scale has not moved since Monday, but I am really low on pants that fit, so I had to wash the pants I wore Monday, and they are looser than Monday, and the shirt I bought on Saturday a little tight, now fits great. Weird, right?

Losing those inches! It feels great to force yourself into something to big or have to shop for a new smaller size huh? Not really wierd. Remember fat takes up more space in your body. One pound of fat is profuse and floppy while one pound of muscle is compact and tight. Embrace it!

I am slowly running out of clothes. I gained all my weight while pregnant, most with my first and then more with my second. I am just about at the weight I was after giving birth to my first son, so I have a whole bunch of size 8/10 pants med/small shirts, and then nothing until size 18, which I am in now and are starting to get big. SHOPPING TIME!

Weird, right?

Not weird......just science. Muscle weighs more than fat it replaces. As you lose the fat and exercise, you gain muscle. The muscle will take up less space but not show a weight change due to being a little heavier than the fat it replaces. Hence the looser clothes, but the scale not moving.

All good.....keep up the good work....

Muscle is not heavier than fat! It is more dense, therefore the mass that makes up 1lb of muscle is less than the mass that it takes to make 1 lb of fat! I see this all the time, 1 pound is 1 pound.

Yes the losing of inches is the depletion of fat cells, and if you are workingout (lifting weights) then you are building muscle which is where the scale stall but inches lost comes from.

Good job on the weight/inches lost, keep up the hard work all!

Muscle is not heavier than fat! It is more dense, therefore the mass that makes up 1lb of muscle is less than the mass that it takes to make 1 lb of fat! I see this all the time, 1 pound is 1 pound.

Yes the losing of inches is the depletion of fat cells, and if you are workingout (lifting weights) then you are building muscle which is where the scale stall but inches lost comes from.

Good job on the weight/inches lost, keep up the hard work all!

Muscle is heavier than fat when talking about comparing the same volume of each.

"In summary, research suggests that muscle density is 1.06 g/ml and fat density is (about) 0.9 g/ml. Thus, one litre of muscle would weigh 1.06 kg and one litre of fat would weigh 0.9 kg. In other words, muscle is about 18% denser than fat."

http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/Library/WeightLoss/which-weighs-more-fat-or-muscle_1.html#.VUt5fHl0zTw

I laugh because I remember when I never wanted to wash my jeans because they would be to tight and now I am washing them in hot Water. It's so much more important to me how my clothes fit than what the scale says.

~LA

That is mass not weight! Yes muscle is more dense! So the volume will be different. It does take less mass of muscle to equal one pound. Compared to the amount of volume to equal one pound of fat. DENSITY DOES NOT EQUAL WEIGHT! A pallette with a ton of bricks will have less bricks on it, than a pallette with a of feathers on it!

KingMoose, on 07 May 2015 - 11:43, said:

That is mass not weight! Yes muscle is more dense! So the volume will be different. It does take less mass of muscle to equal one pound. Compared to the amount of volume to equal one pound of fat. DENSITY DOES NOT EQUAL WEIGHT! A pallette with a ton of bricks will have less bricks on it, than a pallette with a of feathers on it!

A palette is not a unit of measurement for volume, it's merely a surface to load something onto.. not sure what it has to do with the human body but I can see it's very important for you to have the last word.

You exactly right a pallette is not a measurement of volume, and is a surface in which to load something. That is something we can agree on. But, what else are you going to put a ton of something on to, then be able to put said thing on a scale?

My question still is how do you think a pound of something weighs less or more than a pound of something else? A pound is a pound! 16 ounces equals a pound no matter what it is! It may take more of some things to equal that one pound than others but it still equals a pound! So what I have been trying to explain is that it takes more fat cells (mass) to equal a pound (weight) than the amount of muscle cells to equal the same pound (again weight)! Therefore muscle is more dense than fat and gram per liter (mass) muscle will weigh more than fat.

The pallette thing is just an analogy.

nobody cares.......besides, you see what happens when you attempt to be so accurate......

a pallette is for painting and a "pallet" is what you would put a ton of bricks on.

Just sayin.....let it go. The OP and I'm sure everyone else, gets the idea.

Hahahaha autocorrect

Sorry if I rubbed anybody wrong, it was not my intention. That is just a pet peve of mine.