Why am I gaining?

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Mguy

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Alright, I weighed myself this morning, and apparently I gained 2.2 lbs. According to the scale I am now 152. I just don't see why I gained two pounds in one week when I have been exercising. The way I see it, it couldn't have been muscle, since I've only been benching about 70 lbs. counting the bar. I eat a bagel everyday, but I need carbs to get through the day to keep me satisfied since I have the very last lunch block at my school. Just last night, I had one large slice of pizza and two slices of a steak and cheese calzone; that leads me to believe that it possibly stayed with me overnight, but I remain unsure on that. Fact of the matter is, my plan completely backfired on me, and now I appear to be gaining. I feel as though I may have a mental breakdown any second. As far as exercise goes, I've been doing an hour of Dance Dance Revolution (movement game, actually does work), and 40 minutes on a Stationary Bicycle (not in the same day), and of course Benching and Pushups and etc. I seem to have a good plan, but it's backfiring on me for a reason I cannot see. I am in need of help. Thank you.

-Michael
 
You're either eating more calories than you burn (doesn't look like it), or you're retaining water (very likely, given the high salt levels of last night's dinner).
 
Sounds like your dinner did it. It could very well be water weight. Drink some water o get rid of the water weight and sodium (I'm sure pizza and steak/cheese has a lot of it). 2.2 lbs is nothing. During the week I go up and down 2 lbs.
 
I gotta go with the water too. I get this alot since saturday nights is my 'cheat meal' for the week and sunday morning i'm about 1-2 pounds over what I usually am. As the others have said, it's just water showing that weight increase.
 
You're all definitely right. You know, I just did 40 minutes on a Stationary Bicycle, and I sweat more than usual. I also had Chinese Food today, so that can also contribute to it. Burned about 571 calories.
 
Are u keeping track of the calories your eating? Remember machines usually are way off on calorie burning counts. And chinese , unless you got what they called the "diet menu" its usually fried and covered in sauce thats loaded with fat and calories, so burning 570 won't mean squat if you overate by 1000 calories. But pizza steak and calzone in one sitting might certainly be attributing to your weight gain.
 
Mguy said:
Alright, I weighed myself this morning, and apparently I gained 2.2 lbs. According to the scale I am now 152. I just don't see why I gained two pounds in one week when I have been exercising. The way I see it, it couldn't have been muscle, since I've only been benching about 70 lbs. counting the bar. I eat a bagel everyday, but I need carbs to get through the day to keep me satisfied since I have the very last lunch block at my school. Just last night, I had one large slice of pizza and two slices of a steak and cheese calzone; that leads me to believe that it possibly stayed with me overnight, but I remain unsure on that. Fact of the matter is, my plan completely backfired on me, and now I appear to be gaining. I feel as though I may have a mental breakdown any second. As far as exercise goes, I've been doing an hour of Dance Dance Revolution (movement game, actually does work), and 40 minutes on a Stationary Bicycle (not in the same day), and of course Benching and Pushups and etc. I seem to have a good plan, but it's backfiring on me for a reason I cannot see. I am in need of help. Thank you.

-Michael
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First off, nice to meet ya and good job on making changes!

I highly, highly reccomend you read this article writen by fellow forum member, Steve. It's called The Scale Mentality, and it's helped me a TON. When I first started on my weight loss journey and I was 240, my focus (like most people who aren't knowledgeable when they first start a life change) was about what that scale said every week. The number on that scale reflected a ton about how I felt and if I stuck to my eating and exercise plan.

I've read that article by Steve a couple times now, and it's changed me. I am just under 200 pounds, and am gunning for around 175, but it's not the fact that I lost over 40 pounds and what the scale says every week that keeps me going. At first, I thought it was; I was a scale addict and used it to tell me what was going right or wrong, and like Steve said, if I was up two pounds, I was PISSED. But I realized, it's not what the scale says that motivates me... It was 100% my desire to be healthy, fit, and be able to look at myself in the mirror for once and not wish I had to make a huge change to please myself.

All the best with your journey!
 
