Losing inches but not weight

bookgirl_2

Hi all,

Hopefully someone might suggest either some routine changes or tell me to be patient!

So, at the moment I'm doing two 45 minute spin classes per week, plus one strength session and a swim. I'm finding that my weight is staying pretty much steady (-1kg in 4 weeks) but clothes are getting looser. I would like to get my BMI down to the normal range (currently 26.5) and wondered if that will come or if I need to change my routine.

Diet has remained the same with the increased exercise.

Thanks!
R

calleyw

Don't forget that more muscle you build the less you can rely on BMI charts.

I know someone who was told by they GP there they obese by the BMI charts. But they did a caliper and a wrist measurement and then said better forget that lol!!!

Yours

Calley

purpleshoes_2

bookgirl wrote: »

Hi all,

Hopefully someone might suggest either some routine changes or tell me to be patient!

So, at the moment I'm doing two 45 minute spin classes per week, plus one strength session and a swim. I'm finding that my weight is staying pretty much steady (-1kg in 4 weeks) but clothes are getting looser. I would like to get my BMI down to the normal range (currently 26.5) and wondered if that will come or if I need to change my routine.

Diet has remained the same with the increased exercise.

Thanks!
R

Id say up your exercise, add in some HIIT and also keep a food diary.

BMI is a load of rubbish to be honest, waist to hip ratio is a better indicator for women.

My BMI at the moment is 29 which puts me into the overweight category but I'm very fit, the normal range for BMI used to stop at 27 and not 25, how you feel counts, not just a number on the scale.

calleyw

purpleshoes wrote: »

BMI is a load of rubbish to be honest,

I know it is.

If you are built like a brick outhouse or a rugby player the BMI chart will say you are obese.

I wish they would stop using it. Its better to use calipers and wrist measurements.

Yours

Calley

windup

eat less, missing out a packet of crisps works, and is easier than exercise.

barbarawright

Excercise will change your shape but it burns off depressingly few calories - running a mile is about 100 calories. So you need to diet as well. However, changing fat to muscle is surely a good thing. I've dropped a clothes size recently without losing much weight.

UKTigerlily

You need to keep changing the routine that you do so you don't get used to it, maybe do some more weights to increase muscle but I agree, the BMI charts aren't always the best. My PT says he is obese on them yet clearly isn't in anyway fat!

Lizling

If your clothes are getting looser in the right places then you're doing it right.

The exercise routine looks really good, but it does depend a lot on what you're actually doing in each session, i.e. what are you lifting when you do weights, and how hard are you pushing yourself in spin?

Have you got a fitness related goal to work towards rather than just weight? I think maintain motivation is the most important part.

suicidebob

I would give up swimming and spin as neither of them aid weight loss

VestanPance

suicidebob wrote: »

I would give up swimming and spin as neither of them aid weight loss

They both would if you push hard enough to get the heart rate high. A spin class in particular should be doing that, as it should be out intensity.

cherryblossomzel

Starting a new type of exercise results in water retention at first (the muscles hold on to more glucagon and glucagon comes with quite a bit of water). Eventually this water will be released and you will lose scale weight.

Keep going, it will go. Losing inches count for more than weight, I think.