Gaining Weight while following diet exactly!!! Help

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  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    Its probably just a normal fluctuation of water weight. If you expect immediate and constant success with this, you'll set yourself up for disappointment....give it time.

    Make sure you're tracking sodium, drinking lots of water and watching portion sizes. Also, the calorie burns calculated here can be a little high, so if you're eating back a lot of burned calories, you could be going over. Another thing to consider is that when you start a new workout routine, your muscles will retain water for "repair" and that can show an increase on the scale that isn't a real weight gain.
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    I actually learned about water weight (and about the margin of error on my scale) by weighing myself daily, sometimes even more than once a day. As long as you don't obsess over every single pound, it can be educational--it gives you a sense of how imprecise household scales are, and how much your weight changes over the course of a day.

    I don't trust the scale until it's given me close to the same reading for a few days in a row.

    If you want to weigh yourself less frequently, pick a time of the month (as a woman, right after the end of your period or right before ovulation) and weigh yourself just once a month then.
  • jrsnyder95
    jrsnyder95 Posts: 53 Member
    thanks everyone! i appreciate the support....i'll hang in there and see what happens in 2 more weeks.

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