I'm just getting fat again
dave_in_ni
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Right folks need some advice here. Few years back went on a big cut. I tracked all my measurements in jefit and I'd forgot about them until today. It's been a year since I last logged so thought I'd compare and its not great.
I have been lifting weights constantly during the past year so my numbers should be different right? Anyway my weight is up from 77.8kg to 79kg. My shoulders 5cm wider but the big shock is my stomach. Up to 96cm from 84, everything else exactly the same. This tells me fat is going on my stomach.
This isn't part of the plan to be honest. I've only gained about 4lbs and gained 12cm on my stomach.
With lifting weights I everything else should be getting bigger not my stomach.
What do I do?
I have been lifting weights constantly during the past year so my numbers should be different right? Anyway my weight is up from 77.8kg to 79kg. My shoulders 5cm wider but the big shock is my stomach. Up to 96cm from 84, everything else exactly the same. This tells me fat is going on my stomach.
This isn't part of the plan to be honest. I've only gained about 4lbs and gained 12cm on my stomach.
With lifting weights I everything else should be getting bigger not my stomach.
What do I do?
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Your shoulder width and very small weight fluctuation (your weight change is well within the parameters of weight maintenance) argues, strongly, about an unreliable stomach measurement.
I mean I don't know your particular situation, but in my case it would be extremely difficult to compare previous and current measurements. Especially since when I was taking my original measurements I had no idea as to WHERE I should be placing the tape. And my belly button has sure as heck moved south!
From: http://www.heartandstroke.ca/get-healthy/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-and-waist
Clear your abdominal area of any clothing, belts or accessories. Stand upright facing a mirror with your feet shoulder-width apart and your stomach relaxed. Wrap the measuring tape around your waist.
Use the borders of your hands and index fingers – not your fingertips – to find the uppermost edge of your hipbones by pressing upwards and inwards along your hip bones.
Tip: Many people mistake an easily felt part of the hipbone located toward the front of their body as the top of their hips. This part of the bone is in fact not the top of the hip bones, but by following this spot upward and back toward the sides of your body, you should be able to locate the true top of your hipbones.
Using the mirror, align the bottom edge of the measuring tape with the top of the hip bones on both sides of your body.
Tip: Once located, it may help to mark the top of your hipbones with a pen or felt-tip marker in order to aid you in correctly placing the tape.
Make sure the tape is parallel to the floor and is not twisted.
Relax and take two normal breaths. After the second breath out, tighten the tape around your waist. The tape should fit comfortably snug around the waist without depressing the skin.
Tip: Remember to keep your stomach relaxed at this point.
Still breathing normally, take the reading on the tape.
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Weight between 79 kg and 77.8 kg is 2.6 pounds. To me this sound like you have basically run a successful recomp for a whole year. Weight is well within acceptable fluctuations for maintaining weight.
I am leaning towards measurements can be off from the first time you measured to this time.4 -
I'm going to second or third the incorrect measurements.
I could never get anywhere close to the same measurements a week apart, that's why I gave up measuring! Do you have any pictures?2 -
So in other wordsYour shoulder width and very small weight fluctuation (your weight change is well within the parameters of weight maintenance) argues, strongly, about an unreliable stomach measurement.
I mean I don't know your particular situation, but in my case it would be extremely difficult to compare previous and current measurements. Especially since when I was taking my original measurements I had no idea as to WHERE I should be placing the tape. And my belly button has sure as heck moved south!
From: http://www.heartandstroke.ca/get-healthy/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-and-waist
Clear your abdominal area of any clothing, belts or accessories. Stand upright facing a mirror with your feet shoulder-width apart and your stomach relaxed. Wrap the measuring tape around your waist.
Use the borders of your hands and index fingers – not your fingertips – to find the uppermost edge of your hipbones by pressing upwards and inwards along your hip bones.
Tip: Many people mistake an easily felt part of the hipbone located toward the front of their body as the top of their hips. This part of the bone is in fact not the top of the hip bones, but by following this spot upward and back toward the sides of your body, you should be able to locate the true top of your hipbones.
Using the mirror, align the bottom edge of the measuring tape with the top of the hip bones on both sides of your body.
Tip: Once located, it may help to mark the top of your hipbones with a pen or felt-tip marker in order to aid you in correctly placing the tape.
Make sure the tape is parallel to the floor and is not twisted.
Relax and take two normal breaths. After the second breath out, tighten the tape around your waist. The tape should fit comfortably snug around the waist without depressing the skin.
Tip: Remember to keep your stomach relaxed at this point.
Still breathing normally, take the reading on the tape.
Iliac Crest??
The top of my hip bone...Iliac Crest, is almost 2 inches above my navel button. I am Short Waisted. This is also the slimmest portion of my body. The lady in the video, her waiste is at her naval button.0 -
This is why I don’t measure and I rely on photos taken every 3 months in the same bathing suit. I can measure and then immediately measure again and get different numbers. I don’t understand why. Photos taken in same lighting and same outfit don’t lie.3
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So in other wordsYour shoulder width and very small weight fluctuation (your weight change is well within the parameters of weight maintenance) argues, strongly, about an unreliable stomach measurement.
