I gave up on cutting…
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008I’ve posted it in 2 threads of mine, and on my bodyspace, but I’m gonna post it here too…
I reached 8-10% body fat after cutting for 6 months. I started at 177.0 lbs 19-20% body fat Feb. 1st and finished today Aug. 2nd at 155.8 lbs.
The measurement method puts me at 9.3% bf; 3 site calipers put me at 8.1% bf; and my scale (which has a bad track record) has me at 10.4% bf.
I’m going with the 9% estimate. I think that seems right.
Unfortunately I lost LBM. At 177 my LBM was 142.6 lbs and it’s now 141.2 lbs (lost 1.4 lbs). Oh well. I shouldn’t be surprised since I had had my body in a Caloric defecit for 6 months with only a 1 week break from dieting.
I feel much better about my physique now; I feel like I look as if I train hard, which I do! Hahahaha… I didn’t like how at 177 lbs I was big, and people said I was big/muscular, but I looked soft and not like I eat healthy. I had been eating healthy… it was just TOO MUCH healthy food, and I got fat. I know now how to estimate my maintenance, and I’m going to try to gain muscle slowly with a diet that is only slightly over my maintenance. I hope to not gain fat over the next several months so when I cut again I’ll be starting my cut at 9-10% body fat. If gaining fat is absolutely necessary to put on muscle then so be it, but once the Measurement Method estimates me at 11% body fat I will cut for a month or so to get back down to 9%. I want to maintain the look that I’m happy with while I add muscle. Then come this time next year (July/August) I plan on being more muscular than I am now for one, and two 4-5% body fat less! 
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