Just a quick question. I started exercising a few days ago. My legs and such are really sore (so I assume I'm gaining a bit of muscle) and I feel good about it. Problem is, I have no been eating any differently than I was when I was losing weight and all of a sudden I gained like two pounds. Is this normal? Did any of y'all gain weight when starting exercise?

Thank you very much!

Elizabeth

It is normal to retain water/gain weight when first starting to work out. Give it a week and your body will catch up and start losing again. Make sure you are getting 8-10 cups of water in to replenish what your sweating out. Water will help a ton!

Those sore muscles are retaining water. It'll go away soon and the exercise will help your weight loss - but you're unlikely to ever see a huge drop in weight simply because of exercise, its consistency and doing it with good food intake that just keeps weight dropping slowly and steadily over a long period of time.

I had the same problem and got discouraged, but the weight started to drop off after a little while. Like everyone said, hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

When I started hitting it hard and consistently, my weight loss did plateau for a while.

However, even though I was not loosing, I noticed I was still dropping in clothes sizes.

So my body shape, etc, must have been changing (muscle tone).

You're gaining muscle. A more accurate way to identify your fat loss journey is to have the gym you're at measure your body fat percentage. Most gyms do this for free. Just check on it every week or two and if you notice your body fat percentage going down but your weight going up it simply means youre gaining muscle and losing fat which is a great thing!

Thank you all very much!

I've started to slowly lose (yay!) again, so I think I'm going to be okay. Gonna head out to the gym now, actually! One benefit of college: free gym membership!

Thanks again,

Elizabeth

I am going throught the exact same thing! Glad to hear the scale finally moved for you. Hope mine does too!!

When i leave exercise then suddenly i start increasing my weight. I

I started exercise 4 months ago...From that day I loose weight about 5kg and now I am 44 kg...I am feeling very confident and fresh because of exercise...

Water will help a ton!RS Gold

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