Weigh in.

[tyggerjai]

So I'm 103.4 kilos now.
Which is, give or take, 4 kilos in 8 weeks, or a pound a week.
This is not bad. People reckon 2lb a week is doable and just about healthy, but it would mean dieting. Which is not going to happen :) Because it's about sustainable changes, and since I no longer ache every day after the gym, I figure the gym is sustainable in a way that dieting will never be. Though I'm eating more fruit.

So I'm pretty happy, especially since I tell myself that the weight is now muscle, rather than fat :) If that's true, though, I've made the early gains in muscle, and should start to drop more weight now because I'll be gaining muscle mass more slowly, I think.
But anyway, it's all about the centimetres - I must get Ambrose to measure the waistline next time. I can feel the jeans getting looser - time to see just how much. After all, a certain Perth resident may owe me a steak soon...

sol.
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Comments

[mr-e-cat.livejournal.com]

well done that man
we are now about the same weight
although I have been putting weight on taking it off putting it on taking it off for bloody ages it seems
I'm about the same size around the waist though.

Stating the obvious.

[spark-au.livejournal.com]

If you're converting fat to muscle, weight is a bad indicator to go by, as opposed to measuring your waistline. It's been a loooong time since I was doing weight training on a regular basis, but if memory serves, I believe that the fat content will disappear significantly over a period of 4-6 months, while "buff muscle" will take a fair while longer to develop. Given the schedules you've posting, etc.

Of course, it's also partially dependant on whether you're going for fast twitch or slow twitch fibres, and your current muscle content of said fibres.

Re: Stating the obvious.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely.
But early muscle gain can be significant - beginners get a couple of months of, effectively, "free" fat->muscle conversion [0]. Then the muscles stabilise a little and are harder to bulk up. The upside of non-linear things like muscle gain is that the early gains can be quite significant. After the first couple of months, though, yeah, it takes a long time from there.

But yes - especially since I'm not overly concerned about the weight anyway, I must get Ambrose to actually measure my gut.

sol.
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[0] pedants are going to point out that fat and muscle are not, in fact, interchangable, and that the loss of fat and gain of muscle are not in fact related, and are certainly not a "conversion". Which is absolutely right, but I mean conversion in the sense that going to a swap meet results in a conversion of money to hardware - there's no direct physical transmutation, but that doesn't mean they're not related.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

A pound a week is still pretty good; the advice in UK is that you should aim to loose between one and two pounds a week as a sustained weight loss to keep the weight you loose off. Its something I've managed to do; started off at 92kg and I'm now down to between 74 and 75kg. Most of the weight was lost by me changing what I ate rather than going to a gym tho; that said, my body shape has changed since I've been going to the gym.

See this journal entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/simonb/303638.html) for details.