Before and After

Woddle

Who's up for a laugh and maybe help motivate some readers of this thread out there, so go ahead post your before and after, maybe cheesecake private has one ?

[IMG][/img] fatty mcnugget by , on Flickr
April 08, Before




November 08, After
Still a bit of a pouch but getting there, and a bit of a heel strike

hunnymonster

Great result there Woddle. I wish I had similar results but unfortunately my before and after photo's would be the same (apart from less toenails).
nice stride there woddle but drop your shoulders!!

MarieC

thats an unreal difference Woddle in such a short period of time! Well done! Dunno if Iv any photos of when I started running but will have to have a look now....

shels4ever

Well my progress hasnt been as good as woddle

This is May

shels4ever

November,
Will have to upload one in May after the marathon to see what the changes are.

Woddle

Fair play Shels, big difference especially in the face

Woddle , Shels,

Thats some great results there.

Stupid_Private

I'll try to get a picture to this later - my pics are over a longer period of time... and all my weight centralised on my face!

tunney

Before:



After:

shels4ever

supper progress there tunney well done.

Racing Flat

I bet your mothers all think you looked better in the before. I can hear it now 'You're wasting away, why don't you rest tonight? Here, have some more spuds...'.

Krusty_Clown

I think Tunney looked better before. Much more like a computer programmer.
(Is that a tatoo on your ankle?) :eek:

Yep, my mother prefers the old me. If I hear the words 'too skinny' again, i'll.... go for a run..

thirtyfoot

Racing Flat wrote: »

I bet your mothers all think you looked better in the before. I can hear it now 'You're wasting away, why don't you rest tonight? Here, have some more spuds...'.

Thats so true. Reminds me of a married couple who are friends of mine. He was an Olympian (and had the cut of one too) and towards the end of his career she would complain that "she was sick of her balding, anorexic husband*" coming home from training each evening. She couldn't wait for him to retire so she could 'fatten' him up.

* He wasn't balding or anorexic - just had the elite dishevilled look!

RacoonQueen

Oh so it's not just me who's family think they 'don't eat enough' etc etc etc

And Krusty, I love that line, next time my mum says I don't eat enough I'll tell her if she says that again I'm going for a run.

shels4ever

well i'm not at that stage jsut yet, but i can see it coming to that in a few months..

TheRoadRunner

Racing Flat wrote: »

I bet your mothers all think you looked better in the before. I can hear it now 'You're wasting away, why don't you rest tonight? Here, have some more spuds...'.

It's so true. It's only when my mother really starts complaining about my weight I know its time to run a race as obviously the training must be going well.

Racing Flat

TheRoadRunner wrote: »

It's so true. It's only when my mother really starts complaining about my weight I know its time to run a race as obviously the training must be going well.

QFT - when they say in work that I look a bit gaunt, I smile inside, knowing that a good race is around the corner.

Woddle

Some difference tunney, well done.
After eating well all week, we just ordered a pizza but looking at some of the pics I think I'll only have a slice or 2 with water

Stupid_Private

The Before Pic


And then September this year

Woddle

that is some difference in the cheeks alright, your very gaunt looking is what I imagine your mother saying

Funkyzeit

Brilliant thread... I'll get some pics up when I find them...

gaf1983

Here's a breakfast I once ate in my Before days:

Slogger Jogger

Before pic taken in 2000. After pic from this years Cork marathon.

christeb

Excellent thread and that's some difference in 6 months Woddle. I have some before / after pics but I've always been a bit of a rake so no major difference :pac:

tunney

If people are posting photos please scale them down to a reasonable size.

short circuit

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

Before pic taken in 2000. After pic from this years Cork marathon.

You must surely be on the growth harmone ... the 2nd picture is not of a 8 year old ... :P

Slogger Jogger

Indeed A good 3 stone in the difference between pictures too. Shows what a difference decent fitness will do for you.

locteau

Hey is that a tatoo ?

tunney.jpg

Any how.... good luck in your training.

I enter china next year, just to see if my back can take it on after my surgery. I have no picture from 2006/07 where my body gave up and gain an extra storage of 20kg of food, like a hamster.

