I Am Trying To Lose Weight By Running And Lifting Weights. I Feel Better And Look Better, But Am Not Losing.?
…any weight. Is there a chance that I am building muscle at the same rate that I am burning fat? What is a good web site for information on weight loss and muscle gain?
Yes, likely you’re building muscle along with losing bodyfat. I suggest tossing the scale and going by how your clothes fit and how you look, or better yet, get your bodyfat percentage tested or buy a pair of calipers and figure out how to determine the bodyfat percentage correctly yourself.
There are quite a few good websites as well as a LOT of junk websites. I suggest staying away from websites that are pushing their own products and finding places that allow independent professionals and experts to post articles. One of my favorites is http://www.bodybuilding.com. Though they do sell things, they allow open forums and many different experts from different fields to post things, and despite the name of the website, it has many articles on things other than just bodybuilding.
Here are a few others:http://www.mindandmuscle.nethttp://www.exrx.net/Exercise.htmlhttp://my.apexfitness.com/cgi-bin/myapex…
Muscle weighs more than fat. You’re probably just gaining enough muscle to even out any fat loss. That’s a good thing though.
Mustle is heavier than fat. So you should keep doing what you are doing. You will loose weight after you keep doing what you are doing for a longer time. What is happening to you right now is you are gaining mustle ontop of your fat. If you keep working out the mustle will replace your fat.
If you lift heavier weigts and use less reps, you will gain weight, not lose it (because you’re increasing your muscle mass to outweigh the fat burned).
If that’s the case, go for lower weights and higher reps (maybe start with whatever weight you can easily do 25-40 reps with for a better cardio workout).
There is every chance that the weight that use to be fat has now become weight from muscle. As muscle weighs more than fat, you can safely assume that at least half or more of your weight issue is strictly built up muscle. As long as you are healthy I wouldn’t worry about the numbers on the scale. Balance in every aspect of your life contributes to your total health. If you can achieve that please let me know!
! As I have yet to find that kind of balance myself.
you need cardio and weight training in your exercise…you burn fat first then after you gain muscle……go to these web sites(below)…………….they will help you choose what you are doing right or wrong and correct it
Not knowing you statistics makes it hard to determine, but yes it is possible that you are building muscle rather than burning fat. You need to know what your daily caloric intake should be and then you should find a low calorie/low fat diet plan that you like. You should see results after about 2 weeks.
As several people have already stated, muscle weighs MORE than fat; I have heard that muscle weighs 1.5 times more. So you could actually weigh more than you did, but be smaller in size because you burned off “fluffy” fat and put on tight, lean muscle. And the muscles are under the fat, not over it. Muscle itself helps to burn fat and calories, so just building the muscle helps to burn the fat, but also aerobic activity is great at burning fat, so the running would do that nicely. Also as someone said, don’t worry about what the scale says; go by what your clothes say, and the mirror says and how you feel. And good for you for taking care of yourself!