{"id":135,"date":"2007-02-24T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sackrider.org\/myblog\/category\/weightloss\/fustrations-mount"},"modified":"2025-06-15T06:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T06:07:43","slug":"fustrations-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/fustrations-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Fustrations mount&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posted as regular as required to keep a reader base, but for those of you still reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I paid for a personal trainer mid-way through January.\u00c2\u00a0 I got 12 one hour sessions scheduled at twice a week for six weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was the last day of those sessions.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say that I have seen a difference in my arms and chest.\u00c2\u00a0 I can feel my shoulders have developed too.\u00c2\u00a0 I have even seen some weight loss.\u00c2\u00a0 BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I went to the BodPod testing center (its body composition &#8211; I.E. body fat verse lean muscle mass) at the end of last year and I was at 45% body fat.\u00c2\u00a0 I weighted about 305 lbs.\u00c2\u00a0 Two weeks ago I was tested again and I had lose over 5 lbs, but the great part was I had actually lost 13 lbs of fat and gained almost 8 lbs of muscle.\u00c2\u00a0 I was feeling pretty good about it.\u00c2\u00a0 BUT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went to test again now that I am at the end of my personal training.\u00c2\u00a0 I expected to see another few pounds lost and maybe even see some gain in lean muscle mass.\u00c2\u00a0 I weighted in at 294 lbs &#8211; great!\u00c2\u00a0 Then the body composition testing&#8230;drum roll&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I GAINED A POUND OF FAT AND LOST 7 POUNDS OF LEAN MUSCLE MASS!!!\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, I am discouraged and I am again fustrated.\u00c2\u00a0 I will continue the fight, but I do feel like I&#8217;ve just lost a battle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posted as regular as required to keep a reader base, but for those of you still reading&#8230; I paid for a personal trainer mid-way through January.\u00c2\u00a0 I got 12 one hour sessions scheduled at twice a week for six weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was the last day of those sessions.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sackrider.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}