Transformation: Trevor Stoos Crushes a 110 Pounds Loss!

October 2014 to December 2015  |  14 months  |  @trevorstoos

Trevor lost his football career to a knee injury in his freshman year of college, and spent the next four years eating his way through it. Then he saw himself in a gym mirror.

Where he started

In his freshman year of college Trevor suffered a career-ending knee injury playing football. He tore his ACL, MCL, PCL and quad, and dislocated his kneecap. The weight gain started almost immediately after.

Over the next four years he ate his feelings. He was angry that he could not play college football, which had been his childhood dream, and he pushed away everyone close to him. It was a very hard stretch of his life, and he came through it, but not quickly.

He is specific about what he was angriest at, and it is a small thing that anyone who has played will recognise: on the play before he blew his knee out, his position coach asked if he wanted to take a breather and come out of the scrimmage. He said no.

After surgery his head coach offered to keep his scholarship if he came on as an assistant. That turned out to be hard in its own way. He was coaching players his own age and older, getting little respect, and feeling the whole time that he should have been out there with them. Weeks after the surgery, one of his baseball coaches died in an accident. He was nineteen with too much happening at once, and he handled it by performing being fine.

The turning point

He used to read transformation stories and wonder why everyone else got a turning point and he never had. Then he got his, and he remembers it exactly.

He was working at his local YMCA as a trainer, lifeguard and after-school program teacher. He was in the gym one day, caught sight of himself in the mirror, and told himself it was time. Time to stop blaming his knee for not training, and time to forgive what had happened.

That same day he found Marc Lobliner's fat loss plan and started using it. He was living with his girlfriend of four years at the time and credits her with backing the decision completely.

What he changed

He started modestly: a 45-minute walk, then 30 to 40 minutes of lifting. That was it.

After the first 75 pounds came off he wanted more than weight loss, and he started training for powerlifting. He now lifts six days a week with 45 minutes of cardio most days.

On food he followed Marc's plan through the loss and saw results quickly. Once he moved to powerlifting his coach put him on a carb cycling structure, three lower-carb days followed by a higher-carb day, with protein and fat held steady, plus one planned cheat meal a week, usually Saturday dinner.

The hardest part

Letting go of the past, and of what caused the weight in the first place. When he decided to change he knew it had to be mental as well as physical. Coming to terms with losing his childhood dream took five years, and he says there are still days he does not fully understand why it happened, though it made him who he is.

He also names three mistakes worth reading. He was far too focused on the scale early on and would get furious when the number did not move; his advice is to weigh in every two weeks instead of daily. He got into a mindset where a single cookie felt like it would undo everything, and it took months to get past that; a cookie now and then will not put 100 pounds back on. And he did it alone. Shortly after he started, a five-year relationship ended and he responded by spending all his time at the gym, cutting off friends and family. His advice: let the people who love you be part of it.

Where he is now

Hitting 100 pounds lost is the one he names first. He set that as a one-year goal and got there in about fourteen months.

The other is powerlifting. His three lifts are stronger than they have ever been, and squatting the weight he squats now, on the knee that ended his football career, is the part that means the most.

Your workout and diet today is your transformation picture next month. Trevor Stoos

His advice if you are starting today

Some things have to go, at least for a while, including nights out. Meal prep for the whole week and do not let friends on a different plan talk you out of it. His workaround for the social side is a good one: eat your own dinner at home first, then go out with everyone and order water.

On walking into a gym overweight, which he says is one of the hardest parts of starting: yes, some people will judge you, and far more people are quietly supporting you than you will ever know. And if you are already in the gym working and holding your diet, you are ahead of most people who say they want to change.

Be consistent with both training and food, and accept that you will fall off sometimes. Everyone does. Tomorrow is a new day.

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