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Originally Posted by kfisherx
You know in reading all these posts of the various women in NROL4W I am also wonderig how effective the strategy is for actual weight loss. When I first started with my trainer he had me on a fat loss program and it consisted of way less food and much more cardio related working. I dropped pounds so fast I tanked. I am watching Dilly do the same sort of program under Leigh and my bet is on her showing some massive improvements this time around. I am thinking that NROL4W is a great book for lots of reasons. It teaches women to be confident in lifting and in food and eating and how it helps them with lifting. It teaches women how to reshape their bodies by adding muscle. What I don't see in the results of people using this book is quick and dirty fat loss. I wonder if that is the way it is designed and the people using this book should uderstand that results are to be very slow in order to optimise keeping muscle while loosing fat? I don't know. I just know I don't want to dink around during my cut. I want to do it and get it over with as quickly as possible.  Once I am low fat THEN I will have the time and paitence to do NROLW type of program. |
I know what you mean. In the book, they don't really talk about fat loss. Or if they do, it's by way of talking about how lifting weights can help build muscle AND lose fat, like when he's giving the examples about circumference and scale weight for the hypothetical woman.
I bonked the last time I went aggressively after fat loss, too. I have probably 30lbs of fat to lose, and if I keep the calories too low, I just plateau around 6 weeks and start to feel crappy. Given that I have so much fat to take off, I'm thinking the strategy of cutting calories slightly and going back up to maintenance regularly will help me from stalling along the way. I could probably drop 10lbs of fat in a month, but then I'd just be setting myself up for some horrible sling-shot action when I had to raise my calories again after the inevitable slowdown.
Still, I like the increase in strength that's coming with NROL4W. But if I ever want to seek the elusive pull-up, I'm going to have to drop some of this extra weight. Same goes for powerful push ups and steady planks.
The one thing that keeps me going is that the calipers have gone down, and will hopefully continue to go down. If I follow those numbers, it won't take long until the fat thins out and I can actually see some of these muscles.
As long as I stay active and keep lifting and eating well, things can't get worse. And if I find a plan that's better for fat loss, then that's just a bonus.