frustraited...

lin7604

i am beyond frustrated. I hit my goal, sept 21st then i decided to re evaluate it and lowered it 3 more lbs. Since then i have done nothing but gain weight no matter how hard i try? what is going on??? It's been a month and i now have put on 3 lbs?I have made sure i am still tracking like always, i log everything! nothing has changed and yet i keep going up every week instead of down? I even changed from 30ds to rin30 to switch it up a bit on the 7th ( which i have done before)...and since the 15th i have put on 3 lbs. that is a lot 7 days???

Dauntlessness

Well, and I hope you don't get offended but 3lbs is not much at all. I have, and most people have a 2lbs fluctuation on a day to day basis. It could be sodium, it could be water... maybe you actually gained it. I don't know. I would just keep doing what your doing because to think that your not going to have your ups and downs by a few pounds for the rest of your life is unreasonable. I cant imagine constantly losing weight for the rest of your life because you'll wear away to nothing... Just my 2 cents

lin7604

i know it's not a lot but this journey has been very hard. it's taken me a year to lose 20 lbs. i was 3 lbs away from my goal and now it's creeping back in the opposite direction and i don't know why. I am doing everything i can and it seems to be going to other way? why when i get so close to maintenance it brings me backwards, i was doing so well finally. I now have 6 lbs to lose to get back to my maintenance level and then i can bounce around between those few lbs back and forth for the rest of my life. I had just bought new jeans when i hit my goal ( a month ago) and now they are to snug, never would of thought a few lbs would make that big of a difference but it has.... it's just frustrating.....

Helloitsdan

Stress.
Take a diet break and clear your mind.
Look a year into the future and decide what you want to be then.
Work backwards to now and make small goals.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

fbmandy55

I agree with the first poster. Any given person's body fluctuates a few pounds daily. You could be bloated, over on sodium. TOM, getting sick, etc... Hitting a certain number on the scale and expecting to stay there is an unreasonable goal.

That being said, what did you eat to lose? Were you eating a really low calorie diet? In my experience, I have seen a ton of people here lose weight on a really low calorie diet and then gain when they hit maintenance because they were eating TOO low to begin with..

Put away your scale and focus on feeling good, not a certain number!

sadyel

Could be muscle weight if your working out? do you measure yourself?

donicejones

Depending on what type of execerise you're doing you may be gaining muscle and muscle weighs more than fat at least that's what the doctor keeps telling me. I have been going to bootcamp for 6 months and I've only lost 3lbs my goal is to lose 80lbs so I have a long way to go but it's frustating when your clothes are loser and everyone keeps saying you look great you're losing weight except the number on the scale has remained the same. I'm told that I'm losing inches and gaining muscle but I rather lose the pounds I don't want huge muscles like a man. Anyway keep up the good work and don't give up!

lin7604

well i can put away the scale but it still won't matter, my pants are snug! that is how i knew...i do measure myself and no change there. i do exercise, right now only rin30 3-4 days a week. and i have only had a 250 cal deficit to lose my weight. I am short adn didn't have tons to lose so that was reasonable, so it' snot like i reintroduced a lot of cals since... but maybe stress? i did start a new job on the 19th of sept.. since then it's been harder then normal!

TavistockToad

open your diary

fbmandy55

Depending on what type of execerise you're doing you may be gaining muscle and muscle weighs more than fat at least that's what the doctor keeps telling me. I have been going to bootcamp for 6 months and I've only lost 3lbs my goal is to lose 80lbs so I have a long way to go but it's frustating when your clothes are loser and everyone keeps saying you look great you're losing weight except the number on the scale has remained the same. I'm told that I'm losing inches and gaining muscle but I rather lose the pounds I don't want huge muscles like a man. Anyway keep up the good work and don't give up!

You are very uninformed. Muscle does NOT weight more than fat. A pound is a pound. It IS more dense.

You will not get muscles like a man. Many women here, including myself, lift weights. They help your shape and the calorie burns are great for losing fat but to bulk up like a 'man', you would have to be eating like a body builder. Clean food and insane amounts of protein. Plus, men get like that because of testosterone. You won't develop muscle like they do.