I started NROLFW last May and carried on until I finished it around Thanksgiving. I decided to give it a rest for the month of December and started New Rules of Lifting For Abs early/mid-January. I really love it and I want to continue doing it but my body still hasn't shed the extra it put on when I started, which I assumed was water weight. It can't possibly be fat as I've been averaging 1450 calories per day. What gives??
Will the scale ever start going down again? In desperation, I've cut all exercise the last four days (lifting and cardio) and reduced my calories to about 1250. Still my scale went up.
I have thought on the idea that at this point it might be more about bodyfat percentage than weight, but it's not like a 5'6" woman at 135 is absurb or extreme. I haven't got a large frame; I'm usually right in the divider between small and medium.