Calorie question

springlering62

Fixed expectations can play the absolute devil with our minds.

I’m 5’7”. I got all the way down to 127. Woo hoo, right? Nope. Looked like death warmed over.

I have gradually gained back, to 148 right now. I do cardio, weights, walk, power yoga, swim, often all in the same day. I’ve built a lot of muscle. Muscle is denser and heavier than fat, but, because it’s denser, doesn’t have the bulkier, squishier appearance that fat does.

Guess what?

I’m wearing the same size now I did 21 pounds lower- with the exception of a few blouses I had to ditch because they no longer fit around my biceps. Some of my clothes from the 127 era actually bag on me. Whaaaat?

Speaking from personal experience, don’t gnaw and fret over the scale number. It’s the results that count. Its super hard to learn to acknowledge and accept that. I often catch myself silently wailing and self flagellating to the tune of “but I lost so much and gained some back!”

Nope, I gained muscle back and those are hard gains with utterly different results.

Be proud of where you are and thank yourself from the bottom of your heart for where you came from, and look forward to where you’re gonna be in a few months. The path often doesn’t take us where expectations would lead us to, er, expect.

csplatt

I’ve found that what worked a few years ago doesn’t always work now. We all likely have a different body composition than we previously did, so it would make sense if a different number led to success now vs then.

Scorpiogurl66

Just remember, muscle weighs more than fat.

Retroguy2000

Scorpiogurl66 wrote: »

Just remember, muscle weighs more than fat.

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat.

PAV8888

Many people have complicated relationships with the scale. This is a given.

Doubly unfortunately, people who do not weight consistently and over a continuous and long enough period of time do NOT KNOW either their STARTING weight OR their CURRENT weight.

A single weight in today IS your weight at the time of sampling. But your weight at the time of sampling says nothing about your general weight level at this time. And a single weight in a few months ago also doesn't say much about your general weight level back then.

You could have lost 1 to 10lbs or you could have gained 1 to 10lbs or you could weight the same you did then.

All you really know is that you probably didn't lose or gain much more than 10lbs.

And I would assume that if your clothes were getting tighter as opposed to looser you would have noticed. So you KNOW you have lost weight.

And. I've said it once and I'll say it again when I hear that people are disappointed and angry at the results they got.

If you're disappointed and angry and feel cheated by your results... you're pushing too hard and you're not doing things that are sustainable. If they WERE sustainable you wouldn't need the feel good juice of results in order to keep going. Pull back to a level that's sustainable. How FAST you get there doesn't matter. Actually getting there and staying there DOES.

Hobartlemagne

If you like how you feel, how you look, and how you're shaped, who cares how much the earth's gravity is pulling you?

lynn_glenmont

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

Scorpiogurl66 wrote: »

Just remember, muscle weighs more than fat.

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat.

But a cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat.

mtaratoot

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

Scorpiogurl66 wrote: »

Just remember, muscle weighs more than fat.

A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat.

But a cubic inch of muscle weighs more than a cubic inch of fat.

Yes, muscle is denser than fat. It only weighs more if you are talking about the same volume. It's easier to put on a pound of fat than a pound of muscle though....