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So I enlisted the help of an online trainer who has me on a 1900 calorie diet. I told him that my work involves long hours and a lot of walking and he say lets start there and we will see. Well I hadnt checked my weight in 2 weeks and today i stepped on the scale at the gym and I was 150 lbs (20 lbs lighter).

So i lost about 20 lbs in 2 weeks according to the scale. I dont mind being at 150 but the thing is i still looked like SHIT in the mirror. SO i was like WTF, I am doomed with a shitty body for the rest of my life if i look like that at 150. I tried to focus on my leg workout but just couldnt. I felt weak and tired. So i ran out the gym, stopped by walgreens and picked up a scale to weigh

Just got home. PHEWW still at 170 lbs (gym scale wAS OFF). My eventual goal is to be at 140-150 but I want it to be all muscle. Kinda like a track athlete look really skinny but really lean and muscular.
 
I hate to be the bad guy or non-believer but 10 pounds a week is pretty strange, bro. Make sure that the scale that has you at a 20 pound weight loss is well calibrated. Back in 1994, I used to train at a Gold's Gym in Metairie, LA. and I started a diet from Super Strength System (that pretty much tells on my age, I'm sure) that was equivalent to Met-Rx, which had become famous then. In a matter of a month, the Gold's Gym scale had me at a 40 pound weight loss. I was confused as hell, since I didn't exactly follow a strict eating habit but worked out hard. I asked the guy at the counter when was the scale calibrated and he claimed that it was recently set properly. A week later, guess what, I weighed in with NO weight loss and the 40 pounds managed to find me again. I WAS PISSED! I told the guy at the counter that he should be more informed on what goes on with the gym equipment.

On a positive note, however, if you train and exercise to the point that your metabolism have increased, then a 10 pound weight loss is very much possible. Trust me, I know. Over a 5 year period, I lost 125 pounds and seem to maintain my weight between 255 to 263. Last Monday, however, I went to my powerlifting training session and, as always, I weighed myself before I started training. I was shocked to see that I weighed 270 pounds. It worried me for a while and guessed that it was caused from milk (though fat/lactose free) that I had drank earlier. On that following Wednesday, I went to my powerlifting training, hopped on the scale, and was down to 263. Go figure!
 
No bro you didnt read it or maybe i didnt get my point across.

The scale said i lost 10 lbs per week in two weeks. Which is too much. I was freaking out cause i want to lose weight but at a decent rate where I can preserve muscle, and losing 20 lbs in two weeks was not conducive to that.

So i ran to walgreens and lo and behold the gym scale was wrong phew...
 
The scale is a nasty little tool we use......It doesnt play fair.
I dont know what your body comp is currently or your stats but im 5'8" and IF I weighed 150lbs I would look like a starving eitheopion and not healthy at all .
I use the mirror more often than the scale to see whats going on with me , although i dont try to lose weight and a weight loss in my eyes is a terrible thing I am constantly growing so I welcome the gains.
Good luck with your goals and you will hit them for sure with persistance and determination.
 
I weigh myself the same time of day once a week with the same scale. Things I do: Weigh all food out and keep protein high to minimize muscle loss. The idea is you will pull less protein from lean compartments if your digestive tract always has some protein in it. You don't want to be buckfiddy and lost a ton of muscle. That be just skinny fat. If you use them a little AAS in the mix will help hold the muscle... even something light like 30 mg of anavar with a TRT dose of test. Or just do it natty and keep banging on the deads, squats and bench to keep androgens as high as possible. that's what I'm doing right now and put on 4 lbs in the last 3 weeks just getting back into the big three while running a deficit 5 days a week. It will level out and start dropping weight in time. Don't get to hooked on the scale. Morning look about 1 hour after waking is the most informative in my opinion.
 
liftsiron said:
The mirror is much better than the scale imo.
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Actually liftsiron, that's not quite true. Something that I've learned over the decades of strength training is that we all see what we want to see in the mirror. Sure, there may be a pouch in the mid-section but the pecs are bombing. LOL

I've always said that in order to see your true self, look from the eyes of others. That is, have someone take a picture of you and see what is really seen about you.

No bro you didnt read it or maybe i didnt get my point across.
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No bro, I read it right but maybe I replied wrong. But I think we're on the same page. My point made is that we can't always trust the scales at the gym. Fortunately for me, the scale at my lifting training gym is more realiable than the Gold's Gym scale where I work out.
 
The mirror is the best imo, unless you have a skewed self image. I agree though many people do.
 
Pictures are definately the way to go for the real picture. Although I do like looking in the mirror.
Bananas bro, 170 is very light. I wold not be worried about getting lean right now and just start bulking up then cut.
But that's just my mind set. Maybe you're like a male model type dude or something.
I'm too ugly and old to be anything other than what I am, Superman's Daddy!
 
bufbiker said:
Pictures are definately the way to go for the real picture. Although I do like looking in the mirror.
Bananas bro, 170 is very light. I wold not be worried about getting lean right now and just start bulking up then cut.
But that's just my mind set. Maybe you're like a male model type dude or something.
I'm too ugly and old to be anything other than what I am, Superman's Daddy!
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LMAOOOOOO. yeh man i am all about health and over the period i want to achieve other goals in life and just keep a nice fit lean body. not have to worry bout shoving the calories in, or cycling etc. etc. I was orignally 125 lbs at 5'8 so if i end up at 145-150 with almost no bf I think it would look allright. A tad bit bigger than those abercrombie dudes but prolly not head turning with a shirt on.
 
It really simply boils down to if your happy with the way you look .
It doesnt matter what others think if your happy with yourself . I myself am Never Happy with my apperance never ever satisifed ,doesnt matter how many veins I have in my traps or chest or biceps even , ITS never enough for me . I look in the mirror and see a scrawney little puke turd but others go out of there way to walk around me rather than towards me to avoid any contact . People make comments all the time at work or in the gym about how big I am getting or the size of my chest or arms but I still dont see it . So I tell you this ,,,,Get to where you are happy and comfortable with yourself and go with it ,.Good luck bruther on your goals .
 
keep your protein intake the same and play with your complex carbs to adjust you body lean musle mass. Adjust your cardio approriately too, that will get you where you want to be brotha.
 
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