looking2lose00's Journal, 14 June 2008

You can be thin and still have too much fat on your body, which is unhealthy. Have you gone down in clothing sizes? How long have you been working out with a trainer? I know when you workout hard, you can gain because your muscles retain water from the little tears in the muscle fibers. It takes a long time to gain actual muscle mass. Are you eating enough? What kinds of foods are you eating? It might help to stay away from any kind of processed foods. Maybe up your protein and eat lot's of fresh fruits and veggies. If you have been gaining lean muscle, you should be shrinking in size. The numbers on the scale are only one way to measure weightloss success. Take a week and keep an eye on what your eating to make sure you are not eating more than you think. Good luck! 

That's fantastic that you've gained 10lbs in lean muscles... as in the long run having that extra muscle mass will burn more calories. Hmm... now it's a mystery why those scales are going up though isn't it? I can only go by what I can see you've entered in your diet calendar, but maybe if you could fill in every day it might help you and others evaluate. I can see you've only entered some food... by the * appearing by the calories. But there does seem to be a huge calorie deficit between calories eaten and calories burned. Like you I'm doing WW... but do eat above my recommended points because of the exercise that I do. Normally though I aim for between about 700 and 900 difference in calories eaten and calories burned if I can... so one reason could be that you aren't eating enough. So perhaps check that for starters you're eating at least up to your daily points target if you're exercising a lot. Make sure you're eating loads of veggies. Most tend to be low carb and fat... things like peas and sweetcorn tend to be a bit higher, but ok in moderation (make sure you point those though, as they are not free points!). Fibre intake looks quite low... recommended is to aim for about 25g a day. I don't know if you can eat wholewheat and wholegrain products... but I've found things like Shredded Wheat good and also wholegrain bread for increasing fibre. Maybe check your sugar intake too -- as 13g in that cereal sounds a lot compared to about 6.3g in my Shredded Wheat. I do flex points... but have changed my cereals to those on the WW Core Plan list. You can change the nutritional values that you see by going into EDIT PREFERENCES one in your food diary... then choose up to 6 nutritional options that you want to view. Pity we can't choose more to show at a time... but it can be useful to keep checking these values! Above all though, keep up the great work - with determination and perhaps a little tweaking those scales WILL start going down again. ;o)  

Have you measured your inches? Some people gain huge muscle and put on weight but they are actually seriously losing inches - that may be a better guage for you than a scale!