Followed calories and worked out, gained weight

Looked at your diary and here are a couple of things about logging. If you eat multiples of an item, you can select it under Recent or Most Used Food and change the number of servings. For example bread 1 slice, bread 1 slice= 2 slices of bread. If your bread is homemade, it may actually have more calories. You can use generic if you don't put in the ingredients under Recipes tab.

Another thing is exact foods. You listed 5 servings of Sushi. Was it 5 rolls (6 pieces each)? What kind? You can put in the type of Sushi and click the drop down box and it will give you choices. Also if you know the calories (from the back of a package) you can click on the blue "nutritional info" above the drop down box and see if the calories match so you will at least be close to the food you ate.

I love lox but you might want to look at the sodium content. Get your 8 glass of water (water, tea, coffee, non calorie/non carbonated items) in.

You didn't put on this weight overnight and if you lose it fast, you will probably regain it.. Message me if you have any other questions about logging. Good luck.

You have just recently joined so I doubt it is muscle gain. Probably just water retention.

You have to improve your diet, add some fruits and some vegetables and once that's done you can cut back on all that bread you've been eating.

THIS!!!!!!

How many calories are you consuming?
What is your workout routine? Strength training or cardio or both?
Have you taken measurements?

Is there a reason why you are consuming 1/2 of your daily calories in bread?

What exactly is "Tyson Chicken Sauce"

And why haven't you eaten a single vegetable?

I get the feeling that I just might not be consuming enough calories each day.

You're probably right, but if you do decide to increase your calories, don't add 3 more slices of bread...load up on some vitamin packed vegetables (not juiced) to add some more vitamins and fiber to your diet--the hunger pangs you were feeling wasyour body telling you "I NEED SOME DECENT VITAMINS, MINERALS AND FIBER!...Give me something to work with here, will ya??". As the old cliche goes...Man does not live on bread alone.

How are you measuring your calorie expenditure from exercise? Our caloric burn varies a lot and the numbers are averages. The calories given here are way more than what my Garmin in conjunction with heart rate monitor are telling me I have burned. If I had used the numbers given on the site when I entered my exercise, I could have then easily gone over and thought I was under everyday. I used the lower numbers and will be pleasantly surprised if I lose faster because the site is righ.

And ditto on the water gain from sodium intake.

Maybe your body thinks it’s starving. If you cut your calories way down your body will hold on to fat. Remember the calories on MFP are a recommendation, everyone’s body is different. I started my weight loss at 1,300 calories and found that I wasn’t losing the weight as fast as I wanted. I started searching for the answer and came across a web site with a calorie counter (http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm). I increased my calories to for 1,300 to 1,900 and the weigh just started falling off. I recommend experimenting with your calorie intake. Go to the site I just mentioned, enter in your info and read the whole page. Good Luck

You probably gained muscle. If you don't see the loss on the scale, you'll definitely see it in inches!

The first part is untrue....you CANNOT gain muscle that quickly. Seriously, it takes dedication and hard work to gain lean muscle without fat, it is not going to happen to someone who zumba's for fitness in a week (thats no slur on zumba, dancing is awesome).

The second part is good advice, measure, dont always take the scale at face value