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    Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

    Okay. This is a little crazy. This past week I went down by 4.5 inches. That would make 15.08 inches in a month.

    The scale, however, has decided not to budge from the first 5 water pounds more than six weeks ago!!!!!

    Who can shed some light on this for me?
    Started again: 10 November 2007!

    No stats for two weeks.

    If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten...

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    Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

    The scales will catch up eventually!!

    as long as either the tape measure or scales are moving you're good!!

    congrats on such a wonderful inch loss!
    HW 303
    Aug '04 SW-287 LW-232
    Restart - Apr 07 - SW 266 CW 225




    "Don't let your past dictate who you are, but let it be a part of who you become."

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    • #3
      Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

      Yep... the scales will catch up (unless you're making lots of lovely muscle) sooner or later, and it's the inches that count anyway. Congrats!!
      Before and after:






      PLEDGING FLIGHTS
      Completed: 1st set of buildings and mountains (Everest,M.Blanc & Kilimanjaro, twice); Tower Masts & Chimneys; More virtual buildings; Challenger's Choice x 2 (volcanos and mountains on Mars). Currently climbing: Mount Snowdon again: 416/475

      Start 10 Jan 2005. Maintenance since Aug. 2005.
      F/56yrs/5'.4"
      SW:77.7 LW:56.5 CW:60.1 (kilos)

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      • #4
        Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

        See page 148 in Dr A's book...

        "Your loss of inches is of fundamental importance for it represents real fat loss--the emptying of your fat cells."
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        • #5
          Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

          Not to hijack the thread... but how does that work? If your fat cells are emptying shouldn't you see a drop in weight? You say, the scale will catch up... but where is the weight while it's "in limbo"... not on your body inches but obviously still in your body since the scale is the same. Its just strange to me... but obviously SOMETHING is happening if massive inches have dropped.
          Re-Start Date: June 1, 2009
          Female/5'7"/Highest Weight: 252lbs.
          SW252/CW246/GW140
          10% to goal, 241lbs: ?
          20% to goal, 230lbs: ?
          30% to goal, 219lbs: ?
          40% to goal, 208lbs: ?
          50% to goal, 197lbs: ?
          60% to goal, 186lbs: ?
          70% to goal, 175lbs (lowest weight in 10 years): ?
          80% to goal, 164lbs: ?
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            Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

            Originally posted by cutecourters
            Not to hijack the thread... but how does that work? If your fat cells are emptying shouldn't you see a drop in weight? You say, the scale will catch up... but where is the weight while it's "in limbo"... not on your body inches but obviously still in your body since the scale is the same. Its just strange to me... but obviously SOMETHING is happening if massive inches have dropped.
            Good questions...Dr A doesn't give a definite answer as far as I can tell, as to the fat cells emptying but no drop in weight. He says exactly what's been said here though...the scales will catch up. I'm sorry to not be able to give you an exact answer, but I do know that it depends on hormonal changes, medications, increased muscle mass due to exercise, to name a few. He does go into more detail about it in the book.
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            • #7
              Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

              Nope, it DOES make sense absolutely. because fat weight in pounds is extremely low compared to its size. If you do some search, I am sure is easy to find many articles about this phenomenon... complete with pictures of One-pound-piece-of-fat and One-pound-piece-of-Muscle..... you will be amazed how HUGE the fat is compared to muscle chunk.


              Dui
              Duinai
              Female 5'4" 48 ye old
              Started Atkins 5/1/2004
              180/145/143..... 143 (maintenance)
              Maybe I want to go to 140
              Size 18/ size 7



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              • #8
                Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

                Hi everyone. I've stalled this past two weeks on the scales, but I've lost over 12" in that time. I found this thread in the 'most memorable posts' forum. It answered everything for me! Hope this helps why we are experiencing the stall......

                http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ead.php?t=1378
                Carmel, F36, 5'10

                SD - 11Apr07, 239/224/185
                Inch loss to date - 47.8"

                MG - Trip to Barcelona 9/5, 215.
                MG - Trip to Berlin 11/5, 205
                GOAL – Christimas 07, 185!

                Visit my journal ajourneyofathousandmilesstartswithonesmallstep
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                • #9
                  Re: Shrinking but no weight loss. Input, please...

                  Originally posted by Duinai
                  Nope, it DOES make sense absolutely. because fat weight in pounds is extremely low compared to its size. If you do some search, I am sure is easy to find many articles about this phenomenon... complete with pictures of One-pound-piece-of-fat and One-pound-piece-of-Muscle..... you will be amazed how HUGE the fat is compared to muscle chunk.


                  Dui
                  That pic of muscle vs. fat is great! Well worth doing a search to check out, as it really brings the difference home.
                  Before and after:






                  PLEDGING FLIGHTS
                  Completed: 1st set of buildings and mountains (Everest,M.Blanc & Kilimanjaro, twice); Tower Masts & Chimneys; More virtual buildings; Challenger's Choice x 2 (volcanos and mountains on Mars). Currently climbing: Mount Snowdon again: 416/475

                  Start 10 Jan 2005. Maintenance since Aug. 2005.
                  F/56yrs/5'.4"
                  SW:77.7 LW:56.5 CW:60.1 (kilos)

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