Forging ahead to a new me !

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echobeach

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The last few years have been bad for me as my mother died and I became my Father's carer for the last year of his life. To cut the story short my weight ballooned, I was stressed and drinking too much. Then he died and I spent 6 months clearing up his estate and felt a wreck.

But 8 weeks ago I quit drinking alcohol and started an excercise regime and I feel great but I dont seem to be losing the body fat.

My diet has changed, no alcohol and I stopped eating bread because I loved toast and could eat a loaf of bread a day.

So I weight train 4 times a week and finish each session with 20 minutes hard cardio.

I also spend two days hiking up approximately 10 miles.

I suppose my average days diet would be close to

Breakfast:porridge, chopped pecans, raisons. Pint of water

Snack: Yoghurt, fruit , nuts

Lunch: a large green salad with tuna or 2 boiled Eggs or sliced chicken breast

Snack Piece of fruit, Apple, banana,

Dinner , Grilled chicken, steak, salmon or similar and loads of veggies



I'm 5,7 184 llb and about 29% body fat.

My ultimate aim is to put on some muscle but I need to lose around 20llb of fat first.

I'm enjoying the weight training and work to failure with heavy weights and am progressively adding to my workload BUT......

6 weeks in and no change in body fat...none at all. I dont care what the scales say but the trouser test ! I'd have hoped to have lost an inch.

Or is 6 weeks far too early to notice any change? Am I being far too impatient ?

Any comments/help appreciated

Phil
 
I'd say you should have seen some changes by now- maybe body fat wont change that much and is dependant on how you measure and if using manual equiptment, even depends on who is measuring you.
See, fat % machines assume you are perfectly hydrated. They send a current through you an monitor how long it takes to travel. You drink more, it moves slower. So you could well be properly or even overly hydrated in comparison to the first time you were measured and the values will be impossible to compare.

I'd also monitor your calorie intake- calories really do make a difference and weight and measure everything- you may think your having 30g of porridge but....
Seriously though, its easy to eat more then the portion you think you are so a very good idea to get specifics correct if your working out calories (lets face it, its pointless not doing this and getting incorrect measurements and amounts).

Exercise wise, you may have gained muscle, don't forget to consider this- it can also mess with fat% rates as muscles require more water.

Cardio works best for weight loss and keeping yourself on a varied exercise programme is very important as its very easy to get used to if you do the same thing repeatidly so keep chopping nad chaing what you do, not just the machine but also the method: high intensity, speed, interval training, HIIT, Pyramid training, Ladder training, Falkirk (think thats how its spelt!!)...etc etc there are many variations out there.
 
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