4th week and I’ve gained weight
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When you start out you add lean muscle when you exercise which weighs more than fat by volume. This can be a trap if you stop with your plan now. Patience is so important. You will turn the corner. Adding that lean muscle will help you to burn more calories in the long run. ......it is a long run.9
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You're gaining muscle weight as you lose fat weight. Muscle weighs more than the same space that fat takes up, so this may explain the weight, but not necessarily the clothing and how it feels. Give it more time. If you keep up what you're doing, you'll be fit and fabulous in no time! You'll notice things about your body that will make you very happy! Don't give up!!
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Ceegrams2003 wrote: »You may be gaining muscle, not fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You said you are using weights, so that may be what's going on. Get yourself a digital weight scale with a BMI reading. That will tell you if you are losing fat. If you are losing fat and still gaining - you are adding muscle
This is a popular fallacy. Women cannot easily add muscle. Doing everything exactly right, including heavy weight lifting and really good diet, including on-point macros, a woman can add about .25 lbs of muscle a week.
Did nobody read the thread before answering? Also, having a pound of muscle burns 4-6 calories more than a pound of fat.9 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Ceegrams2003 wrote: »You may be gaining muscle, not fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You said you are using weights, so that may be what's going on. Get yourself a digital weight scale with a BMI reading. That will tell you if you are losing fat. If you are losing fat and still gaining - you are adding muscle
This is a popular fallacy. Women cannot easily add muscle. Doing everything exactly right, including heavy weight lifting and really good diet, including on-point macros, a woman can add about .25 lbs of muscle a week.
Quoting this since it's been restated at least twice by people who haven't read the thread. If the OP is building muscle at the same rate that she's losing fat, it's still because she isn't in much of a calorie deficit. Women simply don't gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week.7 -
diannethegeek wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Ceegrams2003 wrote: »You may be gaining muscle, not fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You said you are using weights, so that may be what's going on. Get yourself a digital weight scale with a BMI reading. That will tell you if you are losing fat. If you are losing fat and still gaining - you are adding muscle
This is a popular fallacy. Women cannot easily add muscle. Doing everything exactly right, including heavy weight lifting and really good diet, including on-point macros, a woman can add about .25 lbs of muscle a week.
Quoting this since it's been restated at least twice by people who haven't read the thread. If the OP is building muscle at the same rate that she's losing fat, it's still because she isn't in much of a calorie deficit. Women simply don't gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week.
We're chasing each other around, @diannethegeek. :laugh:3 -
diannethegeek wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Ceegrams2003 wrote: »You may be gaining muscle, not fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You said you are using weights, so that may be what's going on. Get yourself a digital weight scale with a BMI reading. That will tell you if you are losing fat. If you are losing fat and still gaining - you are adding muscle
This is a popular fallacy. Women cannot easily add muscle. Doing everything exactly right, including heavy weight lifting and really good diet, including on-point macros, a woman can add about .25 lbs of muscle a week.
Quoting this since it's been restated at least twice by people who haven't read the thread. If the OP is building muscle at the same rate that she's losing fat, it's still because she isn't in much of a calorie deficit. Women simply don't gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week.
yes - was going to repeat exactly this. no woman is going to gain muscle at a rate that would out pace fat loss - and certainly not significant muscle mass in one month.1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »diannethegeek wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Ceegrams2003 wrote: »You may be gaining muscle, not fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. You said you are using weights, so that may be what's going on. Get yourself a digital weight scale with a BMI reading. That will tell you if you are losing fat. If you are losing fat and still gaining - you are adding muscle
This is a popular fallacy. Women cannot easily add muscle. Doing everything exactly right, including heavy weight lifting and really good diet, including on-point macros, a woman can add about .25 lbs of muscle a week.
Quoting this since it's been restated at least twice by people who haven't read the thread. If the OP is building muscle at the same rate that she's losing fat, it's still because she isn't in much of a calorie deficit. Women simply don't gain 1-2 pounds of muscle a week.
We're chasing each other around, @diannethegeek. :laugh:
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How many ounces of water are you drinking. Plenty might not be enough. Cut back on calories 50-75 a day until you start seeing a loss.
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What? A day? No. It can sometimes take 2-4 weeks to see results from any sort of change in the amount you eat to starting a new workout routine.Brian_is_back wrote: »How many ounces of water are you drinking. Plenty might not be enough. Cut back on calories 50-75 a day until you start seeing a loss.
What she needs to do is go through the flow chart that was posted on the first page and really review if her logging is accurate. This includes how she logs exercise calories. If it is, then if she were to cut back, she should cut down 50-100 cals and stick to that for 2-4 weeks.
Not keep going down until all she's doing is pretty much sucking air in hopes of a scale drop.1 -
Weighing made a HUGE difference over meazuing cups and spoons for me. I hadn't lost anything in 6 weeks, but when I got the scale I realized I was eating up to twice as much as I thought.3
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Weighing everything rather than using measuring spoons or cups will make it more accurate. Even for items that you think would be fairly standard, it can make quite a difference. I've noticed apples and bananas are always under if you use a '1 apple' type entry rather than doing it by gram.2
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