Gaining weight for no reason?

Well, it could be water retention if you're consuming some more salt or about to start your period. Weight just goes up and down, that's the way it is. It could be that since you started working out more, you're retaining more water. Hard to say. Just keep drinking water, and logging as accurately as you can. If you have an I-phone, download the Happy Scale app and input your daily weight. You'll see that it will provide you with a weight loss graph. It's very motivating and satisfying to see that there is still a downward trend even if every week doesn't show a significant improvement. Honestly, you are doing great! You're averaging a loss of around 1.5 pounds per week, which is amazing!! Hang in there, keep doing what you're successfully doing, and you'll be fine.

It might honestly just be water! Don’t feel too down about it. Whenever I’m sick my body retains atleast 3 lbs of water weight and when my body is done being sick I drop back down to my normal weigh. Like the other poster said, if you’re doing everything correctly and when your food etc. then it’s probably water weight.

Make sure you keep track of your menstrual cycle. I only weigh myself once a month and only after my period, because it's the most accurate weight I'll get. About two weeks before my period I'm 1kg heavier because of water retention.

If that's not the case with you, it could be for two reasons: either you are gaining from supplements (that's why I don't take them EVER) or it might look like you are gaining because of water retention in muscles due to strains and tears post exercise. You might find this article helpful

"Water Weight When You're Muscle Building
Water retention may be one of the reasons the number on the scale is going up instead of down when you're building muscle. Lifting weights strains and tears your muscles, creating an injury. The muscle soreness you feel a day or two after a strength-training day is part of the healing process. In addition to the "feel good" pain, your muscles may also swell with fluid. Those extra pounds may just be water trapped in your sore muscles, and it may hang around for up to 10 days.

If you're working out to lose weight, you might find the soreness and the added pounds discouraging. But the only way to get over the pain, and lose the weight, is to continue to work those muscles."

https://www.livestrong.com/article/392136-can-gaining-muscle-make-you-gain-weight/

First of all, you're at the top end of normal BMI. Your 1.5lbs a week loss cannot continue without ill effects. Not unless your TDEE is well over 3500 Cal a day.

Secondly you started exercising more. Are you soar? you have water retention.

Third there are numerous how to weigh yourself threads and discussions about water retention. You weighted yourself after work? Nothing good is going to come from that.

Download happy scale, libra or start using trendweight.com or weightgrapher.

You've done a great job so far and you're about to start **kittening** it because of impatience instead of taking pride in your accomplishments so far and using them to fuel **patience**.

Your "quick" results have already taken place. Seriously. You get quick results when you have a LOT of available fat waiting to go away. NOT when you're into the normal weight range.

Relax. Enjoy your accomplishments. Work steadily towards more and better goals! DON'T PUSH THINGS SO FAR that you then feel let down if things don't come out as you expect them to. The journey IS the purpose.

"Kitten" is the site's way of blocking curse words.