Read this if the scale is not moving

dlaplume2

Thanks for sharing. That was awesome.

TerriMama23

oh wow thanks for sharing that article with us .... i am glad to have read that today

Jessica_Lo

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.

I get that...but that much denser? So say we are the same size and we are the same size clothes. What she is saying is she has 50+ lbs more muscle than me? That just doesn't make any sense. Not that I know about this at all. I plea ignorance, but just thinking of it logically. Now if she was 10 - 20 lbs I would say ok, maybe thats reasonable. But 50 lbs?

wolfchild59

Seeing blog entries like that really make me wish I'd started this whole journey out with pics and measurements rather than just the scale. I started in March 2010 at 180 pounds and lost 40 lbs by about the end of August/early September. By then I'd dropped three pants sizes and was feeling pretty good...then I plateaued. That made me realize that I had put off working out long enough, ignored all my excuses and started with a light cardio workout that I slowly built up over time and added some weights for toning as well. Mostly hoping that it would help me break through and lose the last ten pounds I'd wanted to.

Well, I've only "lost" two more pounds since I started working out, but I've also dropped two more pants sizes since then. So obviously I can tell that I'm losing inches and size, but the scale lies and tells me that I've barely made any advancements. While the scale was definitely my friend before I started working out, it's kind of just there as a check-in point these days.

neelia

Great story!

myofibril

I get that...but that much denser? So say we are the same size and we are the same size clothes. What she is saying is she has 50+ lbs more muscle than me? That just doesn't make any sense. Not that I know about this at all. I plea ignorance, but just thinking of it logically. Now if she was 10 - 20 lbs I would say ok, maybe thats reasonable. But 50 lbs?

Actually, I think you are right on that score. 50lbs more is a LOT even taking into account potential difference in bf% and height (unless she is fairly tall as you indicated in your first post.)

Would be interesting to know her full stats. Makes me wonder...

rockabyesarojane

bump!

yanicka

bump for the evening peoples

pipeline516

Good point, muscle weighs much more than fat.

skinnyack

I hope I'm not a size 4 and 160 either as she said... but i can vouch for a smaller sizing change. I was wearing a loose 12 at about 162, got into 10s at 160 and have since been able to fit into a size 8 (same brand, same cut) still weighing 160. Change took about 45 days. Size 8 isn't perfect yet- but I'm kinda excited looking at this. I may be a very hot 145 and that's only 15 lbs away- which is in line with my original goal. Had started to worry I needed to try to drop to 130, which was slightly intimidating. I need to take my pics again to see if I can tell comparison wise. I'm so glad she documented so well.

Amy62575

Great article. Thank you!!!!

GufoBianca

Fantastic

MommyRobot

Bump so I can look back at this, when I'm having a bad scale day!!

rachmaree

bump

DeniseGdz

Moral of this story: Keep the scale at arms length
Focus on Pictures & measurements!!

Thanks!! this article!

foreverloved

Thanks for posting!

concealedpearl

great article

kailyamie

This is SO true!! Even as much as I currently weigh, this remains true. My weight on the scale is ridiculous, 327 this morning and even at THAT HUGE I still can wear size 18 jeans. I mean, 327 and size 18? That's absurd... I have heard chicks on Biggest Loser say they wear size 24's and 26's at 230 pounds and I would watch and say to my husband "how is it possible that I'm fatter than her?" But, despite being as fat as I AM, I have a lot of muscle and I think that makes the difference.

stefraab

This makes me wish there was an "inches" ticker :-)

jrobertson37

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

I do not believe she is 160 either. If you look at the pic, you can tell she is a shorty. I am 5'2 @ 158lbs and my bottom sizes range from 8-10 depending on the designer. But she is def not tall.

SJSharksChick

Loved this! Thanks for sharing!

craftylatvian

Thanks for sharing this, It is what I needed. I am going to take another pic of myself tonight and compare it to the one I tok 5 weeks. ago.
I have only lost 4 lbs., but I feel like that is a normal fluctuation and not really weight lost.
And I have done all the "right" things. Eating back exercise calories, eating a little more, etc. My next step was zig-zagging.

amoffatt

Thank you! This totally answers my question, weight is not everything! I had to stop weighing myself for the numbers made me give up, even though the clothes were fitting looser. Everyone is so obsessed with numbers that I was too.Turbo Fire even mentions you will loose so much weight OR inches during the strict plan if followed.:happy:

SydKaty

I need to take measurements tonight!