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[winniechan1604]

19/12/2007
Height: 154 cm
Weight: 55.4 kg
BMI: 23.7
% Body Fat: 25.5
BMR: 1217

27/03/2008
Height: 154 cm
Weight: 55.4 kg
BMI: 23.4
% Body Fat: 26.2
BMR: 1222

Can someone please explain to me, how come my weight maintained, BMI dropped and BMR increased, and yet my & body fat increases.

It's bothering me a bit. Please help.
Thank you.

[Boss Man]

Looks like a slight decrease in Muscle, and a slight increase in body Fat.

BMR may have possibly increased, owing to the slight Fat increase, if the body has become accustomed to needing a slightly higher Fat intake, BMR may, (I would think), rise accordingly, as Fats have more cals per gram than anything else, os the body may have become accustomed to ingesting, a slightly higher calorie per gram intake.

You might have inceased Fats somehow and sacrificed a tiny bit of Protein maybe.

Can't be certain on this, but that's my best line of thinking based on what I looked at.

[DianaB]

BMI is useless at your weight, don't even consider it in the big picture. I would be curious to know how you are testing for BF as well. Digital scales are not accurate. If you are getting a caliper test, it needs to be done by the same person each time, at the same time of the day.
Rather than getting caught up in percentages, what does the mirror tell you?

[swanso5]

Big D stole my answer...look in the mirror...notice how your clothes fit too

if in fact you have lost muscle and gained fat then you are either:

1 - not lifting heavy enough wts to even maintain your current muscle level
2 - restricting cal's too much
3 - doing too much repetitive cardio and not enough intervals, sprints etc

[winniechan1604]

Dear All,

Thanks for the reply. Diana B, I've been measuring my BF using digital scale all this while and not the caliper test.

As for how I look in the mirror, it's pretty much the same, except that my tummy is slightly bigger since Christmas. Clothes still fit well. But my sis said that my arms looks a bit larger, although I've last measured that there's no increase in inches.

Anyway, what's your suggestion to increase my muscle mass again?
Thank you.

[swanso5]

to increase muscle just do the opposite of what i posted above

lift heavy
consume enough calories
drop old school cardio and give sprints a try

more importantly you must PGORESSIVELY OVERLOAD meaning each session needs to somehow be harder than the next

Chad Waterbury wrote a good aricle on it here:

http://www.t-nation.com/article/bodybuilding/progressions_for_hypertrophy_and_fat_loss&cr=

if you did one exrcise each day and used this than something would happen but if you used 10 exercise each day and didn't do this nothing would...that's how important this is to building muscle