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Originally Posted by RobLL
Ben - my goodness you were a fat boy - and at 15. But after the first weight loss (impressive by the way) you never bloomed up even close to the old high. Most of us started off slim and then just kept going up. How did you do it. If you already have told the story give me a link. Rob
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Yeah, you might say I was livin' large
A combination of Southern cuisine, unchecked "healthy" eating (I'd polish off a container of cottage cheese like nothing when I was very young), and spending increasingly more time with my father after my parents' split during middle school (his idea of culinary variety was going to Hardee's for the "10 burgers for $10" deal, then topping them with various combinations of condiments) led to my initial heft despite copious amounts of baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, and swimming for most of my youth (only did about two weeks of football in eighth grade and quit because of all the running
). In tenth grade, my high school resurrected its wrestling team, and I quickly learned that I couldn't compete with the heavyweights because of my lack of strength, so I figured it was easier to drop the weight than to get stronger (which was true, but of course, I did it rather unhealthily, and I ended up a borderline anorexic before rebounding).
I did almost no physical activity during my first three years of college, starting lifting weights my senior year, and stumbled upon the Men's Health forums the summer following graduation where I met a lot of the good old-timers we have here and started my education in proper nutrition. I've hit a couple bumps in the road with nutrition, but I know that a couple months of keto always gets me right back into the game with body composition, and I'm finally starting to learn which carbs do what to my body (different for everyone), a continuing experiment as running becomes more and more a part of my training.
The downside to the crash dieting and subsequent weight yo-yo is that it's VERY difficult for me to put on mass without gaining more fat than I'm comfortable doing--my arms are pretty small compared to my trunk size (just can't bring myself to do isolation work), but at least my legs are catching up with all this rehab work (my PT continues to comment on my quad-dominant stature, which is why he's literally kicking my tail with hamstring and glute work).
What'd I leave out?