I'm trying to lose weight... but I can't seem to shed pounds only body fat. My body fat percentage is dropping so easily but not the pounds... WHY NOTTTT?? I want that number to go down tooooo!!

Small meal about the size of your palm every three hours. Really works. I was put on this diet after having my forth child. I'm more then satisfied with the results.

If you have been improving your muscle tone and reducing fat you may not see a great difference in the numbers but you will in how your body looks. Look to how your clothes fit and how your body looks more than what the numbers on the scale show.
You could weigh the same as someone with 30% body fat, but if your's is considerably less, you will look like you weigh less, be leaner, and probably more healthy.

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Originally Posted by greyaura

Small meal about the size of your palm every three hours. Really works. I was put on this diet after having my forth child. I'm more then satisfied with the results.

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Yes... I eat every 3 hrs... 3oz. Lean cut meat usually grilled chix or tuna with salad and 2 green veggies. Or supplement powerhouse bar or Myloplex Carb Control Shake. Def. satisfies! Great diet plan

You may have been reducing body fat but gaining muscle through toning your body and muscle actually weighs more than fat.

I doubt if you really lost body fat. Your weight is based on the total of that of your bones, tissues, muscles, fat, and water.
It is often difficult to see what you lost : fat or water.
To loose fat takes a lot of time, a strong will, and a strict regime of energy intake versus energy consumption.
To loose water is easy, but it is not permanent.
Easiest way to loose a couple of kilograms in one day is by taking a diuretic (a pill that elevates the rate of urination). But if you take next day your 2 daily liters of water, these 2 kilograms are added again to your body weight.

Losing weight should be a way of life. Here is my advice to others :

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The only proper and really effective way to lower your weight s through willpower.
I do not know if you live on yourself or with others. If on yourself it is easier : SIMPLY DO NOT BUY THAT STUFF !

what you do not have at home, you can not eat nor drink in the weak hours...

Losing weight means a negative result of the subtraction of calory intake less calory use each day.
A woman requires around 1500 calories (a male around 2000 calories) per day to stay on weight.
That includes EVERYTHING that enters your mouth!!

Even a cup of tea without sugar without milk contains calories!!

Your daily intake should include things like vitamins and other "musts" : you do NEED veggies,
you do NEED proteins, and - yes - you do NEED some fat daily.

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What you should do : make a list of EVERYTHING you eat and drink on a day.
Including water (of which you should drink at least 2 liters each day).

Calculate from that list the total amount of calories entering your mouth.
See where you can reduce that intake. Out goes chocolade, out go cookies, out go alcohol, out goes sugar,
out goes cola and any other sweet softdrinks, out goes any fat (there is much hidden fat in foodstuff -
more than enough for your daily intake). Reduce intake of other carbohydrates , INCLUDING pasta!!
And no more quarter pounder burgers with mayo and chips on the sideline !
Forget the existence of MacD and BurgerKing !
If you ever want to eat a burger : prepare it yourself ! KNOW what you eat !

In stay veggies and some limited amount of protein. Eat daily a salade of lettuce , tomatoes, and cucumber.
Eat daily at least 3 pieces of different fruits. An apple a day... And that is only on the intake side!!

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Now the outgoing side :

While you reduce the intake of energy, you now also have to increase the loss of energy inside your body,
and the only way to do that is by burning up fats and carbs.

START EXERCIZING!! Use a bicycle instead of your car. Walk instead of using other means of transportation.
Go to a gym. In your spare time take up a delivery job : start delivering daily newspapers, mail, or
advertising stuff : besides that it uses energy, it also makes you fit.

Make a list of all the things you do on a daily basis, and see where you can change your habits to one in
which you use more energy.

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People who run a (half) marathon eat the day before a pasta meal to get a lot of extra energy in their body to
consume the next day.
But if you eat pasta and do not run that marathon, you add another pound or so to your body weight.

The problem with dieting is that most people have no idea how their body functions and how and why they keep gaining weight.

Now : at least I gave you the basics of that.
It's up to you now to reduce that calory intake, and increase that calory consumption !

Success !

:)