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Chelspaz wrote:I gained a pound...even though I started the gym this week. -sigh- Guess my body is adjusting or something.
plant_eater wrote:Cheer up, that is a pound of lean body mass, your building muscle. Keep in mind body composition, building muscle and losing body fat is difficult and a slow steady progress. I train for triathlons and did 10 races in 2016. I stayed pretty much at 170 and 20% body fat, I even gained body fat toward the end of the year but also muscle.
My last triathlon on Oct 29th I was my heaviest in almost 2 years at 180 and 23% BF. Yet I posted my best times and it was my best race of the year.
I am working on losing my spare tire around the midsection and it has been a brick wall for 2 years now. I focus entirely on Body Fat. Whatever my final weight is, I don't really care.
In the end don't get discouraged. Keep going to the gym, eat clean and train mean.
Remember this winning formula....80% Nutrition, 20% Exercise, and 100% Attitude.
amandamechele wrote:Chelsea - That's really neat that your gym has a movie theatre. As for the gain this week, as plant-eater was saying, it could be due to your change in workout. Please try not to be discouraged, remember you are doing your best and that this kind of lifestyle change takes way more time than we realize. Very few people are able to consistently lose larger amounts of weight week after week. Most of us lose a bit, stay relatively steady for awhile then lose a bit more. Take heart that as long as you apply the guidelines correctly it will trend down, slowly but surely. As I mentioned to Fancyfinch above, if we can remove that mental timeline of how we expect this should happen, the process will "feel" a lot smoother. XO You are doing great!!
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