inches lost and weight gained?

shansd
shansd Posts: 48
edited September 20 in Health and Weight Loss
anyone else having this problem.
I have hit a plateau that for a while had me just sitting at the same number on the scale but now i have gained 4 lbs? but I have lost inches.... I know muscle weighs more than fat but i just can't believe that i put on that much muscle?
I don't know.

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  • sweetgl
    sweetgl Posts: 108 Member
    How fast did you gain that weight?
  • shansd
    shansd Posts: 48
    i think about a week
  • Gogo
    Gogo Posts: 9,942 Member
    Sounds more like bloating from sodium, but it is entirely possible to stay at the same weight and still be losing inches. Take it as a loss and congratulate yourself!! :flowerforyou:
  • LittleSpy
    LittleSpy Posts: 6,754 Member
    Could just be water weight in addition to some new muscle weight. I would doubt that you gained 4 pounds of muscle in 1 week as well so my vote goes for water retention.
  • WillPillageYourVillageForFood
    WillPillageYourVillageForFood Posts: 777 Member
    I don't mean to be ugly, but a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle. Muscle is denser than fat so you can weigh the same amount as someone with more body fat yet appear slimmer than they do. You can have more muscle per volume than fat but the weight of them is exactly the same.
  • shansd
    shansd Posts: 48
    oh i know that, a pound of something is the same as a pound of anything else.
    Just stated wrong.
    So muscle is denser than fat.
    I just find it so frustrating that people always seem to say that i put on muscle.
    I still have enough weight to lose that I just think my body should still be burning more fat. Gaining weight when I eat very healthy and work out intensely is very frustrating.
  • wattsam1
    wattsam1 Posts: 95
    what is the better way to phrase this then? That while you are losing weight/fat you are becoming more muscular than you were before so the change in the scale isn't as much as you expect it to be? We might as well learn how to phrase it so we don't get yelled at all the time!
  • Advengirl
    Advengirl Posts: 88 Member
    During my TOM and/or moments of water retention, I go by the tape measure vs. the scale for those very reasons. lol
  • CrystalT
    CrystalT Posts: 862 Member
    oh i know that, a pound of something is the same as a pound of anything else.
    Just stated wrong.
    So muscle is denser than fat.
    I just find it so frustrating that people always seem to say that i put on muscle.
    I still have enough weight to lose that I just think my body should still be burning more fat. Gaining weight when I eat very healthy and work out intensely is very frustrating.

    Are you eating enough? Could you be in starvation mode? That's what it sounds like to me.
  • MacMadame
    MacMadame Posts: 1,893 Member
    We aren't supposed to be able to gain muscle while in a calorie deficit. (I'm not 100% sure I believe this, but I do believe it would be darn hard to do and most people don't.)

    If you aren't operating at a calorie deficit, then you can gain muscle, but most people don't gain that much ... maybe a pound a month for a gal who isn't deliberately trying to bulk up like a body builder.

    But you can gain 4-5 lb. in one day from water retention. I know this from experience as Tues. I was 113, Wed. I was 117 and today I am 114. :laugh:
  • epoeraven
    epoeraven Posts: 458 Member
    While it is true that a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat, I would still argue that muscle weighs more than fat when looking at volume.

    In other words....if you take a three inch cube of muscle - because it is more dense - it will weigh more than a three inch cube of fat.

    So perhaps the correct phrase should be a pound of muscle occupies less space than a pound of fat.
  • jrobertson37
    jrobertson37 Posts: 90 Member
    This is the exact reason i do not own a scale. I have been dieting since march, started out at 210 and today tried on a pair of size 10 (junior) jeans.!!!!!!!!!!!!! :drinker: I was so excited. I use a tape measure to measure my waiste=34, hips=42 and thighs=26 and i have two more inches to lose and im done dieting and on to a new way of eating forever. I do not know how much i weigh and dont want to know. Is that bad?????
  • LittleSpy
    LittleSpy Posts: 6,754 Member
    While it is true that a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat, I would still argue that muscle weighs more than fat when looking at volume.

    Agreed. Obviously a pound of something weighs as much as a pound of any other something. That's why it's so ridiculous to even mention that in casual conversation. 1 cup of lead weighs a lot more than 1 cup of feathers. Lead weighs more than feathers. A cup of muscle weighs more than a cup of fat. Muscle weighs more than fat. The "equal volumes of each" part is already implied so unless you're talking to super ignorant folks or small children, you really don't need to explain the whole "a pound weighs the same as a pound" thing.

    :grumble: :laugh:
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Okay, I'll solve this problem.

    You are NOT GAINING MUSCLE when you're in a caloric DEFICIT.
    You have to eat EXTRA to build. If you could build in a caloric DEFICIT, you wouldn't be able to lose fat.

    It's a combination of water, glycogen, food, and waste.
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