Why do you care about weight all of a sudden? You gain 5 pounds easily. Day in, day out. It's nothing special, and I wouldn't trust the doctor's scale.
The scale is a Detecto, it uses mass to weigh...no spring. It's accurate.
As far as muscle development, etc, I guess it really doesn't matter in your case. You gained 5 pounds, either way, so I guess you're just worried about the weight. But who would know? You didn't know until you stepped on the scale, so why suddenly does it matter so much when it didn't prior to that?[/QUOTE]
As usual, Dallen makes some great points. You are right, up until I stepped on that scale I was feeling pretty good about myself. <- someone is going to highlight that in bold and say "that's all that should matter".
Well, let me ask you this......if I came on the forum and announced that I'd LOST 5 pounds, I'd be getting "congrats, way to go, good job, etc"....so wouldn't it make equal sense that a GAIN of 5 pounds should result in the opposite???????? There ya go. And it's not that I care about what others think, it's simply the fact that we celebrate loss and what's that say about the opposite effect?
Would you, for example, train 22 +++ hours a week, and or go on some form of extreme diet to shred fat, or hire more time with a trainer, etc. etc. if you discovered that this is what it took to meet those goals you mentioned above ?
Come on now...I just worked for a quarter of a year and had a gain...can't a guy be a bit upset? Would I train more?..NO, I think I'm max'd out. At this point I think it's about the nutrition and if anything the training is causing more muscle and other changes that I'm not sure I want to develop further.
even if DEXA confirms you're at 11%, 12%, 13% - or whatever- it won't matter much...cause given your comments above, I suspect you still won't be happy.
The DEXA is just a way of measuring where I'm at....so 3 months from now, when I've probably not lost anything but seem thinner, we can again use DEXA to see the more accurate & real picture of what's happening. If we're to again say 'muscle gain'...now we can verify it. Nothing wrong with getting a better picture. Plus, this way Alan can assess just how accurate his calipers are. If DEXA is 4% higher, then he knows his means of measuring is 4% low.
But comparing yourself to others is your own doing. That ' comparison ' is only ' hard ' IMO because you think you need to keep comparing yourself to other people for some reason.
Comparison has been used as a measure since mankind walked, in fact they compared who walked better! Seriously, there's nothing wrong with using comparison to gather some form of self-evaluation. In this particular thread, my issue is just a LOT of hard work & food-deprivation resulting in a gain. You may be looking too deep on this one...?
You're of the opinion that if you're not getting the ' rate of results that others are, that somehow this is " unfair " that you are some sort of " victim " of a sick genetic prank God played on you when it comes to fat loss and exercise.
I hadn't thought about it like that....buy yeah, sounds good. I'll adopt that point of view!
When do we get to see the pics? I wanna see if you look like 12%.
Tmrw I workout with my trainer in the morning, perhaps I'll grab the camera and ask for some shots to be taken. I'll do some flexed and non-flexed. I ain't no 12%, my nutritionist insists I am and we'll let DEXA sort that out.
Ya know what guys....here's what I think:
#1 My knee injury took me off my bikking, spinning & racquetball...that cost me 4,800 calories of exercise per week. Yes, I tried to cut-back on calories and keep the swimming strong, but evidently I lost ground on account of my resting. Let's not forget, just cause I'm not in the gym working-out doesn't mean I'm sitting watching tv. With that injury, I was Down-diddley-down for weeks! I'm just a couple weeks back into my program now...so some gain during the down-time is easy to figure.
#2 I hit the upper-body weights a lot and I can feel an increase in strength. Well, that could account for some muscle gain...so there's that.
#3 I recently was playing around with this pasta-salad dish....it uses whole-wheat pasta and not too much of it, but it also has kidney beans, garbanzo beans, olive oil, olives, dried red-tomatos. When my wife eats this, she bloats-up. I'd been getting about 800 calories from this per day...so maybe I was bulked on this when I weighed-in.
#4 I usually see Alan after swimming for 2 hours. In the pool the wetness near the mouth and the surroundings of water deter from your body's ability to sense thirst. I'm often dehydrated when I see Alan for measuring. This time I just came to see him w/o swimming...so there's a few quarts of water that I'm carrying that I normally would not.
#5 The body-fat% calipers did not detect any gain in fat...so the 5 pounds hopefully wasn't fat
#6 Alan said I looked leaner then ever, my arms are more cut, my abs are showing a center vertical line now and my face looks thinner then ever: ALL the indications that would not be there if I'd gained fat.
So, crisis averted!
Plus, I'm working with Sara to develop a new diet and really put my nutrients under the microscope.
I'd like to thank RWS for his pm's suggesting a keto-based diet. GotFit for her emotional support and everyone else who has contributed to this thread.
