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lose inches but not pounds?

britnik29
britnik29 Posts: 34 Member
edited January 30 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm just curious if anyone would have to know the answer to a question. I've noticed that many times when I hit a plateau I tend to lose several inches during that time. Which I'm not complaining about because I'd prefer to lose inches sometimes over weight but I was wondering how that can happen. Anybody have any insight on how that's possiblevor physiology behind it? Because it seems to me that if you're losing inches pounds would correlate...

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  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    The only thing I can think of is an increase in muscle and decrease in water or fat. Muscle is heavier than water or fat, so if you gain 1 lb of muscle and lose 1 lb of water/fat, you will be smaller because the lb of muscle is smaller even though weight is the same.
  • Danalynn39
    Danalynn39 Posts: 38
    I am the same way. I will see changes in how my clothes fit. But the scale will not budge. Then I'll get a quick drop. And go a while with nothing again. I've been doing training with weights and have see a loss of 3.2 total over three weeks. I keep telling myself just avoid the scale. And go with how I feel. As long as everything else fits. Your eating clean, working out. It will fall into place.
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