I've gained 7 pounds in a 3 weeks including 2 this week alone. I'm very close to giving up on eating right and exercising if all I'm going to see is a gain. I've upped my exercise routine to nightly this week yet have been up on the scale every day including a pound this morning. My pants are feeling tight. Out of the 20 pounds I've gained in the last year 7 have been this month. I started out just to lose 13 pounds originally and now I've gained 7.
January I managed to get down from a start of 233 to 229. February was a bad month but for the first half I managed to maintain at 229 even though I wasn't exercising. I'm a senior in university and exhausted from full time classes, working full time and doing an internship which was why I had gained weight to being with. Then my period came in february and I gained 5 pounds which did not go away after my period ended. The week after I stopped taking birth control pills hoping that would help. I started exercising again this week and increased my exercise from what it was before. I've had a good week diet and exercise wise yet every morning I am up another half pound. I've gained 2.5 this week from 234 to 236.5. I was 235.5 yesterday so another pound over night. I'm eating right, watching my carbs and calories, drinking plenty of water and exercising for at least 30 minutes a night. My pants are starting to feel tight. I've taken at least three pregnancy tests even though my boyfriend's had a vasectomy and the likelihood of my being pregnant is slim and all have been negative.
I don't even feel like I deserve to have a bowl of oatmeal this morning. Always before exercising like this at least helped maintain a weight never a gain. I've never gained this rapidly before either. I'm scared right now that I'm going to be 240 by Monday and t hat there is no way to prevent it.
I'm devastated and in tears. I wasn't expecting a loss right away but not a 2 pound gain in a week w here I've been trying to do everything right. On top of the 5 pound gain last month it's just too much.