I'm giving up now.....

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  • Jabbarwocky
    Jabbarwocky Posts: 100 Member
    You've received some really great advice here. Just want to add a couple of things. First off, we always hear that muscle weighs more than fat but the reality is, as someone previously stated, a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle. Look at it this way, picture five pounds of bricks and then five pounds of feathers. The brick is muscle and the feathers are fat. Secondly, it takes more calories to maintain muscle than it does to maintain fat so putting on more muscle is a good thing! Finally, to second IcecoffeeNchocolate, people need to not only mellow out but actually read the post and responses instead of posting crap based on the thread title only.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    Jabbarwocky wrote: »
    You've received some really great advice here. Just want to add a couple of things. First off, we always hear that muscle weighs more than fat but the reality is, as someone previously stated, a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle. Look at it this way, picture five pounds of bricks and then five pounds of feathers. The brick is muscle and the feathers are fat. Secondly, it takes more calories to maintain muscle than it does to maintain fat so putting on more muscle is a good thing! Finally, to second IcecoffeeNchocolate, people need to not only mellow out but actually read the post and responses instead of posting crap based on the thread title only.
    They are obviously trying to say 'muscle is denser than fat' so you'll lose inches and the scale can remain flat.
  • Jabbarwocky
    Jabbarwocky Posts: 100 Member
    That's why I made that distinction. Whenever people say muscle weights more than fat, its the equivalent of saying that gold weighs more than aluminum. The point isn't to check one pound of each, its to check equal volumes and see which weighs more.
  • vikinglander
    vikinglander Posts: 1,547 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    past experience tells me when people make threads like this they name it based on their already decided thought process and theres not much to be said to change their mind.

    Thats really sad, You can do it. But i guess dont let the door hit you on the way out.

    If you change your mind theres TONS of really smart people who can help here but i guess thats your choice.

    Exactly...
  • Iwanttolosemymummytummy
    Iwanttolosemymummytummy Posts: 82 Member
    vikinglander wrote: »
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    past experience tells me when people make threads like this they name it based on their already decided thought process and theres not much to be said to change their mind.

    Thats really sad, You can do it. But i guess dont let the door hit you on the way out.

    If you change your mind theres TONS of really smart people who can help here but i guess thats your choice.

    Exactly...

    The thread title was misleading. I didn't and still don't want to give up. I was frustrated of not losing any weight (on the scales)for 7 weeks despite of the effort I'm putting in. You must have read the rest of my original post so you'll be aware that I didn't mention giving up in it. I was hopeful for support and got it in spades. Maybe you didn't read the rest of the threads that followed and possibly stopped reading after this particular response otherwise you would know this.
    So, the door won't be hitting me on the way out and thanks for your support.
  • Barbs2222
    Barbs2222 Posts: 433 Member
    This is one of my favorite pictures I found on the internet. 376o49curotw.jpg
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  • Iwanttolosemymummytummy
    Iwanttolosemymummytummy Posts: 82 Member
    Barbs2222 wrote: »
    This is one of my favorite pictures I found on the internet. 376o49curotw.jpg

    Wow! That is extremely helpful, thanks. This is an example of what a lot of people have said in their response about fat and muscle. There is hope!!
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    Try to focus more on the food intake instead of the exercise. I noticed the same though because it's as if I can't lose now that I started exercising and all I do is walk a mile or two each day. It's frustrating but I'm hanging in there.
  • Iwanttolosemymummytummy
    Iwanttolosemymummytummy Posts: 82 Member
    edited March 2017
    perkymommy wrote: »
    Try to focus more on the food intake instead of the exercise. I noticed the same though because it's as if I can't lose now that I started exercising and all I do is walk a mile or two each day. It's frustrating but I'm hanging in there.

    Positive thinking that's what we need. We will get there. In my case I've done this 3 times before and each time it has stayed off ( until I got pregnant again but we're having no more babies here. Shop is closed for refurbishment!)
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