losing inches not pounds not sure why??

Are you doing any weight work? If so your losing fat in inches and gaining muscle in weight. Its the ideal situation.

technically, muscle and fat weigh the same (a pound of muscle and a pound of fat both weigh, um, a pound). But muscle is more dense than fat and therefore takes up less space. If your weight isn't changing, it just means you are replacing fat with muscle, which makes you smaller but not weight less. Eventually, the newly formed muscle will start helping you burn calories like crazy and you'll see the pounds drop, too.

Ok, you're not really gaining muscle. It's really hard to do so on a calorie deficit.

When you start strength training, you activate the muscles you already have. They kinda wake up which means two things. First, they start to require water and water is heavy. Second, they start to absorb fat cells really efficiently which causes you to slim down.

So don't worry about building muscle; that's not the case. Keep doing whatever you are doing because whatever fat you're burning will eventually become bigger than the water weight your muscle needs to keep active.

A pound of fat is = to a pound of muscle?? I don't get why people say this, there is more mass in muscle than there is in fat...

a pound of fat = a pound of muscle (if you're talking about weight - pound is a unit of measurement of weight)

a pound of fat > a pound of muscle (if you're talking about volume i.e. size).

muscle is more dense than fat. mass = density * volume. so if you have something that is more dense, it takes up less volume for the same amount of mass (and mass is just weight divided by the force due to gravity). this is probably confusing...blast having to remember physics!

I went through the same thing a month ago, my clothes were getting bigger and bigger, but the scale wasn't going down any. My TOPS group told me to keep doing what I was doing b/c I was gaining muscle in place of the fat; (which is always good!!), then, finally, last week, I lost almost 4 lbs!!! I think I will come close to the same this week too!! (I will find out for sure tomorrow afternoon.) That month was awful for me, I am the weight recorder for my TOPS group and I get kinda dissappointed in myself if I don't loss along with everyone else, anyway, hang in there!! You'll see the results of all your hard work very soon!!!

Hope this was helpful!!

A pound of fat is = to a pound of muscle?? I don't get why people say this, there is more mass in muscle than there is in fat...

Regardless of the difference in the mass of the two, a pound weighs a pound no matter what your weighing. The pound is a unit of measure and therefore a POUND in weight of feathers will WEIGH the same as a POUND in weight of cement. There will just be alot more feathers to make up its pound.