One reason you may not be losing the body fat

[Tatyana]

I'm sorry Tat have to ask - are they real breasts?

Didn't realize that a women could keep her breasts and be muscular (sprinters normally have very small breasts. The only muscular women I could think of with breasts was tennis star Serena Williams (even in her younger days at lower b.f., she had large breasts. She's slimmed down again for Australian open this year too and has still kept the breasts, and has very impressive arms/shoulders).

Don't mean to be offensive - ignore the question if you find it offensive - just asking cause I was going to show your photo to some female friends of mine as proof that weights doesn't does destroy a girls "femininity" if they are real.

Is it only breasts that make a woman feminine?

Women can lose their breast tissue in a number of ways Simm, and not all women lose breast tissue because they are athletes.

Usually when female athletes go from the lower body fat percentages to more of a normal range for women, their breasts grow back.

-having children and/or breast feeding can have women lose a significant amount of breast tissue

-gaining and losing weight often has a lot of breast tissue disappear

-aging, especially if a woman does not get 'fatter' will have a woman lose breast tissue (through a natural process due to reduced hormones and apoptosis)

-not having children will have women lose breast tissue (sort of damned if you do and damned if you don't)

I must admit, the mis-information about women and weight training does drive me a bit bonkers.

A woman can have quite a bit of muscle, but if her bodyfat percentage is higher (for athletes, normal for most women), she is not going to look masculine at all.

I find it quite funny that since I have taken up bodybuilding and competing, I get far more compliments on my figure than when I was running quite a bit and doing a bit of weights.

Muscle gives shape to the body.

Fat has no shape, well except lumpy.

People do have a hard time getting the whole thing about on and off season, and most photos of FBBers are in comp condition, which lasts about three - seven days max.

All I know is that I hear so many men and women say EwwwwwwwwwwwwwH, muscle on women, until they see it in real life

 

[Synpax]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY

Check this out, it is a great bit of advice.......................

Who doesn't use a scale?

Example: I use carbopro Maltodextrin.

The package said 1/2 cup per serving is 190 calories. That looked like a lot in the measuring cup. I noticed next to the 1/2 cup label it also said 50g.

Right then I should have recognized that 50g was not 1/2 cup and that 50g was correct (sugar has 4 calories per gram).

 

[Sim882]

Sorry tat, I didn't of course mean no breasts = unfeminie shape, I was merely asking because of a common fear of women that if they do weights they will lose their breasts.

Of course, as I guy, this is not something I knew anything about, so was just curious.

Hope no offence caused

 

[Tatyana]

I am bumping this thread as I just started tracking all my food again, weighing it and using the handly little database I have created for all the foods I eat on a regular basis.

It has made all the difference, I had been on a plateau for AGES, and the reason:

I am meant to be eating 1800 kcals/day on my comp diet, and I was probably eating 2200-2500 kcals.

It really does seem like a tedious chore, but it is the one thing that will transform your diet.

If you do it enough, you do start to get a much better sense of what quantities contain how many calories/protein etc.

 

[1999TL]

As always Tatyana, great post.

 

[Sim882]

I'm imaging not many women could cut on 2500 cals!

In comp mode, do you weigh green veggies, or only more calorific food.

 

[Tatyana]

I'm imaging not many women could cut on 2500 cals!

In comp mode, do you weigh green veggies, or only more calorific food.

I weigh EVERYTHING.

There are some foods I am better at estimating now as I have weighed them so many times and for such a long time.

I will never forget the first time I did this food diary and macronutrient counting ages ago.

I thought I had a healthy diet, and it was 40% fat. And I wasn't doing a low carb diet either.

I really learn so much about dieting every time I do this.

 

[Tatyana]

Another common pitfall, believing the cardio machine when it says you have burned 500 kcals in 45 minutes.

They are wildly inaccurate unless you are are using a heart rate monitor that communicates with the machine.

Today, the X-trainer said I had burned 550 kcals.

My heart rate monitor (which is programmed for me) read 220 kcals.

I think some people go out and reward themselves after doing cardio, and think they can afford the calories.

Most of the time, they can't.

 

[beefybull]

Good thread

 

[jaybois]

Another common pitfall, believing the cardio machine when it says you have burned 500 kcals in 45 minutes.

They are wildly inaccurate unless you are are using a heart rate monitor that communicates with the machine.

Today, the X-trainer said I had burned 550 kcals.

My heart rate monitor (which is programmed for me) read 220 kcals.

I think some people go out and reward themselves after doing cardio, and think they can afford the calories.

Most of the time, they can't.

That would be me.