The Scale Has Is Not Budging...

[*Bunny*]

I just want to say.. I love you guys!!!

I will keep you guys posted!!! By the way I tried posting pics this weekend but I had some technical difficulties.. ( i am not a platinum member, might that be a problem).. let me see if I can come up with some other way, perhaps through my avatar???

Bye all!!!

ischia

PM me if you'd like me to post them for you

Good Luck & get the BF done

 

[Sassy69]

The carb manipulation / water depletion are primarily to get the subQ water out, and its not as critical for figure as it is for BB. But at that point the "fat" should be gone and you are only looking at water weight.

The bodyfat is the only thing that is goign to tell you meaningful detail about fat vs muscle. But also note that weight is sort of a non-issue w/ figure comp because there are no weight classes - its all by height. And you will know how you LOOK by looking.

Again the weight is really irrelevant. Bodyfat gives you some guidance on how lean you are, but even sayign "I'm 12% bf so I am ready for stage" is not accurate because it will further depend on how you carry your weight. I've competed at / below 9% bf for BB and both times have needed to diet down at least 2 more weeks to lose some additional fat I carry in my thighs/ass. So at that point the important detail is how you LOOK. And often you can't gauge that until you've lost enough bodyfat to determine what is your underlying natural physique. So definitely at 7 weeks out if you are still dieting down from your non-competition / I've-never-competed physique, you need to have an established rate of bodyfat burning - but if your body composition is still changing, i.e you aren't coming from an already establsihed "good" figure physique but are doing this all for the first time, reshaping your body for correct presentation, losing bodyfat from "regular life" existence, then the make up of that weight number is goign to be constantly shifting between muscle / fat.

 

[Miss24k]

Just so you know, I only dropped like maybe 3 or 4 pounds from Sept to May. Then the last 2 weeks, it started dropping, the last 2 days I dropped 6 pounds (when I water depleted), 3 days after the comp I was up 8 pounds.

Judge by your bodyfat, how your clothes fit, how you look in a picture, are you seeing more and more muscle appear. "Your weight" isn't important as long as your bodyfat is going down, your clothes are starting to be too damn loose, and you're looking tight.

Hope this helps.

 

[ischia99]

Just so you know, I only dropped like maybe 3 or 4 pounds from Sept to May. Then the last 2 weeks, it started dropping, the last 2 days I dropped 6 pounds (when I water depleted), 3 days after the comp I was up 8 pounds.

Judge by your bodyfat, how your clothes fit, how you look in a picture, are you seeing more and more muscle appear. "Your weight" isn't important as long as your bodyfat is going down, your clothes are starting to be too damn loose, and you're looking tight.

Hope this helps.

Hey There Miss 24K, I just want to tell you that you look fabulous in that avatar

Thanks for the positive input!!

Ischia

 

[ischia99]

The carb manipulation / water depletion are primarily to get the subQ water out, and its not as critical for figure as it is for BB. But at that point the "fat" should be gone and you are only looking at water weight.

The bodyfat is the only thing that is goign to tell you meaningful detail about fat vs muscle. But also note that weight is sort of a non-issue w/ figure comp because there are no weight classes - its all by height. And you will know how you LOOK by looking.

Again the weight is really irrelevant. Bodyfat gives you some guidance on how lean you are, but even sayign "I'm 12% bf so I am ready for stage" is not accurate because it will further depend on how you carry your weight. I've competed at / below 9% bf for BB and both times have needed to diet down at least 2 more weeks to lose some additional fat I carry in my thighs/ass. So at that point the important detail is how you LOOK. And often you can't gauge that until you've lost enough bodyfat to determine what is your underlying natural physique. So definitely at 7 weeks out if you are still dieting down from your non-competition / I've-never-competed physique, you need to have an established rate of bodyfat burning - but if your body composition is still changing, i.e you aren't coming from an already establsihed "good" figure physique but are doing this all for the first time, reshaping your body for correct presentation, losing bodyfat from "regular life" existence, then the make up of that weight number is goign to be constantly shifting between muscle / fat.

Sassy,

I know your right!! The Bodyfat is very important!! Its funny how one can look leaner and tighter but the scale doesnt budge!! I guess its a mental thing, when you train so hard and do a shit load a cardio and count every single gram of protein, carbs & fat and dont see that scale budge it tends to get to your head!!... Plus as you can tell by my writing I am totally running on low carbs(In the middle of my carb cycle days)..lol.. I messed up on the title of this post.. lol..

I appreciate your insight and support

Ischia99

P.S. I want to thank all of you who have replied to my post, your feedback is very important to me!! Thanks again!!

Bunny: I will PM those pics to you by this weekend, if you can post em up when you have time, i would truly appreciate it, thank you for offering!!

 

[*Bunny*]

Bunny: I will PM those pics to you by this weekend, if you can post em up when you have time, i would truly appreciate it, thank you for offering!!

You're very welcome

 

[*Bunny*]

How is everything going?

Sassy,

I know your right!! The Bodyfat is very important!! Its funny how one can look leaner and tighter but the scale doesnt budge!! I guess its a mental thing, when you train so hard and do a shit load a cardio and count every single gram of protein, carbs & fat and dont see that scale budge it tends to get to your head!!... Plus as you can tell by my writing I am totally running on low carbs(In the middle of my carb cycle days)..lol.. I messed up on the title of this post.. lol..

I appreciate your insight and support

Ischia99

P.S. I want to thank all of you who have replied to my post, your feedback is very important to me!! Thanks again!!

Bunny: I will PM those pics to you by this weekend, if you can post em up when you have time, i would truly appreciate it, thank you for offering!!