Stepping 10-15k per day and walking but keep gaining weight almost 2 lbs per day

blk7363

and stick to the 1200

I’m so frustrated

Haven’t weighed this in over 4 years

spiriteagle99

Gaining 2 pounds a day means eating 7000 calories a day over maintenance. That isn't at all likely. Odds are you have temporarily put on some water weight. That may be due to increased exercise, too little water intake, salt, waste in your digestive system, etc. Give it time.

How long have you been trying to lose weight? How much weight do you want to lose? Are you weighing and measuring every bite you take? If so, and you are truly only eating 1200 calories a day, then you will lose weight. Actually, 1200 is probably too few calories unless you are also eating back some of the calories you burn walking.

AnnPT77

If you've literally been gaining 2 pounds a day every day for even as much as a week, while certain you're eating only 1200, I'd strongly, strongly suggest contacting your doctor. Yes, water retention can happen, but 2 pounds a day every day for an extended period is outside the range of normal.

If it's a much shorter period of time, yes, that could be water retention, especially if the volume of steps has greatly increased at the same time.

I see you've had an account on MFP for a while, and appreciate that your diary is open, so I took a look. You don't seem to have been logging here recently, so there's no way to see whether something in your eating patterns may be part of the explanation for what you're experiencing. Are you logging on another site, or can you provide more info some other way? That might help us help you.

If you just posted this to share some frustration, that's OK to do. But if you'd like suggestions, it would be helpful to have more information: We don't know how old you are, how much you weigh, whether you're trying to lose or maintain, what your eating/activity habits are, etc. WIthout more details, we'd just be guessing wildly.

I don't know whether this applies to you, but a common situation we see here is someone cutting calories aggressively far, adding a bunch of new exercise, then expected a very quick scale drop in the first few days. That drop usually doesn't happen. When a person feels like they're working super hard, doesn't get those quick results, that pretty much always results in frustration. If those people then give up out of that frustration, that's a common way to fail, to be perfectly frank. Extreme calorie cuts plus lots of added exercise does tend to increase water retention temporarily, so masks fat loss on the scale. A more moderate approach can be less frustrating, and lead to better overall results, though it takes some patience. But, like I said, that may not be your situation despite it being a common one.

I think many of us would like to help you achieve your goals, if we understood what those goals are, and what the situation is . . . but we don't have that information.

1straymond

I agree that if you are gaining that much weight per day, you have an undiagnosed medical issue that you need to bring up with your doctor. As far as walking 10K per day, that is not the most important thing to do. Please read the CNN link ( https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/health/daily-steps-how-many-wellness ).

tomcustombuilder

you're gaining water weight. It's literally impossible to gain that much weight in fat just stay the course for a while. Give it some time.