A new training program
Thanks Vinny
Who gives a huge flying monkey crap what the scale says when your pants are shrinking! This is coming from a chick who cannot even get to the MIDDLE of a normal BMI because my bones and muscles weigh more than that!
Do you have access to a hydrostatic weight place (they dunk you in a tub) or a bodpod? The scale cannot tell you how your body composition has changed.
In 6 months, I gained 3 pounds *BY THE SCALE* My body fat went from 19% to 16%, I GAINED 8 pounds of MUSCLE.
In a world not fueled by emotion and the scale, should I be freaked out that *by the scale* I was 3 pounds heavier? No man! Not even in a world full of bongs filled to the brim!!
My calorie count is like yours, but I track my food and exercise on dietpower and it tells me what I need to consume to stay/gain/loose. You might want to invest in the like (or maybe not) but honestly no one here can look at me and have me tell them what I do and know how many calories I need.
BE PROUD ON YOU MAN!!! DO IT!! NOW!
:} And I am going to do itI from here!
GO VINNIEMAC!!
I only say it because its true man. You have worked damn hard, and you will continue to, I bet.
There are places on me that there is no way I could fill out with muscle, and quite honestly, I do not care to be big enough (either with muscle or with fat) to fill that skin out again, so you know.
We do what we can with what we have, man.
But I am not joking! See if there is someplace that can do your body composition (not just calipers, they do not work as well on folks like us with weird fat dispursal, *I do not think*).
Its a huge mindfuck, the switch over between "weight loss" and "fat loss" via changing your body composition. You have to get out of the "weight loss" mode and into the other, but measuring it is a challenge, because its not as instant, and its not as easily measured.
Yaay you!!
*squeeze*
At first I did body weight stuff - so do girlie pushups until you can do regular ones, and do triceps dips.
Remember you do not have to be able to pull off 100 with military precision to be making progress!!
Here is a link that might help where I explain more, but I am glad to fill in information if you have questions!
Look on this thread
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/VSG/4502603/Brandi-of-the- past-sends-warnings-to-Brandi-of-the-future/page,1/action,re plies/topic_id,4502603/
Down the page near the bottom is a post that fills in more information!!
Ask away though, I am glad to be helpful if I can.
I have put off the inevitable for too long this morning!! Time for work! Yaay work!