DBPacific
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One thing to keep in mind is that muscle weighs more than fat. So if you're trying to increase exercise, you might see your weight increase or reduce a lot slower than you'd like because you're increasing your muscle weight.
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That diet smells a bit fishy to me.
There are a few ways to do this.
Thanks everyone. I can see the logic behind skipping breakfast, but I'm afraid that fasting from 9pm until 2pm would make me gorge on the meal I cannot control (lunch). But it might work.
I don't eat chocolate and sweets on a daily basis. I do eat them now and then, though, or should I say ate now? Yes, I'll say ate.
I think that all the alcohol I've had in my life is that which comes in five small bottles of beer, and that only because when I was younger I felt sometimes I couldn't say no when invited to someone's house. It's probably twenty years since the last one! So, no, whatever has helped build my fat rolls, it's not alcohol.
Being the sort of person who's always been hopeless at sports, and unresponsive to any type of exercise I've ever done to try to improve my whatever (call it resistance, strength, flexibility, coordination, speed...), I suppose my muscles won't grow unless I do insane efforts to make them do so, and very little then. But just in case they played the trick on me, is there any way to know whether you've lost fat if your weight doesn't decrease too? Are trousers getting looser around the waist the only sign?
Good advice but as a 50 something female she is at little risk of significant muscle gain. In fact at this point it becomes almost a battle against muscle loss!There are a few ways to do this.
As a person without access to expensive equipment I know only of these two ways:
- some scales can measure body fats, you may have access to one in a pharmacy, or supermarket, you usually put your hands on handles and they’ll approximate your body fat. It may not be ideal with covid. They are also not so accurate. But accuracy does not matter too much, what you want to see is that the number is going down rather than caring of the absolute value.
- the second way used by hobbyist body builders is to use calipers, you need to pinch exactly the same locations and measure the fat there then you can approximate your body fat percentage, you can probably find webpages explaining how to do this.
IMHO, instead of measuring your body fat percentage you can just take pictures in a mirror in underwear and shorts every few weeks and just see if you can see some progress. You can also measure torso, waist and hips in addition to your weight.
When you start exercising, it is likely that your weight will be stable at first when you build muscle.
I would take it easy at first and gradually, it takes time to change your body, and if you didn’t exercise for a long time you don’t want to get injured by overdoing it.