Decreased waist,increased weight!!

Hi friends..

I am 5.2" 24 yrs and currently weigh 132 pounds.

i"ve been trying to eat healthier  and running for about 30 mins 4-5 times a week for the past 2 months.

i feel better of how i look now with a reduced waist line now.

The problem here is when I started i was 128 pounds,now have gained extra 4 pounds with reduced waist line.

I have done no strength training and guess eating sensibly.

Can some one tell me what cud be the reason, i wanna hit 110 before end of this year.

Pls help!!

Since you have been running you probably built some muscle in your legs. Honestly, if your waiste size has gone down you are doing something right. Once you body adjusts to the added excercise and stops building muscle you should start losing weight again.

Sounds like you've added some muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat so don't worry the numbers will go down with time.

yea don't worry about it....I losta  ton of weight not doing much exercise, but then when I was trying to develop an actual healthy lifestyle when maintaining I started jogging like 6 miles on the elliptical...well I gained like 10 lbs in two months....everyone kept telling me "there's no way that's muscle etc. etc." and told me it was all fat....well my trainer and dietician found that while like 3 lbs of it may have been fat, the rest was MUSCLE, particularly on my legs (and they def. look it too!).....mean while my waist, etc. NEVER changed and my clothes were never tighter...it all leveled out though after time...so keep eating and exercising sensibly as u are and you'll be perfect....yet another reminder of the countless reasons why that number on the scale is quite irrelevant! hope this helps! :-)

I used to be obsessed with the scale, until i realized that it might be one of the worst ways to track your progress. Heres an article I found recently that I hope helps to explain weight flunctuations:

http://primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/library/w eight/scale.htm

Decreased waist! Congrats thats a huge accomplishment! Keep it up and soon the scale will show too!

are you sure your measuring in the exact same spot? directly around? one false movment could mean an inch or two

Either you've gained muscle or you're just retaining water.  I had the opposite thing going where I would lose weight (I've lost about 45 lbs) and gained inches around my waist (3, to be exact).  Bodies are weird. 

Surely it's more important to be decreasing your waist measurement than your weight.  I'm really not seeing the problem here.

All... Thats a sigh of a relief :) and today I decide I will control my temptation to weigh now and then.

Thanks for all your replies,the day has just dawned here and I am starting my day with great confidence.

muscles weighs more than fat.

you are losing fat, gaining muscle.

so, you are thinner but weigh more.

this is one thing the BMI is rubbish for.

if you have 5% body fat, and have lots of muscles (like those weight lifter guys)

BMI will see you as obese, which is stupid.

If you are eating in a caloric deficit, then its not muscle. Not possible. And muscle does not weight more than fat, a pound is a pound is a pound.

Original Post by mabenner1:

If you are eating in a caloric deficit, then its not muscle.

^This. 

Original Post by mabenner1:

If you are eating in a caloric deficit, then its not muscle. Not possible. And muscle does not weight more than fat, a pound is a pound is a pound.

It really depends on how you look at it.  Sure, a pound of muscle is equal to a pound of fat.  But a square inch of muscle is heavier than a square inch of fat because muscle is denser.  This also means muscle is more compact, so if she lost lost a few pounds of fat and gained the same in muscle, she will still be thinner.  In this case, it looks like she lost some fat from her waist, but gained muscle elsewhere, likely her lower body.  Or of course, it could be retained water, which can be fixed by drinking more water.

Original Post by corellia40:

Original Post by mabenner1:

If you are eating in a caloric deficit, then its not muscle. Not possible. And muscle does not weight more than fat, a pound is a pound is a pound.

It really depends on how you look at it.  Sure, a pound of muscle is equal to a pound of fat.  But a square inch of muscle is heavier than a square inch of fat because muscle is denser.  This also means muscle is more compact, so if she lost lost a few pounds of fat and gained the same in muscle, she will still be thinner.  In this case, it looks like she lost some fat from her waist, but gained muscle elsewhere, likely her lower body.  Or of course, it could be retained water, which can be fixed by drinking more water.

 Obviously its denser. But, like I said, if she's in a deficit, its not muscle.