REALLY?? What the heck is going on?

jmmsunshine
jmmsunshine Posts: 11 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've GAINED about 8 lbs over the last month. :o( I've been working out, finding ways to fit exercise into my daily life, paying attention to what I'm eating and my reports show a net calorie deficit between 200 and 400 cals for most of the last month - but I've GAINED?? :o( Yes, I know there's still room for improvement, and yes, I know there are certain times I'm going to weigh more (thank you hormones) but 8 lbs?!?!?! Somehow, I just don't believe it's all muscle and water gain. phoey...

Sorry - just needed to vent for a minute.

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  • stephanne82
    stephanne82 Posts: 49 Member
    This is just a thought...maybe you are not calculating your calories and/or exercise correctly?
  • fiveminutes
    fiveminutes Posts: 30 Member
    I know how that feels. This past week I've been playing around with just a 2lb gain. Thankfully for my official weigh-in was down a pound. When is the last time you recalculated your BMR? Maybe it's time to up or lower the calories? I know around my TOM, about a week before, I start retaining water.
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
    Open your diary so we can help you out. It's probably that there's a miscalculation somewhere, but it's hard to make suggestions unless we can see what you're doing now.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Open your diary so we can help you out. It's probably that there's a miscalculation somewhere, but it's hard to make suggestions unless we can see what you're doing now.
    . This 8 pounds is a lot.
  • RuthieCass
    RuthieCass Posts: 247 Member
    200 calories does not leave a lot of room for error. It's very easy to unknowingly eat a couple hundred calories more in a day. Use a food scale and weight everything you prepare. Avoid eating out (if you absolutely have to, leave a 1/4 on your plate and log the entire portion.) If you "eat back" exercise calories, eat no more than 3/4 of them. Do this for another 3 weeks and watch the scale. If your weight stays the same or increases (and you're not doing some new exercise or on your TOM), then try cutting 100 calories. Actually, try to weight yourself after a rest day, in the morning, before eating something, when you're not on your period. Good luck.
  • jmmsunshine
    jmmsunshine Posts: 11 Member
    Thanks for the suggestions - clearly I must be miscalculating something so I'll need to start paying better attention and leaving a bigger margin. The exercise is paying off in that I feel stronger, am less winded, and definitely more flexible. Guess that's the hard part - "feeling" better only to get on the scale and see it moving in the wrong direction!

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