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Gained weight but dropped bmi?

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    edited November 2014
    hill8570 wrote: »
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    With the exception of newbie gains, you can not gain muscle in a deficit. Those scales are not accurate and the pound is most likely due to water retention.

    Look at OP's picture -- she looks good, but she doesn't look like she's been lifting heavy for months. I could believe her having a pound of newbie gains over six weeks, even if she's netting 1200 calories (OP says she's "eating back all her calories", so her gross is going to be higher than 1200, perhaps significantly higher). <shrug> it's all guesswork...I don't know what program (if any) she's lifting to, how much more she's lifting now than six weeks ago, any of her non-weight measurements, yada yada yada. I'll go back to sleep now :smile:

    She does not look like she lifted for months. Explain this?
  • hill8570
    hill8570 Posts: 1,466 Member
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    She does not look like she lifted for months. Explain this?

    She doesn't looking she's been lifting heavy for months. At her BMI, I'd expect to see a bit more upper arm definition on the flexed arm if she'd been lifting heavy for, say, six months or more.

  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    hill8570 wrote: »
    yopeeps025 wrote: »
    She does not look like she lifted for months. Explain this?

    She doesn't looking she's been lifting heavy for months. At her BMI, I'd expect to see a bit more upper arm definition on the flexed arm if she'd been lifting heavy for, say, six months or more.

    I only say that because looks does not give information on a person fitness level. The diet can overule that. There are people that have been training longer and shorter duration than me and the looks are all over the place.
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