Stuck on the scale

if you are working out and weight training you are gaining muscle and losing fat.  Muscle weighs more than fat - don't go by your scale - go by the waist of your jeans.  When that gets too tight - you're gaining fat not muscle.

what cardiovascular exercises are you doing during your workout?

what kind of strength training exercises are you doing?

are you following a healthy diet? complex carbs, lean proteins, and unsaturated fats?

if you can answer these questions, i will provide you with an answer.

Ok i may only be 13 but i am a smart sometimes, well it depends what your eating, if you go and work out and then give your self a treat of junk food then you might gain it all back but, it could be your muscles 2 the more that you lift weights and exercise the more your muscles grow. so i hope i helped bye!

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: the scale lies. Bathroom scales are notorious for inaccurately representing body composition. Focusing on those tiny numbers daily is a recipe for not making progress in your fitness and fat loss goals.

What you SHOULD focus on is fat loss. It's not unusual for person to actually gain weight as they get in better physical condition. This is because you are gaining lean tissue (muscle), which is metabolically-active -- unlike body fat. In other words, fat burns zero calories at rest while a pound of muscle burns around 50 calories per day doing nothing more than sitting there.

The good news is that even though people see their scale weight go up after starting to workout -- they usually come down as they add lean tissue. Sometimes it takes a month or so, but you should really be focused on how you look and feel, instead of what a machine tells you.

Confused? Check out this article that explains why calculating your body fat is more important than scale weight.

Best of luck!

matt