GAINED weight - HOW?

Don't be discouraged. Your muscles are expanding so they're heavier. You're doing great! If you're under your calories, your body may be storing food. Good luck!!

Looking over your food diary looks like you are not getting enough water also, looks like you mainly stay in the 4 to 6 glasses a day range. I would suggest increasing the water to the minimum of 8 but try for 10 to 12 glasses a day. Don't get frustrated though some times the body does strange things, this is not a set back but most likely a rebuilding time since you have been working out more.

Its probably your nurtitio and water. Just looking at what your eating. I see were there could be better choices. I always tell my clients avoid exra sugars, artifical sweetners, to much salt/sodium. Also Do Not eat anything with
“High Fructose Corn Syrup”
“Bleached or enriched flour”
“Simple Sugars”
“Partially hydrogenated
“Watch the salt/sodium
"no artifical sweetners
THese are bad for your body POSION!
Read YOUR LABLES ”

Exmp. Good Breakfest Breakfast
1cup Cooked Oatmeal or Oat bran, 1 tbsp ground flaxseed,1 whole egg, 2 egg white
½ cup blueberries(fresh or frozen),

Snacks Med Apple or 1 large serving of fruit(unpeeled) and 20 Raw Almonds, or Yogurt (Greek Preferred) or ( dannon lite & fit or Yoplait Lite!) with ¼ Kashi granola or an organic granola or 1 serving of fruit

Lunch
1/2 to whole sandwich with
4oz of meat(turkey,chicken, tuna, ham) (lunch meat is ok with less processing to it)
1 slices 100% WHOLE GRAIN bread (80-110 cal. A slice) Prefer Ezekiel Bread
2 servings RAW veggies
½ cup low fat cottage cheese or 1 low fat mozzarella string cheese
12 -16 oz water


Dinner
6 oz. lean meat ( chicken, fish, pork, beef, turkey ect)
1-2 servings fresh or frozen steamed veggies( broccoli, green beans, peas, squash ect) NO CORN!!!!!!!
4 oz Red Skin Potato
12 -16 oz water
Example of a great way to get it started. You can mix things up. Up the best way to eat is not out of a box or can.Foods Like that will cause other problems. Eating this way you will get more food more nutrition and feel better. These are a small example. So you can adjust amounts and things.

Hope this helps

When you say you are under your calorie goal? Is your calorie goal set at 1200, and you are going under that? because thats not too good a thing for most people.

Also, with the amount of workout it seems, you do, you should increase your water intake.

Also, you are probably gaining muscle, which will make you heavier on the scale for sometime.

The best suggestion I would give, would be to take your measurements, and monitor that as well from now on.

Keep up the good work

What they said!
- drink more water
- measure yourself to see if the weight is muscle instead of fat.
- Is it that time of month?
- Eat more fiber.

Congrats on your goals and on being your best for your family. Hugs. :drinker: (water)

I agree with others who say eat more. It seems counter-intuitive but I had this problem and was shocked. I was 5lbs from my goal weight in early August, was going to have to replace all of my work clothes before school started (I'm a teacher) because I had lost 20+ pounds since the previous year, and wanted to take off that last little bit of weight so I would not "under" grow my clothes again. I started restricting myself to just my 1200 calories a day (not eating any of my excess calories from working out), upped the intensity and duration of my workouts, made sure I did not take ANY rest days, and walked extra every day just for good measure. After 10 days of this I got on the scale and had gained 2lbs. I was so discouraged that I didnt' work out for several days, and although I didn't just start shoving whatever I wanted in my mouth, I stopped counting calories and just ate when I was hungry, which was definitely more than 1200 calories. I did eventually pick the work outs back up, and started to count calories again (which I definitely think is important) but continued to eat more, consuming most of my extra calories, and when I got on the scale a week later I had not only dropped the 2 I had gained, but 2 additional! Your body needs fuel and time to recover. If you push yourself too hard and don't eat enough, it will think you are starving it and store up fat.