HELP!!!! Weight gain from inflamation!!!?

If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to hear them. I've been struggling to lose weight while counting calories and exercising. I've cut more calories and have started to exercise harder but to no avail. If I lose, it's a small amount, about 1/2 lb a month, but all that work can be erased in a day when I suddenly gain 5 lbs that takes forever to disappear.

I am also usually a few pounds heavier in the evening - simply due to water and food that I have eaten during the day. Your weight will fluctuate each day and even multiple times a day.

Although, if you are noticing inflammation...

A friend of mine has been seeing a massage therapist lately to help work through the inflammation in her ankles, calves and thighs. I know that after her sessions she drops a massive amount of that water weight as things started to move. Perhaps this could help you too.

First, don't weight yourself more than once a week. Your weight can fluctuate throughout the day because of water/food intake, exercise, how much salt you ate and just because of other metabolic reasons. Weighing yourself so often is going to increase your stress because of the crazy fluctuations and can actually be counter productive by producing stress hormones that make it more difficult to lose weight.

Secondly, if you are doing everything that you claim and intake fewer calories than you burn, then you have to lose weight, no if's, and's or but's about it. The law of thermo-dynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, simply transfered or transformed. Weight loss is based entirely on this concept, energy in versus energy out.

I was having a similar issue recently and talked to my boot camp instructor about it. What he said to do was this,
First, stagger your calories throughout the week. For example if you want to average 1400 calories a day eat 1500 monday, 1200 tuesday, 1800 wednesday, 1200 thursday, 1500 friday, 1600 saturday and 1000 on sunday. On days when your calorie intake is 1200 or lower, avoid starch eating veggies and fruit for your carbs rather than breads and rice.
Second, plan and pack all of your food in a cooler the night before. Everything you eat the next day comes out of the cooler, no exceptions. If you eat all of your food by noon, enjoy water for the rest of the day, but don't add food.
Third, cut out processed foods, processed and refined sugars and eat as many whole foods or single ingredient foods as possible
Fourth, write down when you eat. What times of the day, and how much water you drink with each meal.
Fifth, make your food simple. Things easy to measure and weigh. Don't guess at portion sizes, no rounded cups when a serving is a flat cup. If you are not losing weight then you are eating more than you realize, so you need to be very strict about your food.

If you follow these steps for two weeks without fail, you exercise and you burn more calories than you take in you cannot fail to lose weight. If you do then you didn't follow the rules. There are no exceptions to scientific laws. If you don't lose weight then you cheated. I followed these steps and realized how much more I was eating that I didn't realize, and I found that within two weeks I had lost 4 lbs. Don't weigh yourself until the two weeks is over, don't measure yourself, don't worry about what your body is doing, just follow the rules and you will lose weight.

They're are many diseases and disorders that are aggravated by inflammation. Diabetes,MS,any autoimmune disorders(Evan's syndrome, which I have, Lupus, Fibromyalgia etc). Refined (enriched, white) flour, highly refined sugar (HFCS) not only cause inflammation but also block your body's ability to deal with it. Including as many whole (natural) foods as possible while eliminating as many highly processed foods, refined flour and highly refined sugars as possible will reduce the amount of inflamation in your body. I asked a Dr years ago why steroids always seemed to be the only meds that help my disorder and she explained they have very strong anti inflammatory power. If anyone has ever taken prednisone or decadron in high doses for an extended period of time, they know it's a walk through Hell I'd prefer not to take ever again. So I started reading everything I could find about antiinflamatory diets and figured it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. That was 7 years ago and I've been in remission ever since. I also read up about vitamin and supplements and found that fish, flax and borage oil also have antiinflammatory qualities. There is one book in particular that I believe to be the best source of information and easiest to understand by a Dr and his wife, who is a trainer who was diagnosed with MS and didn't care for the side effects of her meds either. I love this book as the emphasis isn't on weight loss but on improving health, the weight loss is just one of many positive side effects. They researched a Dr Swank's antiinflammatory diet ( from the late '40's-early '50's is when Swank reserched and tested his diet, I believe) and improved upon it and found that eliminating as much inflammation as possible helped to relieve her MS symptoms and she didn't require the meds any longer. I'm also lucky enough to be med free. In addition to that, I've gone from wearing a size 26/28 to size 14/16. I'm not saying it's a cure all for everything but it may help. I'm new to the site and don't know if it's acceptable to name the authors or the book due to the no advertising policy and is the reason why I didn't. If it's permitted, I'd gladly share the title with anyone interested.

Hi, I guess many people have the same problem you have and of course, I do too! The one thing I can say as a few others have, try not to weigh yourself so frequently..We women, I hate to catergorize us, but our weight does flucuate during the day and I for one, never weigh myself at night..It sounds as if something you're eating or maybe new medication is triggering your body to hold a bit of weight. My doctor just put me on Lyrica for pain and the second warning is weight gain..why do they never say weight loss?? lol Anyway, I am now trying a WW type food plan and I am cutting carbs a bit more to lose. It sounds like you're doing everything right, I love that you're eating small meals during the day which makes so much sense since you have all day to burn those calories. It may be your body is going through a "phase" and next wk you will see a loss. Maybe your building muscle which definately weights more..Lots of reasons, and there are many people responding here who might give you the answer..I love this site by the way..Was on WW for 4 months, points, went to meetings only lost 12 lbs and got disgusted..I like this site because it counts my problem which is carbs..As soon as I'm near my "number" for the day I stop..and its free~~~The best of luck to you and all on this site...