I mean I don't know your particular situation, but in my case it would be extremely difficult to compare previous and current measurements. Especially since when I was taking my original measurements I had no idea as to WHERE I should be placing the tape. And my belly button has sure as heck moved south!
From: http://www.heartandstroke.ca/get-healthy/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-and-waist
Clear your abdominal area of any clothing, belts or accessories. Stand upright facing a mirror with your feet shoulder-width apart and your stomach relaxed. Wrap the measuring tape around your waist.
Use the borders of your hands and index fingers – not your fingertips – to find the uppermost edge of your hipbones by pressing upwards and inwards along your hip bones.
Tip: Many people mistake an easily felt part of the hipbone located toward the front of their body as the top of their hips. This part of the bone is in fact not the top of the hip bones, but by following this spot upward and back toward the sides of your body, you should be able to locate the true top of your hipbones.
Using the mirror, align the bottom edge of the measuring tape with the top of the hip bones on both sides of your body.
Tip: Once located, it may help to mark the top of your hipbones with a pen or felt-tip marker in order to aid you in correctly placing the tape.
Make sure the tape is parallel to the floor and is not twisted.
Relax and take two normal breaths. After the second breath out, tighten the tape around your waist. The tape should fit comfortably snug around the waist without depressing the skin.
Tip: Remember to keep your stomach relaxed at this point.
Still breathing normally, take the reading on the tape.
Iliac Crest??
The top of my hip bone...Iliac Crest, is almost 2 inches above my navel button. I am Short Waisted. This is also the slimmest portion of my body. The lady in the video, her waiste is at her naval button.
Sounds like Iliac Crest is correct, at least according to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.1 -
keep lifting weights , make calorie deficit in your diet ,add cardio to your workout4
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mshidfar2018 wrote: »keep lifting weights , make calorie deficit in your diet ,add cardio to your workout
Why cardio?3 -
So in other wordsYour shoulder width and very small weight fluctuation (your weight change is well within the parameters of weight maintenance) argues, strongly, about an unreliable stomach measurement.
I mean I don't know your particular situation, but in my case it would be extremely difficult to compare previous and current measurements. Especially since when I was taking my original measurements I had no idea as to WHERE I should be placing the tape. And my belly button has sure as heck moved south!
From: http://www.heartandstroke.ca/get-healthy/healthy-weight/healthy-weight-and-waist
Clear your abdominal area of any clothing, belts or accessories. Stand upright facing a mirror with your feet shoulder-width apart and your stomach relaxed. Wrap the measuring tape around your waist.
Use the borders of your hands and index fingers – not your fingertips – to find the uppermost edge of your hipbones by pressing upwards and inwards along your hip bones.
Tip: Many people mistake an easily felt part of the hipbone located toward the front of their body as the top of their hips. This part of the bone is in fact not the top of the hip bones, but by following this spot upward and back toward the sides of your body, you should be able to locate the true top of your hipbones.
Using the mirror, align the bottom edge of the measuring tape with the top of the hip bones on both sides of your body.
Tip: Once located, it may help to mark the top of your hipbones with a pen or felt-tip marker in order to aid you in correctly placing the tape.
Make sure the tape is parallel to the floor and is not twisted.
Relax and take two normal breaths. After the second breath out, tighten the tape around your waist. The tape should fit comfortably snug around the waist without depressing the skin.
Tip: Remember to keep your stomach relaxed at this point.
Still breathing normally, take the reading on the tape.
Iliac Crest??
The top of my hip bone...Iliac Crest, is almost 2 inches above my navel button. I am Short Waisted. This is also the slimmest portion of my body. The lady in the video, her waiste is at her naval button.
Sounds like Iliac Crest is correct, at least according to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Ha..i feel for Iliac Crest on my patients every day. That's one of the known landmarks in radiology
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100_PROOF_ wrote: »mshidfar2018 wrote: »keep lifting weights , make calorie deficit in your diet ,add cardio to your workout
Why cardio?
Why not Cardio? I love cardio myself.2 -
I did think it was my dodgy measuring but looking back over my records the waist size does seem to tally up with my weight loss. Back when I was 80kg my waist was 94cm. Now the problem is this is not reflecting in my jean size. I have 32" waist in my jeans and still need a belt0
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dave_in_ni wrote: »I did think it was my dodgy measuring but looking back over my records the waist size does seem to tally up with my weight loss. Back when I was 80kg my waist was 94cm. Now the problem is this is not reflecting in my jean size. I have 32" waist in my jeans and still need a belt
This could be due to vanity sizing.
When I had a 40" waist at 196#, I was only wearing 36" waist pants, which were tight but that I still "fit."
Now, that I've got a 32" waist at 156#, I can fit 30" pants but wear still size 32" pants (that are very loose on me) because the pant legs on size 30" pants are tailored too slim to fit my thighs.0 -
Woo...imagine that...i like cardio..lol... Smh-1
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My logs from Jefit. I mean 1.5kg not overly bad the issue is where this weight is going directly onto my stomach.
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There are too many total cm increases for the kg increase.
I continue to maintain that you have a tape measurements issue, not an actual issue.
Has your pant size gone up since last year?
By how many numbers given a 14cm increase in waist size?
Btw I wear 32 have 96cm waist and am 6+ cm shorter. And within normal risks given waist to hight measurements...2
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