Frustrated

maralatorre89
maralatorre89 Posts: 1 Member
in Motivation and Support
Ive been consistently doing MyFitnessPal for the past two and a half months. Overall, I have had some success and have lost over 15 lb.

However, these last two weeks I have slowly started to gain weight! This is even after I have meticulously tracked my calories and have worked out. While I have only gained about 2 lb in these past 2 weeks, it is still frustrating. Especially because I am doing my best to track calories as accurately as possible so I can stay within my caloric deficit goal.

It's hard to continue to stay motivated, especially because I don't understand why I'm gaining weight, even after I'm trying my best to track calories as well as possible. 😓

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  • Xellercin
    Xellercin Posts: 924 Member
    edited October 2022
    The scale is going to go up sometimes, you have to be consistent for at least 6 weeks in order to even know if what you are doing is working.

    If you work in shorter timelines than that, you will have no idea what is going on in your body and you will be frustrated exactly as you are now.

    Week to week is virtually meaningless.

    ETA: I consistently lost about the same amount of weight every month for a few years. However, the scale didn't show that week to week. Some weeks it was up, sometimes it wouldn't budge for a month, sometimes it would drop several pounds in one week.

    There is too much changing in your water weight from week to week for short term scale data to mean anything.

    If I looked at the scale the way you are right now, I would have felt frustrated and given up. Meanwhile, I *was* steadily, predictably losing weight.

    Don't expect the scale to always go down. That's a surefire way to sabotage your own success.
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,845 Member
    What Xellercin said.

    Weight is funny sometimes. I had periods of multiple weeks where my weight would seemingly increase, and then in a few days I'd lose several lbs.

    Hormones, exercise, stress... All these things can cause water retention, masking fat loss on the scale.
  • Izzybella22
    Izzybella22 Posts: 17 Member
    Stay on course, stay true to your goals and be patient. You can and will see the scales start moving again.

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