40-Somethings SUMMER SHOW DOWN CHALLENGE....ends August 1
Hey Folks....I couldn't think of when to end the next challenge, thought August 1 was a good date...
We lost a lot of folk in the fourth of July challenge, let's try this again.
Natamars, you seemed to have a setback at the end of the last challenge. Sounds like water gain to me. Bloat really messes with the scale and yet we all tend to choose that as our way to gauge our progress..me included.
I had a bad experience yesterday. There is a spin instructor at the gym I work at that is also a trainer. He mentioned that I have been losing weight, I asked him to measure my body fat percentage. Wow, it was pretty bad. Basically I'm made up of bones and fat. Losing weight, not doing strength training, being in my forties...it was all a recipe for muscle loss.....this isn't healthy. I'm putting myself at risk for injury. I zumba like crazy which is great, but not enough muscle means not enough strength to keep up with this crazy schedule of mine. Zumba is a wonderful workout, don't get me wrong...but I (and this means not everyone else) needs more right now to look and feel the way that I want to. SO...my challenge goal is to try and gain some muscle and lower the body fat percentage number, which was prety bad yesterday. Even the trainer was surprised. I'm skinny fat!!!!!
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