End of Week 12 Results

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Hey everyone! Lost another .5 lbs of fat this week! Yay.

15.8 lbs of fat lost total in 12 weeks. I've been bed-ridden since Tuesday

with a back injury but have been eating clean in spite of my bad luck. I hope

to get back to my workouts soon, I have some legs to work on!

It feels fantastic to finish my 12 weeks! I'm very excited to start another

12 weeks, although I will be in Disneyland in the middle of it so that will be a

new challenge for me. But I think I'm up for it!

I look forward to hearing from everyone on their results - 12 weeks, or daily!

Keep it up!

Bill said in EFL that for a 36 yr old woman, mother of 2 (he did a case study)

the average fat loss was 16 lbs.... well, that's me (36, mother of 2) and I

(nearly) hit his average! But somehow I feel above average! haha.

Take care! Jami

PS For those of you who have completed 2 challenges or more, were your results

reduced in your 2nd challenge? I know, I will go for my best results, but

wanted to hear some real life experience on that one.

Jami Perkins wrote:

I am the Poster Child for not watching the scale:

Start (note that I didn't take measurements until week 2):

Weight: 163.5

Bodyfat: 32.6% (lean body mass 115.4, fat lbs 48.1)

Today's Weight: 160.8

Bodyfat: 20.4% (lean body mass 128, fat 32.8)

So, lost 15.3 lbs of fat, gained 12.6 lbs of lean body mass.

1.39 lbs of fat left my body every week! My goal was to lose .5-1 lb of fat

every week!

Measurements:

Waist, down 4.75 " (35 to 30.25)

Hips, down 2.75 " (43 to 40.25)

Thigh, down 1.5 " (25 to 23.5)

Knee, down 3.25 " ! (20 to 16.75) (ok, that was weird to me but apparently

that's where I stored a lot of fat!)

Calf, down 1 " (17 to 16)

Upper arm, down .5 " (14 to 13.5)

I used biofitness' website to calculate bodyfat but I also have calipers that

verify the numbers biofitness provides.

I have missed maybe 1 workout but have added a few extra workouts here and

there. I have eaten clean and enjoyed 1-2 free meals each week (I did do 1 free

day). I take Betagen (far less than recommended, daily for 4 weeks and now only

on weight training days, 1 scoop). I tried fat burners for a week but they make

me sick. I use 1 T of flax oil every day (upped to 3 T per day this last week

for the psycho diet). I did the psycho diet for 2 days only, but went right

back to the 20/40/40 BFL method quickly. I always do cardio on an empty

stomach, and sometimes weight training. I wait 1 hr after cardio but usually

eat pretty soon after weight training. I added in 40-60 mins of extra cardio at

a very low intensity for weeks 6-9, and we often walk during the weekends. I

experimented with resting this week and got a big lean body mass gain, so I was

probably supressing my results a bit by doing too much extra cardio.

I ate all my meals and averaged 1300 calories on non free meal days (I don't

count flax oil and veggies), and 1800-2000 on free meal days. I was not hungry

but satisfied and comfortable. Last night was the first night in the whole

challenge that I was starving (was it the CLA?) and so I ate some peanuts. I

cannot do the palm/fist method because I simply eat too much. Maybe for

challenge 3 my goal will be to learn/practice that method. ;-)

I took final measurements today because I'm doing the Get Fit 6-week challenge

and that ends on Sunday so I needed results for that. I will check again next

week but I was so excited with my results I had to share.

Looking forward to continuing on and posting more results! My lesson learned

is that the lean body mass gain can not be discounted. It's part of the whole

thing. And I do want to have more lean mass so that I can eat more and burn

more calories at rest!!! I actually don't mind being the weight that I am, I

want to see some better legs and arms in my next challenge.

I've reread the book and I'm trying to focus on the workout intensity.

Squeezing at the top of the rep and lowering slowly. Bill has some good stuff

in there that I didn't catch (or didn't burn into my head) with the first 4-5

readings. Read it again.

I think that everyone deserves to give it their all for 12 solid weeks. No

matter what the scale or measurements are saying, give your body time to show

you what it can do. When I read that I was a mesomorph I did NOT believe it but

low and behold, I put on lean muscle mass and lost fat (pretty easily is not the

word I'm looking for because I worked for every oz gained and lost!). I'm

really looking forward to my next challenge to reveal the leanness and muscles

I'm building. I also look forward to hearing about YOUR results and musings.

I can not believe I'm 4 fat lbs away from 18% bodyfat! I can't wait... maybe

by my birthday 4/27 I'll reach it!

Jami

Mom to Aiden, nearly 2 yrs and Caitlin, 4 yrs.

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