Six month stall: broken!

[ouroborous 519]

Well, I finally broke my six month stall around 225-230. I'm down to 222 as of today, and consistently losing about .5% body fat per week.

The trick? Nothing really, aside from exercise. Around the beginning of June, I started going to the gym really seriously again, and for the past few weeks I've been walking about 2.5 miles per day (plus ramping up to a little running). It's paying off; along with losing a great deal of fat, I'm getting sort of buff!

Anyway, looking at my body weight chart (if you click on my weight ticker you can see it) you'll see that right around the end of June, my weight curve starts dipping again. Now that I'm taking accurate body fat/skeletal muscle readings with the gym's body composition monitor, I can see that my body fat is decreasing and my skeletal muscle % is increasing about .2% per week. This is exactly the direction you want.

IF I can keep this up -- continuing to lose .5% body fat per week -- I should be able to get to my "dream goal" of under 20% body fat by around December. That will put me squarely in the "healthy" range for both body fat and BMI, with a weight around 205-210. And by that time my muscle should be up 2-3%, which works out to around 5-10 pounds of solid muscle packed on (so actually my weight might not drop to 205 if I keep packing on the muscle; I might end up at 210, just buff as heck and relatively cut), which is damned good for a 41 year old man who was 330 lbs just over a year ago!

Now I just need to figure out how to start changing up my gym routine to keep it interesting and challenging!

[Indymom 132]

That's so awesome! Well done, I bet you are feeling very confident. Good luck keeping the workouts exciting, I'm definitely worried about falling into a rut. I can't wait for my doc to release me for full exercise next week so I can decide what I want to do first!!

[To Be Thin 2011 80]

Wow,,, good for you!!!! You are showng great dedication to your work out/gym routine, that is awesome!!!

Congrats and good luck to you for your December goal!

[LilMissDiva Irene 3,282]

Well, I finally broke my six month stall around 225-230. I'm down to 222 as of today, and consistently losing about .5% body fat per week.

The trick? Nothing really, aside from exercise. Around the beginning of June, I started going to the gym really seriously again, and for the past few weeks I've been walking about 2.5 miles per day (plus ramping up to a little running). It's paying off; along with losing a great deal of fat, I'm getting sort of buff!

Anyway, looking at my body weight chart (if you click on my weight ticker you can see it) you'll see that right around the end of June, my weight curve starts dipping again. Now that I'm taking accurate body fat/skeletal muscle readings with the gym's body composition monitor, I can see that my body fat is decreasing and my skeletal muscle % is increasing about .2% per week. This is exactly the direction you want.

IF I can keep this up -- continuing to lose .5% body fat per week -- I should be able to get to my "dream goal" of under 20% body fat by around December. That will put me squarely in the "healthy" range for both body fat and BMI, with a weight around 205-210. And by that time my muscle should be up 2-3%, which works out to around 5-10 pounds of solid muscle packed on (so actually my weight might not drop to 205 if I keep packing on the muscle; I might end up at 210, just buff as heck and relatively cut), which is damned good for a 41 year old man who was 330 lbs just over a year ago!

Now I just need to figure out how to start changing up my gym routine to keep it interesting and challenging!

Fantastic!!!! :clap2: I love working toward a lower body fat % rather than solely going by the BMI scales. I'm working to get mine below 30%, which will be pretty much in line with your goal, being that women should have about 10% more body fat than men.

Right now I can't workout but I have bought some devices that will help me to keep measure on my body fat %... and last time I checked I'd gotten to around 32%. Not bad. It's strange too that when you're building muscle and losing fat, the scale definitely isn't a good measure on how well you're doing. From the looks of it, I'll be either just above the BMI for normal or just below, which is perfect A-OK with me.

Cheers and good luck to you!! Though, I know you do not need luck... you got the will and that's what's really needed here. Get CUT!!!