The Scale Has Is Not Budging...

[ischia99]

Hello Ladies,

I am 7 weeks out from my first figure competition and it looks like I am at a stand still with the scale I have lost inches however and I am looking like I lost weight but I havent.

I was talking to some of the girls at the gym who also compete and they said they didnt drop a majority of the weight until 4 weeks out!! Is this true?? I just want to make sure things are running on schedule. Like I said the inches are coming down but not the scale weight..

Fill me in please, and keep me at ease.

Ischia

 

[The Shadow]

until you get a bf test - you dont know what has been gained or lost...

 

[velvett]

^ what he said

 

[ischia99]

^ what he said

Thats true... I guess I will have to wait until Saturday (thats when i get tested for BF)..

Thanks all

ischia

 

[*Bunny*]

Hello Ladies,

I am 7 weeks out from my first figure competition and it looks like I am at a stand still with the scale I have lost inches however and I am looking like I lost weight but I havent.

I was talking to some of the girls at the gym who also compete and they said they didnt drop a majority of the weight until 4 weeks out!! Is this true?? I just want to make sure things are running on schedule. Like I said the inches are coming down but not the scale weight..

Fill me in please, and keep me at ease.

Ischia

This is what you do - take the scale, go over to the window, and I want you to hurl it out...hopefully you are on 3rd-4th floor or higher to get a better smashing effect and (of course) no one down below to get injured



P.S. This is Bunny trying to help and I apologize since I cannot speak from experience (yet)...

Best advice I can give is try to focus on the comp, your lifts, posing, quarter turns (?), etc anything BUT the scale. From what I've learned, as you get closer to the comp date (4 weeks out and even the week of the comp), the carb manipulation and water depletion will help that scale number decrease, so don't sweat it NOW. I think you have more important things to worry about and try to re-direct your focus off the scale.

Best of luck

 

[Gymgurl]

Great advice Bunny! Don't panic yet!! Hang in there

 

[Sassy69]

I keep saying it - my weight didn't change for 3 months but I lost 9% bf. Then the weight came of a 1-2 lbs at a time. When you measure bodyfat, its the proportion of lean muscle mass to unwanted fat. Especially if you are seeing your clothes fit differently, you KNOW you are losing even if the scale doesnt' move.

 

[The Shadow]

From what I've learned, as you get closer to the comp date (4 weeks out and even the week of the comp), the carb manipulation and water depletion will help that scale number decrease, so don't sweat it NOW.

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...totally disagree....you need to know if the diet is working NOW....not waiting until time to deplete and realizing that you HAVENT dropped any fat over the previous 4 weeks.


Get the bf test done and see how it look to the last test......calculate how much fat you are dropping per week and project that forward

 

[ischia99]

I just want to say.. I love you guys!!!

I will keep you guys posted!!! By the way I tried posting pics this weekend but I had some technical difficulties.. ( i am not a platinum member, might that be a problem).. let me see if I can come up with some other way, perhaps through my avatar???

Bye all!!!

ischia

 

[*Bunny*]

I keep saying it - my weight didn't change for 3 months but I lost 9% bf. Then the weight came of a 1-2 lbs at a time. When you measure bodyfat, its the proportion of lean muscle mass to unwanted fat. Especially if you are seeing your clothes fit differently, you KNOW you are losing even if the scale doesnt' move.

^^^ I was going to edit my post to include that but I figured someone would point it out... thanks Sass.

I will state for the record I think a BF test is needed...