In the last 6 months I've gained 20 lbs

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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In the last 6 months I’ve gained 20 lbs and people are asking me how I lost so much weight, how fit I and strong I look.

When I weighed 180 pounds, I was overweight and a little chubby. I started going to the gym and lifting serious heavy weights and running 2-3 times outside in the cold/rain/heat.

Now at 200 pounds, I am in the best shape of my life and when I walk in down the street in NYC, girls actually take the time to glance at me :slight_smile:

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Re: In the last 6 months I've gained 20 lbs

which street in Nyc :p Hum confirm karte hain :p

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dude, I am bored of it. Girls stare all the time Its a normal thing :snooty:
If they don’t then, that makes me think.

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in the last 6 months u 'gained' 20lbs and people are askin how u lose so much weight?

at 180lb u were overweight but at 200lbs ure in the best shape of ur life? hmmm...

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Re: In the last 6 months I've gained 20 lbs

^ Probably because even though he is 20 lbs heavier, he looks fitter and slimmer due to exercising and hence the perception of having lost weight :)

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I think hes right, when you first start working out, you shed fat and build muscle, and muscle being denser makes the scale go up, even though you look toned.

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muscle is heavier than fat, fat takes up more volume.

if you look at 2 guys both weighing 200 lbs but one has 14% fat and one has 4% fat, they would look much much much different.

that is the point where BMI fails it looks simply at height to weight ratio and does not factor in body composition.

but that is the type of stuff that gets many girls in trouble, they diet t lose weight, and starve where they lose fat and muscle both, or the focus is too much n aerobics whhere you are losing muscle and fat both. the issue then becomes that muscle uses more energy too, and if you have less muscle you are burning less calrories and thus the body has more calories available to store as fat.

weight training is critical, and in his case he replaced fat with muscle, not only would it look more proportional..there is no muscle tond u know, plus because muscle takes up less volume than fat anyways..he would further look trimmer than he was.

simple

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so what besides BMI and the scale - what are other things we gals should be looking at?

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Body fat percentage. A lot of gym's have that, and you can also buy it. They probably measured it when you were in high school.

With all the drawbacks BMI and the scale has-- for normal people it is good predictor of where you stand, so don't cross it off completely.

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There are scales that can tell u your approximate body fat percentage. They are not as accurate as someone dunking u in water and then measuring it but for general purposes they are good enough.

and gulab jamun is right, for most ppl BMI is just fine, it has issues for ppl who are really muscular. may be some others it has an impact on.

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AOA
I lost 7kg in 10 weeks and that includes 3 weeks that i did not control the diet
so in reallity i lost 1kg per week
if u want to know how i did it i have uploaded all the detail on my site

as every one wanted to know and i could not type it so many times so yesterday i uploaded it to my site
i m still on diet and my target is to loose 15 more kgs in nest 5 months so please make dua for me