weight training & not losing

I agree inches matter most, heck they are my main goal :drinker:

Different reps do different things, found this and it explains it better than I can....

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/layne45.htm

3x10 vs 5x5 just do different things, I can tell you from experience the weight I squat (today 118lb, kinda stuck for now) I could not do 10 times in a row, heck 7 may knock my butt to the ground. When I'd do circuit training and do 3x10 I drop to about 75lbs for my squats and all other weights drop too, my main goal then is to keep my heart rate up.

As for your logging, no I didn't look and the bottom of my post was something I always post if someone is wondering why the scale isn't moving.

TDEE without taking exercise into consideration 1963 so I'm eating 20% under this (still the same calories as 35% below TDEE with exercise 3 times a week) So exactly the same.

I do have to disagree here. TDEE without exercise is NEAT (it is what MFP uses) with this you eat exercise calories back. TDEE is with exercise and you do not eat them back, you eat the same amount daily. TDEE- 20% is cconsidered very aggressive, its fine but is for people with large amounts of weight to lose 75+lbs. The number may workout the same in the end but overall the 2 methods are very different and down the road these number change and the math can get messed up.

Over all I think your progress is fantastic, I was just trying to answer the scale question because in a deficient weight will be loss, hidden by water weight though happens all the time, my body can hide a 4lb loss from me and then one day it is just there. So at your deficient (didn't do the math but guessing a 500 calorie daily) that is 1lb per week, that would mean for me I may not see it for a month. Plus weight loss is not linear so maybe even 6 weeks. That is why most say wait 4-6 weeks before changing a new program.

Strong lifts 5*5 is a great beginner program, ice cream fitness 5*5 is great too, especially if you want some isolation exercises in there. http://www.muscleandstrength.com/workouts/jason-blaha-ice-cream-fitness-5x5-novice-workout

On MFP under progress you can custom make things to track, so you can track your measurements just like weight.


I love the "cheating myself" remark, I feel this way too and never understand when people don't log things for the purpose of making the numbers work.....its a lie they don't work then :noway:

Lifting and enough protein will help prevent LBM loss.

Huge congrats on your progress and having a husband that lifts with you :flowerforyou: (mine does and I love it, well most days:grumble: )

I consume about 1500-1600 a day and do about 350-400 cals from lifting and fitbit activity so I'm netting around 1200 a day which I feel is a bit low to be honest!

I think I'll just go and change it back, lol!

FITBIT WAY WAY WAY WAY SERIOUSLY OVERESTIMATES my calorie burn so perhaps it overestimates yours as well.

I have 2 different heart rate monitor watches- one which used to say I burned a lot of calories and the other said I burned little. Once the first had been recalibrated with my current weight and my "ownzone" test (a polar hrm VO2 cheat equivalent) both watches said I burn very low calories while working out.

I had other lab tests it turns out, for me at least, that my body is very "efficient", and, as a result, I burn less than a lot of computers estimate.

One physio suggested that this may be because the computers estimate your calorie burns based on the body make-up up (that is to say lean mass/fat/water/bone composition) of a healthy individual and then extrapolate the calorie burn based on my weight - since muscle is more metabolically active than fat (ie a gram of muscle uses more energy/burns more calories than a gram of fat) thus- if the computer estimates that a person who is 300lbs has the same body composition percentage wise as someone who is 150lbs, then the computer assumes that the 300lb person also has twice as much muscle and therefore a higher calorie burn per minute (but the same calorie burn per minute per pound of body weight) .. However, in reality, the 300lb person may or may not have more muscle but if they are truly "overfat" their muscle ratio will be smaller and thus their calories burned per minute per pound of body weight will be lower than those of the healthy/ non "overfat" individual. My advice, don't trust fitbit's calorie burn estimates

it seems like every one else has answered your question but I will throw in my 2 cents.

1. The tape measure is way more important than the scale. Hell, my weight fluctuates in the 20 minutes it takes me to shower!

2. Since you are weight training so frequently ( I might suggesting adding some more rest time) your body weight is going to jump around a lot. I weighed 145 when I was rock climbing 5 days a week but I had lost a lot of body fat, And was wearing smaller sizes. Again, Tape measure > Scale.

3. If you are /really/ only eating 1200 cals a day, I might up it a bit. I think it is really important to net to at least 1400 a day, especially if your body needs those nutrients to repair the damage done by workouts and stuff.

Give yourself a breather. Take time AWAY from the damn scale. Put it all away for at least 2-3 weeks and then come back to it. I am sure you will feel better without the constant number hanging over your head.