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I am throwing out theories here because it is so frustrating right now but I want to keep working at good diet and exercise. The deal is that i am rounder in the last month, I topped out at a higher weight as soon as I started exercising, and that has slowly been creeping down which is good. However my pants literally hurt. If I drive more than 10 minutes I undo the button so it is more comfortable. I can't wait to get home and put on PJ pants at night.
I remembered when I started running in high school I could no longer wear socks, they all seemed to be knee high back then. My calves quickly builked up and I could not get my socks over the muscle. So I am wondering if I have exercised just enough (pretty much daily for a month) to build up a little muscle in my middle but not enough to burn off the fat layering over it, and so I am a little bigger until I burn off the fat on top. Seems reasonable. And seems that a female body in its 40's is just a bizarre thing, sigh.
I got one more pair of decent looking pants with a covered elastic waist last night, I may hit goodwill for a casual dress or something comfortable.
I like your theory: building up muscle in the middle. I think there's a lot I can do with that...:D
If it works for someone else too then take it!
With my handy new phone and fitness tracker I was able to see the hundreds of extra calories I kinda mindlessly consumed from habits of being a younger and high metabolism person. So I cut it out! and now the pants don't fit.
My only other answer is that I am bloating as an allerrgice reaction to not eating junk food!
ApatheticNoMore
1-26-13, 1:55pm
My only other answer is that I am bloating as an allerrgice reaction to not eating junk food!
Possibly water retention. You could be allergic to some new healthy food you have added that you weren't eating before, I can't tell you how many "healthy diets" had me eating way too much food that didn't agree with me (that's "following a diet" rather than listening to your body), but the side effect was never bloating. I don't think there's that much muscle in the middle, but on the backside or something maybe (upper body exercises did always make my bras not fit, I hate that).
High-carbohydrate diets are notorious for causing water retention.
Cant you just buy some bigger pants?
Blackdog Lin
1-26-13, 9:15pm
And seems that a female body in its 40's is just a bizarre thing, sigh.
No no honey - not nearly as bizarre as a female body in its 50's!
No no honey - not nearly as bizarre as a female body in its 50's!Dang it, well let me be surprised and when I get whiney about being in my 50's then you can laugh at me like my mom is laughing at me now.
Wildflower
1-28-13, 1:39am
No no honey - not nearly as bizarre as a female body in its 50's!
I certainly agree with this!! :devil: :help: ;)
I wonder if you should maybe check this out with your doctor? I mean, isn't there some women's cancers/issues that cause you to swell in the middle? Is it a hard swell or a soft swell?
Gardenarian
1-29-13, 3:52pm
Hey Zoe Girl -
I saw on another thread that you maybe drink diet soda?
Diet Soda Belly (http://www.rodale.com/facts-about-soda?page=2)
It's not surprising that drinking all the sugar in sodas would cause weight gain, but what is surprising is that even diet soda will pack on the pounds: Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center monitored 475 adults for 10 years, and found that those who drank diet soda had a 70 percent increase in waist circumference over the 10-year study, compared with those who didn't drink any soda. Those who drank more than two diet sodas per day saw a 500 percent waist expansion! A separate study the same researchers conducted on mice suggested that it was the aspartame, which raised blood glucose levels, that caused the weight gain; when your liver encounters too much glucose, the excess is converted to body fat.
Than kyou Gardnerian. I am fighting the diet soda thing. It is really really hard. I started buying cans so the amount was cut in half but often I go way above that. So I am going to refocus on that since it seems very likely. I have to go slowly because I get headaches even if I substitute other caffeine sources. I am pretty sure I can count on 5 lbs if I drop the soda, now will anyone want to live with me when I am that crabby!
Fibroids can cause a poochy belly too. And many women don't even know they have one/several.
Tussiemussies
1-31-13, 3:07pm
No no honey - not nearly as bizarre as a female body in its 50's!
The truth!!!!!:)
Tussiemussies
1-31-13, 3:11pm
It could just be you age now. In my four ties I started to lose my waist and gain belly fat that just now won't go away, although I excersised in my Fourties I don't exercise now. Good luck with this...keep us up to date...PSstress can really make you gain too...:)
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