First weigh in and gained

liannebaker17

First weigh in this morning after calorie counting for two weeks afte loosing my weigh with skimming world and I’ve gained 1lb I know it’s not a huge amount but I still have loads to loose and I don’t want the scales going in the wrong direction just disappointed I’m not eating exercise calories back as my goal is 1710 to loose 2 lbs a week anyway and feel ok with that

RoxieDawn

Keep going with the 1710 calories for another couple of weeks. I remember your other thread regarding confusion around BMR/TDEE and the suggestions made to you on that thread.

Not eating back exercise calories increases your 2 pound deficit, so if you are on point with logging you are losing fat, most likely this is a just an upward fluctuation. Give this a full menstrual cycle (4+ weeks) and see how your weight is doing then. Hopefully you will start to see a downward trend in a couple of weeks and if not you will want to review your diary/calorie intake for weighing/logging issues.

LivingtheLeanDream

Our weight fluctuates naturally and that's what that 1lb is likely to be, tomorrow it could be gone along with some more.
Do you have a lot to lose that you've chosen 2lbs a week loss?
MFP is set up that you are supposed to eat exercise calories back. That wont affect your loss unless of course you aren't accurately tracking/logging everything you eat and therefore eating far more than you think.

liannebaker17

Yeah I’ve lost 5 stone so far on slimming world but still have around another 6-7 stone to loose.
Xx

AliceDark

Have you seen this thread? It talks about some of the common reasons why people see temporary gains on the scale:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634529/why-did-the-number-on-the-scale-go-up-this-week-heres-why#latest

amusedmonkey

I was joking around on another thread that I lost a lot of weight on the "get your period diet". Weight fluctuates. It goes up, it goes down, it can look stuck for a few weeks, and none of that is abnormal. If you are sure you are counting calories correctly just trust the process and be patient. It could be something you ate like salty foods, it could be that you've introduced a new exercise and your muscles are healing, it could be hormones, it could be you're stressed, constipated...etc. Many things can affect weight upwards that don't necessarily mean you're gaining fat.

Here is what the last two weeks looked like for me, it looked like I was stuck for two full weeks with days way up, but in the end I ended up losing just as much as my calories predicted (P.S: weight is in kilograms so the fluctuations are more than double if you think in pounds)