Can you lost those last 10

I am going to test this out.  So far I have been working on muscle building with trainer Ben.  I was with Trainer Zaven till he moved on and is going back to school.  Zaven was all about stretching.  Every time I met with him we would do more stretching.  Open this, stretch that.  They are all concepts.  Learn the concepts and you can do anything.  Maybe I need to say do the concepts.  So I have learned, yes learned the stretching.  I define the word learn as, you have been shown, you try and you repeat till it becomes part of your life without thinking to hard about how did you do that?
I get up and do those hip openers with my foot to the bathroom counter, stretch to the side of my bed, push-ups to something including bed or wall.  You need to stop thinking you can only do things at the gym.

What can give you that push to lose the last 10?  Jillian will say that the last 10 are really hard because the body likes that cushion.  I am with the myfitnesspal lose a pound a week challenge group and so far I'm at the same weight but I am stronger.  When you replace fat with muscle the scale sometimes goes up.  I have always heard that you build muscle first and then slim down.  The stronger you muscles are the more calories they burn.  This is why marathon runners lift weights.

Back to the 10 pounds I started talking about.  They are having a challenge at the gym I belong to so I am going for it.

This would be a normal breakfast.  That collagen goes into my coffee with either protein powder or chocolate milk.  Lunch would be a great salad with some form of cheese on it.  Most of the time I like feta.

I cook most dinners.  If I need a snack in the afternoon I might have a handful of nuts, a banana or something else that would be 200 calories or less.  I try not to eat to much if I am going to a Q-class.  A Q-class is a HIT class about 45 min long.  I wear a zone belt and it says I burn about 500 calories.
I have one of those scales that post with my fitbit.  My starting is 134.9 and 33.3% body fat.  It is the body fat that I really want to go down.
One of the rules at the gym is that you can not starve yourself.  This really is a good rule because you can not maintain starvation.  Remember the story about the farmed that tried to ween his pig off of food?  Every day he fed the pig a little bit less.  He was doing great and almost had the pig off of food but it died.  You must eat and eat what the body needs .  The body does not need a few things like sugar or chemicals.  Do you have to cut these completely out?  It all depends what your goals are.  Here is the truth about those 6% bodyfat guys that are in a show.  They do not maintain that year round.  Please remember that.  Read up on how you can starve yourself to look buff fit.It includes a way to extract water from the muscle. This is for show only.  I am not about a show body.  I am about a functionally healthy body.

Let me share a couple of dinner ideas.

Mixed seafood and some veggies.

Turkey meatloaf.  I had to take a bite.  I did use the fork.

And this is what summer is all about.  I hate when things don't work so I have to end this post because I can't post below the last picture.  I hope that doesn't happen to my challenge.  Sometimes things don't work as plan so you have to change things a little.  And then I can't get these extra lines to go away.  I did put this on salad.  It's like adding extra spinach into a dish.

 

I hate when things don't work