Read this if the scale is not moving

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  • denitraross
    denitraross Posts: 325 Member
    very good article!!
  • rozarotti
    rozarotti Posts: 139
    Exactly what I needed today! Thanks for sharing :)
  • LLP1225
    LLP1225 Posts: 21
    That is awesome. I love the pictures that show proof. As soon as I get a darn memory card for my camera I plan on taking pictures. I hope that I can see some results.
  • Ashia1317
    Ashia1317 Posts: 415
    That's what I needed as well
  • PercyPig
    PercyPig Posts: 318
    Awesome! Thanks for posting!
  • PepsiGal
    PepsiGal Posts: 85 Member
    Thanks for sharing! I could see that gal was losing inches and gaining muscle. She's so inspirational, not giving up even when the scale didn't move.
  • NuclearGirl
    NuclearGirl Posts: 80
    That's why I take my measurements! :happy:
  • kendradl
    kendradl Posts: 595 Member
    So awesome a real spirit lifter when needed and I needed one today. Thanx for sharing with us!
  • Jessica_Lo
    Jessica_Lo Posts: 199 Member
    Is this possible?

    My scale won't budge either and I've gone from no activity to working out every day, sometimes twice and eating a minumum of 1200 calories depending on the cardio I eat more but net the 1200. Never over 1400 cals. I rotate bw strength training and cardio so I'm not doing the same thing every day or even every week. WTH!! I hope this article is true. My clothes are tighter than when I started. I'm almost a month in and nothing. Not frustrated yet but I can see myself getting there.
  • cclala
    cclala Posts: 190 Member
    The reason why we must keep at it!!!

    http://www.sparkpeople.com/mypage_public_journal_individual.asp?blog_id=3926473&SPShared=TRUE

    Oh my god! Good to know! I may never step on the scale again. What's the point? This is a relief, thanks for sharing.
  • floozieq
    floozieq Posts: 11
    Thanks for the post. I've been really stalled lately.
  • SoldierWife99
    SoldierWife99 Posts: 75
    I really need to take a couple of pictures, and some measurements! That blog was awesome, and what a brave woman!
  • GRILLZGIRL
    GRILLZGIRL Posts: 32 Member
    So glad you posted this. Thanks, it makes me feel better.
  • Erius
    Erius Posts: 23
    That is EXACTLY what I needed! I've been killing my workouts...and just waiting for one more pound to reach another small victory...it won't budge, but my clothes feel better...so what you say is the truth!
  • rachmaree
    rachmaree Posts: 782 Member
    THank so much for posting that link! A huge motivator. I decided to not weigh myself at all for the next week... might even wait longer! My husband keeps telling me I am gaining muscle and that is why I am not losing weight. Thanks again!
  • jaycee76
    jaycee76 Posts: 325 Member
    I think her scales must be faulty lol!
  • TabbyJustice
    TabbyJustice Posts: 132 Member
    Wow, that was a great and necessary read. I have to admit I even got a bit discouraged in working out and eating mostly clean and only losing .8 of a point. But she's right in that blog. Obsessing over a scale isn't going to necessarily show you all the changes in your body. Great read.
  • gagagul
    gagagul Posts: 63 Member
    That was a great article! It's not all about the scale!! I am learning that slowly! Thanks!!!
  • Fgillies
    Fgillies Posts: 194
    How awesome, thanks for sharing! I too needed this today!!! Thanks again :)
  • Jessica_Lo
    Jessica_Lo Posts: 199 Member
    I think her scales must be faulty lol!

    LMAO. I"m thinking the same thing. No way she can be 160 and a size 4. That's a huge amount of muscle and it can't fit in a size 4!! I'm a size 4 and I weigh 113!! I want to know what her height is. I'm 5'0
  • DixieDarlin1987
    DixieDarlin1987 Posts: 553 Member
    this is really great, thank you for sharing! I've been stuck at the same weight for quite a while now, even though I've been busting my butt and watching what I eat. But I know things are changing...slowly. I can see a big difference in my arms, they're BIGGER so they must weigh more, but they're also prettier than they've ever been before. The changes are much less noticeable in my thighs and butt but if it's happening in my arms, I'm sure it's happening elsewhere too...So keep at it everyone!
  • yanicka
    yanicka Posts: 1,004 Member
    I think her scales must be faulty lol!

    Then mine must be too LOL

    I started MFP in november 2010, went from a size 10 to a size 4 with a 4 pounds lost!!!!
  • mummum2
    mummum2 Posts: 415 Member
    That's why I take measurements, those are my moral booster, when you see the inches loss! don't like using the scale at all, but do for MFP.
  • allisoncook87
    allisoncook87 Posts: 160 Member
    You may be putting your body in starvation mode find out your BMR and never go under that. If you need to eat more you gotta excercise more :) Hope this helps
  • momof26
    momof26 Posts: 83
    Thank you for sharing!!!
  • pammbroo
    pammbroo Posts: 550 Member
    Thank you so much for this! Definitely gives hope and inspiration to those of us who fight continually with that mean 'ol scale! :happy:
  • velix
    velix Posts: 437 Member
    hahaha re: broken scale!

    my weight loss has been really slow (slow and steady wins the race right?) I lost 30 lbs a year and a half ago, and have kept it off, so I am not going to complain too much - but I was getting discouraged - then a girlfriend of mine came to visit last September and she showed me her weight loss / body toning in 12 weeks via pictures - and the change was incredible. Since then, I have started taking pictures once every 3 weeks. I have lost 12lbs since the first week of November and while each picture doesn't look like much on its own ( I am currently at 213lbs), when they are lined up, I can really see the changes. I would share them, but silly me did the pics in bra & underwear ... .

    The progressive pictures are great motivation in two ways. When I feel gross, I look at the progress, when I feel comfortable (and slack off), I look back at the pictures (especially the early ones with back fat and all) and just sit and stare, and think about whether that's really what I want to look like for the rest of my life..to acknowledge progress but realize that I am not done. It might sound self-deprecating, but it is actually a healthy dose of reality.
  • jacksonde24
    jacksonde24 Posts: 103
    This was a great article. The scale isn't moving for me either but last night I could have swore I looked smaller when I looked in the gym mirrors during kickboxing class.
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member

    LMAO. I"m thinking the same thing. No way she can be 160 and a size 4. That's a huge amount of muscle and it can't fit in a size 4!! I'm a size 4 and I weigh 113!! I want to know what her height is. I'm 5'0

    The thing is whilst 1lbs of muscle weighs excatly the same as 1lb of fat (obviously!) that pound of muscle is much denser and takes up far less space than the same weight of fat.

    Thinsk of it this way. You have two cardboard boxes of exactly the same size in front of you. In front of one box is a pile of marshmallows in 500g packets. In the front of the other are 500g slabs of chocolate. Obviously you will be able to pack in far more slabs of chocolate into one box in comparsion to amount of marshmallows in the other box given the difference in dimensions between them. Therefore the box containing the chocolates will end up weighing more when filled to the top than the one containing the marshmallows.
  • maeflower1234
    maeflower1234 Posts: 87 Member
    I enjoyed the pictures. I couldn't read all of it (I'm at work) but did she say what she did to workout?
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