Dragonmona is hitting a wall!!!

[CrystalChick]

Not to but in on your thread but I know how she feels and it sucks

CC

 

[MS]

I agree (as an older woman) that losing estrogenic fat gets easier rather than harder for women as they age. The biggest reason why you can drop fat easily for a show is the same reason that she could drop fat easily in her first 6 months or so........because you haven't dieted too hard for too long. So like some of the others have mentioned, she really REALLY needs to take a break from dieting and eat slightly above maintenance calories for a while, otherwise she'll end up as a 'skinny-fat' person stuck in dieting limbo for life. 3-4 months is as long as anyone should diet without a break if they don't want to end up with a permanently screwed metabolism!

 

[Inkman69]

MS you make perfect sense in your anology of the problem. Now I just have to talk Dragonmona into eating more for a while LOL. Don't think that is going to be easy cause it will not be. She has the mindset now that she has to eat below BMR to lose fat. Wish me luck :>)

 

[Dingo12]

She needs more protein (up to 2g per lb) and less carbs plus 30-50g fat per day.

At the moment she has reached a plateau and is still at low pro/medcarb/lowfat/ Changing to high pro/lowcarb/medfat will make the difference as will changing her split to 4 or 5 days lifting and 3 days cardio.

Make sure she is lifting heavy and is still using compound exercises as the basis to her workouts. Here is an example of what her leg day should look like:

12,10,8,6 - free barbell squat
12,10,8,6 - hack squat
12,10,8 - leg press
12,10,8 - leg extension
12,10,8,6 - standing calf press

I always do hams with back.

This will ensure she is increasing muscle/firmness/metabolism and losing fat as long as she eats clean.

Any more cardio will mean loss of muscle/firmness/metabolic rate.So she needs to train heavy, ignore abosolute weight and concentrate on bf% - as it lowers you get thinner.

 

[dragonmona]

Hello Everyone,

I have taken notes on all of the advice you have posted. I am very serious about where I want to be and greatly appreciate all of your input!! What makes it even better is that most of you have the same advice....eat more.

I will keep you posted on the results....as of today I am still holding at 129

dm