Gained 3 lbs :(

malibu927 wrote: »

Three pounds over what time frame?

This.

Also remember that all sorts of things can cause temporary weight gain via water retention. Look at the overall trend, not day to day fluctuations.

gemstoneisland wrote: »

Sorry, 1 1/2 weeks

Yeah, that could be anything. Ovulation, Period, more sodium, more exercise, etc. Those will all mask weight loss and sometimes show a gain when it's just temporary.

I never knew I gain water weight during ovulation until I started tracking closely on MFP. It lasts 2-3 days and then disappears, just like PMS water weight gain. It's a pain, but at least I know about it and go with it.

I would also say possibly water weight due to increased exercise.

Could be your sodium intake increased, too. Give it more time!

I'm up almost 2 pounds in the eight days since I started MFP. I'm not worried. Just going to stick with it and see what happens. I FEEL better. I'm tracking my food better. WAAAAYYYY better than I was before. And the accountability has gone to the next level. So yeah...I'm up a couple pounds despite hitting lower calorie intakes each day, but those high sodium pretzel rods I have trouble resisting...they aren't helping the scale tell me what I want it to say. So there's that. Just keep pushing yourself.

Your logs are incomplete. Therefore no one, including you, has a clue as to how much you ate. .

Or how much you exercised.

Or, without a trending weight and/or some consistency and averaging when it comes to weigh ins, what your weight trend truly is!

So yeah.
Three unknowns, zero knowns.

I.e. whatever.....

Even the best gainers aren't gaining 3 pounds of muscle that quickly...so to add to this point if you think you are "feeding your muscles" that isn't happening. The best results most people can hope for under optimum conditions is approximately one pound of muscle mass gain per month. But NOT on a 1600 calorie per day intake. Not going to happen. So whatever it is...it's not muscle. I assure you.

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

Its hard to take this entire board seriously considering on another thread you claimed reading a book that convinced you that you could eat more instead of eating less...

So either you are eating more like the book says which you said was a real eye opener for you and you are trying to put on muscle..or feed the muscles.. or whatever.. or you are eating less and in a calorie deficit.. maybe.. considering you have incomplete logs as well

I was more dove-tailing with your point. Not arguing against it. That's all. I was pointing out that in a week and a half it couldn't be three pounds of muscle. Or most likely couldn't be anyway.

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i know this.. im just going by her posts based here and on the other thread.
The other thread she clearly makes note that she read a book that told her she could eat more, especially protein to feed the muscles and that as an 80's baby she always thought she had to eat less...

now here shes saying how disheartened she is about gaining 3 pounds..
Shes got incomplete logs and claims shes weighing everything

but my thing is.. either shes following the book and eating more... and gaining
or shes eating in a deficit.. but its hard to tell since shes got incomplete logs[/quote]

gemstoneisland wrote: »

Goodness, so much negativity! My original question was if anybody else saw the scale go up...

As for the logging calories/weighing food/etc., I have a notebook right next to my scale to jot down the numbers as I go. I don't always have time to get it into MFP...but I know what my daily CICO are!

if your question is a random question along the lines of: "hey everyone, my scale just jumped up 3lbs from the last time I weighed myself", then the answer is yes, the scale jumps around for many reasons that have nothing to do with your fat level.

the reasons are generally included in what's called "water weight". And people use trending weight apps and web sites to get a trend of their weight in order to not get confused by these jumps.

Likely culprits are sodium, time of the month, food in the intestinal track, glycogen expended by exercise or regained by carb loading, water retained for muscle repairs after intense or novel exercise. (also bad weigh in practices, bad batteries, bad floors, and a whole slew of other issues for kittens and giggles)

If you are asking whether on a consistent basis and over multiple weigh ins, with you doing everything you're doing, you are actually gaining weight instead of losing... the answers stand as above.

Your tracking level is insufficient for anyone to render an opinion, thus your body weight is the only relatively known** item in a sea of unknowns.

**and without a trending weight app and multiple weigh ins even that is not particularly well known.