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Harlan was always teased in school for being chubby, so he finally decided to change his lifestyle and get on track with his diet and exercising. Read on to learn how he lost 45 lbs and gained his self-esteem back!

Teen Transformation Of The Week - Harlan Cullum!

By: Teen Transformation Of The Week

Before:
185 lbs

After:
140 lbs

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Vital Stats
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Name: Harlan Cullum
Email: Harlanc@ntlworld.com or Harlan100@hotmail.co.uk
BodySpace: Harlan100
Height: 5'11"

Before:
Age: 12
Weight: 185 lbs
Body Fat: 25-30%
Waist: 36"

After:
Age: 16
Weight: 119 lbs
Body Fat: 5%
Waist: 29"

Now:
Age: 17
Weight: 140 lbs
Body Fat: 10-12%
Waist: 29"

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Why I Got Started
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Virtually all my life from the age of about 8-15 I was the fat kid that was always picked on for being fat, it was constant every day at school. I used to constantly eat junk food to make myself happy. What didn't help was the fact that I also had done no exercise.

I started to change things up and started cutting out chocolate and sweets and soda. I was starting to change and began eating healthy, but I was still fat and unhappy so I decided to do some research on what else I could do. I figured you never see a fat runner so I decided to go running 4-5km 5 days a week on top of a 1 hour cycle everyday to and from school.

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Harlan Cullum's Bench Press Progress.

From then I started dropping weight fast. After that I started to eat even less and was dropping weight at serious speed, but I didn't know I was losing a lot of muscle too and was just happy to be going down in weight.

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I Didn't know I Was Losing A Lot Of Muscle Too.

I was fixed on this until I found myself in a real hole. I was 119 lbs with no muscle and no fat. People were really worried about me but I was just happy to not be fat. After a while of getting sense talked into me I figured I didn't look good and decided I had to change again, this I were I started to learn about weight lifting.

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How I Did It
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I started to buy British fitness magazines and followed some of the routines they had in there but they were not very good for adding size. I had done a lot of research here at Bodybuilding.com. I learned how much I should be eating and what macros I should be eating, I slowly started putting on size. Some of the articles I really like are:

As I did more research I was learning more and more and was really getting into lifting weights and applying my knowledge to it all. I joined the Muscleandfitness.com message board and the guys there really helped.

I started to learn about the Bill Starr 5x5 program and decided to give that a shot, this was one of the best decisions I made to use this program. My strength gains went through the roof and was watching myself grow.

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My Strength Gains Went Through The Roof.

Because I worked out at home I was limited to the amount of equipment I had. I made my transformation with just a basic bench, EZ bar, Straight bar, dumbbell bars and loads of free weight discs. I was kind of limited to what I could do, but I just improvised were I had to. On top of all this I made sure I done the following: