could be weight gain be result of muscle gain?

ros2will3run
ros2will3run Posts: 104 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello,
thanks for reading..been on mfp now for 10 days.(dieted abit before starting too)
At the very start, the weight fell off, to my surprise..
For the last 5 days or so, i've been gaining weight..
could this be due to MUSCLE gain being HEAVIER??
(not only not yet managing v.well, the cal deficit:smile: )
But loving the buzz of a walk each day..! strength training with weights & dvd!

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  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
    No.

    It's more likely water retention for muscle repair from exercise. Drink plenty of water and get good rest. Weight loss will never be linear. The scale can fluctuate up to 5 lbs in a single day. Weigh once a week same time place, wearing or not wearing the same thing.
  • Barbonica
    Barbonica Posts: 337 Member
    No, gaining muscle is hard and slow. If you are working out, you are probably retaining water as you muscles recover. But, the exercise will result in you retaining more lean muscle mass as you lose weight. Keep it up! Congratulations on your progress
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Muscle gain sufficient to be noticeable occurs on a timescale of years not days. It is water retention either in your muscles due to lifting, due to variation in your liquid and sodium intake or due to your monthly cycle. Either way its nothing to worry about. If you want to track your progress by scale weight do so on the time scale of months not days, your weight will seem to fluctuate randomly on short timescales.

    If you workout your muscles with regular lifting you will gain strength and the fat content of your muscles will decrease which along with water retention there will give the feel of hardness or more density. Dont confuse that with actual gain of muscle mass though, that takes a long time and is very difficult to impossible to do if you are also caloricly restricted.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    No, gaining muscle is hard and slow. If you are working out, you are probably retaining water as you muscles recover. But, the exercise will result in you retaining more lean muscle mass as you lose weight. Keep it up! Congratulations on your progress

    This.

    Although lifting weights while dieting is unlikely to build you muscle it is still worth doing because it will allow you to keep your muscle while losing fat instead of losing both.
  • ros2will3run
    ros2will3run Posts: 104 Member
    ok...thank you.

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