Weight Loss vs Inch Loss

Jagera

I've been mad at it with the jogging and 5-a-side football the last 5-6 weeks, and have cut down heavily on the calorie intake.

As such I am feeling the difference in the clothing, bit of room to spare with shirts & jeans, maybe about an inch off the waist, but the scales have not budged one bit?

Is this normal that one can lose size & not weight?

Ben.

rubadub

Very normal. I was 12 stone for months yet was dropping jean sizes, putting new notched in my belt every few weeks.

You put on muscle and loose fat, if you do this at the same time your weight stays the same, e.g. 1lb of muscle gained per week and 1lb of fat lost. Fat is far denser than muscle, 3-4 times I think. This means fat takes up 3-4times the space/volume as muscle. So your overall volume (in this case measured in inches) will go down. Also the muscle is extra volume added to places where you want it, fat is added/removed from places you dont, so this also causes more inch loss (if you are measuring waist, rather than biceps etc)

Reyman

rubadub wrote:

Fat is far denser than muscle, 3-4 times I think. This means fat takes up 3-4times the space/volume as muscle. So your overall volume (in this case measured in inches) will go down.

I think you mean fat is less dense than muscle ... but get your point