Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Posted February 23, 2006 Ok, I'm in Week5D4... been clean eating and haven't missed a workout. What is UP with that scale? I'm doing measurements tomorrow but I'm not confident that anything will show their either (clothing is no looser). Hubby has made encouraging remarks but I think he just wants to get lucky (eye roll). I'm at 161, 5'7, 26% bodyfat. I actually wear a size 8 and some 6's. My goal is to get to 18% bodyfat and the scale should be at 145 at that point. I feel like I'm not moving in the right direction. I've read hussman, I'm reading Burn the fat feed the muscle. It talks a lot about checking changes weekly and if it isn't working, adjust your program. Here are my goals: 1. Workout 3x/week with Weights 2. Workout 3x/week Cardio (20 min HIIT) 3. Eat 6 meals/day carb/protein balanced. 4. Use shakes and betagen to help with results. 5. Enjoy 2 free meals each week. 6. Weigh only 1x per week (Friday mornings) 7. Measure every 2-4 weeks 8. Enjoy slow, steady .5-1 lb/week fat loss 9. Continue for 12 weeks 10. Enjoy the workout/routine 11. Have faith in the results 12. Plan for occasions. 13. HAVE FAITH 14. Drink your water 15. Enjoy your weekend walks. I guess what I'm saying is... I'm losing faith. Where is my fat loss? My eating is so clean, I'm baffled! I even added flaxseed oil because I wasn't hitting my fat grams each day (doing well with carbs and proteins). I try to keep my carbs natural and added in fruits more often than other carbs. My workouts are really fantastic. I'm very sore on the day after (or two) so I know I'm making progress. Muscle memory rocks. Tell me again... KEEP GOING. On another board I'm joining a 6-week mini challenge. I had all hopes that I would start to see results but I'm getting all discouraged. I ordered skinfold calipers. Thus far I've been using the measurement method of estimating body fat. Thanks for listening to me whine. I'm going for a lunchtime walk (low intensity cardio) to destress and enjoy my music. We also do some fun weekend walks (4-6 miles each day) and it really helps with muscle soreness. To me, these are just active recovery activities so I don't count them as cardio. 17-min-mile-ish. I know, there is no magic solution. I kept telling myself that things will start changing in week 8. Someone, anyone, please cheer me on to keep going. Thanks!!! Again, sorry to whine! Quote
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Posted February 23, 2006 It sounds like you're doing everything right and are right on schedule, including the whining breakdown and crushing doubt at week 4. All perfectly normal. Everybody goes through it. Check out The Four Week Freakout: http://www.skwigg.com/id40.html You Really Do Change From the Inside Out http://www.hussmanfitness.org/html/TSInsideOut.html and The BFL Lady Success doc in the files section: /files/ It's a collection of posts from women who didn't see any results until after week 6 or 8 but then had fabulous transformations. On 2/23/06, heyjami <heyjami@...> wrote: > Ok, I'm in Week5D4... been clean eating and haven't missed a workout. > > What is UP with that scale? I'm doing measurements tomorrow but I'm > not confident that anything will show their either (clothing is no > looser). > > Hubby has made encouraging remarks but I think he just wants to get > lucky (eye roll). > > I'm at 161, 5'7, 26% bodyfat. I actually wear a size 8 and some > 6's. My goal is to get to 18% bodyfat and the scale should be at > 145 at that point. I feel like I'm not moving in the right > direction. > > I've read hussman, I'm reading Burn the fat feed the muscle. It > talks a lot about checking changes weekly and if it isn't working, > adjust your program. > > Here are my goals: > 1. Workout 3x/week with Weights > 2. Workout 3x/week Cardio (20 min HIIT) > 3. Eat 6 meals/day carb/protein balanced. > 4. Use shakes and betagen to help with results. > 5. Enjoy 2 free meals each week. > 6. Weigh only 1x per week (Friday mornings) > 7. Measure every 2-4 weeks > 8. Enjoy slow, steady .5-1 lb/week fat loss > 9. Continue for 12 weeks > 10. Enjoy the workout/routine > 11. Have faith in the results > 12. Plan for occasions. > 13. HAVE FAITH > 14. Drink your water > 15. Enjoy your weekend walks. > > I guess what I'm saying is... I'm losing faith. Where is my fat > loss? My eating is so clean, I'm baffled! I even added flaxseed > oil because I wasn't hitting my fat grams each day (doing well with > carbs and proteins). I try to keep my carbs natural and added in > fruits more often than other carbs. My workouts are really > fantastic. I'm very sore on the day after (or two) so I know I'm > making progress. Muscle memory rocks. > > Tell me again... KEEP GOING. On another board I'm joining a 6-week > mini challenge. I had all hopes that I would start to see results > but I'm getting all discouraged. > > I ordered skinfold calipers. Thus far I've been using the > measurement method of estimating body fat. > > Thanks for listening to me whine. I'm going for a lunchtime walk > (low intensity cardio) to destress and enjoy my music. We also do > some fun weekend walks (4-6 miles each day) and it really helps with > muscle soreness. To me, these are just active recovery activities > so I don't count them as cardio. 17-min-mile-ish. > > I know, there is no magic solution. I kept telling myself that > things will start changing in week 8. Someone, anyone, please cheer > me on to keep going. > > Thanks!!! Again, sorry to whine! Quote
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Posted February 23, 2006 Too funny! I tried so hard to not let myself fall into doubt (see 2 goals in there). Ok... going forward... continuing to do this. Off to walk and enjoy the beautiful day. And listen to Gwen S, Ricky M, Black Eyed Peas and good old s... they keep me active! > > It sounds like you're doing everything right and are right on > schedule, including the whining breakdown and crushing doubt at week > 4. All perfectly normal. Everybody goes through it. Check out > > The Four Week Freakout: > http://www.skwigg.com/id40.html > > You Really Do Change From the Inside Out > http://www.hussmanfitness.org/html/TSInsideOut.html > > and The BFL Lady Success doc in the files section: > /files/ > > Quote
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