Weight Gain after 4 weeks of exercise/acai berry pills/calor

Are you eating a net of 1300 or total 1300. You body needs a minimum of 1200 net calories (calories in-calories out).

If you are only eating 1300 calories and then burning 500-800 calories, your body is only getting 500-800 net calories a day which is putting your body into starvation mode. This means that your body holds on to all the nutrients it can and you do not lose weight because your body is trying to survive.

When you develop your MFP goals and it outputs a calorie goal for each day, that is the number of net calories that you should have for the day to lose your goal weight per week.

Also, being that you are only interested in losing a small amount of weight, you should set your goal to be to lose no more than 1 lb per week.

Best of luck on your weight loss.

It sounds like you're doing everything right. The only thing that I can think is that since these changes have occurred over three weeks, that the weight gain is probably not fat. It's probably a combination of muscle gain and water retention to due monthly hormonal changes.
Also, weight watchers has a TON of sodium in that, which could be contributing to bloating.

Below is a link for another person who has posted a similar question


http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/498064-is-it-overkill

I agree with the muscle/ water weight thing, do you measure yourself? If you're getting slimmer but slightly heavier then ot doesn't matter but this is coming from someone who judges by scales too! Measure yourself, you'll feel better with the results!

Stop buying acai berry pills, they won't do anything, it's all marketing. Whoever told you it is working is likely attributing her success to the wrong thing.

Also don't be discouraged, if you're spending that much time at the gym, you're doing great! The thing is... Weight loss is a bloody slow process, so slow that it's discouraging at the best of times.

How slow? well... If your daily requirement for calories is 2000 and you're consuming 1500, this puts you in a caloric deficit of 500... A good goal... Now let's say you stick to this diet flawlessly for 1 month, after this month (let's assume 30 days) you will have burned roughly 15,000 calories... Sounds like you would be ready for the beach by this point right? Well... No. Turns out there's 7700 calories per kilogram of fat (that's 3500 per pound) meaning after a month of slugging it out in the gym and starving yourself you've burned roughly 1.9kg (4.2lb) of fat...

So after that month of hard work what do you have to show for it?
- A barely noticeable change on the scales (because your body will fluctuate by about 5 pounds)
- If you're lucky you will barely be able to notice a tiny tiny tiny change when looking at yourself in the mirror
- Some of your pants may be a tiny bit looser if you're really lucky!

I'm not writing this to discourage you, I'm writing this to try and help, I've been through it myself, and it's downright demoralising, the best thing you can do is understand how long it's going to take, and have realistic expectations about how long it takes... It's like taking a leap of faith, you just have to put in the hard yards by dieting and going to gym all whilst not being able to see any difference. But you know, because you understand now, that you are changing your body, things are happening, you're making progress, your mirror just scales just dont show it yet.

Just don't give up, make manageable changes, and stick to them.

Feel free to add me if you want some help, I've done it all before, like many on these forums

P.S Don't get caught up on television ads selling weight loss pills, none of them work like they say. Even the supplements that do work, have such a small effect, it will probably be more of a placebo than anything else (or maybe more of a waste of money, that you could spend buying new clothes or something to look nice)