Weight gain after 3 months?

DailyGroomer
DailyGroomer Posts: 93 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been busting my *kitten* with a personal trainer for 3 months. I have also been counting calories and staying under 1200 the 1400 on most days. It is not always the best stuff, but the calories are still counted and under and I am eating a lot better than before I started.

My trainer has me during mostly strength training and has just started adding Cardo intervals.

I stepped on the scale this morning for the first time in 2 months and have actually gained a pound since I started in January.

Please tell me it is muscle gain because all this work and no results is really starting to piss me off

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  • crb426
    crb426 Posts: 661 Member
    Even with muscle gain, which is hard to do when eating at deficit, you'd still lose after 3 months of eating lowered calories.

    Are you weighing your food? Could it be off?

    Also, how do your clothes fit? I'm sure that all your hard work was not completely for nothing.
  • DailyGroomer
    DailyGroomer Posts: 93 Member
    crb426 wrote: »
    Even with muscle gain, which is hard to do when eating at deficit, you'd still lose after 3 months of eating lowered calories.

    Are you weighing your food? Could it be off?

    Also, how do your clothes fit? I'm sure that all your hard work was not completely for nothing.

    I am not weighing my food, that seems like it would be such a hassle. I did have a scale, but not sure if I still have it.

    My pants did fit looser last month but not this month.

    :/
  • abi111
    abi111 Posts: 50 Member
    You are underestimating your portions then so your calories are off and you are eating a lot more calories than you estimate you are.
    Weighing your food is a bit of a hassle but your method of losing weight is not working so maybe it is worth the bit of extra effort.
  • fitmom4lifemfp
    fitmom4lifemfp Posts: 1,572 Member
    You are eating more than you think you are. It's so so easy to do, we've all been there I think. Start weighing and measuring EVERYTHING.
  • prettygirlstorm1
    prettygirlstorm1 Posts: 721 Member
    you definitely want to weigh your food. You would be surprised how much you are really eating. I tried to eye ball portions and wondered why I was not losing weight, then I started weighing and measuring everything and I did a lot better. Good luck.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    It's not a hassle at all to weight food. When cooking put package of meat on scale, tare, take out your portion, there's your accurate weight. No different than taking it out and eyeballing.

    Something like porridge or rice? Place bowl on scale and chuck thing into bowl until you hit your portion.

    Yoghurt, peanut butter, anything coming out of a container that will leave extra on the spoon/knife. Put container on scale, tare, take out portion.

    The extra time it takes to use a scale is literally the time it takes to press the tare button/turn it on. Why that is such a hassle to people I will never know. If you're not getting results it's the easiest way to see exactly what's happening.
  • Theo166
    Theo166 Posts: 2,564 Member
    If you are in a CICO calorie deficit consistently for two month, it's impossible not to lose weight.

    I'm guessing your base is 1200 and you are eating back your workouts? May apps are reported to overestimate workout calories burned, which can push someone into maintenance eating instead of being at a deficit.
  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    DailyGroomer wrote: »
    I have been busting my *kitten* with a personal trainer for 3 months. I have also been counting calories and staying under 1200 the 1400 on most days. It is not always the best stuff, but the calories are still counted and under and I am eating a lot better than before I started.

    My trainer has me during mostly strength training and has just started adding Cardo intervals.

    I stepped on the scale this morning for the first time in 2 months and have actually gained a pound since I started in January.

    Please tell me it is muscle gain because all this work and no results is really starting to piss me off

    The scale is only one way to measure progress. What you SHOULD do is take measurements and pictures. To me, the scale is a general indication. Over the course of 8 years I went from 215 (very fat) down to 165 (skinny fat) and back up to 215 (pretty lean with decent muscle mass). My point is, if both of my 215's stood next to each other...no comparison.

    Again, don't stress about the scale, take measurements and pictures.
  • DailyGroomer
    DailyGroomer Posts: 93 Member
    Ok I will start to weigh the food, I will see if I can find the scale and buy one if I don't have it any more
  • DailyGroomer
    DailyGroomer Posts: 93 Member
    joemac1988 wrote: »
    DailyGroomer wrote: »
    I have been busting my *kitten* with a personal trainer for 3 months. I have also been counting calories and staying under 1200 the 1400 on most days. It is not always the best stuff, but the calories are still counted and under and I am eating a lot better than before I started.

    My trainer has me during mostly strength training and has just started adding Cardo intervals.

    I stepped on the scale this morning for the first time in 2 months and have actually gained a pound since I started in January.

    Please tell me it is muscle gain because all this work and no results is really starting to piss me off

    The scale is only one way to measure progress. What you SHOULD do is take measurements and pictures. To me, the scale is a general indication. Over the course of 8 years I went from 215 (very fat) down to 165 (skinny fat) and back up to 215 (pretty lean with decent muscle mass). My point is, if both of my 215's stood next to each other...no comparison.

    Again, don't stress about the scale, take measurements and pictures.

    I was having a lot of stress with weighing myself the first month. So I banned the scale for 2 months and switched to measurements only. between month 1 & 2 I lost about 6 inches overall and my pants felt slightly loser. This last month I did not lose any inches and even gained small amounts in some areas but I measured right after a high intensity work out, so not sure if that had anything to do with it or not.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    DailyGroomer wrote: »
    Ok I will start to weigh the food, I will see if I can find the scale and buy one if I don't have it any more

    Be sure to get one that weighs grams! Most any digital scale will but not all. Some weigh lb/oz only.
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