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Originally Posted by onmyway1014
Hi Everyone -
Great losses and NSV's!
I got weighed at my clinic today and was down 2.8 .
After they used the body mass calculator thing my coach was upset because my fat % went up and my lean mass went down. My hydration was up slightly. This has happened another week also. My coach is perplexed.
She said it could be from only 3 things: too much excercise: waiting too long to eat: or eating something that is not on the phase 1 sheet.
I am not excercising at all; the longest I have gone between meals or snacks is 4.5 hours; I have really been trying to keep this as close to 4 hours as possible and I have not eaten anything that isn't on that sheet. I measure my veggies cooked and weigh my meat.
I am starting to get concerned. Has any one else experienced this? I have lost approximately 36 lbs of fat and 22 lbs of lean mass according to their calculations.
Any insight or ideas would be appreciated.
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Two things.
First, those scales are wildly inaccurate. The most accurate methods for measuring lean mass/body fat % involve a LOT more than just a scale. All the scales do is guesstimate your body fat % and then attempt to calculate lean body mass based on that somewhat random number. The usefulness is in tracking trends, only because they use the same calculations every time - but that doesn't mean the information is solid.
Second, we lose 1lb lean mass for every 4lb of weight lost. That lean mass includes skin and all the connective tissue that is no longer needed as we lose fat and our bodies change shape. So it is COMPLETELY normal to lose Lean mass when losing large amounts of weight, otherwise we'd all be walking around looking like saggy balloons
for spitting it out! wouldn't we have fun as a TEAM on a cooking show for IP!! we would win together!!!
