Gaining not losing????

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roobella
roobella Posts: 59 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been sticking to 1300 cals. I've managed my 10k steps each day as well as 20min on rowing machine or exercise bike 2 out of 3 days.

My weight keeps going up rather than down. It's very disheartening

Can anyone give me some advice

Thanks
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    Up by how much in what timescale?

    Do you weigh your food with scales?
  • roobella
    roobella Posts: 59 Member
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    Yeah I've got digital scales I use all the time
    I've put on 14lbs in less than a month

    I do have a new job that's more sedentary but that's why I bought a pedometer to keep on my 10k steps
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited June 2017
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    roobella wrote: »
    Yeah I've got digital scales I use all the time
    I've put on 14lbs in less than a month

    I do have a new job that's more sedentary but that's why I bought a pedometer to keep on my 10k steps

    Digital scales to weigh yourself, or to weigh your food?
  • LisaEatSleepRun
    LisaEatSleepRun Posts: 159 Member
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    Sounds like me...during my first trimester! Are you pregnant?
  • roobella
    roobella Posts: 59 Member
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    livingleanlivingclean wrote: »
    roobella wrote: »
    Yeah I've got digital scales I use all the time
    I've put on 14lbs in less than a month

    I do have a new job that's more sedentary but that's why I bought a pedometer to keep on my 10k steps

    Digital scales to weigh yourself, or to weigh your food?

    Both
  • roobella
    roobella Posts: 59 Member
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    LisaEatSleepRun wrote: »
    Sounds like me...during my first trimester! Are you pregnant?

    No definitely not
    I've got 2 kids and physically can't have more.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
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    You've gained 14 lbs in under a month eating 1300 calories?

  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
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    So you've gained 14 pounds in less than a month but you're not pregnant, you eat 1300 calories per day, and weigh ALL of your food on a food scale down to the gram? Am I reading that properly? If so, my next question is do you have cheat days? Making your food diary public would also help us pinpoint any issues.
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
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    When did you take up the rowing machine?
  • ugofatcat
    ugofatcat Posts: 385 Member
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    Do you have heart failure or kidney disease? Do you take a water pill? Are you having any difficulty breathing or needing to sleep with pillows propping you up at night?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    What's your current weight?

    If I put on 14lbs of fat my clothes wouldn't fit any more.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
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    jgnatca wrote: »
    When did you take up the rowing machine?

    This.

    Last time I gained 13lbs (I weigh every day, so I managed to see the spike over a few days), I had increased my lifting volume quite a bit, increased walking speed, ate extra sodium and was near TOM. It's not impossible... it came back down in under a week.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,754 Member
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    Is your body weight scale on an even floor? Does it need fresh batteries?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,988 Member
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    There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

    Also, how tall are you?
  • roobella
    roobella Posts: 59 Member
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    cerise_noir wrote: »
    jgnatca wrote: »
    When did you take up the rowing machine?

    This.

    Last time I gained 13lbs (I weigh every day, so I managed to see the spike over a few days), I had increased my lifting volume quite a bit, increased walking speed, ate extra sodium and was near TOM. It's not impossible... it came back down in under a week.

    I have only recently increased my exercise to 20mins daily rather than just 3 days per week. It's also ridiculously warm. Starting to think it's water retention combined with an increase in muscle mass
    Hopefully it'll balance out and start going back down
  • firef1y72
    firef1y72 Posts: 1,579 Member
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    Something definitely isn't right is you've put a stone on in a month. Although I guess technically it's not impossible, I put on 10lb over 2 days after running a half marathon, but then lost it again over the next 5 days. But 20 mins really isn't an amount of exercise that should lead to that much gain, so I'd go to the doctor if I was you.
  • mlinci
    mlinci Posts: 403 Member
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    Do you eat 1300 calories, or do you eat 1300+exercise calories? What are your stats?
    If you are eating 1300 calories, something really doesn't add up.

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