Anyone else has also experienced this?

yasmine334

So, I have started dieting in April 2014, I followed low carb diet with minimal exercise 1200 cal/day, and within 5 months I managed to lose 12 kg (27 lbs).

For personal reasons I stopped the diet and was eating my maintenance calories, Since January I started again my dieting, again low carb 1200 cal/day but this time exercising religiously 3 times/week.

Since February I started following weight lifting programme (NROFLW), currently in stage 1. according to the NROLFW rules, I exhanged low carb high fat diet with medium carb, high protien diet and upped my calories to 1350/day in average (some days 1200 others 1400).


In the past 2 months, I lost 2 kg only and then I gained 1 kg back. many told me it is water retention due to muscles microscopic tears, but can water retention last for a whole month?

any suggestions how to lose the weight? I am so frustrated!

I am 160 cm (5 2")

SW 206
CW 183
GW 133

queenliz99

Nice work on losing 27 pounds! Since you diary is closed it is hard to give advice. Do you weigh all your food with a food scale?

Liftng4Lis

Can you open your diary?

3dogsrunning

When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.

Merkavar

Are you eating back calories burned during exercise? Maybe over estimating exercise and under estimating food so you are eating more than you think.

yasmine334

I weigh all my food portions, and bought a food scale. I eat 75% of my exercise calories. even if I overestimate the calories, there is still a considerable calorie deficit of almost 700 cal/day, so I dont think this assumption is really the reason.

yasmine334

3dogsrunning wrote: »

When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.

How long it took you to see results on the scale from lifting weights?

3dogsrunning

yasmine334 wrote: »

3dogsrunning wrote: »

When I started back to lifting after a long lay off I was carefully monitoring my calorie intake. My weight went up 2 lbs and stayed there the entire month. I also took progress photos and you could see a difference in the month. Eventually the scale started to follow.
So my answer would be yes, it could last a month.

If you are sure about your intake I would give it another week or two then maybe re-evalutate your calorie intake.

How long it took you to see results on the scale from lifting weights?

It was at least 4-5 weeks.

2snakeswoman

Honestly, the best thing for me was to get rid of the scales. So many things can make weight fluctuate. One week I would think I'd lost 5 pounds and have a treat to celebrate. The next week I'd see that I'd gained 3 pounds and have a treat to comfort myself. Now my focus is to keep logging and exercising and wait for my clothing to get more loose.

I gave away my home scales, but I do have access to scales, so I'll probably check myself from time to time.

yasmine334

2snakeswoman wrote: »

Honestly, the best thing for me was to get rid of the scales....I gave away my home scales, but I do have access to scales, so I'll probably check myself from time to time.

this is brave! congrats