i worked out 5 days this week and ate healthy, only to see a

kolkol

your doing great, 51 lbs gone forever! im at 21 and im 2 lbs heavier than I was on tues and I have been eating perfect except for today ( i havent ate the best choices, chipotle) although I have not gone over my calories either though and exercising more than normal. One of my other friends has been eating perfect and exercising like a maniac and she said her darn scales are up too. It is depressing but lets give it a few more days or a week and hopefully the scale will be nicer to us all!
:happy:

Charloo1990

Some of the scientific sides to unexplained weight gain that has been mentioned on here has actualy made me feel a lot better. Glad this topic was posted after my undeserved gain today lol.

JohnRalfeo

Drink more water it makes a big difference

rockerbabyy

Perfectly normal. Sometimes when we exercise hard, we get a TEMPORARY gain (or sometimes just a stall) from fluid retention as our muscles repair themselves. Ever feel stiff and achy from working out? That's inflammation, aka fluid retention.

Also, some foods are high in sodium and can cause fluid retention, too. Give it time.

^this.
also it helped me to only weigh in once a month. i went from daily weigh ins to monthly, and its helped me a ton! i dont focus on the scale at all - i look at how my clothes fit, and how i have started wearing clothes i wore in high school when i was actually 50 lbs lighter..

ashleab37

I've been doing 30DS for the past 24days and what i've been eating, well lets just say theres no way i can eat any less. So no i havnt been having too many cals.

Sounds like you're eating too few.

BlessedShauna777

i worked out 5 days this week and ate healthy, only to see a 1 lb weight gain?! that's just so frustrating!

i don't know how that can happen!

are you taking chest, waist and hip measurements also? that could be a pound of muscle you gained....

firesoforion

Happens to all of us, and worse. :-/ The good thing is if you've been working out really hard it's possible you are just having fluid retention to help reduce inflammation. Good luck!

aggie613

Same thing happened to me last week! It pays to get your RMR tested by a nutritionist. You could be burning more at rest than average, and MFP only uses an average. If that's the case, you should be eating more of your exercise calories. Mine was about $85 to get tested, but worth every penny because it turned out I was burning 260 cals A DAY more than the average person my size and age! Also, I agree with everyone that muscle gain CAN happen. If you are losing inches, it could be muscle weight offsetting your loss. Muscle doesn't "weigh" more than fat, but 5 lbs of muscle is a lot leaner than 5 lbs of fat. You can gain up to 1 lb of muscle per month if you are training a few times a week.

jeremiahcourter

It is because of that very reason why I personally stress not just weighing every week, but taking body measurements. My scale once said I gained 4.5 pounds in one week (water weight anyone?!) but my measurements said I lost half an inch off my waist. Numbers don't lie when it comes to measurements.

onequirkygirl

Assuming you already eliminated possible calorie-counting errors.....just sayin when I did an hour of plyometrics (P90x) for an entire week, I lost serious inches and gained 2 lbs.

And I was eating a calorie deficit.....it wasn't muscle. You're using REALLY BIG muscles when you work lots of legs (did you do that?) ........so you'll notice a jump in the scale. It's water and this is unrelated to eating too much sodium - it's your body's way of protecting you.....and it WILL go away.

There's an article that really helped me stay focused when this happened, and she does a beautiful job of explaining it.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148182508587725

The only thing you have to do is make sure you are in fact eating a calorie deficit, and keep it up.

ishallnotwant

i deliberately did not log my calories for the past two weeks and just went by on how i feel: eat when i'm hungry, and stop when i'm full. it worked for me about a month ago and lost 3 lbs. just going by how i feel.

This might not be the greatest idea...you may be taking in way more than you think. 20 miles per week is a really significant burn, you might be overcompensating with food? I get so hungry when I up my exercise. If I didn't log and just ate when I was hungry and stopped when I was full, lately i'd be eating everything in sight lol. For some reason my stomach is always growling recently.

woou

I was gaining and losing the same 1-3lbs all last month. I weigh in weekly for a challenge. Seriously demotivating. Luckily, the challenge help keep me going. Now I'm shrinking again in terms of number on the scale and NSVs. Don't give up and perhaps try something new in terms of your diet and exercise.

mamagooskie

Perfectly normal. Sometimes when we exercise hard, we get a TEMPORARY gain (or sometimes just a stall) from fluid retention as our muscles repair themselves. Ever feel stiff and achy from working out? That's inflammation, aka fluid retention.

Also, some foods are high in sodium and can cause fluid retention, too. Give it time.

exactly this.

MKBrew2012

I am sorry to hear of your results, I know how frustrating. You helped me out with your post! I didn't have a gain this week, but i had no loss. Felt pretty sorry for myself. Then I read your post and the replies....this site is fantastic! You all have helped me to realize, it's a journey not a race. I look forward to your post of how that is sooo behind you now, and you watch the scale go down!
Thanks to you all!

funkycamper

same here! my clothes feel more loose too but the scale..the scale!!!

Oh believe me, i feel ur frustration.

I've been doing 30DS for the past 24days and what i've been eating, well lets just say theres no way i can eat any less. So no i havnt been having too many cals. I've been drinking my 8 glasses of water a day and havnt cheated one bit food wise. I step on the scales today only to have gained 2lbs. WTF!!!! Not only that, same happened last week apart from it was 0.5lbs i gained.

Everyones been telling me i look slimmer, i feel slimmer in myself and my trousers for work are actualy huge on me now, im constantly having to pull them up so im putting the gain down to muscle gain. There is no way possible that i could have an actual gain cause i deserved a loss tbh and its so bloody disheartening :indifferent: . I actually cried today when i got weighed. Sad i know but its took me so long to get back on track and that just felt like a slap in the face. We just gotta remember, it will come off eventualy.

I've had enough of the scales. Im not getting weighed for 2 or 3 weeks and just going by what my clothes feel like ect cause i can't take the dissapointment :frown:

If you're exercising intensely, especially if weight training is involved, the scale is a lousy measure of progress. Just lousy. I had a stall after the holidays where I only lost 1# over about 5 weeks but I also went down a pant size due to my exercise routine. Was I unhappy? Heck no.

I also suggest eating at least your BMR daily plus exercise calories. My weight loss started up again once I started doing that. As someone else here said, your metabolism is like a furnace and you have to keep it stoked for it to burn.