Sun, Sep-07-03, 19:30
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Plan: SPII IS/BOAG
Stats: 186/136/140
BF:A lot/18%/20%
Progress: 109%
Location: Jackson, MS
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Also, just speaking from my own experience, once you start getting under 22%, you may not be all that happy with the results. I'm at about 19.5% right now, and my body is a strange mixture of bony and fat -- visible pelvic girdle and lower ribcage, and you could cut glass on my collarbones, but my thighs and upper arms are still on the jiggly side. I feel unbalanced, if that makes sense -- you know, like being stuck in between sizes, where you either need to lose five more pounds or put it back on, just so everything fits right. I think in some ways I was happier with my appearance at 22%, with 5 more pounds of fat, but I can't quite bring myself to put fat back on (and am having a hard enough time maintaining)! On the other hand, I'm also not very keen on dropping four or five more pounds to get down to 17-18%, but my current BF% seems to have me stuck with the worst parts of "curvy" and "model-thin" body types. I think if I had it to do over again, I would have switched to maintenance eating earlier and stopped at the higher BF%.
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