Why am I the same weight?

TheIceMaker

For about a month now, I've really cut out junk food, but have been exercising loads.
I can see from my clothes that I am gettin smaller, but I am still more or less the same weight..

What am I doing wrong?

Attol

If you've gained muscle where there was fat before that could explain it. Muscle weighs more than fat. You shouldn't go by weight when judging yourself. Fitness, amount of muscle and general appearance aren't taken into account by weight.

g'em

Ladylotts is right, muscle mass weighs 3-4 times more than fat. Over the last three months I've lost nearly two inches around my waist, but gained 4lbs of muscle.

judge progress by how clothes fit, not the scales.

Sangre

Don't use the scales to judge yourself not only because it varies during the day but because it can be deceiving depending on your diet/training.

If you think you look better then thats all that matters.

Duck Soup

I understand the frustration, but it stems from most people using the weighing scales as their sole or main measure of progress. Seeing how clothes fit is one way to measure progress, but it can be a bit imprecise in a situation where most people want to measure weekly or fortnightly progress.

There are two other ways of measuring progress. One would be to take measurements of your waist, chest, upper arms and thighs. Re-measure on a fortnightly basis. It's still a slow way of judging progress, but at least you'll have some concrete stats to look at.

Another would be to invest - or borrow - weighing scales that measure body fat. These are much maligned, but I found them useful if you know how to use them.

One criticism is that they're imprecise (you can get a much more precise body fat evaluation by getting someone at a gym to test you with calipers). Say your scales tell you that you're 29% body fat when you're actually 26%. Personally that wouldn't worry me as long as I had a base reading from which to start. I found for every 2-3lbs I lost, the body fat reading came down half a percentage point. Over a month, the bodyfat reading came down an average of 2%. Always weigh yourself on the same day, at the same time of the day, every week.

Siogfinsceal

yup, dont go by what you weight. I weight much more than people think but because lots of that is muscle they dont think it! go by a body fat measurment or I just go by what I see, I know if im smaller cos my clothes are looser etc