r/GymTips

Back in June 2025, I was at the heaviest I have ever been. I was 230 pounds. I’m only 5’8” so obviously this looked horrible as you can see in pic 1. I did not look good and didn’t feel good.

Last June, I decided to make a complete lifestyle change and get myself into shape.

the first few months I was mostly focusing on just losing weight and I was doing a bunch of cardio and in a major calorie deficit. I lost a lot of weight but unfortunately just got very skinny-fat and I didn’t like how that looked either.

Since January, I have been majorly focusing on weightlifting. I lift now 5-6 days a week on a PPL split, and am eating a heavy protein based diet.

I am now down to 170 pounds and pics 2 and 3 were taken today.

how am I doing so far? Is this a good result after a little less than a year? I am now trying to get jacked but I feel like I’m so far away from it still. I get a lot of comments from people being like “wow you got so skinny!” I know they mean well but it’s now the opposite I want to hear lol. I want muscle gains.

I am for sure going to keep at it because I now love my lifestyle and feel so much better and healthier. But sometimes I look in the mirror and just feel defeated because I know I have a long way to go still until I get my dream body.

What do you guys think? Anything I should focus on based off the pics?

My workout included:

Seated leg crunches

Leg raises

Pushups (normal, diamond, archer)

Squats(normal and weighted)

Jump rope

And weekly once or twice 10k run

I am 17 weigh 67kg pretty lean and I am 179-180cm tall I eat 3000 calories a day, 300-400gram carbs and 130-160gram protein, I go gym 4x a week upper lower split and use an app to track calories, I want to get to 80kg bw. Some people around me always say how they eat 4000-5000 calories a day and how I’m not eating enough, I just want some peace of mind to know I’m going in the right direction. Anything helps. Btw everytime I put in my info on a calorie maintenance calculator it says 2500-2600. I don’t know if that’s accurate I only go gym. This is my physique as of now

Alright everyone so from the last post I have took on the advice and started to eat a bit more and hopefully will look good enough for summer.

Any suggestions on the pic I will happily take on.

There slowly growing

Hi everyone, so I just weighed myself and currently at 55.5kg I want to look lean but I think I am going the wrong way. I am counting my food , the whole thing but I think I am screwing up the whole thing.

Any advice would be appreciated

Hello I’m looking for some unbiased accurate assumptions of my body fat percentage and body type. THANK YOU!!

M19 here, I got a DEXA scan at my gym and it said i was 5% bodyfat, i know that’s not accurate so i was wondering what others think, personally I think im 11%

I am ending towards the end of my aggressive cut (or so I think) haha and was wondering what you guys think my bf% is I’m assuming around 16%-15% and if this is around a good place to stop to maintain for awhile I have been eating 1500 cals for 7 weeks now dropping from 187 to 166 as of right now and down 95 pounds total since I started a couple of years ago thanks for the help!

Help

Hey guys,
I’ve lost 16 kg in the last few months just by dieting, and now I finally want to start going to the gym properly and build some muscle. I’m 19, 188cm, 91kg now.