Need help! Thoughts and opinions please.....

motoole19

I'm relatively new to MFP, but have been using it religiously for the last month. I did really well for the first three weeks and lost weight. Now, I'm starting to gain. I have increased the amount/intensity of my work outs but am not coming close to eating all of my calories for the day. Is it possible that I'm putting my body into starvation mode? I don't want to decrease/stop the exercise, but just can't eat the calories without it being junk. Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

pamwhite712

How many calories are set for your goal?

BarackMeLikeAHurricane

It's water weight (glycogen) from working out. Don't worry about it.

sgarrard01

Aas the person said above, it could be water weight if your lifting sufficent weight when working out to retain water... or given that you've been at it for 3 weeks and loosing and now on the 4th you've gained is it your TOTM? (as a guy i really should not be the one asking you that!)....

Also the scales can go up, down, (unfortunately not side to side) but you want to look at the overall trend which will still probably be in the downwards direction!

motoole19

About 2000 a day before exercise. It's a lot to begin with and the work outs just add more. I do hope it's just water weight. It's not TOTM (ha!) so that's not it. I know the scale will fluctuate, just hate to see it going in the wrong direction. I use 10-15 pound free weights for my work outs. Should I increase it if I can?