Help! Why am I gaining weight?

Your food diary is private so no one can do anything but speculate. If you are gaining weight you are in a cal surpluss.

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It's my understanding that most of the time when you start a new exercise program, that you will initially gain weight and possibly sizes before you lose. Your body has to gain muscle before that muscle gets to work burning off fat. I've experienced this myself coming out of boot camp when I joined the army. I was about a size 5 when I joined, and of course I gained weight due to muscle gain that I'd never had before. Was given my civilian clothes after boot camp and nothing fit because I had gained so much muscle. I went from a size 5 to a size 7. Continued years in the military put me up to a size 11.

It's my understanding that most of the time when you start a new exercise program, that you will initially gain weight and possibly sizes before you lose. Your body has to gain muscle before that muscle gets to work burning off fat. I've experienced this myself coming out of boot camp when I joined the army. I was about a size 5 when I joined, and of course I gained weight due to muscle gain that I'd never had before. Was given my civilian clothes after boot camp and nothing fit because I had gained so much muscle. I went from a size 5 to a size 7. Continued years in the military put me up to a size 11.

When you begin an exercise program you typically get some fluid retention which can mask fat loss or cause minor gains in weight. In this particular case however, not 30lbs of it.
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To add to this, she would be losing sizes if gaining muscle, not going up in size.

That said, Misty, congratulations on your weight loss!

The problem is that you are simply eating more than you think you are and that is why you've gained 30 pounds. It has nothing to do with adding foods back into your diet because no foods are good or bad. You've already said your thyroid is fine.

I suggest weighing all solid food and measuring all liquids and logging food and exercise calories. I have no doubt you will see your portions are bigger than you think they are. If you exercise, you also might not be burning as many calories through exercise as you think you are.

The only explanation for 30 pound weight gain is that you're eating too much. You're not logging food correctly, not logging at all, not measuring your portions, overestimating calorie burns, not putting your own recipes into the database, something. Something, somewhere is wrong. Opening your diary will help us figure it out.

The only explanation for 30 pound weight gain is that you're eating too much. You're not logging food correctly, not logging at all, not measuring your portions, overestimating calorie burns, not putting your own recipes into the database, something. Something, somewhere is wrong. Opening your diary will help us figure it out.

And/or your thyroid is acting up, and/or you've begun peri-menopause. Both of which would also mean you'll need to eat less and count more carefully (if you're a counter). Not disagreeing with this post, just saying you might want to see the doc again. You're the right age for peri-menopause and given that you already have thyroid issues...
YOU may find that you have to be careful with grains as you age. many peri-menopausal and menopausal women do.
Good luck!

Take out the foods you added and see if that helps.

Swap out foods with higher calorie density for foods with lower density. Get rid of anything with high fat, or refined sugar or refined grains.

You may be eating too much, but not the right kind of food. At the end of the day it's not just about calories, but nutrition quality of the food you are eating. Are you making sure to eat green leafy vegetables? What are your ratios like? I find personally that if I have fruit that is too high in sugar I bloat up right away. I also try to be careful with what kind of carbs that I eat. I will have grains on occasion, but i mainly get my carbs from veggies and will have a sweet potato after I workout to help with the protein intake. If you are eating too much fruit or a high sugar fruit like bananas try limiting them. After I cut out bananas and readjusted my carb intake I lost about 7 pounds in a week.

30LBS of bloat?

It could be something really small like eating a slice of bread a day, but it could be a little of everything adding carbs, gaining muscle, and stress in your daily life. If I was you I would think of a day back when you were losing weight and today, look at what your doing different and try to go back to what you were doing. Good luck.

Don't know if this will help. I am supper carb sensitive. I can never eat brown rice or bananas, which are carb dense. I gained weight over the summer by eating too much fresh fruit. I can eat most all vegetable except corn and potatoes. Try eliminating carb dense foods and pig out on cauliflower, broccoli, green beans, and kinds of salad fixings. Forget the croutons though. It's worth trying for a week. If it's white, don't bite. Good luck.

Sounds like you may be confusing water weight gain with actual weight gain.