What could be the cause of my increased body fat despite weight loss?

Question

I have been trying to lose weight using combined gym activities and calorie reduction. I usually work out 4 times a week and eat cereal in the morning and coffee in the morning. I hardly eat for the rest of the day since I have no appetite and motivated to lose weight. I do cardio more than strength training in the gym.

I lost 8 pounds and felt it in my clothes. However, every time I use the scale that reads body fat and weight, it reads a lower weight but an increased body fat. What could possibly cause this?

Answer 1

Im not sure how that system works, but lets say you did loose 8 lbs, if you lost it in a way that allowed skin at hips to sag (Im thinking of the caliper pinch) it might wrongfully show more body fat.

Go by the chart that says for this hieght and age you should weigh this much. at least youll have a std to go by.

Answer 2

those things don't work very well to be honest with you... what I think is happening is you are gaining muscle... there are different types of fat too, maybe you are losing weight but gaining that other fat, I dunno... makes little sense, I think something's wrong with that machine... it might be reading muscle as fat...

Answer 3

The most likely cause is that your body is burning up muscle, rather than fat.  You're overworking for the amount of food you eat.  You need to eat more protein, fresh veggies and lowfat or nonfat dairy products: skim milk, fat free cheeses, fat free cottage cheese.

If you don't eat enough, often enough (every 3 hours) and the right amount of the right foods, you're just setting yourself up for failure.  You need to start your morning with a high protein meal with a small portion of fruit and two servings of non-fat dairy: 8oz. skim milk and 1 1/2 oz. fat free cheese on an egg white omelet w/ 1/2 roma tomato diced in, two slices of turkey bacon and 1/2 grapefruit.  Then, have a lite snack or half a protein bar, then for lunch eat something alittle smaller, but just as balanced.  Snack again in the afternoon and have a dinner such as 6oz. baked turkey breast, 2 Tbsp turkey gravy, 1/2 cup green beans and 1 cup butternut squash soup.

Cereal and coffee aren't going to give you the energy you need to sustain your workout.  If you continue starving your body, you're only going to continue depleting your muscles and you'll eventually get so hungry you'll cave entirely.  Just eat healthy foods, in the right amounts and stop counting calories.  It's a lifestyle choice, not something you can do for a little while and then go back to eating junk.  You'll never get lasting results that way.

Best of luck!

Answer 4

Muscle/water loss. But then those scales aren't very accurate anyway. I'd get yourself some body fat callipers.

Strength training and protein are important to prevent muscle loss.

Answer 5

the scale could be rongor not accurate,just concentrate on your weight , you just need to do allot of arobics and fat burning exercises, if you dont see any weight loss or if its extreamly hard to loose weight, then you might have a hyper active thyroid, but you should just concentrate on your weight loss not body  fat percentage, and dont eat big meals, you will be better of eating small meals, start with six small meals a day, because smaller meals are easier to digest and easeier to burn off during the day, and also watch your carbohydrate intake limit it to around 25 to 30 a day, good luck

Answer 6

yeah, my scale does that too. they arent very accurate. especially since i got mine from target lol. it changes my fat% every time i weigh.  

Answer 7

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