weight loss or inch loss

Both but i prefer inches lost everyone can see them and to answer your question muscle weighs more than fat so if your toning up loosing inches you may not loose weight but you look better for it

noone else knows the number on the scale, but everyone can see when you lose inches...

This^^

Measuring wins everytime.

Watching my weight makes me nuts, and truthfully, I don't care if i weigh a ton if I can wear a size 10. This is how i stayed the same size all my adult life until an automobile
accident change my whole life style: I decided what size I wanted to be and would not buy larger clothes, ever (unless I was pregnant). :drinker:

loss of inches = loss of fat ,usually, if you don't suffer from intestinal bloating or something, but even if you do then loss of inches = not bloated any more. It could be a loss of muscle tissue, although if your muscles appear to shrink when you're not training them, it's probably just loss of glycogen and water from the muscles (you'd have to not train and eat insufficient protein and/or calories for quite a long time before you'd get enough actual loss of muscle tissue to lose inches as muscle is more compact than fat)

loss of inches = generally good news, unless you've been totally sedentary and not eaten properly

loss of weight could be anything, it could be loss of fat, it could be loss of bone density, it could be loss of muscle, it could be (and often is!!) loss of water, it could be that you chopped your leg off or something (that's a way to lose a lot of scale weight in a very short time, and illustrates that weight loss is not the goal, fat loss is)

loss of weight = could be good news, could be bad news, could be water weight screwing with your head


personally, I don't do one or the other, I do both and also skinfold measurements and use all of these to determine if my body composition is moving in the right direction (i.e. more muscle and less body fat). Scale weight is not the be all and end all, but in combination with other information like inches, skinfolds, what you look like in the mirror and how your clothes fit, it is useful.

Both but i prefer inches lost everyone can see them and to answer your question muscle weighs more than fat so if your toning up loosing inches you may not loose weight but you look better for it

muscle doesn't weigh more than fat
a lb is a lb no matter what?

By volume, muscle does weigh more than fat.

^^^^ correct

muscle is denser than fat

1000cm cubed of muscle is heavier than 1000cm cubed of fat (or whatever volume you happen to specify)

I prefer inches lost every time. I measure everything, including the scale weight, to see a progression, but when it comes down to it, it's the inches lost or gained that changes my dress size.

Inches are the real teller, and never let your muscles go they fire your metabolism!