Oh and I also found out he had a journey with health and wellness himself losing 80 pounds. That has definitely changed my perspective on him a litttle bit for the better and I really respect him even more. Just thought I'd share that.

At my highest weight, my lean body mass was at around 190 lbs, estimated. Your lean body mass is also an estimate obviously. All throughout my weight loss, I've lifted weights and my lean body mass has gone down. I haven't had it tested recently so I'm not 100% sure what it is but its not too much a concern right now. I also have PCOS.

Here is why:
1) As we lose weight, we will lose muscle. Continuing to work on building muscle will minimize some of that muscle loss but it will still happen.

2) Lean body mass is not equal to muscle mass. The more we weigh, the more our body needs extra tissues/water to support our weight. "Lean Body Mass" does include those tissues/water mass. So your lean body mass will go down regardless of if you lose any muscle.

3) Being a woman, even a woman with PCOS, muscle is still hard to build. The initial 'honeymoon' phase of weight lifting can give you some great gains but after the honeymoon phase, it can be very difficult.

Another thing to think about is your goal really isn't a number on a scale, your goal is a certain size/shape. You can build muscle without building size. The muscle on your body is a certain size but its fairly inactive, when you start doing weights, you activate it which means it can stay the same size but be utilized fully. That also means that your metabolism can go up.

Muscle is also the reason that you can have someone who weighs 130 that lifts weights who is smaller than someone who weighs 120 who doesn't lift weights.

Lastly, muscle is easy to lose, you just stop lifting. So if you found yourself at your goal weight with too much muscle for some reason, then you'd just need to back off of the weights and it'd atrophy.

Thanks Nellie!!! Good information and good clarification. I see what you're talking about with the muscle, and maybe I should have clarified also about the difference between the lean mass and lean muscle. I never knew though that the lean mass included water and that the organs get bigger as we do. It would make sense.

But I've decided that I'm going just let it be for right now and just go with it and ask questions to my trainer (whether it's the gentleman this thread is regarding or someone different) when the need arises because I don't need to make myself crazy here thinking about the what ifs for when I get down to or near my goal. The trainer should know what their talking about and I have to trust that. The particular trainer I'm talking about in this thread seems to be very attentive and seems genuinely cares about getting me the results that I want since he's very set on doing whatever he can to keep me happy- he said it easily 5 or 6 times since I've known him and I've only seen him around the gym twice and met with him once. So he's growing on me. I'm gong to check out the other gyms in the area but so far so good with this one. :)

Thank you! I have wanted to say that forever.