I lost 12 KG since last year, and training going ok, the run is not coming back very well but, I won't win Kona tomorrow, so it does not matter :cool:

locteau

Actually got a few pictures.....

2000 Nice LD (france) I called "1998.jpg" but I think was 2000.
2001 or 02 Connemara
2006 IM UK (last picture before getting in the wheelchair )

...... 2009 will look hopefully better....

1998.jpg

Seb (Small).jpg

pics update nov08 (9).jpg

How do you had a picture but not as an attachement ?

Funkyzeit

locteau wrote: »

Actually got a few pictures.....

That Connemara pic is class Locteau...

Slogger Jogger

Hi Seb, this is a before and after article, not the other way around :-)

locteau

Sorry that's right !

I suppose getting older does not count either

Ok I will take the 2006 picture and compare to the IM in April..... might sucked the belly in for the picture :cool:

shels4ever

Slogger Jogger wrote: »

Hi Seb, this is a before and after article, not the other way around :-)

The other way round could be funny, i'll try and dig up my '99 Marathon photo, when all my family siad i looked so so sick..

MarieC

I'll never be tall and lean; Im short and stumpy and still have muscle from kickboxing but sure how bad!

robinph

locteau wrote: »

How do you had a picture but not as an attachement ?

locteau

thanks for the reply (RE: picture)

Marie, that's great work well done !!!

Krusty_Clown

Great work Marie, but you had a better suntan in September 2007. :cool:

greenplain

ok here goes the first one is when i had piled on the pounds and the second one is after the dublin marathon this year

baza1976

greenplain wrote: »

ok here goes the first one is when i had piled on the pounds and the second one is after the dublin marathon this year

Hi green, I think you were nicer with the long blonde hair!!:D

Woddle

greenplain you really are only half the man you used to be
couldn't resist

greenplain

cheers lads!!

robinph

Don't think I've got any handy pictures of me for a before and after comparison, but if anything I'd weigh more now than I did years ago and I'm not even close to having any excess weight on me now. Only one I can find for an "after" is this one from the marathon this year, I'm the one in red with the shades on.

I do have a picture from the London marathon back in '96 but I'll have to scan that in first once I can find it again.

Woddle

Bump as promised. Come on get your before pics out for a laugh

earlyevening

Hmmm. I found a picture of "fat me" but can't for the life of me figure out how to post it.
I've turned into my father who took years to figure out the TV remote and texting and the like. :eek:

bren74

Fat me back in 2003 weighting in around 16 and half stone (yes that is a fag in my hand - 20 a day man back then) ....

and at the National Intermediates XC in Tymon Feb 09

mrak

bren74 wrote: »

Fat me back in 2003 weighting in around 16 and half stone (yes that is a fag in my hand - 20 a day man back then) ....

and at the National Intermediates XC in Tymon Feb 09

Super stuff Bren - you win for me - I'd say you look about 10 years younger in the after. I was always scrawny so didn't lose much weight but did develop a gaunt "lollipop" head that had everyone "worried" about me.

mloc123

Will stick up some pics later from home...

August 2008: 18st :rolleyes::eek:
August 2009: 12st

MCOS

mloc123 wrote: »

Will stick up some pics later from home...

August 2008: 18st :rolleyes::eek:
August 2009: 12st

Thats impressive

shels4ever

bren74 wrote: »

Fat me back in 2003 weighting in around 16 and half stone (yes that is a fag in my hand - 20 a day man back then) ....

and at the National Intermediates XC in Tymon Feb 09

Very vrey impressive well done.

xebec

There's been some amazing changes to runners on this thread, fair play! If I can find appropriate pics I'll add my own, from 14 stone in '07 to a little over 11 stone today - I'm only 5'7" so that's significant!

Was flicking through Runners World earlier and came across an article on this guy (warning: crap website!), shows that anybody with the right motivation and a bit of luck can do what you guys have done - and even go a little further!

mloc123

mloc123 wrote: »

Will stick up some pics later from home...

August 2008: 18st :rolleyes::eek:
August 2009: 12st

See attached... still abit to go for race season next year. Ignore the 'photo face'