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This was in my journal, but figured I would cross post it here. I haven't weighed since May where I was around 300, I started excercising heavily in September and have gone from a 48" waist to 40".
Well my new scale arrived and I am glad I didn't have one up to this point. I am at 295lbs. So since I started lifting I lost 5 lbs....not much. I was actually shocked/dissapointed as everyone keeps telling me I lost a "ton" of weight
HOWEVER, since I started lifting my waist went from 48 to 40 inches which means I put on LOTS OF GOOD QUALITY MUSCLE and LOST A LOT OF GROSS FAT. Especially since muscle weighs more than fat and the mirror says the fat is going.
All this muscle is well and good, but now I have decided to kick everything into the next phase. I am going to go into a full cutting phase. I started yesterday by adding 45 minutes of cardio when I wake up and 45 minutes at night after my workout.
With my 1 hour of weights a day I will by at 2.5 hours a day of excercise 5 days a week. This shoudl go a long ways in bringing out more definition and cutting my waist down to the 34-36 range.
Also a result of my weigh-in I am adjusting my goal from 185 to 200 (it may need to go higher - one friend thinks 225). Not because it is easier, but I have more muscle than ever before and getting to 185 would require losing muscle too. Ultimately when I get closer I will switch this to a BF number of 12%.
So I had a SCALE SHOCKER, but that is why I put it off so long. If I had been weighing all this time and only lost 5lbs. I would have been in trouble.
All the best,
AJ
HOWEVER, since I started lifting my waist went from 48 to 40 inches which means I put on LOTS OF GOOD QUALITY MUSCLE and LOST A LOT OF GROSS FAT. Especially since muscle weighs more than fat and the mirror says the fat is going.
All this muscle is well and good, but now I have decided to kick everything into the next phase. I am going to go into a full cutting phase. I started yesterday by adding 45 minutes of cardio when I wake up and 45 minutes at night after my workout.
With my 1 hour of weights a day I will by at 2.5 hours a day of excercise 5 days a week. This shoudl go a long ways in bringing out more definition and cutting my waist down to the 34-36 range.
Also a result of my weigh-in I am adjusting my goal from 185 to 200 (it may need to go higher - one friend thinks 225). Not because it is easier, but I have more muscle than ever before and getting to 185 would require losing muscle too. Ultimately when I get closer I will switch this to a BF number of 12%.
So I had a SCALE SHOCKER, but that is why I put it off so long. If I had been weighing all this time and only lost 5lbs. I would have been in trouble.
All the best,
AJ
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