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That was not when she stalled, that was when she put her weight loss program into high gear. At this point she "over"exerted a set of muscles which had not been used near as much. That made them sore to a point, they surrounded themselves with a blanket of liquid and the cells sent the chemical message that they needed more strength so the hard exercised muscles grew more muscle cells. Muscle cells are much more compact than fat thus shrinkage plus they weigh more than fat cells. Result= trading fat for muscle plus shrinking and adding weight at the same time. A very good trade off actually. Muscle needs more energy therefor the liver begins using the fat to convert back to glucose therefore even more accelerated fat burning.
I had to take a 2 week break, due to pleurisy, and that is actually when I saw my Christmas low of 230 .4 Now, I am still doing C25K and I have finally had a whoosh (230.2 yesterday and 228.6 today) so maybe my body is finally adjusting to this added exercise?
Yes. The body is constantly adjusting to changes which affect it. Over-eating, under eating, lack of exercise, over exercise, leveling off during periods in between. The body is like a manufacturing plant which uses and discards different things taken into it, constantly adjusting to what it is exposed to, what it needs, what it dose not need. And all that goes on without any conscience control from us. The body sends different chemical messages to other body parts telling them what it senses is needed. The overexerted cells send a message they need more energy and need more help... glucose is sent to them and cells divide to make more cells. Not that simple but is in the complicated process of what happens in the body. When she began the running the body needed more energy than it was taking in, so there began an insufficiency in insulin resulting in the blood carrying fat from the fat cells back to the liver where it is converted through a few steps back into glucose, then distributed back to the muscle cells.
Maybe it was just taking a break from weight loss? Maybe I've been stalling on the scale but I've been loosing inches (that's what hubby says.....says I look smaller than I did at Thanksgiving)?
So, while I don't know what the answer is for you, running was not the IMMEDIATE answer for me. Of course if you can do more than a few minutes of a jog, at a time, without getting winded then things could be vastly different!
Whatever your answer is, I hope you find it quickly!!
JB, it sounds like you found the answer to kicking your weight loss into overdrive Originally Posted by [B
Mossy[/B], from 11/26 until 1/15 I bounced between 230.4 and 236.6 Believe me when I say I understand were you are coming from! I started C25K on 11/31 and thought that would really get me set to make my goals throughout Dec and January. That is when I stalled.That was not when she stalled, that was when she put her weight loss program into high gear. At this point she "over"exerted a set of muscles which had not been used near as much. That made them sore to a point, they surrounded themselves with a blanket of liquid and the cells sent the chemical message that they needed more strength so the hard exercised muscles grew more muscle cells. Muscle cells are much more compact than fat thus shrinkage plus they weigh more than fat cells. Result= trading fat for muscle plus shrinking and adding weight at the same time. A very good trade off actually. Muscle needs more energy therefor the liver begins using the fat to convert back to glucose therefore even more accelerated fat burning.
I had to take a 2 week break, due to pleurisy, and that is actually when I saw my Christmas low of 230 .4 Now, I am still doing C25K and I have finally had a whoosh (230.2 yesterday and 228.6 today) so maybe my body is finally adjusting to this added exercise?
Yes. The body is constantly adjusting to changes which affect it. Over-eating, under eating, lack of exercise, over exercise, leveling off during periods in between. The body is like a manufacturing plant which uses and discards different things taken into it, constantly adjusting to what it is exposed to, what it needs, what it dose not need. And all that goes on without any conscience control from us. The body sends different chemical messages to other body parts telling them what it senses is needed. The overexerted cells send a message they need more energy and need more help... glucose is sent to them and cells divide to make more cells. Not that simple but is in the complicated process of what happens in the body. When she began the running the body needed more energy than it was taking in, so there began an insufficiency in insulin resulting in the blood carrying fat from the fat cells back to the liver where it is converted through a few steps back into glucose, then distributed back to the muscle cells.
Maybe it was just taking a break from weight loss? Maybe I've been stalling on the scale but I've been loosing inches (that's what hubby says.....says I look smaller than I did at Thanksgiving)?
So, while I don't know what the answer is for you, running was not the IMMEDIATE answer for me. Of course if you can do more than a few minutes of a jog, at a time, without getting winded then things could be vastly different!
Whatever your answer is, I hope you find it quickly!!
And Mossy, seems you are doing the same. I totally agree with Mrs Snark about that between running and swimming, swimming is the way better exercise. And for the same reasons she specified... Swimming is hardcore exercise, easy on the joints (and believe me, they do wear out and are not designed to carry our weights while running, but in water none of that weight is felt, there fore very easy on the joints, or as Mrs Snark, who has the talent of making one word work for ten so eloquently put it... Low impact.
Keep it up and the scales will comply, in their own time
B F R
Sorry, gotta go to work, will post my own weight info later
Mossy
