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Question:

Hi Leigh,

Thank you for answering questions! I am losing fat just fine, however too much is coming from my breasts, not enough from my thighs and butt. Is there any way to address that ratio? I’d like to keep my.. rack, as you call it. In case is matters, I am approx 22-23% BF currently. Just looking to lose the last 2-5 pounds of BF, and trying to have firm, defined curves. I like my curves! I just don’t want jiggly curves and I’d like a flat tummy. I lift.. I follow crossfit, but with a bit more balanced extra strength work and more rest days.

A few more details about me, in case it matters: I’m small.. 5’2″ approx 119lbs. I’m successfully using a fresh whole foods (mostly paleo) diet with IF days, low calorie non-IF days, and refeed days mixed into each week.

Thank you!

Question:

Hi Leigh,

I’m a listener of the Fitcast and I love your work. I have a question for you. I’m a female, 28, 5 feet 7, 130 pounds, down from 165 in June 2008. I just finished New Rules of Lifting for Women and I’m really happy with the results. But there’s one problem I just don’t know how to solve.

I have water retention in my outer thighs and it hurts when I sit on the floor with my legs crossed. It’s also sensitive if I touch the area. I’ve had that since I was a teenager, even when I wasn’t fat. I drink plenty of water (more than 1 gallon per day), I massage my thighs with a glove in the shower, I weight train 3 times a week and take long walks every day.

Thanks a lot! Milie

Question:

Ok Leigh,
I’m a subscriber to your site, but I don’t get to read it often. I’ve been seriously considering getting your books however I have a question. As a mom who works outside the home I’m busy. I know you’ve heard that one before! Once I get home there’s dinner and the kid to attend to not to mention taking care of all the other life concerns. I’m tired all the time and I have a low thyroid. I know that I need to get moving and take care of MYSELF to keep my health and my sanity! I have a love hate relationship with food and exercise. It definitely sounds like your book can help but I don’t really have the means or the time to get to a gym. So the exercising has to be done at home. Is this possible with what you have outlined in your books????

Need help!

Thanks,
Alisa

Question:

Hey Miss Leigh!

Welcome back.
I hope your intense emotional situation wasn’t too taxing… but I guess that’s when the best things come out of us… in your case, a book?! Just cranked out a book… that’s pretty incredible. Can’t wait to find out more about it…

So…. I’m almost at my 7th week… I’ve been hovering between 125 & 126 for the past 3 weeks.
I know you’re swamped with emails, but if I should be so lucky as to get your answer/advice/wisdom on the following?:

* I was listening to one of your hotbod podcasts, the one about training to get the body you want… and you mention more reps and shorter rests between in order to get that longer, leaner look (which is the one I’m goin’ for). but the final lifting program in metaburn is like 5 reps w/ 1-2 min. rests… should I still follow that, even if it’s not really the training that’s supposed to get me the look I’m going for?

* I work out at home, and don’t have a bar… any idea of what I can do to substitute CHIN UPS? right now I’m doing lateral raises instead of pulldowns because, despite my every effort, I couldn’t for the freakin’ life of me find a dumbell version of a lat pulldown on the internet:/

* am I still supposed to keep my calories at that original number – 1,406 cal/day?

Leigh, you are the best, and I can’t express to you how much I appreciate your consistent support… you arm people with information and knowledge, empowering them, us…. and it feels amazing to feel like I kinda understand what’s going on with my body.

p.s.
I really miss your podcasts:) I used to do my lifting workouts to them…

and as always, thanks for everything you do….
Anna

Question:

Hi Leigh = )

I’ve emailed you before with a few questions and I really appreciated your advice. I’m currently 4 weeks into your pull-up program for women (it’s going well I think, although I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to do it again later – my starting strength was very poor – I didn’t know how poor until I tried doing 4×15 negatives!!), and when I’m finished with that program I’m going to start OPT-Remix.

I’ve attached two sets of pictures – the befores are of me in April last year, weighing 57kg, the afters are of me in August after 4-5 months of dieting at 54kg.

After the 4-5months of counting every piece of food I put in mouth and eating more green veg than I care to remember (my friends were not impressed with me munching on celery at the cinema! lol) I looked at the after photos and kind of felt that it hadn’t really been worth it – yes I was leaner but I still didn’t like the way my body looked, plus none of my friends or family said that they could see a difference (in real life, not in the pictures). Consequently I ended up kind of re-bounding. I still ate pretty well but I just ate too much.

Anyway, currently I’m 59kg and looking pretty much the same as in the before photos (obviously now those afters aren’t looking so bad). Like I said, I’m going to start OPT-Remix in 2 weeks time to get off some of the excess fat but I was wondering if you could help me with a few questions / issues?

1. What would you estimate my bf% to be in my before and after photos?
http://avidityfitness.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/before-shots-sally.jpg
http://avidityfitness.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/after-shots-sally.jpg

2. Given that I like the Evangeline Lily (from Lost)

http://www.blogcadre.com/files/images/evangeline_lilly.preview.jpg

Jessica Biel

http://www.jessica-biel.net/gallery/candids/hawaiibeach/hawaiibeach_01.jpg

Look – what do I need to do? Like I said, in my after photos I was fairly lean but I think my body looked disproportionate and unattractive – did I just need to lose more fat? Or gain more muscle in my upper body? Get a plastic surgeon?! (joke!). I really am confused about what to focus on – I don’t particularly care about being a particular bf% (my first question was more out of curiosity), I just want to have an attractive body.

3. Do you have any advice on how to start liking / accepting the way you look? I don’t want to accept being fat so that I can stay that way – I guess I’d just like to not feel like crying whenever I look in the mirror or see photos of myself! (this REALLY interferes with my diet at times as a bad ‘episode’ can lead to a full-on junk binge).

Thanks for all your help, again! You really are awesome = )

Sally

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