im losing inches but not weight.

[Lao Tzu]

i've lost 3.5" on my waist in the last month, but my weight has stayed the same at 262. does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? i'm not gaining LBM, i know that. WTF is this? this has happened before, when i was 289 i stayed at 289 for a month but lost about 3" on my waist before i actually started losing weight too.

 

[Clean]

umm maybe you are gaining but you dont notice it? maybe your scale is broken?

 

[juve]

why are you saying that you're not gaining LBM?! do you not workout, because it seems to be a reason for the observed phenomenon. On the other hand you might have some estrogen problems, i.e. gaining fat in other, specific regions of your body thus weight stays the same...but this doesn't really make sense since your waist size decreazed?!

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[Clean]

how are you looking beside your waste bro?

 

[Lao Tzu]

im looking thinner, others have noticed this too.

i doubt i'm gaining LBM because there's roughly 5 lbs per 1" on the waist, so i know i am not gaining 18 lbs of LBM in a month when off cycle.

 

[Clean]

I mean just because you don't notice it very much, does not mean you are not gaining any muscle. Does it bother you alot that you are looking thinner but weigh the same? I think it is the looks that count. If i weighed 300 pounds but looked awesome, whats the big deal ya know?

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[Lao Tzu]

it bothers me because i have no idea whats going on. this has happened before, but it passed after a month or so.

i dont look awesome. i still have to lose about 5" on my waist before i will be lean (around 12%).

 

[Taps]

Couild be you've put on some lean tissue, and lost some water weight which normally happens while dieting -- you're less bloated so your waist shrinks.

I know that when I come off a carb-up, I can easily drop an inch or two in pant size. Then again, I also lose about 10 lbs...so maybe I dont know what the fuck I'm talking about.

At any rate, you're getting thiner. Be happy about that.

 

[juve]

'Sarcasm: barbed ire'

Hah, good one..

anyways...at 262lbs i'd venture to say you're a big dude, therefore muscle increment might not be as visible to you as say to me...if i gained 18 lbs of lbm i'd look like cyborg because i have about 5-6% bodyfat along with only 167-170lbs (depending on time of day ) I remember in the other thread you mentioned that overall you lost 8.5 inches in waist and you need to lose 5" more? i'd say you probably have a high enough bodyfat, which combined with your overall weight, does not produce a visual effect of gaining muscle. Also, why do you say that 1" in waist is 5lbm? is it some kind of body proportion formula?

 

[d3track]

i'd be happy as fuck if i were you

losing inches and not droping in weight

it works for me

 

[Lao Tzu]

i'd be happy as fuck if i were you

losing inches and not droping in weight

it works for me

hell no. i was 302 in mid june, its why i started losing weight. When i was 302 i would break furniture all the time it was expensive and embarassing as hell. I want to do a cycle but if i gain 21 lbs or so then that would put me at 283, which is way to heavy IMO, i'll end up breaking shit again. I want to get down to 230 or so before i do anything to bulk.

 

[BileStew]

Hey Nord, PM me what you are doing to lose the inches but not the weight. I'm interested in what it is you are doing to make this happen.

Thanks

 

[Lao Tzu]

Hey Nord, PM me what you are doing to lose the inches but not the weight. I'm interested in what it is you are doing to make this happen.

Thanks

im not doing anything special, its a fluke. Its happened before to me, i lost inches but not weight. but the weight started coming off eventually.

Plus i've lost 1/2" on my arms since last month so im not gaining any LBM.

 

[westsnoop]

I read an explanation for this phenomena somewhere, and the explanation was that when you lose fat the fat cell replaces it's contents temporarily with water. Apparently the fat cell expects the stored energy to be replaced rather quickly. The water temporarily stored has less volume, hence the size loss. Weight loss will follow when the fat cells don't get the expected replacement.
I will try to remember the source of that information and post the link.

 

[dirtyboi]

yeah, i've had this happen too. very strange. and believe me, the Tanita scale isn't helpin figure out what's goin' on.

 

[dirtyboi]

BuMP!

Anyone can confirm/deny what Westsnoop said?

 

[dirtyboi]

Not much help, but...

http://www.anabolex.com/forums/showthread/t-36191.html

 

[dirtyboi]

And yet, another...

http://www.weightlossx.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8995

anyone find a authoritative answer?

 

[dirtyboi]

Links:

http://www.metabolife.com/healthyliving/ataplateau.jsp

http://pike.extension.psu.edu/Nutrition/HealthierWeighs/1999/HW2-1999.html

 

[ProteinFiend]

maybe its your posture, or fullness of your stomach? are you measuring at the same time during the day?

 

[Lao Tzu]

whats interesting is once i started using a diuretic i dropped from 289. Like i said this has happened to me before, i lost inches but not weight when i was 289. Then i did some diuretics and got down to 272 pretty fast and stayed there from then on. perhaps i should do some more diuretics to get me past this 262 shit.

 

[dirtyboi]

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