Don't rely on the scale too much. For some, it's a great side tool towards their succession in life. But for others, it's a straight pit fall into the dark holes of h3ii.
 
don't ever get mad if you gain 2 pound over night. Your body will go up and down around 5 pounds in a day FIT TIP: Next time you drink water drink it cold because you body has to heat it up before it is Proccessed .
Jason Szova
NASM Personal Trainer
 
Your dinner most likely has an effect. Last time i checked though pizza and calzones weren't low in calories. Make sure you aren't consuming too many, because foods such as pizza carry a lot of calories people don't realize.
 
It looks like you are on the pizza, steak and bagel diet. You should consume good carbs like from fruits and vegetables. How much salt you consume determines how much water you will retain. Also those foods can clog your colon causing you to hold on to waste. :Angel_anim:
 
ginkgo said:
It looks like you are on the pizza, steak and bagel diet. You should consume good carbs like from fruits and vegetables. How much salt you consume determines how much water you will retain. Also those foods can clog your colon causing you to hold on to waste. :Angel_anim:
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The whole Pizza thing is a once in a while thing. That I don't do regularly. As far as bagels are concerned, it's because I have the last lunch block in my school, and if I were to have cereal, I would maul my lunch and other sources of food I have available at my house when I get home. Even then, I am still hungry when I get home, and often have a large snack. Originally, I was doing cereal and either a nutri-grain or quaker oats chocolate chip bar for snack, then I found out that a bagel contains less fat calories than a nutri-grain bar, so I stuck to the bagels. I'm not saying this is the best thing to do, but I am saying that it certainly cannot be harmful to my progress.
 
Mguy said:
I'm not saying this is the best thing to do, but I am saying that it certainly cannot be harmful to my progress.
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Why are you so certain? I don't mean to be rude, but you don't appear to know very much about fitness and nutrition. Lose the attitude of certainty and do more reading. You don't know even a fraction of what you think you know. If you like I'll be happy to point you in the right direction. To start, take a look at clean eating, and have a gander at many of the rules you are breaking every time you eat. :p For starters, get some lean protein into your day. Right now it looks like everything that goes in your mouth is either a highly refined carbohydrate or grease disguised as meat.

Simple calories in < calories out may get you there, but it's much less likely to keep you there, and even less likely to do so in good health.

Also, if you're going to weight train, you ought to incorporate either a full body routine or a split, either of which will train your body evenly rather than just parts of your upper body. Doing what you are now long term will likely result in a disproportioned physique, muscle imbalance, and injuries.
 
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Nothing wrong with a bagel if that's what you like. Incremental change is more likely to eventually get you to a healthy diet you can live with.
 
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Why are you so certain? I don't mean to be rude, but you don't appear to know very much about fitness and nutrition. Lose the attitude of certainty and do more reading. You don't know even a fraction of what you think you know. If you like I'll be happy to point you in the right direction. To start, take a look at clean eating, and have a gander at many of the rules you are breaking every time you eat. :p For starters, get some lean protein into your day. Right now it looks like everything that goes in your mouth is either a highly refined carbohydrate or grease disguised as meat.

Simple calories in < calories out may get you there, but it's much less likely to keep you there, and even less likely to do so in good health.

Also, if you're going to weight train, you ought to incorporate either a full body routine or a split, either of which will train your body evenly rather than just parts of your upper body. Doing what you are now long term will likely result in a disproportioned physique, muscle imbalance, and injuries.
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Well, I'd say I know well if I managed to lose 35 pounds last year. However, I will admit that I did not eat breakfast in the morning whilst losing, and of course, that is not the best choice. Even prior to my weight loss before, I didn't regularly eat breakfast except on the weekends. I did read the 7 habits, and the beverages one caught my eye. I constantly drink Chocolate Milk, since Milk is an essential part of any diet, and Orange Juice on the weekends. In adolescence, it would be a bad choice to cut milk from my diet, which would inevitably stunt my growth. Whole foods...yes, whole foods. I really do need to cut back from the 100 calorie packs, despite how low cal they are, I guess they're not the best choice except when you are substituting some other higher cal snacking item. As far as muscle imbalance goes or a disproportioned physique goes, no, I work my upper, lower, and abdomen, so muscle imbalance really cannot happen with what I am doing pertaining to strength exercises. And thank you for the 7 habits article.
 
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