I have been weighing myself and measuring chest, waist, hips regularly. My weight has creeped up by 2-3 pounds since I started seriously doing NROLFW. A tiny voice inside me was screaming "NO!" but my brain said to stick it out a while longer. I have been eating in a very slight deficit for 8 weeks and now I am half way thru stage 2. My Tanita scale varies wildly on the BF%, but I noticed it is consistently lower in the afternoon when the BF% is usually closest to what my dunk test showed.
Well, I have done so many diets and exercise regimens that never really did much, so I have a hard time believing I am seeing positive changes. This afternoon, I was looking at my once super flabby body and thinking it looks better. Then I measured everything including my calves and I was SHOCKED to see that they grew by 1/2-3/4 inch! They have always been exactly the same size no matter what my weight has been.
It may sound trivial, but to me this was the first tangible evidence that something has changed. I just can't believe I have been wasting my time on stuff that doesn't work for all these years. My husband said, "Well, different things work for different people." I don't know if that's true or if there are a lot of people lying to all the desperate women out there.
It's hard and I am tired and sore some of the time, but I'm definitely not giving up now!!!
Then I measured everything including my calves and I was SHOCKED to see that they grew by 1/2-3/4 inch! They have always been exactly the same size no matter what my weight has been.
It may sound trivial, but to me this was the first tangible evidence that something has changed. I just can't believe I have been wasting my time on stuff that doesn't work for all these years. My husband said, "Well, different things work for different people." I don't know if that's true or if there are a lot of people lying to all the desperate women out there.
It's hard and I am tired and sore some of the time, but I'm definitely not giving up now!!!
Sally, I like you. I really like you. Srsly. 'Cuz recently there was someone COMPLAINING about the same thing. I had to read the post twice to make sure that you were HAPPY about your calves.
And, I think it's the latter on the issue of what works.
Heehee! That's because I've always had skinny calves. Plus, I figure the calves getting bigger is very unlikely to be from fat when the rest of me hasn't gotten bigger.
I do believe different things work well for different people. However, I think it is BS that eating less than BMR and doing 10 hours of cardio/week and lifting 3 lb. weights is not the way to get a nice, muscular, healthy physique for LIFE. To me, it just didn't add up physiologically but I didn't know any better way to do it. I always thought something must be wrong with me or my will power. I'm sure many people here can relate
The peanut butter cookies in your avatar are making my mouth water!! I haven't had cookies in so long...
On topic, I'm in my 6th week of NROL (original) and am seeing some changes too. I'm not taking as many measurements as you, but my weight has dropped about 4 pounds, body fat has gone down about 1%, my legs generally feel stronger when I'm climbing stairs and walking around town, and my endurance in the gym is better than ever.
I've been going to the gym off-and-on for about 10 years, and only now do I feel like I'm actually accomplishing anything.
Women seem to get more b.s. about fitness than men. Do women's magazines dictate that the pink dumbbells are for girls and the metal ones are for boys? Madness.
The peanut butter cookies in your avatar are making my mouth water!! I haven't had cookies in so long...
On topic, I'm in my 6th week of NROL (original) and am seeing some changes too. I'm not taking as many measurements as you, but my weight has dropped about 4 pounds, body fat has gone down about 1%, my legs generally feel stronger when I'm climbing stairs and walking around town, and my endurance in the gym is better than ever.
I've been going to the gym off-and-on for about 10 years, and only now do I feel like I'm actually accomplishing anything.
Women seem to get more b.s. about fitness than men. Do women's magazines dictate that the pink dumbbells are for girls and the metal ones are for boys? Madness.
I had to use the pink ones the other day for YWTL, because there are no 7.5s in the regular metal ones. . . . I felt silly, but what the hell. . .
Well, I have done so many diets and exercise regimens that never really did much, so I have a hard time believing I am seeing positive changes. This afternoon, I was looking at my once super flabby body and thinking it looks better. Then I measured everything including my calves and I was SHOCKED to see that they grew by 1/2-3/4 inch! They have always been exactly the same size no matter what my weight has been.
It may sound trivial, but to me this was the first tangible evidence that something has changed. I just can't believe I have been wasting my time on stuff that doesn't work for all these years. My husband said, "Well, different things work for different people." I don't know if that's true or if there are a lot of people lying to all the desperate women out there.
It's hard and I am tired and sore some of the time, but I'm definitely not giving up now!!!
Hello! I like yer cookies! And I know exactly what you mean about suddenly seeing change after years of work without results. Exciting!
I had to use the pink ones the other day for YWTL, because there are no 7.5s in the regular metal ones. . . . I felt silly, but what the hell. . .
YWTL makes me feel like such a wuss. (So does Cuban snatch, but YWTL is worse). I have to use the colorful weights for that, too-- at least at my gym, they are blue and gree instead of pink-- cold comfort, to be sure.
YWTL makes me feel like such a wuss. (So does Cuban snatch, but YWTL is worse). I have to use the colorful weights for that, too-- at least at my gym, they are blue and gree instead of pink-- cold comfort, to be sure.
Yeah; especially when it comes after something that I use pretty high weight for ("for a girl" as one guy said to me one day), then I go from say, 95 pounds on a lat pulldown, to 7.5 on YWTL, and I just see people looking at me like they're thinking "what the heck?" Someday I'm going to say to them "you try it if you think it's so funny!"
Yeah; especially when it comes after something that I use pretty high weight for ("for a girl" as one guy said to me one day), then I go from say, 95 pounds on a lat pulldown, to 7.5 on YWTL, and I just see people looking at me like they're thinking "what the heck?" Someday I'm going to say to them "you try it if you think it's so funny!"
Seriously! It's not fair to say you're doing 6 reps either-- it's really 24 movements with teeny, tiny muscles. It makes me want weights to come in quarter-pound increments.
And why would that guy qualify his compliment w/ "for a girl" anyway? That's annoying.
By the way, I like your new avatar pic. I need to find a picture to use....
I think someone stripped the vinyl off some of the little dumbbells in my gym. Someone really hates pink! So we have some pink ones, and some steel ones that have clearly seen better days.
Results and hope for people just starting
I felt silly, but what the hell. . .
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