Why am I Still Losing Weight Although I am Dieting and Exercising?

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weightloss18

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I have lost around 110 to 115 pounds since January of 2010 and have to say that I feel much better than I once did! Anyways, I wanted to use this forum to ask an important question I had regarding weight maintenance, calories per day, and exercise.

To begin I have successfully been maintaining my weight for about 2 1/2 months now between the weight range of 145 pounds and 149 pounds. I wake up each day and make sure to weigh myself after going to the bathroom and then track my weight on a notepad document on my computer so that I can compare the data for each day. However, this past week I have been dropping .5 pounds each day as I began at 149 pounds last Wednesday and weighed in at 146.5 pounds today. I have continued to follow my diet and make sure that I am eating enough calories and grams of fat, but I don't know why this might be going on. Since I moved to Arizona about 2 months ago I have began swimming in the pool that is in my backyard and do about 15 minutes of light to moderate swimming usually every day, but if not then 5 to 6 times a week.

I asked one of my family members about why I am losing weight while still following my diet and exercising and they told me that all of my fat was turning into muscle. However, I thought that the muscle that I was gaining inside of my body would have added weight onto my total weight instead of made me lose weight. Hopefully someone can help me on here about this latest weight loss panic to help reassure my mind that I won't continue to lose weight and face further consequences from that action. This hasn't been the first panic that I have had during my weight loss journey, but it is something that I want to stop right away and keep an eye on to make sure that I continue to maintain my current weight range.

If someone or a couple of you could please help me out that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all so much for your help in advance!
 
weightloss18 said:
I have lost around 110 to 115 pounds since January of 2010 and have to say that I feel much better than I once did! Anyways, I wanted to use this forum to ask an important question I had regarding weight maintenance, calories per day, and exercise.

To begin I have successfully been maintaining my weight for about 2 1/2 months now between the weight range of 145 pounds and 149 pounds. I wake up each day and make sure to weigh myself after going to the bathroom and then track my weight on a notepad document on my computer so that I can compare the data for each day. However, this past week I have been dropping .5 pounds each day as I began at 149 pounds last Wednesday and weighed in at 146.5 pounds today. I have continued to follow my diet and make sure that I am eating enough calories and grams of fat, but I don't know why this might be going on. Since I moved to Arizona about 2 months ago I have began swimming in the pool that is in my backyard and do about 15 minutes of light to moderate swimming usually every day, but if not then 5 to 6 times a week.

I asked one of my family members about why I am losing weight while still following my diet and exercising and they told me that all of my fat was turning into muscle. However, I thought that the muscle that I was gaining inside of my body would have added weight onto my total weight instead of made me lose weight. Hopefully someone can help me on here about this latest weight loss panic to help reassure my mind that I won't continue to lose weight and face further consequences from that action. This hasn't been the first panic that I have had during my weight loss journey, but it is something that I want to stop right away and keep an eye on to make sure that I continue to maintain my current weight range.

If someone or a couple of you could please help me out that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all so much for your help in advance!
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Just a thought...

It could be your diet. You may be watching your calories, but are you watching the amount of sodium you are consuming? Fat? Sugar? Etc? The nutrients in your diet might be causing you to store water, then expel it in rapid amounts - which could possibly make it seem like you're losing half a pound each day - when, in all reality, it's just water.

Like I said, just a thought.
 
@ChefChiTown: Would that be a good thing then to just be losing weight from this and is that normal? What can I do to stop it? Would it help if I balanced my diet with food from all of the groups each and everyday or what would exactly help?
 
ChefChiTown said:
Just a thought...

It could be your diet. You may be watching your calories, but are you watching the amount of sodium you are consuming? Fat? Sugar? Etc? The nutrients in your diet might be causing you to store water, then expel it in rapid amounts - which could possibly make it seem like you're losing half a pound each day - when, in all reality, it's just water.

Like I said, just a thought.
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Probably a good thought. I have noticed while maintaining my current weight there are always fluctuations. At the risk of TMI I know there are certain days where I'll go #1 a heck of a lot more than on other days. I attribute this to my diet and sodium levels.

I'll lose a ton like 3 pounds but a few days later gain those 3 back. However, I have recently begun reducing my sodium intake and have found there is a difference. I feel much better.
 
weightloss18 said:
@ChefChiTown: Would that be a good thing then to just be losing weight from this and is that normal? What can I do to stop it? Would it help if I balanced my diet with food from all of the groups each and everyday or what would exactly help?
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Well, it's always a good thing to eat a well balanced diet. My thought was just that you might be retaining water and then expelling it rather quickly (a cycle of sorts), which might make it seem like you're losing weight - when it could very well just be water weight.

As for being normal - yup, I would say so. Everybody trying to lose weight experiences that - weight fluctuations due to water gain/loss. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Carthonn said:
Probably a good thought. I have noticed while maintaining my current weight there are always fluctuations. At the risk of TMI I know there are certain days where I'll go #1 a heck of a lot more than on other days. I attribute this to my diet and sodium levels.

I'll lose a ton like 3 pounds but a few days later gain those 3 back. However, I have recently begun reducing my sodium intake and have found there is a difference. I feel much better.
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I notice that too. It doesn't matter how many calories I eat, rather the nutrients in the food I'm eating. My body reacts differently to various foods (well, the nutrients really) and I know I go up and down a few pounds, but only because of the water weight. It's encouraging when you expel the water weight, but it sucks a huge c*ck when you GAIN water weight.
 
I don't think you have anything to worry about at this point... You said that you've been maintaining between 145 and 149 lbs and at the time of the post you were at 146.5 lbs. If you continue to lose weight over the next little while and this is a concern, then add a small amount of extra calories per day, even 100 extra per day adds up to 700 per week, so that should counter some of that weight loss.
 
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