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@roarke Getting a BodPod or DEXA scan has been on my to-do list for some time.

@liz869802 It took me 2+ years to figure things out for myself, without a trainer. Though the pandemic did make my habits rather inconsistent, as I had to stop the gym during times of high COVID. The quicker start would have been worth using a personal trainer.

@oncedepressed Divorce sucks, but you are right about it being an opportunity. One thing that you have going for you is that you don’t have substantial weight to lose. With good conditioning and some muscle mass, your weight will be fine.

@blessed2bless7 As someone who started at 6 feet and 280 pounds (230 right now), I think the weight loss is still worth it. As you can see from pics of several of our sub members, even at 230 it takes major dedication to muscle development to have that weight with low body fat. Good luck...

@blessed2bless7 My favorite hint on strength training is to keep moving through your exercises quickly enough to keep your heart rate up. I find that it helps me with endurance for hiking, and it frees up machines for your fellow gym-goers.

@pastorguice Starting to hike on much rougher terrain than I was used to began my long-term weight loss. In the past several years, it's been looking for post-retirement routines that got me started on regular gym-going. Seeing progress in building muscle in the last 18 months has been really fun.

@swindon It sounds like you may have been working harder than I did, but it took 8-10 months for me to get visible results.

@matthias10000 Thanks! My wife was telling me about seeing one of those at the gym last week, and neither of us knew what it was.

@manofsteelandvelvet For me, it's restaurant food that causes water retention-presumably from salt. I can see that my weight is a couple of pounds up for several days after a restaurant meal.

@matthias10000 Can you drop in what TDL is? Figure it's not Tunable Diode Laser😉.

@binbina I've been training steadily since August and put on 9 pounds by May 1st. My guess is that I didn't get the too-tight clothes signal I would have gotten sooner because I was adding muscle mass. I suspect this is something that is fairly common. Started working on diet to reverse that...

@matthias10000 Agree, getting to 240 wasn't hard. A lot harder since then.

@matthias10000 I've noticed that there's a real difference in 8-10 pounds in this weight range. I was down to about 217, but put on 15 pounds early in the pandemic. Have taken about half of that off since late May. See an error in my earlier post. In 2014, I started about where you were last year.

@janeevans89 I was doing three sets of 15, mostly on machines, but recently lowered my upper body sets to 12 to increase weights. Since I do both upper and lower body exercises in a single session, I alternate between them. I don’t do the individual sets particularly fast, but don’t leave...

@binbina I was tracking with MFP as well, and had crept up about 200 calories a day. My added exercise obviously wasn't enough to make up for that.

@janeevans89 I’m in my mid-60s and down 60 pounds from what I weighed at 55. Been in a regular gym routine for the past year and working on losing another 15-20 pounds for some challenging hiking next summer. My strength routine is about 40 minutes, three times a week, moving quickly between...

@matthias10000 Great progress! My strength training routine is somewhat similar, going quickly between exercises, but a little longer--about 30 minutes. I'm no expert, though. People who camp on machines or a single exercise in the gym are a pet peeve of mine. Wasn't familiar with that...

@kimmyk401 Thank you for the instructions on the calipers. I see that they aren't expensive at all.

@klonopin48 They look like good numbers to me.

@nitsud I think the men are more active in posting pictures; I'm not sure that reflects the overall sub.