re: PUTTHEFORKDOWN V. 2025- Weight Loss Support & Advice thread!

228/228/195 FML

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if anyone can guess this diet plan I'll give you $1million TDD

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i was thinking ultimate diet 2.0 but not that, honestly not sure

210/205/175

so my goals now are

end of Jan-below 200
start of lent- 195
end of lent- 190
end of may-185
end of august-175

I got mine done and it says I’ve lost four pounds of muscle over the last 9 months. That can’t be right. I’m stronger and more muscular now.

I did lay off the creatine a while back. Maybe that affected the numbers. It said my body water decreased a good bit too.

Man frick those Inbody scans. They are better than the BF% your home scales get from impedence using your feet, but still susceptible to all the same errors. People treat them like the gold standard, but it’s still just a data point, and sometimes it’s not even a useful one. Yes creatine or not could definitely affect how much water is in your muscles. How dehydrated you were in the 2 tests also is likely the issue (muscle is like 3/4 water).

I’d look at an unfavorable inbody like you have work to do still but wouldn’t obsess on it. If you’re lifting heavy, getting your protein, and staying the same/losing weight slowly then you aren’t losing 4lbs of lean mass unless your super low bf%. Maybe you need to lose 5 more lbs (or gain 5 more if you were bulking) to get where you want compared to what you were thinking. Don’t read too much more into it.

//edit: 194/190/185 just bouncing around 190-191 all week

Yeah, I'm not worried about it. I know I'm making progress. Looking better in the mirror and clothes getting looser in the waist.

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water is like 3/4 water

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Say what?

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Inbody scans

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I dont know why y'all even use these. They arent totally worthless, but they're pretty close. If you arent controlling all the variables of when you do it, are you fasted, have you drank, etc, the outputs arent going to be comparable.

And just FYI, you (not my reply, in general) aren't gaining 5 lbs of lean mass in a month going to a commercial gym three days a week for an hour. Just not happening.

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Man frick those Inbody scans. They are better than the BF% your home scales get from impedence using your feet, but still susceptible to all the same errors. People treat them like the gold standard, but it’s still just a data point, and sometimes it’s not even a useful one

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I dont know why y'all even use these. They arent totally worthless, but they're pretty close. If you arent controlling all the variables of when you do it, are you fasted, have you drank, etc, the outputs arent going to be comparable.

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they certainly are not the gold standard and even the gold standard dexa is nothing but a trend line

personally i have found inbody to be just as accurate as dexa for me personally. but i also control all factors. I take them at the same time everytime, in the morning after i piss and i do not drink anything before hand. I also do not go if i went in the hot tub the night before or have an extreme amount of water the night before

simply once a month or every other I go on a friday morning i am off and have had factors controlled and have a scan

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creatine or not could definitely affect how much water is in your muscles. How dehydrated you were in the 2 tests also is likely the issue

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creatine use and then stopping will 100% throw off the scan.




all of these scans are nothing but a trendline and you have to keep all factors constant just like with dexa, bodpod etc. I will say if you show less than 12% bodyfat on an inbody, you are going to be pretty shredded, show less than 10% and you will be absolutely ripped.

they are very useful if you use them correctly. like many things they are just a tool in the tool box and its what you use it for that matters.

I took one before squatober and it was about 4-5% bf higher than I expected and I took it really hard. I eventually processed it was I need to be 180ish to be done losing weight and kept rolling.

Then I took another scan a month after squatober (where I added 45lbs to squat and lost 5 lbs) and it said I had actually gained 3lbs of fat and was down almost 8 lbs of lean mass, mostly in the legs. I concluded at least the one I have access to is junk and went back to measuring weight/neck/waist to estimate progress lol.

Oh yea I also think that it’s hard to see the difference between 14-15% bf and 18-19% bf in many cases. So if you think “I bulked up 15lbs and it was all muscle cause my abs look the same” you prolly put on 3-4% bf but just can’t tell. Or if you think you hit the weight you wanted for 15% bf in a diet you could be actually be 18-19% and need to lose 15lbs still (me IRL).

194/191/185

Pretty tired of 190-191 on scale; been 7 days now