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Originally Posted by MuscleMom23
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. |
Congratulations! Those are fantastic results. =o)
I've been lifting on and off for years, and had some great results around this time last year. Lost 11lbs of fat and gained a couple pounds of lean mass, and then hit this terrific plateau. I maintained for several months, hit a bad patch (working seven days a week, thirteen hour days on weekends, and didn't have time to plan or hardly even sleep! All to help a friend out...pshh), and ultimately ended up where I began. So I know I need to cut calories a little. And throw back in some more HIIT.
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Originally Posted by MuscleMom23
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?
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I know what you mean! The scale can play games in your head. But muscle always looks better. And strong, buff females seem to be more "in" than they used to - look at Jessica Biel, Gwen Stefani, Pink, etc. And thank god! Strong is achievable; waifish (at least for someone like me!) is not.
But the scale can be a beneficial tool for measuring progress, too.
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Originally Posted by beach_plums
This might sound like an odd question, but how often do you weigh yourself? I'm one of those scale-obsessed people, and weight myself daily. I find that I can have a fluctuation in weight up to 3.5 pounds from one day to the next. On the days that I'm at the higher weight (139), I know that I didn't drink enough water, pay attention to my water intake for the day, and the next morning, I'm back at the lowest weight (136).
To get my "actual" weight for my stats, I use an average of my week-long weights.
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Last week, I weighed myself on Thursday morning and Friday morning. I was eating clean - so no packaged foods, few processed foods (and what I did have was like, whole wheat hamburger bun, lowfat cheese, etc.). And I was drinking water like a fish. I know I was holding water, but I also didn't see my caliper measurements (bodyfat) go down at all. So I'm tweaking.
Over the first month I've been doing NROL4W, I saw my bodyfat drop a little, but my measurements and weight haven't gone down at all. I love the workouts, but I'm also looking to see some fat loss, and in the past, I've had results from dropping calories a bit.
Now, in the past, I've also gotten stuck in a plateau, so I'm being conscious not to drop too low this time around, and to vary calories day-to-day to keep my body from adjusting.
But on weight fluctuations - doesn't it suck to be a woman? I know muscle holds a lot of water and glycogen, but I do think that it's extra fat that holds on to all that water and salt and makes women feel bloated (versus men). Or maybe I'm wrong and it's just wishful thinking that one day, my pants will never feel tight when I've got PMS!