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Can someone please 'splain?

dym123
dym123 Posts: 1,670 Member
edited January 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Ok, so over the last 4 months, I've dropped 22lbs, 2 pants sizes (US womens), yay for me, but my hips/waist/thigh measurements have not changed. I get that things are shifting, my butt is sitting a bit higher, but I still do not understand how I am smaller without my measurements changing. I went through a 2+ month plateau where I was losing nothing, then boom 13lbs lost, I thought my measurements would finally move, but they haven't. Has this happened to anyone else?

BTW I've just started seriously doing strength training over the last month or so, 3 days a week, along with 3 days cardio and 1 day yoga/stretching. I try to eat around 1,600 cals a day which is on the low end of my BMR.

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  • allshebe
    allshebe Posts: 423 Member
    You're not losing flesh where you're measuring. Try measuring your hips and other places at several spots. Fat "pads" going away is a bit like icebergs melting sometimes, I think - most of it comes off the edges, though the mass gets smaller when taken as a whole, the dimensions in a particular spot may be "stable" for a long period of time.(but because fat squishes, you fit comfortably in smaller sized garments)
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