Gained wt. What am I doing wrong?

mrskoni
mrskoni Posts: 7 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
After 6 days being on program I've gained 1 1/2 lbs. and I don't know why. I was told to plan my meals around my calories and the rest of the macros will fall into place. Then I can adjust accordingly. I did that, drank more water than required and exercised. I make sure I meet my calories. Then go to my carbs and fats and protein. I do fine with them. Sometimes I'm under 3-5 or over the same. I am usually under my sugars Can anyone out there tell me what I a, doing wrong. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    What program? How many calories? What is your current height/weight, and what are your goals? How are you measuring your caloric intake?
  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    It's either water retention or you are not eating in a deficit. It's early days yet, and weight fluctuations are normal.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Six days is not enough time to tell if you're doing something wrong, especially if you started exercising this week. Give it another 3-4 weeks, then readjust. Make sure in the meantime that you weigh and log everything accurately.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    Exactly what @laurend224 says. It's only been 6 days, be patient.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    strong_curves wrote: »
    Exactly what @laurend224 says. It's only been 6 days, be patient.

    ^^ yeah that too
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    Someone needs to create a sticky worthy thread about managing expectations. I think it would be a great thread.
  • Arliah
    Arliah Posts: 266 Member
    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    Someone needs to create a sticky worthy thread about managing expectations. I think it would be a great thread.

    This!
  • nicola1141
    nicola1141 Posts: 613 Member
    Daily fluctuations in body weight of up to 5-10 lbs. are totally normal!! Just because the scale is showing 1.5 lbs. gain doesn't mean you've actually gained weight. If you've upped exercise it could be water, normal fluctuations. Weight also doesn't come off in a linear fashion most of the time. You'll see ups and downs, and weeks with nothing, and then a big drop. As long as the long-term overall graph is slanting downwards, you're doing great. 6 days isn't enough time to judge that.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    It took me nearly four weeks of eating less than 1200 calories before I lost a pound.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    6 days is not enough time to perform any kind of meaningful trend analysis. Body weight fluctuates with water retention/release and fluctuations in the amount of inherent waste in your system among other things. Natural fluctuations can be 1-5 Lbs day to day. This is why it is important to pick a day for weigh in and weigh in at roughly the same time and under roughly the same conditions...from there, you track the trend over a period of time...a longer period of time than a mere 6 days.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    Someone needs to create a sticky worthy thread about managing expectations. I think it would be a great thread.

    also this...
  • 3bambi3
    3bambi3 Posts: 1,650 Member
    ncboiler89 wrote: »
    Someone needs to create a sticky worthy thread about managing expectations. I think it would be a great thread.

    This one is pretty excellent:

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    I agree @ncboiler89. Tho even if there was a stickie about managing expectations there still would be tons of posts like this. I don't think the majority of people come here even bother to read those stickies. If they did, it would answer about 90% of their questions.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Well, you know, on television, they lose 20 lbs at a time and they do it all within one hour.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    Well, you know, on television, they lose 20 lbs at a time and they do it all within one hour.

    Yep, and they can watch it while eating potato chips and dip.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    atypicalsmith wrote: »
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    Well, you know, on television, they lose 20 lbs at a time and they do it all within one hour.

    Yep, and they can watch it while eating potato chips and dip.

    Man...you are on a judgy-judgy roll today.

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