Lost weight, building muscle, gaining weight... help

kmalhas

I have recently lost 50lbs with diet, tracking, and exercise. Recently I have gained 8lbs back with no change in habits. I realize this is mostly likely building muscle but I am frustrated as I still had 10 other pounds to loose. Help!! What can I do to get back to loosing weight.

Cahgetsfit

How quickly did you gain the 8lb of "muscle"?

I just wish I could gain that much muscle quickly and easily, without bulking for a significant amount of time, and without resorting to using steroids.

scribblemoma

It takes women a long, long time with dedicated efforts to put on muscle. You’re likely dealing with water weight brought on by muscle soreness, menstral activity, or simply poor logging 🤷🏼‍♀️

Almost everyone who responds to this will want to know if you’re tracking your food intake with a scale, over what period have you gained the weight, and have you added any new activities in your exercise routine.

quiksylver296

A female, using a proven progressive lifting program, and nailing her diet, maximizing the protein, can gain approximately 0.25 lbs of muscle a week.

Not to be harsh, but you didn't gain muscle.

I wish it were that easy. Oh, how I wish!

quiksylver296

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1


http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

quiksylver296

Oh, one more great thread.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10697068/how-i-stopped-kidding-myself/p1

meganreid163

It’s really common to gain a few pounds of you start working out really intensely.
I did a few weeks ago for me I found the cause was two things, 1. Water retention and 2. Increased hunger from working out.
I was eating too little calories and then binging because I was starving. & binging on bad things.

This was three weeks ago and I upped my calories and now I’ve lose the 5ish pounds I gained plus lost a extra one.

It’s really easy to let the scale tell you how your suppose to feel but if your eating properly and working out. The scale will catch up.

apullum

If this weight gain happened suddenly and you have no reason to think you’re significantly overeating, then it’s almost certainly water fluctuation. It is extremely unlikely to be muscle.

psychod787

I mirror @quiksylver296 response. 8 pounds is a combo of lean mass and fat mass. Water weight is actually considered lean mass. When you finish a cut, most people's glycogen stores are depleted. When they refeed, glycogen is stored pulling water with it into the muscle. All according to muscle mass, it can be 2-5lbs.

PAV8888

How fast was the weight gain?

Is it justified by anything: lack of BM, bloating, time of month, air travel, sodium, novel exercise, eating out/more sodium, scale placement, batteries, changed time of weigh in, clothing worn?

Is the gain continuing?

AnnPT77

PAV8888 wrote: »

How fast was the weight gain?

Is it justified by anything: lack of BM, bloating, time of month, air travel, sodium, novel exercise, eating out/more sodium, scale placement, batteries, changed time of weigh in, clothing worn?

Is the gain continuing?

All good questions. One more possibility: When I restart weight training, I initially find it quite fatiguing, until I get back into the swing. NEAT drop is real . . . sadly.

Also, eating back calories (which one should, with a correctly-set-up MFP-estimated goal), but unquestioningly relying on a heart rate monitor to estimate strength training calories (which I didn't, but I've observed the effect,
ijust didn't rely on the whacky estimate).

It would take quite a while to gain a full 8 pounds either of these ways, but they can be factors.