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You lost muscle.

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That's perfectly fine by me but wouldn't I still look different??

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do you feel different, like when you put on jeans are they looser?

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Yeah but I don't see it at all.

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You lost muscle.

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I've gone from 120-125 pounds to 113 pounds in a few weeks but I don't look any different :/

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Your body needed amino acids, it broke down muscle. Your actual weight is meaningless. What you see that you don't like when you look at yourself is body fat. Since muscle weighs more than fat, you haven't lost as much of the "bad weight" as you'd think, having lost the good muscle weight instead.

So you haven't lost 7-13 pounds of body fat, and what you did lose is distributed throughout the body.

My advice:

Adopt a pretty normalized diet. Normally you should get 20-35% of your calories from fat, 45-65 from carbs, and 10-35 or so from protein. Do that, get a healthy balance of nutrients and minerals, and (here is the key) divide up your normal diet, same number of calories, into a larger number of smaller meals.

Supplement with aerobic exercise lasting at least half hour at a go, and get your pulse pumping.

Your body will say to itself, "I'm getting enough calories, food is really plentiful, and I need to burn a lot of energy fast. I need to dip into my energy reserves and burn fat!"

EDIT: Also, exercise is more weight loss for double the fun. Any muscle you build while exercising gives you extra bang for your buck, because muscle is very metabolically active tissue even when it's doing nothing, so you'll burn more calories just by existing.

Post edited at 4:40 am on Oct. 5, 2009 by TheOtherHorseman

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