To feel massively pissed off by this? (Diet related!)

[Violetcharlotte]

Last Sunday I started a diet. I have a stone to lose and aiming to lose 2 pounds a week. All week I have stuck to 1200 calories a day, cutting our refined carbs and sugar. I've been to the gym 4 times and been on 3 long walks.

I weighed myself tonight and have put on a pound. How can this even be possible?

AIBU to feel massively pissed off, give up on the diet and have a bar of chocolate?

Thanks everyone. I'll try and stay positive and keep going with it then. I do feel a lot better and like I've lost weight around my face and waist.

But a pound of muscle weighs exactly the same as a pound of fat just takes up less space

Never weigh yourself before you have had a poo ;)

Yes it does. A cubic foot of muscle weighs more than a cubic foot of fat.

But nobody is talking about cubic feet

We were talking about a POUND. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of anything else, including muscle.

*a pound of fat

Jellybean starvation mode is a myth, eat less and you'll lose weight.

OP weigh yourself in the morning, after you've been to the loo. Never weigh yourself at night, you're weighing everything you've eaten today as well.

It'll be your period. I always gain weight before mine (water retention I guess).

I usually weigh about 5 pounds more just before my period. It will probably be that.

This happens to me - my body seems to rebel and hold fluid and suddenly I'll lose 3 or 4lb overnight. I don't understand it as this didn't happen when I was younger.

okay okay, so maybe muscle doesn't weigh more than fat exactly lol, but it's denser and it takes up less room. So you can appear much leaner without weighing a lot less.
Meh. Or maybe it's cos you're due on.

Yeah I love the muscle weighs more than fat debate. What weighs more a tonne of feathers or a tonne of bricks!

I always put on a kilo when I'm due and lose it a week later, damned water retention!

actually a pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of fat
a pound is a pound
muscle is denser and a pound of muscle is smaller than a pound of fat
www.livestrong.com/article/438693-a-pound-of-fat-vs-a-pound-of-muscle/
go by how you feel and look not what a machine says and yes if your are due to menstruate it can have a major impact on your weight/it varies from woman to woman.
hang in there it can take awhile for the effect of your effort to show.

And obviously a pound of muscle weighs EXACTLY the same as a pound of anything else, not sure anybody has suggested otherwise.

Never weigh yourself at night! Always in the morning before breakfast and after a wee You retain water as the day goes on, no point weighing after morning.

not sure anybody has suggested otherwise.. Well somebody did. That's why people said it didn't.

Also the not weighing at night thing is true, you do weigh more at night. However if you always weigh at night you will get a true figure of your loss that week. Your overall weight may be a pound or 3 more, it if you lose a pound it will still show that you have lost a pound.

Don't give up.
Don't give up.
Don't give up.
It will work. In the end, it will work. It did for me.
Good luck.

May be measure your bust, waist and hips and then compare measurements week on week. Hopefully you might see some shrinkage even if there hasn't been much change in weight. Obviously you won't have last week's figures but there is no reason not to use this week's measurements as a baseline.
Good luck.

Oh dear. Muscle does weigh more than fat. That means the same volume of muscle would weigh more than the same volume of fat.

Of course a pound of each would both weigh the same... but the size of that on the scales would be very different. Imagine replacing with feathers versus rocks if that helps

So those saying that of pound of each is still a pound, and so muscle doesn't weigh more, are wrong. The fact that one does weigh a lot more than the other means exactly the issue that gaining muscle and losing fat can actually make the scales read higher even though you have lost some of your body size.

OP I think just keep going and measure by how your clothes feel rather than what the scales say.

This muscle/fat thing is making me shake my head in despair. It's not that hard to understand fgs

But in this case its pre period bloat

Migra ^But nobody is talking about cubic feet hmm

We were talking about a POUND. A pound of muscle weighs the same as a pound of anything else, including muscle.^

Are you being purposefully dense? Of course a pound of anything weighs a pound

You responded to a comment that muscle weighs more than fat. It does in terms of VOLUME. I used cubic feet as an example of VOLUME.

Posters are trying to reassure OP that despite not weighing any less of the scales she may have actually lost in terms of size.

It's very difficult to gain muscle, let alone a whole pound of muscle. It's very rare that it has anything to do with muscle.