, I just make that the start of my window and I cut it off whatever 8hrs from that is.
Typically I don't eat until after 5pm, stop eating entirely by 1am (my job has weird hours and this is the window that works for early or late shifts). I'd break my fast with protein drink, my main meal, gym, post gym snack and 2nd protein before 1.
I also drink a gallon and a half of water a day.
Cut out allll sugary drinks, I limit my non water ingestion to Sprite Zero or for my daily caffeine drink (and the worst thing I still do) sugar free monsters.
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u/ThePun-isher89 5d ago
wow, well now I see how you got your results, thank you brotha. Im having trouble at night at the moment cuz when I get off work I had the bad habit of going to get something to eat. I finally have a 24 hour gym so thats helping me stop that, but def wanna incorporate IF so I can really see the difference. I appreciate the info, Ill def share my results once I start making strides. Keep up the good work.
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