Are my expectations unrealistic?

EvgeniZyntx

JeraldTX wrote: »

Someone once gave me the advice, "Ignore the numbers on the scale, focus on your nutrition and your work-outs, aim for being healthy and feeling good about yourself and the numbers on the scale will work themselves out." Kind of a "Zen" Archery approach.

Oh, and yes after a few weeks of working out your increase in muscle mass will begin to offset your losses in body fat. Remember for a given volume muscle is five times heavier than fat.

People have already touched on this but no and no.

Muscle mass growth for a woman working in a hypertrophy program is generally less than 1/2lb per week. And it requires significant calories, it just does not occur during a deficit. For someone losing 2lbs of fat per week, they will not be seeing that type of muscle gain. Not unless you use drugs.

Also the density of muscle is NOT five time that of fat. The density of fat is about 0.9 g/cm3 while the density of lbm is in the range 1.07 to 1.13 g/cm3. Muscle is only at most 25% heavier per volume than fat.

999tigger

Sometimes when you set yourself targets it cna be moivational, but others it cna be a rod to break your own back. Absorb some of the advice already given about expected weight loss an reappraise your thoughts on how your weight loss will go or it could cause more trouble than its worth.