DDHFree wrote: »

Canadianlbs, you are so awesome with your responses. So detailed and helpful. But I must admit that you tend to remind me of my newbie status. LOL! In other words, I still have a lot of strength training lingo to learn. But keep it coming.

Isca_1, yeah for the no pain in knee!

Iwayes, great job on the consistency! I can tell you are committed to these 16 weeks. Keep going!

Dcresider, are you saying that you have not lost a single pound since starting the the first 16 week thread? I ask because I just want to try to help you see the victories that you might be overlooking. If you haven't lost any fat, then I my next question is can you honestly say that you have been tracking and eating in a deficit consistently (as in for an entire month)? I am talking overall deficit for an entire month not necessarily deficit every single day for an entire month. I'm being careful not to just say the RA RA RA feel good responses because I want to help. Did you see that video where the woman is convinced that she's eating at a deficit but turns out she was not? The best thing I can come up with so that you can get to the root cause is INSIST that you do 1 month perfect food tracking making sure to eat at a deficit. If there is truly no loss then we need to go from there. But I am still guessing that you are not eating at a deficit when you look at a months worth of data. Can you try this Dcresider? Or would you say that you know for sure that you have in the past (excluding this past weekend) and still no loss?

On the other hand, of course you don't want to be hungry. That's no fun. And you shouldn't have to be. But I suspect this is due to IF. That can be a little tricky--if it's something you really want to do then maybe try to slowly increase you time without food. Maybe 30 minutes a day until you get to a point where you can skip breakfast.

My personal situation. I accidentally posted my weight in today's post because it's a copy/paste from my strength training app. But what I want you know is that before I saw that 125.4 lbs, I had been hovering around 127.2 and at one point back up to 129 for a few days. I won't lie as I was little concern when I saw 129 as I thought I was past having to see that number. But I still reminded myself that I had not eaten in excess 3,500 calories to gain a pound, let alone 7,000 in excess for 2 pounds. Heck, I hadn't even eaten in 1,750 for a half pound. Having said that, don't get me wrong as I do eat over my 1,200 + workout calories some days but I just take my time and make up for them throughout the week. I could just keep going and never mind the extra but this is just my chosen way to deal with at this time. Where the heck am I going with this, just like the link that Canadianlbs included, I just woke up this weekend and SWOOSH down to 125.4. I first went from 129 to 127 earlier in the week then a new low of 125.4. It has happened this way for me most of the time through out this journey. I don't really know if there is a swoosh or my body has regulated itself after the period and ovulation cycle. I think the lateral. But I've learned to trust it because it has been happening this way for nearly 20 weeks now. Again, what the heck am I trying to say, I am trying to convey that ONLY you can do the trial and error to REALLY know your number for being in a deficit. Then all you need is patience and to be consistent. Dresider, you don't want to be hungry so even a small 15% deficit is okay as long as you are getting some results slowly but surely. Now others will probably say don't focus on the scale and they probably know better than me BUT, I know I have not put on 10 to 15 lbs of muscles in 20 weeks. So if I haven't then I do expect to see some type of loss on the scale. But again, perhaps others know best but I know from your posts that you want to see fat loss in addition to retaining muscles.

Hope something in all of this helps Dcresider as I want you to get the results you want. I feel like mine are super duper slow but I am okay with it. So I know you are too but you just want to see something. I get it. But I bet your hubby is right. Look at your pictures! In it for the long haul!!! Stay the course!

DDHFree wrote: »

Canadianlbs, you are so awesome with your responses. So detailed and helpful. But I must admit that you tend to remind me of my newbie status.