I tried to lose weight by weight lifting and walking but I am getting heavier. Why am I getting heavier?

7 Responses to “I tried to lose weight by weight lifting and walking but I am getting heavier. Why am I getting heavier?”

1. Malia says:

   March 15, 2011 at 4:15 am

   muscle weighs more than fat. . do more cardio
2. babybeast says:

   March 15, 2011 at 4:44 am

   yes, since muscle weighs more than weight you are gaining muscle and therefor weighing more.
3. John A says:

   March 15, 2011 at 5:32 am

   Muscle weighs more than fat, so it is possible that you are gaining weight but losing body fat. You might want to cut down on your calorie intake if you are watching your weight.
4. KitKat says:

   March 15, 2011 at 5:47 am

   Muscle doesn’t weigh more than fat, a pound of fat is the same weight as a pound of muscle. The difference is that fat takes up more room than muscle does. Compare a pound of feathers to a pound of lead. Which would be larger? The feathers are fat, the lead is muscle. . . a pound of feathers would definitely be larger, so it stands to reason that a pound of fat would take up much more room than a pound of muscle.
   Since you are weight lifting really hard, you are burning off the fat and replacing it with muscle. I recommend you back off on the lifting if you want to lose the fat (not stop, just ease up on the weight. . . . low weight, high reps) and increase the cardio. Instead of walking, jog or use the elliptical. You will maintain your muscle mass while burning off the fat.
5. clay g says:

   March 15, 2011 at 5:58 am

   The exact same thing happened to me a few years back. I was about 20 lbs heavier than I have ever been in my entire life and I was already bigger than I should have been, so I decided I was going to the beach in march, so I had to lose weight, this was Jan. I worked out everyday for two months and gained 5 lbs! Muscle weighs more than fat, so I was heavier but you could see signs that I had been working out just not the results I was looking for. I was ripped under about 25 lbs of fat! I stopped lifting and just concentrated on cardio for about a month and lost all of the weight now I switch back and forth between cardio and weight lifting.
6. mansionghost says:

   March 15, 2011 at 6:37 am

   try the lil Jack workout http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=TKCGe2Ezris
7. cureguyluvinit2003 says:

   March 15, 2011 at 6:54 am

   Yep! That would be the case! You are replacing fatty tissues with muscle and muscles mean MEAT. Fat weighs less than the meat in your muscle. Well, you are also bulking up muscle you already had. No one just “grows” new muscle; the muscle is always there. You’re bulking it up and making it stronger!

   . . . somehow this answer is making me snicker now that I read it back. . . . but I’ll leave it.

   What the hell. . . . . . (shrugging shoulders. . . . )