Losing inches but not weight?

sweetxsour35

Have you tried zigzag zagging?

What's that?

That's where you intentionally go over on your calorie goals some days and under on other days. I think the basic goal is to keep your body guessing but at the end of, say, a week, if you were to average out your intake over the week you'd have an average of your recommended daily calorie intake. So like if your daily goal is 1600, you might do 1700 on day 1, 1300 on day 2, 1900 on day 3, 1500 on day 4 etc. Just generally bouncing your calorie intake around your average goal. Just like everything else in weightloss, different people may do it differently.

Thanks for the help, I'll definitely try this.

llkilgore

How many weeks into C25K are you? There was a LOT of noise in the numbers the bathroom scale was giving me during the running program, which I think it had to do with water retention and maybe glycogen storage by my muscles as they came to terms with the switch from a low impact from of cardio - the elliptical - to high impact running. Everything had stabilized by the end of the program, and looking back on it, I can see that the actual rate of weight loss didn't really change when averaged out over time. The numbers just bounced around a lot.

I did everything up to W4 D1, but it was pretty tough so I'm considering repeating W3.

C25K didn't really start paying dividends for me, fat burning-wise, until W5. You are at a tough point in the program, though, so repeat if you need to. W3 was the only one I seriously considered repeating. After that I got my breathing under control and learned to pace myself a little better, and it got easier.