im gaining weight!!!! WTF!!!!

Man ya cant get all wrapped up in the weight thing especially if you are lifting at the gym. You are gonna fluctuate constantly. Its not a steady all down trip. I used to fluctuate up to 4 or 5 pounds weekly and then went over a month and never lost an ounce. Then in 3 weeks dropped 9 pounds all at one time. Its a big roller coaster that your body is going through to change. Its not all outside appearance that changes you could be having a lot of internal changes as well.

Its all good...take some stress away and weigh yourself once a week.

I have a bad habit of weighing alot during the week to and the best time I found to weight yourself is a hour after you wake up on an empty bladder and stomach.

After I work out, I ususally weight more, probably from all the water I drink while doing so.

Also, in the beginning of my dieting I started gaining muscle weight but losing inches; did you do pre measurements?

Looking at your diary, it doesn't look like you're eating enough, you have hundreds of calories left over everyday. Try to eat at least your recommended calorie intake for the day, and some of your exercise calories if you feel you have accurately calculated them and you feel comfortable doing that (I eat most of mine every day). You seem to be eating good things, but not enough of it, your body needs to know you're not starving it so it can safely let go of that extra fat, otherwise it's just going to retain it all for later. Once you make sure you do this, keep logging and stick at it for just a bit longer (9 days isn't very long ) you'll see results to your liking.

My guess is, since you just started to work out, that your body retains a lot of water. You should weigh in on a fat, water, muscle, scale, to see were your gain mainly is.

Choose just 1 morning a week (the same time) to weigh yourself. Your body may fluctuate day by day because of previous high sodium day. I would also track my sodium and sugar on my diary.

Dude, you eat like a woman. No offense meant. Eat a little more...go up like 100-150 calories a day and see what that does.

Also, make you larger meals earlier in the day. Do resistance training if you're not already.

If you are going to the gym a lot you are probably gaining muscle which weighs more than fat. Measure your body and see if you are getting smaller. Don't give up!

There's a couple of things you can do:

First, stop weighing yourself every day! You're just going to drive yourself crazy. If you really feel like you have to weigh yourself, only do it once a week. The scale can be so deceiving. You can be maintaining (or even gaining a little) weight but if your clothes are looser and you're looking more tone, does what the scale say really matter?

Second, eat the amount of calories you're supposed to every day. I quickly went through your diary over the last several days and it looks like you're eating about 1/2 the calories you're supposed to on most days. The harder you work out, the more your body is going to need those calories. If you don't give your body the fuel it needs, it's going to find it by using muscle as fuel. So, you're going to end up holding onto fat and weight while losing muscle mass. I had a hard time with this when I first started out. I, like most people, thought I had to cut down on how many calories I was taking in to see results. I actually found that when I did that, I was tired all the time and I stopped losing weight. I went from eating 1300 calories/day up to 1900 calories/day and started feeling so much better and began losing weight again. I'm a 5'3" female so 1900 calories is quite a bit. It's almost a year later, and I still eat very close to that amount (sometimes a little over), and I've been able to maintain my 28 pound weight loss.

Results come from two sources: working out and nutrition. If you're only doing the 1st part but ignoring the 2nd, you're not going to get the results you want. So here's my suggestion, up your calories for the next week and see what happens. Make sure to eat as cleanly as possible.

Keep me posted on how the next week goes. I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised!

Mel

Yea man I know women that eat more than you do.. If you are trying to put on any muscle at all you need to up your food. At your size and at 1200 calories a day you are going to put yourself into Ketosis and you will get no where at all. You should NET a minimum of 1500 a day for a guy. When I had mine figured out my resting rate was 1950 calories a day if I slept on the couch all day long. Eat more for sure!!

Muscle doesn't weigh more than fat. Well, let me say this, the only time that muscle weighs more than fat is if the pounds of muscles is higher than the pounds of fat. Muscle is heavier than fat. Heavier doesn't mean weighs more.

5 pounds of fat and 5 pounds of muscle will weigh the same. 5 pounds.

Just because a person has been working out and see a number increase on the scale, it doesn't mean they have gained muscle. It could be fat. That's why people need to track their body fat percentage and work the formula each time they weigh themselves.

Losing scale weight can mean you are losing muscle. Gaining scale weight can mean you are gaining fat.