I gained weight, but lost inches??
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BlackRose278
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I have been trying to lose the weight I gained while on medication. My starting weight was 183 pounds in February. I do the elliptical almost every night, and I cut my calories to 1400 at most a day. I have also lost 5 inches on my waist and hips. When I weighed myself 5 months later, I gained 1 pound and lost nothing. How is this possible?
I also take martial arts 3 days a week.
I also take martial arts 3 days a week.
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Inches trump pounds, WTG!0
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You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.-1
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I agree with the other posters. You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost. The scale is just one indicator and can be misleading.0
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jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
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IMO smaller beats lighter all day every day.
I'd VERY gladly stay at 155 pounds if I could be my old size 6/8 again
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jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut0 -
Congrats to losing 5 inches!! That's awesome. I agree with the other posters here.0
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jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut
Resistance on a cardio machine isn't going to provide enough progressive overload to increase mass so much that it causes a 1lb gain on the scale after 5months of trying to cut.
I tossed OPs stats age/wt/reported exercise into a TDEE calculator and still had 1400 calories at TDEE -30% if the OP was 2ft tall.0 -
jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut
Resistance on a cardio machine isn't going to provide enough progressive overload to increase mass so much that it causes a 1lb gain on the scale after 5months of trying to cut.
I tossed OPs stats age/wt/reported exercise into a TDEE calculator and still had 1400 calories at TDEE -30% if the OP was 2ft tall.
She said she does martial arts 3 days/week. That would absolutely be enough to lose fat and gain muscle in 5 months.0 -
I did not know there would be these many replies in such a short amount of time! Thank you so much for your help everyone, it really did give me some great insight on what's going on
For RGv2: I have a fitbit account and pedometer/heart rate monitor, and it gave me a calorie goal of 1400 calories if I wish to lose 1 pound a week. For guys, it's probably different. But, for me, I'd have to cut 500 calories out of my diet to lose 1 pound a week.0 -
SunnyPacheco wrote: »jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut
Resistance on a cardio machine isn't going to provide enough progressive overload to increase mass so much that it causes a 1lb gain on the scale after 5months of trying to cut.
I tossed OPs stats age/wt/reported exercise into a TDEE calculator and still had 1400 calories at TDEE -30% if the OP was 2ft tall.
She said she does martial arts 3 days/week. That would absolutely be enough to lose fat and gain muscle in 5 months.
Oh dang I missed that. Yeah that would do it (probably not the elliptical). I was in the best shape of my life when I did kickboxing.0 -
Can this be what's happening to me then I've been doing body combst aggressively 4 times a week for 3 weeks now and noticed no loss on them scales in fact I'm up half a pound. I do bouts of kick boxing. Boxing taekwondo and hitt0
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BlackRose278 wrote: »I have a fitbit account and pedometer/heart rate monitor, and it gave me a calorie goal of 1400 calories if I wish to lose 1 pound a week.
Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
Ignore your Fitbit calorie goal and follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments.
You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users0 -
SunnyPacheco wrote: »jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut
Resistance on a cardio machine isn't going to provide enough progressive overload to increase mass so much that it causes a 1lb gain on the scale after 5months of trying to cut.
I tossed OPs stats age/wt/reported exercise into a TDEE calculator and still had 1400 calories at TDEE -30% if the OP was 2ft tall.
She said she does martial arts 3 days/week. That would absolutely be enough to lose fat and gain muscle in 5 months.
Most martial arts classes aren't using weights, so they really aren't providing providing a workout for progressive overload. And considering the average person can fluctuate several lbs a day, I wouldn't be surprised if she was retaining some water. Heck, I can have chinese food and the next morning but up 5-7 lbs.
OP, can you open your food diary? Also, weigh yourself a couple more times this week and watch the trends.
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SunnyPacheco wrote: »jjmusgrave wrote: »You are gaining muscle and losing fat. Fat has more volume than muscle. One of my pet peeves is when people say muscle weighs more than fat. Not True. A pound of muscle is equal to one pound of fat, but fat takes up a lot more space. So as you are losing fat, you are losing inches. And gaining muscle is the weight gain. Which is a good thing.You are probably gaining some lean mass that offsets the weight of the fat you have lost.
Doing cardio 7 days a week and cutting to 1400 calories? Doubtful....
it's not impossible for OP to have gained some muscle if OP has been constantly increasing resistance & is short enough for 1400 to be a small cut
Resistance on a cardio machine isn't going to provide enough progressive overload to increase mass so much that it causes a 1lb gain on the scale after 5months of trying to cut.
I tossed OPs stats age/wt/reported exercise into a TDEE calculator and still had 1400 calories at TDEE -30% if the OP was 2ft tall.
She said she does martial arts 3 days/week. That would absolutely be enough to lose fat and gain muscle in 5 months.
Most martial arts classes aren't using weights, so they really aren't providing providing a workout for progressive overload. And considering the average person can fluctuate several lbs a day, I wouldn't be surprised if she was retaining some water. Heck, I can have chinese food and the next morning but up 5-7 lbs.
OP, can you open your food diary? Also, weigh yourself a couple more times this week and watch the trends.
Yep, 100% ageed.
It would be a hell of a gain in muscle mass, doing cardio, at a deficit of TDEE -over 30% to cancel out a loss on the scale.0 -
Wow! I am so sorry i didnt post back! I am actually really happy with how I look so far: my clothes are looser, my body is shrinking, my bathing suit is so big that I have to constantly make sure I don't flash anyone now!
Personally, I prefer body measurements and checking my body fat percentage compared to weighing myself: I get extreme anxiety with the scale and I would prefer to be toned and healthy than skinny with more fat compared to muscle.
I am glad for all the replies guys and gals, it means a lot
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editorgrrl wrote: »BlackRose278 wrote: »I have a fitbit account and pedometer/heart rate monitor, and it gave me a calorie goal of 1400 calories if I wish to lose 1 pound a week.
Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit
Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided
Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
Ignore your Fitbit calorie goal and follow MFP's, eating back your adjustments.
You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
I didn't know there was an "enable negative calorie adjustment"! That will help a lot!0 -
BlackRose278 wrote: »I did not know there would be these many replies in such a short amount of time! Thank you so much for your help everyone, it really did give me some great insight on what's going on
For RGv2: I have a fitbit account and pedometer/heart rate monitor, and it gave me a calorie goal of 1400 calories if I wish to lose 1 pound a week. For guys, it's probably different. But, for me, I'd have to cut 500 calories out of my diet to lose 1 pound a week.
Yes, I understand that it would be different for guys. I figured out an estimate for your TDEE at your age/wt, and exercise level... There was no way your TDEE was only 1900 calories for your age/wt and how much you exercise per your OP.0 -
Measuring in only 2 places isn't really going to tell you much. You could simply be shifting water weight around, or losing fat around your middle and retaining water elsewhere.0
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