Hi guys. I'm hoping I can find some nice words here to keep me going. I started my diet 3 weeks ago, and have been exercising for the last two weeks. My exercise started with 30 mins of cardio and I've now added weights and am up to closer to an hour, with four workouts a week, hoping to up it to five. On the days I'm not going to the gym, I am still moving because I have a 70 lb yellow lab that loves (requires) at least three walks a day.
My eating is pretty clean. Only drink water and I have a few glasses of skim milk a week, usually with supper. I log my cals. Measure everything. I use a diet analysis program from when I took a nutrition class last semester and I take a multivitamin. I'm quite overweight...I'm at 222 right now. The reason I'm kind of ... I don't know...a little bummed out is because the first week I was at 224 and dropped to 220. After adding the exercise I gained 2 pounds INSTANTLY and have been there since and I'm going into my fourth week... I've taken human anatomy/physiology so I'm aware that muscles require water to repair...and that muscle is more dense than fat. How come I can be so overweight, and was so non active and adding the exercise and eating clean isn't doing anything? Anyone else experience this? I know this is a lifestyle change and going to be a long progress but dang. I didn't know it'd be 2 lbs a month this early in the game.