Aa
so confusing.
Ive been going to the gym for over a year and half. And i had fab results. Lost weight and mantained it at 9 and half. I was happy with this. However inwas also breastfeeding. I stopped in july and im still doing my daily routine ive added more exercise and goto gym 2-3 times a week. I noticed my jeans were getting tight and also my legs looked chunky. I thought i maybe doing too much leg exercising resulting in bulkin them up. However my legs are no way toned as they should be so i rejected this thought. But since july i have gained one stone. I knew someone wasnt right but i asumed i had gained only half a stone as i can still fit in my size 10. I dont get it. Is this to do with stopping feeding? Or do u weigh more when u have more muscle than fat? Its all highly confusing..im now going to watch my calorie intake and have only 1400 up til xmas. With the hope ill lose at least 2lb a week. Does anyone have any advice for me to what training i should do to lose weight. I do the air walker for 30mins and the exercise bike 15-20 mins and then sit ups and add in some leg exercises and maybe some arm weights. Im not sure what im doing wrong. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
Muscle does weigh more than fat
Listen to me! muscle doesn't weigh more than fat!! A pound of fat or a pound of steel or a pound of feathers is still just a pound!!!
Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, meaning it burns more calories when you are at rest, but the level of this activity often is overstated.
Muscle is denser than fat, which means it takes up less space than fat. While you may have heard that muscle takes up one-third the space of fat, the truth is a bit less dramatic. Muscle takes up approximately four-fifths as much space. Two people may be the same height and weight, but the person with a higher body fat percentage will wear a larger clothing size.
Muscle tissue will burn seven to 10 calories daily per pound. Fat burns two to three calories daily per pound. Replacing a pound of fat with a muscle, therefore, helps you burn an additional four to six more calories each day.
you can expect to gain 3 to 5 lbs. of muscle mass in three to four months, bringing your net caloric effect to 15 to 30 calories per day. The best way to benefit from the calorie-burning potential of your muscles is to actually use them. Your basal metabolic rate, or the number of calories your body uses when you are at rest, typically accounts for 60 to 75 percent of the calories you burn in a day.
Water can add as much as 10 lb. When doing cardio you can sweat out plenty of water. Water can make up to 90% of your weight. That can change your weight by as much as 10 lb. as per Jeffrey Dolgan, a clinical exercise physiologist.
Stepping on a scale a day or two after exercise can show an increase on the scale! It doesn't mean you gained weight!
According to Dolgan "A person's scale mass is a combination of muscle, fat, bone, the brain and neural tract, connective tissue, blood, lymph, intestinal gas, urine, and the air that we carry in our lungs. Immediately after a workout routine, the percentage of mass in each of these categories can shift as much as 15 percent." Intense workouts cause variability on the scale due to factors like hydration status, inflammation from muscle damage repair (we call this delayed onset muscle soreness), even the amount of intestinal by-product or urine and blood volume.
Don't forget muscle is denser than fat( you do know a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle?) It's just that muscle is denser meaning
a volume of muscle is denser than the volume of fat, and therefore heavier. This doesn't happen over night it takes months. Your scale will show an increase but your body fat will decrease.
Ignore the scale and pay more attention to your body composition.
Muscle is more metabolically active than fat, meaning it burns more calories when you are at rest, but the level of this activity often is overstated.
Muscle is denser than fat, which means it takes up less space than fat. While you may have heard that muscle takes up one-third the space of fat, the truth is a bit less dramatic. Muscle takes up approximately four-fifths as much space. Two people may be the same height and weight, but the person with a higher body fat percentage will wear a larger clothing size.
Muscle tissue will burn seven to 10 calories daily per pound. Fat burns two to three calories daily per pound. Replacing a pound of fat with a muscle, therefore, helps you burn an additional four to six more calories each day.
you can expect to gain 3 to 5 lbs. of muscle mass in three to four months, bringing your net caloric effect to 15 to 30 calories per day. The best way to benefit from the calorie-burning potential of your muscles is to actually use them. Your basal metabolic rate, or the number of calories your body uses when you are at rest, typically accounts for 60 to 75 percent of the calories you burn in a day.
Water can add as much as 10 lb. When doing cardio you can sweat out plenty of water. Water can make up to 90% of your weight. That can change your weight by as much as 10 lb. as per Jeffrey Dolgan, a clinical exercise physiologist.
Stepping on a scale a day or two after exercise can show an increase on the scale! It doesn't mean you gained weight!
According to Dolgan "A person's scale mass is a combination of muscle, fat, bone, the brain and neural tract, connective tissue, blood, lymph, intestinal gas, urine, and the air that we carry in our lungs. Immediately after a workout routine, the percentage of mass in each of these categories can shift as much as 15 percent." Intense workouts cause variability on the scale due to factors like hydration status, inflammation from muscle damage repair (we call this delayed onset muscle soreness), even the amount of intestinal by-product or urine and blood volume.
Don't forget muscle is denser than fat( you do know a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of muscle?) It's just that muscle is denser meaning
a volume of muscle is denser than the volume of fat, and therefore heavier. This doesn't happen over night it takes months. Your scale will show an increase but your body fat will decrease.
Ignore the scale and pay more attention to your body composition.
Thankyou for your replies. It makes alot of sense to me. I will try not to pay to much attension to the scales ;)
When breastfeeding you need to consume about 500 calories over your normal number. If you just recently weaned your baby your body is making hormonal adjustments. Be patient, be healthy.
Thanks hun. My daughter was over 2 when i stopped the breastfeeding..so does the hormonal adjustment still apply?
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