Losing inches but not weight

A question about : Losing inches but not weight

Hi all,

Hopefully someone might suggest either some routine changes or tell me to be patient!

So, at the moment I'm doing two 45 minute spin classes per week, plus one strength session and a swim. I'm finding that my weight is staying pretty much steady (-1kg in 4 weeks) but clothes are getting looser. I would like to get my BMI down to the normal range (currently 26.5) and wondered if that will come or if I need to change my routine.

Diet has remained the same with the increased exercise.

Thanks!
R

Best answers:

• Don't forget that more muscle you build the less you can rely on BMI charts.
  I know someone who was told by they GP there they obese by the BMI charts. But they did a caliper and a wrist measurement and then said better forget that lol!!!
  Yours
  Calley
• eat less, missing out a packet of crisps works, and is easier than exercise.
• Excercise will change your shape but it burns off depressingly few calories - running a mile is about 100 calories. So you need to diet as well. However, changing fat to muscle is surely a good thing. I've dropped a clothes size recently without losing much weight.
• You need to keep changing the routine that you do so you don't get used to it, maybe do some more weights to increase muscle but I agree, the BMI charts aren't always the best. My PT says he is obese on them yet clearly isn't in anyway fat!
• If your clothes are getting looser in the right places then you're doing it right.
  The exercise routine looks really good, but it does depend a lot on what you're actually doing in each session, i.e. what are you lifting when you do weights, and how hard are you pushing yourself in spin?
  Have you got a fitness related goal to work towards rather than just weight? I think maintain motivation is the most important part.
• I would give up swimming and spin as neither of them aid weight loss
• Starting a new type of exercise results in water retention at first (the muscles hold on to more glucagon and glucagon comes with quite a bit of water). Eventually this water will be released and you will lose scale weight.
  Keep going, it will go. Losing inches count for more than weight, I think.
• If you're losing inches, then I'd say what you really need to ditch is the scales! Easier said than done I know, we're so conditioned into believing that one little number means we're "healthy" or not.
  Your fitness and size/shape matters much more to your health than the number on the scale.
  On the other hand, -1kg in 4 weeks is still -0.5lb per week. Which is a slow but steady and healthy rate of weight loss, not "staying the same".