+2 lb this week - what did i do wrong ?

Are you female, and if so is your period due?
"Time of month" causes gains for most women - often several lbs - but it's only fluid & comes straight off the week after

Could you be eating foods that are heavier in salt content? Like chips, prepackage lunch meats, etc. There is a way to monitor your salt intake here on your daily log. It's listed as sodium. Check and see if yours has been higher in the past few days.

Body weight will naturally vary within about 2 to 4 lbs depending on your weight. THis can be week to week or day to day even. What you should be watching is long term trend. And if you dropped 8lbs in 3 weeks it is likely that this is just that normal variance. I dropped 1.3 lbs since yesterday, tomorrow I will probably gain .8 to 1 lb just because of the natural flow of things.

Unfortunately this just happens sometimes, and it happens even if we exercise exactly the same, consume the exact same foods & water. I think our bodies just 'recalculate or correct' themselves sometimes. I've learned when this happens to celebrate non-scale victories such as making the right choices, exercising more than ever, saying 'no' to that piece of cheesecake, and remain positive. Keep this up, don't let the small gain get you down, and before long you'll be more than surprised at the scale. In 9 months since I've been logging and in control of my eating/health, I've gained 4 times and a few weeks stayed the same, but overall down 39 pounds. I know it's tough when you expect to 'see' less of yourself and you see this gain staring at you in the face... hang in. It's all good!

If you have lost 8lb in 3 weeks (or was it 10lb in two weeks minus this week's 2lb gain?) your body might be holding water while it figures out what the hell is going on!

I often get a pause/mini-plateau/gain before I have a big drop. My weightloss normally goes -0.5,-0.5,-0, +0.5,-3.5,-0.5 etc rather than -0.5,-0.5, -0.5...

If you are carb sensitive (I am) an increase can cause water retention.

I also get a gain for a week or so if I increase workout intensity. It goes away in a few days. Something to do with muscles needing water for recovery - there are plenty of threads on here about it

Congrats on coming this far though! Don't let one week upset the applecart, keep up the great work!

...for example this week I was 174, 172.8 and 173.1 for an average of 170.3 ....

:huh: Fuzzy math?

:laugh: :laugh: My thoughts exactly!

Average there poster is 173.3 for those 3 weigh ins :flowerforyou:

Are you female, and if so is your period due?
"Time of month" causes gains for most women - often several lbs - but it's only fluid & comes straight off the week after

yepp.. gotta love TOM... -.-

Our weight can fluctuate up to 4 lbs. I know it sounds crazy and it took me quite some time to wrap my mind around it. Weight Watchers recognizes this, too, and they allow 2 lbs. on either side of the goal weight and still consider the person on target. I know it can be very disheartening. I stopped weighing myself for awhile because it would send me into such a blue mood. Now, I am accepting it for what it is. Oh...it took me just about the entire year to accept it, though. :noway:

Don't sweat it. Sometimes I lose 2 pounds taking a good #2.

Stay the course. Your body is not a machine. You can't turn the crank and get the same thing out every time.

What you care about is a downward trend, and with only three weeks in, you don't have enough data to get a trend going yet.

When you first reduce your calories, your body burns up its excess glycogen stores. Each gram of glycogen travels with three friends in the form of a gram of water, so each gain or loss of a pound of glycogen will result in a gain or loss of four pounds total. If you ate higher carbs than usual, or higher sodium than usual, the 2 pounds are likely just water.

And everybody's right, be glad you're not a woman. I gained almost three pounds this weekend due to my period and one very large high-carb meal. I am still waiting for one pound or so to go away. I've done four intense lifting workouts since then too, so I know there's bound to be a lot of water tied up in my muscles for repairs. I know all these things, and I don't get crazy about daily fluctuations on the scale.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. Stick to your guns and the weight will go.

do you weight/measure all your food?

You are either under estimating calories, or have water retention ..

I would suggest weighing yourself three times a week, at the same time, and take a weekly average to account for fluctuations...

for example this week I was 174, 172.8 and 173.1 for an average of 170.3 ....so you can see over course of a week my weight fluctuated +/- 1 pound....

I then use the weekly average to compare against past weeks..as long as the average is going in direction I want, then I am good..

Speaking from a womans perspective... do not get addicted to your scale or the numbers on it! My best method for tracking is measurements!

Also, "they" recommend that you drink atleast half of your body weight in ounces to stop water retention... example if you weighed 150 lbs drink 75 ounces of water a day.