Hi Rixatrix!
I know my stats and age are WAY off from yours so that means
YOU have an advantage over me.
Over 4 months of lifting and not as hard as NROL4W and just cleaning things up in the diet I have lost 3 " off my waist and other parts. I have only lost about 5 lbs, it goes up and down. I would have had to lose 20 lbs the old fashioned just diet way to get these results.
My pants slid off of me today
. My dress pants that I was stuffed into last fall.
I am "cheating" on Stage one. I added 20 min of lung busting HIIT after my workouts 3x a week. That shook things up immensly. I am just now going to clean up the diet some more. My metabolism is screwed up too.
My .02 is that you try the HIIT. I read somewhere on this forum that HIIT and other cardio doesn't not tear down muscle so you don't need the recovery that you do lifting. So go for it.
Technically I HATE the number on the scale. But evidently my body is liking the shake up. The numbers will come. I have at least 148 lbs of muscle maybe even up to 157 lbs. I would love to see where I end up if I can keep that muscle. If 170 on me looks like 130 used to, who am I to complain
.
Did you read Alwyns latest blog?
Alwyn Cosgrove's Blog