Gaining weight even though eating right/working out

You haven't put on 2lbs of fat since Friday unless you were just shovelling food into your mush all weekend. It's just fluctuations and it'll drop back down.

Your muscles could be retaining water you know, seeing as you've been working out. They store shizz for repair, or something. Stop freaking out. Everyone fluctuates, the body is a mysterious thing

I don't understand why I'm gaining weight again---I was 162 on Friday, and today, I'm 164. This is not water weight b/c I drink over a gallon a day and just started Dandelion tea to help with bloating per the gurus on Biggest Loser.

Neither of those are particular reasons why it's not water weight.
I wouldn't trust an entertainment program focused on extremely obese people to provide useful facts. Especially when it involves a floral tea.
The fact you describe yourself as looking bloated rather suggests it is water retention.

With women's more variable hormones, it's expected they'll fluctuate in weight more than men.

Everyone's body retains water based on hormone levels, diet (sodium intake and carbs can both cause water retention), muscle damage during workouts. It's just a fact of life. No one weighs the same every day; in fact, no one weighs the same in the afternoon as they do in the morning. It takes 3,500 calories to gain a pound of fat, so unless you ate that much more food, it's not likely you gained that much in fat weight, so just accept that you are retaining a little water weight. It happens to us all. If it bothers you , don't weigh yourself every day. And don't take water pills, there's no reason for it. If your body is retaining water to repair muscle damage from a workout, it needs to so taking water pills would be counter productive. Be patient.

Personally, I think that drinking a gallon of water a day is excessive. Unless you are running a marathon, or something.

You don't just retain water because of salt, water retention also happens due to your monthly hormone cycle, high carb intake and new or more intense exercise (muscles retain water and glycogen as part of healing process).

Here's a little perspective for you... Sure it stinks that you're up on the scale a bit but you have to realize fluctuations are part of the process. Also, hello - you've lost 6 pounds in a month in a half - that's AWESOME!!! Be proud of what you've accomplished and don't get down on yourself for a perfectly normal slight uptake. Hell, I weigh every day and the scale says something different because of water weight, poop, PMS, etc. The scale is only a measure of gravity's pull on your body - it's not a measure of how you should feel about yourself!! Maybe start using other tools like body measurements and progress pictures as they can be just as good, if not sometimes better, at showing progress.

Are you sure your sodium isn't high - do you actually track it in your diary? Are you weighing/measuring your food? How are you coming up with your calorie burn numbers?

P.S. The BL contestants lose quickly because they're exercising crazy amounts and on very restrictive diets and they're being constantily monitored. Also, they're extremely obese so it's somewhat ok for them to be losing a lot of weight per week. You on the other hand have only 30 or so pounds to lose so 1 pound per week is best. Even on BL, once they get closer to goal, they have a harder time losing - especially the women.

Ummm that's called a normal weight fluctuation. 2 lb is hardly something to get so upset about

I feel bad when I gain, but realize alot of the time it is salt... or totm. I've been up and down the same pound all week. I want it to go away!!!