SCALES WON'T BUDGE!

Bumping because I'm in a similar situation, I'm sorry I can't be of more help.

Although I cannot explain why the scale isn't moving, just keep doing what your doing, obviously "something" is going on to see your measurements decreasing. Your body and soul deserves the best! Feel free to add me as your friend. I will always be there to "encourage". This is hard work!

So your body is changing shape, but your weight is staying the same? So even though you aren't doing weights you are using muscles which will grow. I'd suggest stop being preoccupied with "a number" and start enjoying the obvious progress you are making and ENJOY the new heightened fitness level you are at:)

I hit these roadblocks too and when I do i KNOW that around the corner is a sudden rush of weightloss when it all catches up again.

Muscle burns more calories than fat when you are "idle".

Now go grab some weights and start lifting!!:)

I know it's not what you want to hear, but the scales lie sometimes. My weight has gone up 2 pounds this week and I just say LIAR! If you're losing inches, clothes are getting looser, and your face is slimming you are losing weight. The scales will catch up! I've gone 2 weeks with no weight loss and then boom 5 pounds! Just keep doing what your doing and track those measurements and you will succeed! (((HUGS)))

When you start a a new program...any program that is using muscle you haven't used in a while, your muscles grow. When they begin to grow, they hold water. It take about 4-6 weeks for the water to be released. Everytime you challenge yourself with something new and different, this can happen. You are doing fine....

The only thing I could recommend would be to check your diary for your sodium intake. Just make sure that its in a good range because that can affect the scales. Other than that I agree with everyone else, it sounds like you are making good progress. Keep up the good work!

Check sodium intake! Too much will cause you to retain water, adding water weight. How much water are you drinking? You should be drinking half your body weight in oz daily. (200lb person needs 100 oz) then just PUT THE SCALE AWAY! i always hated hearing that...but you have to. Dont get caught up on a number that doesn't tell what's going on within your body. I stayed at a plateau for two months once, lost a whole size, then woke up one day & dropped 7lbs in a week. Allow your body to catch up! You do your part & it will do its part eventually! Just be consistent with exercise & watch what you eat! Sidenote: I've been at the same weight since May & im still pushing! I've lost 5.25" within the last month tho! You shouldn't keep weighing it makes you stress & stress disaallows weightloss!

So glad you started this topic because my scales haven't moved for 9 days....my measurements also haven't moved so I don't have that as a comfort either.

I'm going to check my sodium and not worry until I go a month with no loss. Thanks everyone

are u sure ur eating enough?

Sounds like you are doing just about everything right. You mentioned cardio and just wondering how often you are changing routine? Have found out personally that varying exercise every two weeks(minimum) keeps me from plateauing

STOP worrying about the scale and focus more on measurements. Inches coming up are what you want no matter what the scale says.

Your body loses weight in chunks, not linear. I have found that you can do everything right and your weight loss seems to plateau but you are patient and keep exercising and eating at a deficit (however slight) you will lose it, it will suddenly "whoosh". There are so many variables for the scale though: water retention, digestion, allergies, sodium, carbs, water intake, DOMS, inflammation, the list goes on. People mistakenly think they lose or gain weight when they eat more or less because of these fluctuations

The scale is a trend tool. The scale is good but put it away and only check once a week and only use it as a trend tool, the same with other metrics. Take front, side, and back progress pictures at least once a month. You will see differences that the metrics won't tell you and it's that little bit of NSV that will keep you going until the next victory.

I ignore exercise calories anyway so the exercise log is just to track time spent exercising for me. Exercise calories are highly over rated. You can't exercise away eating too much food. I learned this the hard way most of my life running marathon after marathon (and lifting) and not being able to lose weight and in fact continued to gain year after year. And I don't pig out, binge, snack mindlessly, eat out of boredom, etc, but the portion sizes are too big for a small person like me. (well I wasn't small when I weighed over 170 lbs at 51'0"!)

Anyway I found what worked for me was separating out the two things:

Eat less to lose weight
Exercise to maintain or build lean body mass
end of story.

I found just ignoring all the complicated stuff everyone throws at us is the key. Day in and day out focus on two things. Eat lless, move more, stay within calorie budget (either weekly or daily). You can eat low one day and high the next, whatever you want. Well, it did work for me. I am the fittest, leanest, strongest, and most muscular I've ever been in my life at age 51 and I'm healthy and don't get sick and have long endurance.

Not according to "The Reverse Taper Diet " :

The Theory of Fat Availability:
•There is a set amount of fat that can be released from a fat cell.
•The more fat you have, the more fat can be used as a fuel when dieting.
•The less fat you have, the less fat can be used as a fuel when dieting.
•Towards the end of a transformation, when body fat is extremely low you
may not have enough fat to handle a large caloric deficit anymore.

At the extreme low end, when your body fat cannot ‘keep up’ with the energy deficit
you've imposed on your body, the energy MUST come from SOMEWHERE. This is
when you are at risk of losing lean body mass during dieting (commonly referred to
as ‘starvation mode’). This happens at extremely low levels of body fat, under 6% in
men and 12% in women [Friedl K.E. J Appl Phsiol, 1994].

Oddly enough, it seems as though some obese people have an unbelievable amount of fat available as a fuel, but a lower ability to burn that fat, whereas as they get leaner, they have less and less fat available as a fuel, but a greater and greater ability to burn the fat they do have. So at extreme levels of leanness, it is the fat availability that limits a persons ability to lose fat.

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If you have a lot of body fat reserves you would be surprised at how little you can eat (unless you have emotional eating issues or disorders). The leaner you get the less your body has to draw from and then you have to taper up your calories. There is no such thing as starvation mode for women over 12% body fat or men over 6% body fat. I am a living breathing example of that. I went from obese to now under 12% BF and I've maintained for one year and built muscle the whole time. You don't BUILD muscle in starvation mode, so I proved everyone wrong.