Gaining weight when trying to lose weight?

[Rocker]

These past few days, I've been eating less and exercising more but I've gained like 1-2 pounds. Is that normal?

[copelahama]

a couple of days of exercise wont make much difference in terms of losing fat/muscle weight. you probably just weighed yourself at different times of the day and the increase in weight can be traced too more water or food in your body

[alza1988]

Try eating less and drinking less at night .Have a cut off time like 7pm and weigh yourself in the morning .I used to train hard at night , eat good during the day and weigh myself in the morning .If I was starving at night one or even 2 50kcal cup of soups .Because the soup was hot it would take the hunger pang away and it was light .I could do 2 pounds of mostly fat a day doing this .Maybe burnt a bit of muscle and water as well tho but that doesn't really matter . it got rid of all the excess fat easy .You can lose up to about 6 pounds of water weight in an hour session if you don't consume water through your workout .

[ScottDBA]

^ that's bad advice

[Squirrel]

Try eating less and drinking less at night .Have a cut off time like 7pm and weigh yourself in the morning .I used to train hard at night , eat good during the day and weigh myself in the morning .If I was starving at night one or even 2 50kcal cup of soups .Because the soup was hot it would take the hunger pang away and it was light .I could do 2 pounds of mostly fat a day doing this .Maybe burnt a bit of muscle and water as well tho but that doesn't really matter . it got rid of all the excess fat easy .You can lose up to about 6 pounds of water weight in an hour session if you don't consume water through your workout .

Sorry dude but this is a bad post, you shouldn't offer people advise if it's incorrect and/or could be detrimental to their health.

[larry x]

muscle weights more than fat..so you may lose fat and gain muscle and gain weight

[Suckmedry]

Usually when that happens you gain muscle, which weighs more than fat. But over a few days I'm not sure, you may have weighed yourself at different times.

Like last year, I had a month off training over summer and gained about 11lbs, but when I started training again by the time I got fit again I was weighing the same. Lost all the fat, but grew and gained muscle.