Need evaluation of last week

JohnnyStorm
JohnnyStorm Posts: 43 Member
edited October 1 in Health and Weight Loss
There are a lot of smart people on this board and I am hoping someone can take a look here and evaluate if what I’m assuming is correct. Any thoughts, advice or comments would be appreciated.

I was initially discouraged that I did not lose any weight this week (still at 205lbs) since I was primarily working towards dropping weight with diet and HIIT. However, my impedance scale indicates that my BF dropped from 30% to 29% and this has been consistent over the past few days.

If my math is right this means that during the week I lost 2.05 lbs of fat and gained the same amount in muscle. At least it should be primarily muscle. I’m 45 y.o. so it shouldn’t be bone or other organ tissues.

If you take a look at my diet and exercise log; I am pretty accurate at documenting the food and cardio but the water and weight training is hit and miss. It’s too time consuming to log all of my lifting and I’ve been lifting long enough to know how much I lift and what exercises I perform and on which days.

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  • moushtie
    moushtie Posts: 371 Member
    It;s more likely the extra weight is water. Your muscles retain water when they're trying to recover from all that exercise you've been doing. it's ok, keep drinking water and it will flush out eventually.
  • JohnnyStorm
    JohnnyStorm Posts: 43 Member
    It;s more likely the extra weight is water. Your muscles retain water when they're trying to recover from all that exercise you've been doing. it's ok, keep drinking water and it will flush out eventually.

    Thank you for your comment. That makes good sense.
  • robin52077
    robin52077 Posts: 4,383 Member
    It;s more likely the extra weight is water. Your muscles retain water when they're trying to recover from all that exercise you've been doing. it's ok, keep drinking water and it will flush out eventually.

    Thank you for your comment. That makes good sense.

    I was going to say the same thing.
    It is not possible to gain 2 lbs of muscle in a week.
    Body builders work very hard to gain a few pounds of muscle a YEAR.
    And those scales are usually off. That 1% could be natural fluctuation of the scale because they are only accurate within like 10% or something stupid like that.

    Go by how you look in the mirror and how your clothes fit you, not any numbers on a flawed piece of equipment.
  • pnieuw
    pnieuw Posts: 473
    First, great workouts. I'm just starting the gym life, and have been doing the cardio, but not anything else yet. I want to transition to some lifting, but have to figure out how to incorporate that yet.

    Your diary looks pretty good. You are making great food choices. Watch the sodium. The new American Heart Association goal is just 1,500 a day, which is very hard to hit (I never do) but excess sodium will certainly contribute to a bit of water retention. You only need to hold onto a liter of water to add 2.2 pounds to your weight.

    I'd keep doing what your are doing. If you are dropping your BF%, the weight numbers will drop too. Also watch your measurements - you may be losing the inches, which is great too! The scale isn't the only measurement of good progress!
  • JohnnyStorm
    JohnnyStorm Posts: 43 Member
    It;s more likely the extra weight is water. Your muscles retain water when they're trying to recover from all that exercise you've been doing. it's ok, keep drinking water and it will flush out eventually.

    Thank you for your comment. That makes good sense.

    I was going to say the same thing.
    It is not possible to gain 2 lbs of muscle in a week.
    Body builders work very hard to gain a few pounds of muscle a YEAR.
    And those scales are usually off. That 1% could be natural fluctuation of the scale because they are only accurate within like 10% or something stupid like that.

    Go by how you look in the mirror and how your clothes fit you, not any numbers on a flawed piece of equipment.

    Thank you. My jeans are starting to sag a bit which is a good feeling.
  • JohnnyStorm
    JohnnyStorm Posts: 43 Member
    First, great workouts. I'm just starting the gym life, and have been doing the cardio, but not anything else yet. I want to transition to some lifting, but have to figure out how to incorporate that yet.

    Your diary looks pretty good. You are making great food choices. Watch the sodium. The new American Heart Association goal is just 1,500 a day, which is very hard to hit (I never do) but excess sodium will certainly contribute to a bit of water retention. You only need to hold onto a liter of water to add 2.2 pounds to your weight.

    I'd keep doing what your are doing. If you are dropping your BF%, the weight numbers will drop too. Also watch your measurements - you may be losing the inches, which is great too! The scale isn't the only measurement of good progress!

    Thanks for your comments. Hah! yeah, sodium intake is problematic. My snacks kill me on my sodium limits (Jerky and nut butters in particular).

    I will pick up a tape measure today to get a more accurate overal picture. Using a piece of string and a carpenters square just is not optimal for this.

    Good luck in working in your weight training with your cardio.
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