This has honestly become one of my favorite days of the week. All week I’m weighing in, logging food, training, doing the boring stuff—but photo day is where I actually see if it’s working. Lining these shots up side by side and spotting new veins, tighter skin, or a smaller waist does more for my motivation than any number on the scale ever could.
Same room, same door, same time of day, always after a pull workout so these are real comparisons. Day 1 to day 77, front/side/back, sitting around 157.5 lbs and roughly 11–12% on my scale after starting this whole thing 45+ lbs heavier.
This week my midsection tightened up a lot, the loose skin that showed up last week already looks better, and even the old stretch‑mark areas are fading. The changes are way clearer in the photos than they ever feel day to day.
Then there was a FB comment last week from someone telling me I “look skinny,” my ribs are “poking out,” my face is “sucked in like a skeleton,” that I look “sick, on hardcore drugs, and like I’m dying.” and I’m gross. They dropped that under a post where I literally said I was still self‑conscious about posting shirtless pics but finally felt confident enough to do it.
This is exactly how people get stuck: when you’re 300 lbs you’re called fat, when you lose the weight you’re told you look gross. Meanwhile this person is out here doing lingerie photoshoots, looking like a soft, untrained potato, convinced they still look like they did when they were 18.
Their “feedback” about me just isn’t true—I’ve got the data and these photos to prove it. But my take on this person would actually be spot‑on—and that’s the whole issue. Most people just hype them up and leave compliments, but they showed up on my page with the opposite energy, so I returning the favor.
I’m sharing this so nobody watching my process lets that kind of noise knock them off track. Not everyone is at a place where they can brush it off, so let these photos be the proof: the work is working, and you’re allowed to build the physique you want, even if it makes other people uncomfortable with their own reflection.