Help! I started at gym and my weight went up!!!

Patience, my friend! If you are noticing a difference and feeling great, then ignore the scale. You will drive yourself crazy paying too much attention to that thing! Remember the talk you gave me last week? Keep it up, it will pay off! LY

If you're doing any weight training, too, it's also possible that your weight gain is muscle mass (which is a good thing). If you notice a difference in your clothes, then you're losing there...so don't get discouraged!

is this normal? I have stuck to my nutritionist's diet plan to a tee. I feel awesome and can notice a difference in my clothes, but I have GAINED weight!!! I am so desperate to lose pounds. I'm not quitting since I feel so good, but just am wondering what is going on with me....

This is precisely why I try not to weigh in more than once a month. Between water weight fluxes and my body trading in fat for muscle, the scale doesn't always tell the whole story. My advice is to weigh once a month, and measure inches and bodyfat about every six weeks or so. It's alot less frustrating that way.

I have to totally second (fifteenth? ) the points about water weight and about weighing once a week. I sometimes find that I weigh up to six pounds more the day or two after a hard bike ride than I did before the ride started! I try to simply track the trends -- as long as my overall weight trend is downward over the course of a month or so, I'm happy. If it's steady, I try to note how my clothes are fitting. Right now, both my clothes and my friends are telling me that I'm taking off the fat, even though average of the scale hasn't budged in a while.

One other bit to remember is that muscle weighs more than fat. If you're putting on muscle and losing fat, you may sometimes see upticks in your overall weight, but as long as you're looking and feeling better -- keep doing what you're doing!