What???? WHAT?????
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Originally Posted by HarleyNana but the darn gaining muscle keeps happening. I figured out where that muscle was going, it's growing upside down under my arms, ERRRR. |
WOOOOOTTT!!!!! (That's a big HUZZAH!)
Okay, not sure what the "growing upside down under my arms, ERRRR." means, other than you are getting stronger arms. And who doesn't want stronger arms???
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Originally Posted by HarleyNana but the darn gaining muscle keeps happening. |
This is
EXACTLY what you should be wanting!!!!! I don't know how to empasise this any more! You are one of my heros here at LBT. You have gained now what, 30 pounds of muscle mass??? If the
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Originally Posted by HarleyNana darn gaining muscle keeps happening |
then you have that much less fat to lose!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that you don't have 2 pounds (or more) of fat to lose!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that you are more efficient with your body!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that you are stronger now, and will be stronger longer as you age!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that you will need to eat more food to keep the same weight, since your metabolic rate will be increased!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that when you are 70, or 90, you will be less fall prone!
Gaining a pound of muscle means that your body looks better than if you lost 5 pounds of fat.
Since you know that you are still gaining muscle (Woot!) you must know your FFM, your fat free mass. This means that you know closer what your personal ideal goal weight should be, not some arbitrary number on a chart. It could mean that your goal weight needs to be adjusted to relect your new reality of a stronger, more compact body.
Please post or PM your FFM, or your body fat % if that is what you have.
If I put on even half of the muscles mass you have gained HarlyNana, I, personally, would only be about 20 pounds over weight, not the 50 pounds I currently need to lose. If I had put on all the muscle mass you have gained, I would be at goal, right now, at 240-ish pounds. My goal would be in the 220 to 240 pound range, since that would put me in the 25-35% body fat percentage, which is the healthy range for women my age.
