Is this REALLY possible??

I lost ovr 61 pounds in 92 days.

However, like you, I had a scale replacement. I had a scale I used when I first started MFP, but then my roommate broke the washing machine and it flooded the laundry room and bathroom and my scale got flooded with water - the battery started to rust and it wouldn't turn on. .

So when I bought a new scale 2 days later it wieghed me in a whopping 12.7 pounds higher than I was 2 days previous on my original scale.

The thing that makes me angry is that I will never know how much I lost, and I could be at like 70 pounds now, but I don't know.

Anyway, it's just a number. Congrats on sticking to it, and I am sure you lost a lot least something - and making those fitness goals are huge -so good work on that.

Find your best weigh in day unrelated to MFP's week starting on Monday.

Morning after a rest day is best.

Your fluid levels after your last workout have had a a day to adjust. Water retention in muscles from weight lifting have had a chance to leave, and carb storage being topped off has happened.

Just don't have that huge Chinese MSG/sodium laden dinner the night before!

I lost ovr 61 pounds in 92 days.

However, like you, I had a scale replacement. I had a scale I used when I first started MFP, but then my roommate broke the washing machine and it flooded the laundry room and bathroom and my scale got flooded with water - the battery started to rust and it wouldn't turn on. .

So when I bought a new scale 2 days later it wieghed me in a whopping 12.7 pounds higher than I was 2 days previous on my original scale.

The thing that makes me angry is that I will never know how much I lost, and I could be at like 70 pounds now, but I don't know.

Anyway, it's just a number. Congrats on sticking to it, and I am sure you lost a lot least something - and making those fitness goals are huge -so good work on that.

For just fat loss - you think you've really been able to manage a deficit of 2320 calories per day off your true maintenance level?

That's what 0.66 lbs of fat being lost would take for daily deficit.

Here's the kicker though, muscle only has 600 calories in it, compared to of course 3500 in fat.
Much easier to lose a lb of muscle, plus the glucose and water it could have stored.

True, it's real weight too, but usually not the kind you'd want to lose.

Just saying, the math there should be concerning.

Here's the kicker though, muscle only has 600 calories in it, compared to of course 3500 in fat.
Much easier to lose a lb of muscle, plus the glucose and water it could have stored.

That does not seem correct - site your reference.
even if muscle is treated like protein at 4 cal per gram and fat 9 cal/gram, the muscle would be 1400 cal.

Yes, it's definitely possible. As everyone has stated most likely water wt. from diet changes. It will slow down though, so don't give up! Your doing GREAT!!

when i switched to a new scale there was more than a 5 pound difference... (i made sure to weigh myself on old scale before getting on new scale)...
knowing i was going to be using new scale all the time was disheartening (a lil) because the difference was a higher weight than my old scale was showing L*).. but it all works out over time *S*

if you only have 30 pounds to lose it seems VERY unlikely you would have feasibly lost 15 in one week *S*

Good luck with your journey!

It could be a number of factors but the difference in scales could be playing a big part here as well.

In my sports club there are a number of different scales, a small one in one of the male changing rooms, a bigger one outside the main gym and others. There is literally a 7lb difference in my weight depending on which one I use. It's not so much calibrations as the surfaces they are placed on, positioning etc.

That is why if you are using a set of scales as the only way to measure your success it is important to measure yourself at the same time, under the same conditions and on the same scale each time.

It is not really the number that is important but the consistent pattern over time.

I am sure you have lost a sizeable amount of weight though. It is doubtful it is 15lbs of pure body fat but it is certainly very encouraging.

Here's the kicker though, muscle only has 600 calories in it, compared to of course 3500 in fat.
Much easier to lose a lb of muscle, plus the glucose and water it could have stored.

That does not seem correct - site your reference.
even if muscle is treated like protein at 4 cal per gram and fat 9 cal/gram, the muscle would be 1400 cal.

here are a few,


http://www.burnthefat.com/calories-in-a-pound-of-fat.html

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance-equation.html

http://www.jimcordova.com/articles/details.php?id=17


I know it's in the text that I've studied from ("Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism - 5th edition") but I'll have to look up the chapter and page number, which may take a little while.
Let me see if it's in my structural kinesiology book, it might be (although I doubt it, it's not a nutrition book).

I've known about this fact for a long time so I don't keep my sources at the top of my head on this one. You'll have to bear with me as I look up where to find it.

but you'll probably be able to note that if you take 95% lean ground beef on any calorie site, put 1 lb in as the amount, and you'll get between 600 and 800 calories for it, take out the 5 % fat and you're looking at approximately 600 some odd calories. For instance, go to www.calorieking.com and look up 95% lean ground beef broiled (I couldn't find it raw) and put in 1 lb (4 servings of 4 oz) you'll get somewhat close, but that includes some fat as well. I recognize that this isn't a perfect comparison, but essentially this is muscle, with a little fat thrown in, and you're in the same ballpark, within about 10% of the 600.

I am having similar results at OP, Going on day 9 and I have lost just over 12 pounds. All on the same scale, weighing at the same time.

I started at 207 with a goal of 30 pounds total loss. Im doing strong cardio daily with limited weights and jogging when possible.

MY MFP target calorie amount is 1210 per day and I have made it all but one time, and the next morning I gained .4 lbs.

Right or wrong Im a believer!!!

I've been doing this for 2 weeks and I lost 6lbs the first week and then I lost 1.8lbs last week. My mother told me it probably was water weight the first week. So I guess it is possible.