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gained another pound

CriticalX
CriticalX Posts: 212 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
so im gaining not losing ugh

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  • Still_Sossy
    Still_Sossy Posts: 868 Member
    Have you been working out? You may be gaining muscle. If I do not lose in a week I take measurments to see if there is progress there. :bigsmile:
  • rachellepilcher
    rachellepilcher Posts: 95
    gaining muscle perhaps?
  • ChunTingO
    ChunTingO Posts: 225 Member
    muscle
  • ChunTingO
    ChunTingO Posts: 225 Member
    muscle
  • reese66
    reese66 Posts: 2,920 Member
    Sodium maybe as well...
  • beckajw
    beckajw Posts: 1,728 Member
    If you are just starting and have been on a very low calorie diet or have been on a diet of binging and "starving", you may gain weight at first while your metabolism corrects itself.

    It's probably not muscle, unless you are really lifting a lot.
  • MacMadame
    MacMadame Posts: 1,893 Member
    Are you doing strength training? I just started a killer strength training program a month ago and I'm up about 5 pounds. But all my clothes are loose.

    This freaks me out a bit even though I know intellectually what is going on.

    Also, if I had eaten as much as MFP told me to eat when I first started, I never would have lost. It had my BMR set too high so my base calories were too high.
  • meggonkgonk
    meggonkgonk Posts: 2,066 Member
    Yea- 1200 calories really isnt enough for a guy, bump that goal up to 1500 or 1600 and try incorporating some veggies and such. Even when supplements and shakes have good components, a lot of people find they make better progress with the real thing.
  • CriticalX
    CriticalX Posts: 212 Member
    lifting heavy five days a week and cardio 15-45 mins a day.. but i have gained 6 pounds now
  • kdao
    kdao Posts: 265
    If you are just starting and have been on a very low calorie diet or have been on a diet of binging and "starving", you may gain weight at first while your metabolism corrects itself.

    It's probably not muscle, unless you are really lifting a lot.

    Agreed, this is what happened to me at first. It picked up and then BAM, lost weight fast.
  • MacMadame
    MacMadame Posts: 1,893 Member
    lifting heavy five days a week and cardio 15-45 mins a day.. but i have gained 6 pounds now
    Well that's a lot of lifting. How are your clothes fitting?
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