What am I doing wrong?

Are you drinking a lot more water? Because that is very heavy and you could be retaining it. I doubt it's muscle since your calories are so low.
 
It could be the water. I am so busy during the day so I drink a lot of it at one time before I leave work and go to the gym to "catch up."
 
Put a couple of bottles of water on the scales. Then put a couple of empty water bottles on the scales. Subtract. Water is heavy - it is still heavy when it is inside you.
 
Bikini Bound said:
I am an avid Fit Day user :)

I just hate how difficult their food tracker is to use. The searching is awful and they don't have everything.
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Seconded. *sigh* I augment their stuff with stats from but it gets annoying to enter everything in by hand.

Anyway, welcome to you and to the other recent newbies. I have trouble keeping up with the constant influx, so pardon if I don't greet everyone individually. :)
 
Omega gave you some great advice. I am also a daily weigher, and I always do it first thing in the morning before I've had anything to eat or drink, and after going to the bathroom. If I weigh myself after eating/drinking, I'm always up 4-5lbs.

You shouldn't cut back on water. If you get dehydrated, your body will cling to whatever fluids it has, hence you'll retain water. When you are propertly hydrated, your body will get rid of the excess it doesn't need. You should drink about 90oz per day--1oz for every 1/2 pound of your weight.

Oh..um...nice name. :reddevil:
 
Are you weighing at the same time every day? If not, I'd bet thats the problem. You could weigh a significantly different amount at different times of the day, due to food, water, bathroom habits, etc. Weigh first thing in the morning, and see if it is more consistant for you.
 
Sometimes you retain water around the time of your period. If that happens it should readjust later in the month.
 
My impression of the diet you have described is that it is too low on fresh dietary fibre, you should be consuming much more fresh fruit & Veg-probably additional to your other whole grains etc..Granola, cheerios etc are all sweet processed foods which convert too readily to fat! You have not actually mentioned your total daily calorie intake....which may be too low...especially as you are working out!
 
Looks like you are doing well with 7 pds off for your start! I am about the same place you were, with 50 to lose... ok, I would be happy with 40, thrilled with 50 and could lose 55 if I really wanted to get to my lowest...:blush5:
I think cardio is much more important until you get the weight off, then start weight training. At least for me, that's better.... or do light weight, several reps. Good luck to you!
 
meghas50 said:
Looks like you are doing well with 7 pds off for your start! I am about the same place you were, with 50 to lose... ok, I would be happy with 40, thrilled with 50 and could lose 55 if I really wanted to get to my lowest...:blush5:
I think cardio is much more important until you get the weight off, then start weight training. At least for me, that's better.... or do light weight, several reps. Good luck to you!
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Hi mega, welcome to the forum! I was just wondering what your logic is behind the light weights/several reps and waiting to do weights til after the weight loss.
 
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