Before and After Cycling

I've met loads of people on the forum who have pretty cool stories about how cycling has changed their lives in small or major ways. I thought it'd be cool if people posted a before cycling and after cycling photo with a short bit of blurb so that others may laugh at us and call us "big fat fattycakes". This is not a boast post thread and not all about weight loss. I hope it will inspire at least one person to get on a bike and enjoy themselves. In the spirit of self scarifice, I'll go first.

I recently came across some photos of me from a few years back and was surprised to see how overweight I was. Not to mention the train wreck of a shirt that I was wearing. I was smoking over 20 a day, drinking easily 50 pints a week and quite frankly spent my life either being ill or hungover. At least part of this changed.

I was very athletic at school, both playing basketball and swimming at national level but when I left, I stopped sport and found the student union. My girlfriend at the time helped me get into running (I couldn't managed 30 seconds without stopping) and the weight started to drop away bit by bit. Eventually, she dumped me not long before our wedding day and I felt compelled to start cycling to clear my mind and get some solitude with the help of my forumenger brother Jallaphanti. (very abridged story).

Anyway...'nuff about me.

Here's me BC...

...and here's me AC...

Anybody else?

Wow, great effort man! I'll be back in 3 months you can see me go from 18+ to 14... halfway now.