Gain 15lbs in like a month! I met my goals daily 99% time!

I'm going with the dodgy scales, either the ones you are weighing yourself with, or the ones you are weighing your portions of food with.

Gaining 15lbs of muscle in a month whilst eating 1750 calories is not going to happen.

Gaining 15lbs of fat, would mean you now have 52,500 calories of energy stored as fat. Assuming a 30 day month, that means either absolutely every calorie you ate was stored as fat, or you used some of those calories and magically produced energy, which physics tells us cannot happen.

Something is clearly wrong here.

when i started i hit the gain weight option when doing my settings instead of loose weight. i would check my settings again just to make sure of what they are. and types of calories count. if a lot of fat and salt is eaten it is easy to gain 15 lbs. have you changed medications( one of mine made me gain 20 lbs even while following the diet.)

Are you positive your scales are accurate? Sometimes they get messed up when the battery sits. Did you move it to a new location? Try another scale to be sure. How do your clothes fit?

Do not up your calories. If your scale is accurate, go the to doctor. If you stuck to 1750 calories, 15 pounds is way too much of a gain for a month even if your BMR was only 1200.

Something doesn't add up here, you don't gain that kind of weight by accident or without something being wrong.

Post up you stats, what you eat on an average day and exercise routine.

Doctors check up would be a good start.

Agree with this. The doctor would be a great start.

start measuring and weighing your food. you're under-reporting your intake (or over-reporting the number of calories you're burning). there's no magic here, it's calories in and calories out.

Seek the advice of professionals not us.

Sometimes certain foods work best for each person. I looked at what you at Thursday - wow thats A LOT of bread!? Noodles and pretzels? Lots of carbs! You should get in MINIMUM 2 grain servings a day (2 slices of bread or 1/2c rice & 1/2c oatmeal)

Get good carbs in like fruit and vegetables.

What is your BMR? If youre inactive I'm sure its not 1700 calories a day.

Re-do some figures and try again. Just dont give up. Getting a healthy lifestyle will be trial and error until you find the balance! :flowerforyou:

Hi. I just wanted to offer up some feedback on your question. I looked at your food diary and it appears that you're eating quite a lot of processed foods, many of which contain tons and tons of sodium. I would recommend a couple of things. First, set your food tracker to actually track the sodium intake. You can go to the settings and choose what things you want to track like fat, protein, sodium, etc. I would recommend keeping track of that because as much sodium as it seems like you've been consuming leads me to believe that you are also retaining a lot of fluid. Then, once you've set it up to track that I highly recommend switching from processed foods to more natural foods. So it looks like you don't really eat fruits and vegetables. You should. This will fill you up so that you're not hungry and they won't make you retain fluid since they don't contain sodium. In fact, I would say eliminate the processed stuff altogether. I saw sausage and things like that on your diary. I think those types of foods are best skipped. For protein, though, switch to chicken, turkey, fish, etc. These are all very lean sources of protein and if you cook them yourself you can also control the amount of sodium.

Keep in mind that it's not just the number of calories but also the types of calories. Processed bad, natural good.

I'd also be interested to know how you determined the number of calories that you should be eating. The number may or may not be correct depending upon how much you currently weigh and how much you want to lose.

Also, try to incorporate exercise. Exercise will firm up the muscles underneath so that you can still be losing inches even if the scale does not budge.

But I think the most important thing is to look at what you are eating. Cut out all the sodium and see if that helps.

I would say maybe it's the exercise. If you've only just started exercising you probably won't have lost very much, as eating fewer calories alone won't help lose weight for some people. Also, your body might be holding onto water if you're not drinking enough. Maybe your calories are coming from too much fat and not enough fruit and veg? There could be many reasons and you should try different things until something works for you.