Lynette's log for 4-week intensive course

[The Shadow]

Okay here's my stats today, I weighed in first thing this morning with no clothes on at 135.4lbs, 11 days ago I was 140.0lbs. My body fat 11 days ago was 27.50, today it was 25.77. I've been training like an animal and eating as clean can be except of course for my cheat meal once a week. Does that sound like too little a loss? My trainer told me that my lean body mass stayed the same, he said that was good as I didn't lose any muscle, just lost fat. This program I'm doing he told me is not to build muscle, just to burn off body fat.

your trainer is wrong......


Scale weight went DOWN 5.6 pounds.......

youf FAT WEIGHT should have gone DOWN 5.6 pounds if there was no loss of LBM....


but you fat weight dropped less than 2 pounds....


YOUR LEAN MASS WENT FROM 112.5 to 109.6


YOU LOST 3 POUNDS OF LBM....



some of that "could" be water weight...but I dont think so...

 

[Lynette]

I'm drinking approx. 10 to 12 cups of water a day.

Do you think I should have lost more then in the time frame? I'm doing everything the trainer is telling me to do diet wise and cardio wise.

 

[The Shadow]

I'm drinking approx. 10 to 12 cups of water a day.

Do you think I should have lost more then in the time frame? I'm doing everything the trainer is telling me to do diet wise and cardio wise.

I dint think you are getting what Im saying...you have , lost more muscle than fat...twice as much

 

[Sassy69]

The guy is telling you that you are only supposed to lose bodyfat on this diet, but instead you have actually lost more MUSCLE than bodyfat.

 

[The Shadow]

yeah - exactly...so that leaves two, and ONLY two scenarios:

1 - The trainer..well...lied to you


or

2 - HE doesnt know how to do basic addition and subtraction...




...my advice.....confront him about the numbers.

 

[Lynette]

Thanks guys, I'll be asking him about this next time I see him.

 

[Sassy69]

He's giving you the "naive sell" -- he's giving you the simple answers because that's what most clients can deal with. I think you have just presented him w/ a challenge to his canned diet & answers. Definitely question him on what exactly is supposed to happen and what the numbers say.

 

[*Bunny*]

Thanks guys, I'll be asking him about this next time I see him.

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