started 1200 calorie a week ago and gained 1lb HELP !!!!

Motivation

i just wish i had more popcorn while reading the forums

Serah87

eric_sg61 wrote: »

GiveMeCoffee wrote: »

Starvation mode and muscle gains all on page one! Never change MFP

This might be a BINGO thread

I was thinking the same, LOL

fit_mama30

3bambi3 wrote: »

seaversg wrote: »

Also, as long as you're strength training continues you will gain weight, but really muscle mass. Especially if you don't have a lot of excess weight to loose. I've always started with cardio for a week or two (where you will see results) then moved into strength.

No. You don't gain muscle mass while in a calorie deficit, and certainly not after a week of doing squats and abs. OP is likely retaining water from starting a new workout routine. Or a salty meal. Or a hundred other reasons. A 1lb weight gain can be attributed to normal fluctuations.

I was going to write the same thing. You don't build anything in a week. Retaining water for a reason or another is possible. But normal fluctuations will happen!

GothyFaery

helenagreenwood999 wrote: »

I was guestimating the weight by the weight of the pack and my food portions. Ill buy some scales carry on as I am with diet and exercise for another couple of weels and see where I go from there. Thanks guys much appreciated. Just a little disheartened when I checked the scales today lol xxx

If you're a numbers person (like me), get a weight trend app. There's a bunch of them out there. I weigh daily but it would work if you weigh less often. What the app does is keep your weights on a chart and then graphs out a trend line.

Your weigh will fluctuate constantly so having a nice graph that shows a steady downward trend is reassuring when the scale spikes a bit for whatever reason. It will take you about a month to get a good baseline going though.

RHSheetz

Make sure you have measurements and pictures, but keep going and see what happens week 2.

daniellemgambino

Same thing happened to me... completely bummed me out & my motivation plummeted. I'm due for another weigh-in but I'm worried it'll end up showing I gained another pound.

How long should people wait between weigh-ins?

captmiddy

daniellemgambino wrote: »

Same thing happened to me... completely bummed me out & my motivation plummeted. I'm due for another weigh-in but I'm worried it'll end up showing I gained another pound.

How long should people wait between weigh-ins?

I weigh in each morning, but don't pay attention to daily fluctuations. If you set your weight goal in MFP and your loss per week goal, as long as your are following that with appropriate exercise to match your activity level setting you should lose weight. It may take a couple weeks for you to start seeing number results but you should within a few weeks start seeing the scale move in the right direction. Two big failures on MFP is putting your daily activity too high for what you really do and thus starting out with more calories available than you really have, and not weighing every single crumb that goes into your mouth. If you put it in your mouth you should know exactly how many calories it added. I am currently in maintenance so I have become a little more relaxed on my diary but it is still within a couple hundred of exactly what I consumed. I have fluctuated within a 5 pound area for the last 8 month never above or below that range from center.