I Actually Gained Weight.. How!?

Good idea Vicky. Lol! My scales does the same thing..

also, i know it's hard, but i only weight myself once every three weeks, two at most. i can't handle the emotional disappointment of not seeing the results i want. i find that, the longer i wait, the more likely i am to see results each time i step on the scale, and that's really encouraging.

if that's too hard, think about this: how old is your scale? it's one of those things we tend to hang on to for ten plus years. maybe as a Christmas present to yourself, buy a fancy new one that even (roughly) counts body fat percentage. that's what i did. seems like if so much of your self-contentment is riding on what this little machine says, you might as well get one you can trust.

hope you had a wonderful christmas in spite of the disappointment at the end of the week.

I have a Tanita, and I really like it. It is consistent time after time. I read a bunch of online reviews before I decided which one to get. This one also does body fat percentage, but that part is far from accurate, which is what the reviews also said, but they said the scale's accuracy in weighing was spot on.

People's weights fluctuate by 2 lbs in the course of a day, and your 2 lbs is probably water weight. How much water did you drink over the holiday? I noticed a lot of the food we ate is high in sodium, so I really hunkered down & got to work on that water. I did gain, but I'm working on getting it back off through drinking water. A good goal is 3-4 quarts a day.

are you just starting to work out? Perhaps you gained quite a bit of muscle recently.

I think you're putting too much emphesis on the scale. I know from playing around with the scale my weight fluctaites as much a 7 lbs in a day.

If you just started working out I doubt you gained muscle. What is most likely the case is the muscles that haven't been worked before are retaining water... What ever the reason, don't worry about it. Count your calories, and keep working out.

2 things.....1st...it could be water weight. I had a week where I ate out twice but stayed w/in calories both times. On Sunday I had 0lbs lost even though I'm set for 2lbs & had been consistently losing it The next week I was down 4 lbs Only possible explanation was water weight from eating more sodium than usual!

2nd, inaccurate scale. I had an old analog scale that would change every time I stepped on it, varying up to 15lbs So I read a bunch of reviews & ended up getting a Tanita scale with the bells a whistles ( body fat %, water % etc). It's very reliable. The biggest difference I've ever seen is .2lbs. But it is sensitive to location. It has to be on a hard level surface (hardwood, tile, etc good...carpet bad). If it's on an uneven or soft surface or you're standing off center (it has clearly marked spots for heel & ball of foot) it will give wacky readings

Actually, you could still have lost some. Water weight can fluctuate as much as 3-4 pounds. So let's say you've gained 4 lb. of water and lost 2 pounds.... scale shows a gain of 2 but you've actually lost 2.

Increasing your exercise can definitely cause you to gain water weight for the first week or two as well.

I weighed again, moving the scales to a different part of the kitchen. With this weigh-in, it stated I had lost 3lb. I am confused, what should I go with? The heavier reading r the lighter reading? :S Thanks!

Best to weigh yourself at the same place each time as the surface condition makes a difference (weighing on a carpet vs cement, vs tile) weigh yourself at the same time, and remember that the scale shouldn't be what you look at the check for progress. Muscle weighs more than fat so you may actually be doing really well! Try measuring you're body with a measuring tape every week or two weeks along with weighing yourself and see if that helps!