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Originally Posted by geoblewis
I think what you're suffering from is "dieters' edema". It's water. You have been building muscle and losing fat, but you did not put on that many pounds of muscle so quickly. It takes time to build muscle. What the human body does is replace the fat that's been used up with water. It happens when we go on prolonged periods of calorie restriction. There are those who believe we just need to take a day or two of regular eating (like around your BMR), before the body will agree to release the water. I've experienced this on occasion, and it seems to work.
Just wondering what time frame you are referencing here? The pictures I showed were from 3+ years ago and I've been running/doing the 30 Day Shred/lifting since June 2010 so there's a lot of time to build muscle in between there.
Or are you referring to the 2.5 months since the end of Feb that I haven't lost weight but have lost inches? In that case... I'm just trying to do the math here. In the New Rules of Lifting for Women it says you could build about 2lbs of muscle per month, so that would be about 4-5 lbs that I could've built during that time, right? So in theory I could've lost 5lbs of fat and gained 5lbs of muscle?
Now, I could certainly be carrying around some extra water but I'm just not sure how to get rid of it? I've tried eating more a few days/extra carbs everything but I definitely never saw a whoosh after that! Just the same old on the scale the next time.
I even have a couple glasses of wine (spread out, not all on one night, I normally don't drink..) because I heard a few mention on here that that helps break a plateau too but again nothing.
I do go up some the day after a workout (I could weigh-in at 192-194 those days whereas my other days are about 190-192) but that goes down the next day.