Struggling with body fat percentage?

dave_in_ni

I lost 50lbs however I haven't really benefited as my body fat percentage is still high, 17-18% so I look not fat but skinny fat, all of the weight is around my belly chest, my arms for example are now so thin the veins are showing, same with legs, but as I say the belly and chest / man boobs make me still look fat.

I work out 5 days per week with heavy weights doing compound lifts, google this issue seems to say lift weights but I am already doing that and have been for 7 months now.

How do I cure this? I cold loss more weight but I will look even worse.

usmcmp

Your choices are:

Keep lifting and lose more weight, then consider bulking.
Keep lifting and maintain weight, which is known as recomposition.

Either option is going to take time. More than 7 months. Probably a couple of years. It takes time to build muscle and it takes time to lose the fat. It's just a slow process.

kshama2001

dave_in_ni wrote: »

I lost 50lbs however I haven't really benefited as my body fat percentage is still high, 17-18% so I look not fat but skinny fat, all of the weight is around my belly chest, my arms for example are now so thin the veins are showing, same with legs, but as I say the belly and chest / man boobs make me still look fat.

I work out 5 days per week with heavy weights doing compound lifts, google this issue seems to say lift weights but I am already doing that and have been for 7 months now.

How do I cure this? I cold loss more weight but I will look even worse.

What does "heavy weights" mean to you? (I'm not looking for a number, but number of reps in your last set in an exercise and effort level to achieve this.

Have you been using progressively heavier weights over the last 7 months?

dave_in_ni

kshama2001 wrote: »

dave_in_ni wrote: »

I lost 50lbs however I haven't really benefited as my body fat percentage is still high, 17-18% so I look not fat but skinny fat, all of the weight is around my belly chest, my arms for example are now so thin the veins are showing, same with legs, but as I say the belly and chest / man boobs make me still look fat.

I work out 5 days per week with heavy weights doing compound lifts, google this issue seems to say lift weights but I am already doing that and have been for 7 months now.

How do I cure this? I cold loss more weight but I will look even worse.

What does "heavy weights" mean to you? (I'm not looking for a number, but number of reps in your last set in an exercise and effort level to achieve this.

Have you been using progressively heavier weights over the last 7 months?

Heavy to me, 4-6 rep range x 3 sets, by the 6th rep its a struggle basically. The way I work it is once can hit 6 reps I put on another 1.25kg each side of the barbell. But the problem is I've been stuck on my chest and arms now for 2-3 months, legs etc are still going up with squats, deadlifts etc but bench press and shoulder press have stalled.