Bikini & fitness models posing clients post comp weight gain
Are you judging your post comp success by what you see on the scales? – this FIO reposted article might help you reset your mindset ?? Thank you Ingrid!
Checking in with my posing clients lately I’ve spoken to a lot of my clients post comp and one of the first things i notice is that I feel as if they feel they need to tell me how much weight they have gained or not gained post comp – this post is a reminder that your success post comp is not dependent on what you weigh ?? enjoy!
#repost from Figure It Out-An Honest Insight Into Sports Model and Figure In Australia FIO – Do you feel panicky when the scales go up?
When we want to get lean, our first inclination is to hope the scale weight goes down. So, any change or program that causes our weight to go UP sets off alarm bells. But, as we learn more about body composition, body fat percentage, lean (fat free) body mass, etc. we start to realise that weight is not telling the entire story. I’m pretty sure FIO readers understand this.
For example, a weight increase could be due to increased muscle. Since muscle looks sexy as and helps us burn even more fat, that type of increase is actually a good thing. We can get smaller even while getting heavier! BUT, I can hear you thinking, “When I raise my calories, I gain a kilo really quickly. I doubt I actually grow a kilo of muscle seemingly overnight, so I’m worried that if the higher calories are not creating new muscle then most of that new weight is probably fat!” (is this you?)
If it’s not likely to be instant muscle or instant fat, what’s going on?
Well, the body is more complicated than just fat and muscle. Did you know the body can store limited amounts calories as a form of carbohydrate? Our muscles and our liver are able to hold a substantial amount of carbohydrate in a form called glycogen. It uses these glycogen stores to help even out blood sugar levels throughout the day. When we eat less than we burn, some of the deficit is fueled by burning off some of our glycogen stores. You might think of glycogen stores somewhat like a checking account. Fat stores are more like a longer term savings account.
When we diet, especially on very low calorie diets and/or very low carbohydrate diets, the body starts burning off the stored glycogen. An interesting and important fact about glycogen is that it acts very much like a sponge in the body. Every ounce of glycogen soaks up and holds onto several ounces of water. But, when we start burning off the glycogen (burning off our sponge) the water it was holding gets released and eliminated from the body. Incidentally, have you ever dropped a kilo or two the first few days of a new diet? Think about it. As much as we would love to believe that weight drop is instant fat loss, the math just doesn’t add up. 2 kilo’s of fat is 14000 calories. You couldn’t create that big of a deficit even if you ran a full marathon and ate nothing at all the same day. Yet, the scale drops.
Remember, as encouraging as the weight is when it moves the direction we want (DOWN), it still does not tell the whole story. That instant weight loss is mostly water released from the depleting glycogen stores.
Now, here comes the important part. Exactly the reverse happens when we start raising calories or carbohydrates. Our depleted glycogen stores begin to fill back up. The newly added glycogen “sponges up” and holds on to extra water. And ARGH!, the scale weight increases. But, that increase is NOT fat, it is just glycogen in your muscles and liver filling up with short term quick energy reserves. Those extra few pounds are not going to make you flabby!!! I promise. 🙂 🙂
But, time and time again, those extra couple of kilo’s have one DEVASTATING consequence. Those dreaded extra kilo’s convince the newbie to abandon the effort. They frighten many ladies to drop their calories. Or perhaps into trying to burn them all off with extra cardio. In any case, the extra pounds that we are all so sensitive about create a panic or at the very least a sense of frustration and diminishing hope.
The glycogen capacity of the muscles and liver is pretty limited. Once you’ve replenished the depleted stores, the glycogen level will stabilise and the water weight associated with it will also stabilise. In other words, if you keep at it for 3 or 4 more weeks, you are NOT going to see kilo after kilo of additional weight. Unfortunately, so many either reflexively cut the calories back down that they never get to the stage where they realise that the initial weight increase is not fat, is natural, and will stabilise shortly. Hope this helps some of you. 🙂
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