Bro Loses 100 Lbs. In Less Than One Year By Quitting Carbs And Embracing A Meat, Meat And More Meat Lifestyle

There’s no magical “cure” when it comes to losing weight – the calories you eat need to be less than the calories you burn. That’s it. You can eat McDonald’s for the rest of your life or you can eat salads, but as long as you’re burning 2,500 calories a day and you’re eating 2,000, you will lose weight. So when Redditor Deforges decided it was time to get into shape, he chose to follow the keto diet.

“Today was a monumental milestone for me,” he writes in a post to Redditor’s r/fitness board, “after spending most of my life being fat, and a point of hitting rock bottom, I finally got my shit together”:

I feel 100 times better than I ever did when I was at 300lbs mentally and physically. The only thing that awaited me with that lifestyle was diabetes, hypertension, and a shorter time on this earth. Girls look at me now, I don’t worry about chairs creaking as I sit down, and overall I have way more confidence than ever before.

I lost a lot of weight through intermittent fasting and eating keto. For workout I was on ICF but now do a modified version of coolcicada’s PPL routine.(via)

The Keto diet, for the uninitiated, is where you eat fewer than ~20 grams of carbs a day and get most of your calories from meat, with those 20 grams of carbs ideally coming from vegetables. No bread, no sugar, no French fries – but bacon? Oh yeah. You can eat a shitload of bacon, but you can’t put it into a sandwich. And since you’re primarily eating meat, you tend to eat fewer calories than usual since protein leaves you fuller than carbohydrates, which is helpful when you’re in the habit of binge eating.

“I ate Keto and found that I could eat very low in calories without being hungry and still be satisfied,” Deforges explains, “for the last 50 lbs. I didn’t count calories at all, I simply ate less than 20g of carbs and stayed away from sugar. Right now I still eat Keto, I would like to get to 195 before I start bulking but I would guess that I eat around 1700 kcal a day”:

Breakfast would have two Eggs, 5-7 slices of bacon and a protein shake Don’t really eat lunch, I usually have some turkey jerky or cheese as a snack. Dinner I typically eat Chicken breast (or fish or hamburger), Tuna, Cheese, maybe eggs, and a protein shake.(via)

And while eating meat all day everyday sounds like fun (it’s not, it’s really fucking hard), Deforges’ gym routine sounds like a bitch and a half:

WORK OUT REGIMENT

PUSH
Benchpress – 3×5 185
Overhead press – 3×5 115
Incline Bench – 3×5 135
Dumbbell side lateral raises – 3×10 25
Dumbbell straight lateral raises – 3×10 25 or 20 if I’m weak
Rope Pushdowns – 3×10 (machine at gym is resistance based so Idk the weight)
Overhead dumbbell extension – 3×10 35
Shrugs – 3×10 275

PULL
Chin-ups – 3×10 bodyweight
Bent over row – 3×5 135
Lat pull down – 3×10 130
Seated row – 3×10 130
Facepulls – 3×10 70
Preacher curls – 3×10 170 (on machine, then I do a dead set to get really pumped, not sure if that’s what it’s called but I start at 170 and do as many reps as I can, when I fail I drop 20 lbs and repeat until no more weight)
T-Bar row – 3×10 50-75, i’m a pussy on this one

LEGS
Legs I keep very short but very grueling (for me at least)
Squats – 5×5 225 (I have shit form on squats so hurt myself so I do hack squats if my legs are messed up.)
Hack Squats (if not doing Squats) – 5×5 3 plates, don’t know the weight of the sled
Deadlift – 1×5 315, just hit one rep max of 405!
Leg press – 3×8 450
Standing calf raises – 3xfailure 250
Seated calf raises – 3xfailure 75
I also do 3×15 crunches at the end of every workout day. Not sure if they’re crunches, you basically lift yourself by your forearms and raise your legs up to your chest.
No strength loss, but slow gains.(via)

After 11 months of hard work and dedication to his fitness routine, Deforges managed to lose 100 pounds. His transformation photos ain’t anything to sneeze at either:

But does Deforges’ diet have anything on what The Rock and The Mountain eat in order to become the jacked goliaths we know them as today? I’m not so sure:


[Via Reddit]