Losing inches, not pounds.

autumnbottom8
autumnbottom8 Posts: 74 Member
edited September 28 in Fitness and Exercise
So I've been working out 5times a week, been great with my calorie intake, but the scale isn't moving! I didn't take measurements, but I'm fitting into smaller sizes and all my clothes are looser than before. I want to make the scale reflect my hard work, what can I do to make that happen??

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  • Angela4Health
    Angela4Health Posts: 1,319 Member
    I wouldn't even worry with the scale so long as you're losing inches :bigsmile:
  • gioisa75
    gioisa75 Posts: 242 Member
    Don't use the scale as your only measure of success.
  • Alacey88
    Alacey88 Posts: 486 Member
    I'm having the same thing happening too. I look like I have lost weight but the scale won't budge..... I would like to how to make tha happen.... Please tell us...
  • julieban1
    julieban1 Posts: 39 Member
    You can be patient. You are turning fat into muscle, which weighs more than fat. Losing inches is a GREAT thing! I bet if you start taking measurements, you'll see the numbers getting smaller, just like on the scale. It's very rewarding.
  • makeachange22
    makeachange22 Posts: 151
    inches are more important than the weight, inches makes you flat and losing the extra flab ! dont lose a pound? dont worry about it, every few weeks measure yourself !
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    Yep, it's not the number on the scale in all cases. Inches lost is VERY important so don't get frustrated!
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    You can be patient. You are turning fat into muscle, which weighs more than fat. Losing inches is a GREAT thing! I bet if you start taking measurements, you'll see the numbers getting smaller, just like on the scale. It's very rewarding.

    That's actually a myth. A pound is a pound is a pound. A pound of fat still weighs the same as a pound of muscle.

    However, fat takes up more space than muscle!!
  • pixieval
    pixieval Posts: 64 Member
    I feel you! I'm having the opposite problem, I've been losing weight, but not inches, at least in anywhere I've measured. I can see everything toning and not hanging, but its not changing actual size...
  • thedreamhazer
    thedreamhazer Posts: 1,156 Member
    You can be patient. You are turning fat into muscle, which weighs more than fat. Losing inches is a GREAT thing! I bet if you start taking measurements, you'll see the numbers getting smaller, just like on the scale. It's very rewarding.

    That's actually a myth. A pound is a pound is a pound. A pound of fat still weighs the same as a pound of muscle.

    However, fat takes up more space than muscle!!

    The idea isn't that a pound of fat weighs more than a pound of muscle. It's not the brick/feather riddle. It's that a pound of fat takes up more space on your body than a pound of muscle because of density.

    I don't know if it's true, just saying...
  • Onesnap
    Onesnap Posts: 2,819 Member
    You can be patient. You are turning fat into muscle, which weighs more than fat. Losing inches is a GREAT thing! I bet if you start taking measurements, you'll see the numbers getting smaller, just like on the scale. It's very rewarding.

    That's actually a myth. A pound is a pound is a pound. A pound of fat still weighs the same as a pound of muscle.

    However, fat takes up more space than muscle!!

    The idea isn't that a pound of fat weighs more than a pound of muscle. It's not the brick/feather riddle. It's that a pound of fat takes up more space on your body than a pound of muscle because of density.

    I don't know if it's true, just saying...

    Here's the proof: http://www.onemorebite-weightloss.com/muscle-to-fat.html
  • Brandon74
    Brandon74 Posts: 453 Member
    Just like everyone else has pretty much said, Losing inches is a good thing.

    The same thing was happening to me as well. But, in time I know it will continue to come off.
  • kategottli
    kategottli Posts: 20 Member
    From May to December of 2010 I lost 30 lbs but didn't go down a size (pants, shirt or dress). I knew I had done something VERY good, but I felt very down on myself because I was still in plus sized clothing and didn't really look or feel that different.

    In October 2010 I started running, and now I am up to 4 days a week of 3-5km at a time. The scale has not budged beyond 3-4 lbs. here or there. I started to feel very frustrated, because the scale hasn't moved since October of 2010.

    But, despite weighing 70 lbs. more than I did in highschool, I'm out of my plus sized clothes and am actually able to fit into a fair amount of my highschool clothes. It's weird to compute that I'm 70 lbs. heavier but still wearing the same clothes.

    It's hard to get into the frame of mind that it isn't all about weight when the original goal was a pound goal, and to get my BMI down.

    My attitude through this whole thing is that it took me 4 years to put on an extra 100 lbs. To expect it to all disappear in 1/4 of that time is insanely unrealistic.

    I have changed my life for the better and am now living a healthy, active lifestyle. When I weighed 140 lbs. I didn't eat nearly as healthy, nor was I active really at all. Now at 216 lbs. I make sure to get my daily recommended amounts of fruit and veg, keep my sodium under control, and run 4 times a week! And when I hold photos up side by side I don't look 70 lbs. heavier by any means. Heavier, yes. 70 lbs? no way.

    But when I look at photos from September, before I started running, it looks like I've shed at least 80 lbs., when I really only lost 30.

    So you people are not alone! Try to keep the frustration levels low, we're all doing the right thing!! :D
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