Had to LOL re: pix!!! Your progress is awesome .....and pix prove it!!!

I didn't realize that our stats were so similar--except weight...our measurements are almost identical! You're an inch shorter than me--yet I weigh +27 lbs!!!

Your back and shoulders are looking amazing!!!

I think you are looking great. Look at the bf and lvm changes! Wow! I hear you about the weight change--it is just hard to ignore that. But you are looking trimmer and tighter. I am sure that your lower body is following suit, it is just easiest to detest your personal problem areas

I am envious of your hip and thigh measurements--they look great to me!

Great results for great ability to stick to it.

I'll bet your forearms are going up because they are the weak link in the exercises. But as they get stronger, they should allow the target muscles to get worked more, for the pulling stuff anyway.

Have you pulling lifts increased decently?

Thanks guys. As for my pulling lifts...if I understand correctly what you mean, my deadlift has increased quite a bit. I'm also doing inverted rows right now as well. The only thing I haven't really progressed on is my overhead press...my shoulders seem to be my weak link. lol

There ya go, pulling lifts require grip, which must increase for that heavy weight. Great work.

OHP is always hard, smallish muscle.

What a day I've had. As of today, I need a break. Mentally, I just need a break. So, I know it isn't quite Sunday yet, but starting tomorrow I'm going to just eat. I'm going to increase my fat again (yay bulletproof coffee is back on the menu!) and not try to focus on "getting the right amount of carbs" in the day. Which, coming from an extremely low carb background was kind of needed. I will make sure to focus on getting some carb dense foods each day, but I'm not going to focus on a certain gram. I'm going to make damn sure that I keep up my calories. I do not want to fall into old habits.

I went to the chiropractor today because my jaw was knocked out of alignment. Well....I didn't expect to hear what I did today. I have never "officially" been to the chiro. I had a friend in FL who did it, but I never had to have x-rays or anything. She worked out of her house and was cheap and awesome. Today I had to have x-rays and the first words out of his mouth were "have you ever been in an accident?" I was. When I was 19. I never went to the doctor or anything because I was fine, or so I thought. According to him I have the beginnings of degenerative disk disease, a bone spur, and because my neck is SO out of alignment I'm starting to build up calcification where the bone is trying to grow out to where it's supposed to be. Funny because I have never really had any issues with my neck. Thankfully it's all fixable, so for the next month I'm going to be at the chiro for 3 times a week, then once a week for a while, then down to once a month. I'm glad to find this out now before it causes any serious issues. That would SUCK!

I guess because of this news, and the fact that I wasn't able to get in my workout today and probably won't tomorrow I'm just in a funk. I have two more workouts until I finish Beautiful Badass and I NEED TO GET IT DONE! lol I have been very faithful and missed a total of 2 workouts until today. Just gotta get 'er done.

I like chiro's too and use them, when things aren't moving as they should.
Had a couple very honest chiro's who described and confirmed my thinking that except for a few structures, things don't go "out". They should move, in and out.
Muscle gets tight, stuff gets locked out. Nerves not usually in long term contact with new placement make the muscles make it worse.

I'm curious how adjustments will take care of bone spur, and calcification for that matter, or did he get in to that.
My great distrust of most of them came after years of various chiros doing the standard hold legs up, program one is longer, and say the hip is out. I always wondered how me getting off the table didn't put everything right back where it was, and it did many times - we'd both hear the pops, and they'd lay me right back down again, eventually giving up.
But a physical therapist for my ankle doing normal assessment, just off-handed remarked, you've got unequal legs.
Huh? Chiros always said one was short and moved my hips around.
She said no, it's below your knee difference, one bone appears to be curved more than the other.
I research unequal leg length to death, and chiros never discovered that, or at least never said why, always adjusting the hips, when it was literally the part they were holding up to compare.
And low and behold from the research, that caused hip problems, exactly opposite to what they tried to "pop back in" each time, and all the way up to upper back.
Lifts in all the shoes and I'm good, couple remaining muscle imbalances that resulted from always being that way, but other than that, good to go.

I only get in to that to say - be skeptical. I had one chiro do the standard (very standard) 3 x weekly for months routine.
Had me doing physical things on both side equally, never even addressed the muscle imbalances that will pull their adjustments right back out. Or rather, keep things from moving as they should anyway.

Just encourage you to do some extra research on your own. I've got a couple of honest chiro's, and I always fear they'll go out of business because from many friends that use them, they rarely do more than a weeks visits to calm something down.

Ask if there's any results based guarantee, like let you see the xray before and after, and if still spurs and disc issues, half your money back. I read that somewhere years ago to tell the difference between chiro's.

I'm not a fan of LIFE chiropractics. I do, however, LOVE my chiropractor. He not only uses kinesiology (Not just x-ray) to test me for specific issues, but gives me specific exercises to strengthen the muscles around an affected area. And he only wants to see me when I feel like I need to--unless of course there is an injury that requires more follow up.

I too would be skeptical of of anyone who has a 3x/week plan unless you have an injury like whiplash....it makes me angry that there are practitioners out there that know you don't have insurance--and still prescribe this very common over-treatment!

I'm not a fan of LIFE chiropractics. I do, however, LOVE my chiropractor. He not only uses kinesiology (Not just x-ray) to test me for specific issues, but gives me specific exercises to strengthen the muscles around an affected area. And he only wants to see me when I feel like I need to--unless of course there is an injury that requires more follow up.

I too would be skeptical of of anyone who has a 3x/week plan unless you have an injury like whiplash....it makes me angry that there are practitioners out there that know you don't have insurance--and still prescribe this very common over-treatment!

I definitely agree with the point here about over-treatment....