A discouraging note is that even though my body fat has decreased from 33% to 26% I've only lost 15 pounds.

I keep to BFL pretty rigorously. The only difference is that I have recently (in the past 3 weeks) doubled the cardio time and sometimes I don't get the 6th meal in. On my free day I usually pack away about 2500 calories with mid-fat clean food and a dessert (so not too crazy).

Any feedback is appreciated.

-Ben

7% body fat is quite a bit to lose. Great job!!!

What was your starting weight?

What was your ending weight?

It's likely you gained muscle and muscle has weight to it, so you could have lost more fat lbs than 15 lbs, but gained a couple of lbs of muscle, which would come out to a scale weight difference of 15 lbs.

But ultimately, the scale is NOT  the end all way of measuring progress. It's only one part of the equation.

There are some people here who lost 0 lbs over 12 weeks!!! HOWEVER, they look alot leaner because they lost alot of fat lbs, but they gained an equal amount of muscle lbs.

I for sure gained muscle. I can see it when I flex and of course in how much I can now lift.

This challenge ends for me on 8/31 and I'm going to take a week break (not going back to my old habits but maybe skip a few days at the gym) then on 9/7 I'm starting again.

I really do love this program

Thank you for all the positive feedback. I'm gonna keep my head down and I look forward to continuing results!

My favorite inspiring truth is that one of our former Tracker members who won the BFL Challenge did not lose a single pound, but totally changed her body size and appearance.  Keep up the good work, you are doing a fantastic job!

Christine