Feeling like an idiot

Unfortuanately being female makes it difficult to see anything in one week. You really need to see the trend over a month because your monthly cycle can easily throw off a single weekly weigh in. Also make sure you're logging everything because you can't work off bad eating. Weight loss starts in the kitchen.

Also make sure you have your calories accurate. Weigh your food and double check the calories...sometimes what is in the database is wrong!! Just today I logged my banana and the MFP database entry I grabbed on the phone said it was 67 calories. That didn't seem right to me so I looked it up on the usda nutrition database and it it's actually 86 calories. 20 calories here...30 there...add up.

I've become almost anal about my food logging.

Don't feel that way because there could be plenty of reasons why you gained that weight and 1.4 pounds isn't much.

1.) How often do you weigh yourself? Because with women our weight doesn't stay the same everyday and we tend to carry around water weight even more so around that time of the month. A weigh-in just once a week should do it.

2.) Do you do any strength training? You could have gained muscle weight and that's a good thing because even though Cardio burns fat it doesn't tone the body.

3.) Do you stress out a lot? That could also be a trigger and you should relax a little more maybe try yoga.

4.) Are you over training or not taking in enough calories? Because the harder you train the more calories your body is going to need. It has new demands now and your using up more energy and if your not giving it by food intake than your pretty much putting your body in stave mode. Have you ever notice that after going a long period of time without eating and when you finally do you put on more weight? Well this is because it doesn't know when its going to have its next meal so its holding on to whatever fat it has to work with.

Well hope this helps!

I had gained a pound when I weighed in yesterday too. Guess what- it was gone this morning. But I feel you. Even though I knew in my head that I couldn't possibly have actually gained a pound of body mass, I felt a little bit discouraged. But I keep going!

I use an app called Happy Scale. I weigh daily and log it into the app. It keeps a chart and shows me the overall trend. I always gain 4 pounds right before my period, and it comes off after. I also show a gain after a hard workout, or if I eat out (lots of sodium).

To gain 1.5 pounds, you would have had to have eaten 5,250 calories over your maintenance count. (My maintenance at 5'9, and 180 pounds, is ~2100 calories.) If you are logging your food and keeping pretty good track and not cheating, that probably didn't happen.

Do it for 6 weeks. Be patient. Eat well, get moving. It will work.

Never be discouraged. Watch your salt intake! Wake up tomorrow ready to get at your goal!