Losing weight while building muscle
Common Questions and Answers about Losing weight while building muscle
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It's not unusual to gain a little weight when first starting to exercise. When you begin an exercise program, you begin building muscle, so even though you aren't losing pounds, you might be losing inches. You might want to take your measurements - waist, bust, hips, thighs, arms - you might actually be getting smaller.
You might also want to think about getting your thyroid tested to make sure it's functioning properly since hypothyroidism is a major cause of weight gain.
Your mother is right. You are building lean body muscle mass with that exercise and that weights more than fat so you have a 'weight' gain. Suggest using a tape measure and not your scale so you know you are decreasing inches. Your clothes will start to fit looser too.
Not if you do chest toning exercises while losing weight. You don't want to lose weight without toning up your body as you go, anyways. Doing so would only cause you to have saggy skin and stretch marks all over your body. Make sure you are toning up! Also, spend the extra money to make sure A. you have a really good supportive everyday bra and B. you have a good, supportive exercise bra. As far as exercise goes, I recommend weight training every other day and cardio on the off days.
safe weight loss is 1- 2 lbs/week or 4-8 lbs/month. Losing too much weight, too quickly is not healthy and often ends with gaining it back...
You don't mention how many calories you're eating/day. If you don't eat enough calories/day, your metabolism will actually slow down in order to conserve existing fat stores.
Have you thought of keeping a food journal, if even for a couple of weeks, to make sure your getting enough calories and the right kinds of foods? You could also measure yourself to see if your losing inches instead of weight.
Don't forget even if you know what your doing your body sometimes takes a little longer to figure it out. Don't stop what your doing.
You didn't state what your meals consist of and you need to do strength training and cardio.
You will become trimmer, clothes fitting looser, without really losing weight due to increased lean muscle mass. Recommend lower your glutamine or other protein intake. The body only needs approximately 70-80grams total protein intake (food and supplements) when you are exercising. Hoped this helped you.
Vitamin D helps in maintaining bone density, that can help prevent you from losing weight, while another effect of vitamin D can help you gain weight. A study published in the March 2011 issue of the journal "Hormone and Metabolic Research" found that increasing vitamin D intake led to increased testosterone levels. Testosterone is a key anabolic, or muscle-building, hormone, and it can aid in weight gain.
For two years I took Zocor for the purpose of lowering my Cholesterol. When I complained to my doctor about my body aching all over she suggested I discontinue using the Zocor for several weeks. As time passed I realized a lessening of body aches so I decided not to go back on the Zocor. It has now been 5 months since I have taken Zocor. Meanwhile, I have been losing weight (about 5 pounds) without changing my diet. I realized that my pants were baggy in the thighs and seat.
I just thought of this too.... although you are not necessarily losing weight, you may be burning fat and replacing it with muscle. That is a good thing because muscle is a fraction of the size of fat. Again, all of the above apply here as well. Eat better, only the healthiest choices and smaller but more frequent meals. Drink a lot of water, lift weights and keep on the cardio.
re exercising, your building muscle. You should take your measurements and see if they are getting any less. Muscle is much more dense than fat, so if you're losing fat, but gaining muscle, you still might not see the scale move a lot. Go by your actual size. Do your clothes fit any better or different.
Yes, you need protein in the morning, but you also need it throughout the day.
So I take kickboxing 3-4 times a week, and a resistance (muscle building) class two days a week. I eat better than I ever have, mostly fruits and vegetables, almost no carbs, very few processed foods. I am not burning fat. I am building muscle, (my clothes are actually tighter), but I am not burning the fat. I don't really care what the scale says, but I would like to know why the fat is not going away. Any ideas would be appreciated.
and I had a similar problem when I weighed 260ish, had defined stretch marks around my stomach and lower back that were very irritating, so I ended up losing the weight and they mostly went away after a while but not entirely, but I used this cream called mederma stretch mark therapy, and it worked wonders, I highly recommend looking into it or something similar, if there's remaining marks after you've given your skin time to "resettle" so to speak.
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