Inches and pounds

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rsm193
rsm193 Posts: 23 Member
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What is the difference in losing inches and pounds?

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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
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    Inches trump pounds!
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
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    What spoon said.
  • Wiseandcurious
    Wiseandcurious Posts: 730 Member
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    Pounds are weight on a scale. May be water, food in your stomach, the content of your bowels... Go up and down constantly.

    Inches measure the circumference of your body and although they could reflect bloating, and also food etc (your waist/stomach measurements), are a much better indicator that you're losing fat. Also they don't tend to fluctuate so much over time (again, except stomach and waist circumference). Particularly, as you track both pounds and inches over time, if you are losing inches faster than pounds, it means that (relatively speaking) you are losing more fat than muscle (fat being of a larger volume for equal weight).

    That's my understanding, if anyone can correct/add to this please do.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
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    rsm193 wrote: »
    What is the difference in losing inches and pounds?

    Ya. I agree. We need to convert to the metric system and all this is much more clear.

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