Losing weight but gaining weight on the scales: struggling fat cells!

Clearly losing weight to the eye but gaining weight on the scales. Irritating! Or at least as frustrating when you want to lose weight and are actually doing well: a scale that continuously stays at the same number.

When you eat less (or especially differently!), while trying really hard at the gym, don't be shocked when the scales show that you have gained instead of lost weight. Physically losing weight while continuing to gain weight on the scales is incredibly demotivating but fortunately it does not say everything.

You will probably burn fat, but grow muscle mass at the same time. Muscles weigh too! Muscle mass weighs even more than fat!

Still, you will find that the more your muscles start to increase, you will eventually start losing weight (even on the scales) and your body will look tighter.

This is because muscles need more energy have than fat which increases metabolism!

Take your clothes as a yardstick, your tape measure as a fact-checker and your scales as a guideline.

The fact that your trousers get roomier and your belt can be tightened a notch further are the real evidence that you are slimming down!

Losing weight but gaining weight on the scales indicates struggling fat cells

What many people who would like to lose weight don't know is that fat cells resist shrivelling. in fact, when you exercise properly and eat differently, the stored fat in your body is consumed.

When fat cells are eventually depleted and no longer nourished, they will eventually shrivel up. This, of course, is not what they want!

Fat cells will therefore initially resist this shrivelling by temporarily filling with fluid. This is the reason the scale says you are gaining weight when in reality you are losing it.

When you see this, don't give up but just stubbornly continue what you are doing!

Eventually, the fat cells throw in the towel. They release the fluid and shrivel up as yet.

That's the moment when, within a few days, you weigh three kilos less on the scales just like that.

Example:

Week 1: 100 kg (OK...)

Week 2: 99 kg (Doing well!)

Week 3: 99 kg (H'm.)

Week 4: 101 kg (WHAT?!)

Week 5: 98 kg (Wow!)

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The above text previously appeared in the Balance book. The book is now sold out, but may still be available to order second-hand via the link below.

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