If you are exercising it does make sense Caroleanne.
Muscle is three times as dense as fat.
You could conceivably *gain* weight and still lose inches, to some extent, if you are building moderate muscle mass while also cutting food intake.
I've been waiting for my Son to announce this himself, but he has been busy.
After 21 days on habit, he lost 1.5 inches from around his belly! All his pants started to feel loose and so we checked both the scale and then when it said he didn't lose any weight, I got the tape measure out. Fortunately I had decided to take a measurement before he began NoS.. He is going through a big growth phase right now, and will be 13 in a few weeks! Also he has been doing quite a bit of exercise.... walking, and a bit of weights..
So he has lost fat, but is growing taller and getting leaner.
Two weeks after that, we also weighed him. He actually gained five pounds (tho it was probably more like 2 or 3 cos it was in the afternoon) and yet his belly measurement remained down 1.5 inches after 5 weeks or so of being on NoS.
So if you gain one pound of muscle, you could be actually displacing 3 lbs worth of fat (I think that's how it works out??) and look much better and yet the scale won't register the weight difference at that point.
Hope this made sense.
Congrats on your slimming down!!
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