Read this if the scale is not moving

very good article!!

That is awesome. I love the pictures that show proof. As soon as I get a darn memory card for my camera I plan on taking pictures. I hope that I can see some results.

Awesome! Thanks for posting!

That's why I take my measurements! :happy:

Is this possible?

My scale won't budge either and I've gone from no activity to working out every day, sometimes twice and eating a minumum of 1200 calories depending on the cardio I eat more but net the 1200. Never over 1400 cals. I rotate bw strength training and cardio so I'm not doing the same thing every day or even every week. WTH!! I hope this article is true. My clothes are tighter than when I started. I'm almost a month in and nothing. Not frustrated yet but I can see myself getting there.

Thanks for the post. I've been really stalled lately.

So glad you posted this. Thanks, it makes me feel better.

THank so much for posting that link! A huge motivator. I decided to not weigh myself at all for the next week... might even wait longer! My husband keeps telling me I am gaining muscle and that is why I am not losing weight. Thanks again!

Wow, that was a great and necessary read. I have to admit I even got a bit discouraged in working out and eating mostly clean and only losing .8 of a point. But she's right in that blog. Obsessing over a scale isn't going to necessarily show you all the changes in your body. Great read.

How awesome, thanks for sharing! I too needed this today!!! Thanks again

this is really great, thank you for sharing! I've been stuck at the same weight for quite a while now, even though I've been busting my butt and watching what I eat. But I know things are changing...slowly. I can see a big difference in my arms, they're BIGGER so they must weigh more, but they're also prettier than they've ever been before. The changes are much less noticeable in my thighs and butt but if it's happening in my arms, I'm sure it's happening elsewhere too...So keep at it everyone!

That's why I take measurements, those are my moral booster, when you see the inches loss! don't like using the scale at all, but do for MFP.

Thank you for sharing!!!

hahaha re: broken scale!

my weight loss has been really slow (slow and steady wins the race right?) I lost 30 lbs a year and a half ago, and have kept it off, so I am not going to complain too much - but I was getting discouraged - then a girlfriend of mine came to visit last September and she showed me her weight loss / body toning in 12 weeks via pictures - and the change was incredible. Since then, I have started taking pictures once every 3 weeks. I have lost 12lbs since the first week of November and while each picture doesn't look like much on its own ( I am currently at 213lbs), when they are lined up, I can really see the changes. I would share them, but silly me did the pics in bra & underwear ... .

The progressive pictures are great motivation in two ways. When I feel gross, I look at the progress, when I feel comfortable (and slack off), I look back at the pictures (especially the early ones with back fat and all) and just sit and stare, and think about whether that's really what I want to look like for the rest of my life..to acknowledge progress but realize that I am not done. It might sound self-deprecating, but it is actually a healthy dose of reality.

LMAO. I"m thinking the same thing. No way she can be 160 and a size 4. That's a huge amount of muscle and it can't fit in a size 4!! I'm a size 4 and I weigh 113!! I want to know what her height is. I'm 5'0

The thing is whilst 1lbs of muscle weighs excatly the same as 1lb of fat (obviously!) that pound of muscle is much denser and takes up far less space than the same weight of fat.

Thinsk of it this way. You have two cardboard boxes of exactly the same size in front of you. In front of one box is a pile of marshmallows in 500g packets. In the front of the other are 500g slabs of chocolate. Obviously you will be able to pack in far more slabs of chocolate into one box in comparsion to amount of marshmallows in the other box given the difference in dimensions between them. Therefore the box containing the chocolates will end up weighing more when filled to the top than the one containing the marshmallows.