Same weight but look bigger

kittyy250
kittyy250 Posts: 31 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi
I don't log calories anymore as I am happy with my weight
I have been working out pretty intensely a couple of times a week for a few months now...

The thing is I have stayed the same weight (which is fine) but I feel like I look bigger than I did before?

Why???

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  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    kittyy250 wrote: »
    Hi
    I don't log calories anymore as I am happy with my weight
    I have been working out pretty intensely a couple of times a week for a few months now...

    The thing is I have stayed the same weight (which is fine) but I feel like I look bigger than I did before?

    Why???

    Feel like or you are bigger? eta: what is the intense exercise that you are doing twice a week for the past few months?
  • frankie671
    frankie671 Posts: 51 Member
    Could it be muscle gain? Or perhaps you are bloated at the moment and that's why you are feeling bigger? Water retention? When it's my TOTM I always get bloated and my clothes are tighter, even if I drink tons of water and try and up the cardio. The joys of being a woman ;)
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I give no credence to feelings about looking bigger. In my 2.5 years on MFP never has a person who felt like she looked bigger while weighing less provided hard data (measurements) to substantiate the claim. Please understand that feelings on appearance and actual physical changes can differ greatly. Weight loss can very much be a mind game.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Relying on feelings is not reliable. I can feel both much bigger and much smaller in a course of a few hours although I'm actually the same. It depends on what clothes you are wearing, what exercises you are doing (when I increased my running speed I felt bigger because moving my mass was harder), your general mental state, what people surround you, even movies you are watching or music you are listening to. Perception is never a solid indicator of anything other than the perception itself.
  • courtneyfabulous
    courtneyfabulous Posts: 1,863 Member
    You might have changed your body composition- odd though, usually when people gain muscle and lose fat but stay the same weight they become a bit smaller not bigger since fat has more volume than the same weight of muscle. If you've been doing any type of squats or weight lifting or a lot of hiking or biking your glute & quad muscles may have grown, making pants fit tighter, or you could have bigger calves now or more muscle in your arms... this happened to me when I started exercising- my boots that used to be loose on my calves are now tight, my butt is bigger and higher... but my ankles & waist got thinner. It's an overall better look & shape IMO.
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    Are you clothes getting tighter. That's a feeling

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