Today, I finished the first month of a diet and exercise program designed to help me lose weight. To keep myself motivated, I have avoided the scale the entire time. I weighed myself today. I've gained 6 pounds. FML
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Today, after I completely starved myself for a week and exercised every day in an attempt to lose weight, I instead gained 5 pounds. FML
Today, I was proud of going to the gym 3 times a week (instead of once a week) to get in relative shape. I even started doing light cardio and (I thought) started to eat better. I've gained six pounds, despite watching what I eat and even increasing the resistance on the exercise bike that I use. FML
Today, I finally weighed myself after going on a strict diet of only fruits, vegetables, and coffee. I gained weight. FML
Today, after a full year of vigorous exercise 7 days a week, and a strict diet of vegetables, fruits, and water, I can proudly say that I've lost half a pound. FML
Today, after drastically changing my diet, going to the gym regularly, avoiding excess sugar and carbs, upping my protein, I’m still as fat as ever. In fact I weighed myself this morning, and I’ve gained 12lbs in 2 weeks. FML
Today, I went in for a doctor's appointment. When I got on the scale, I was really excited to see that I'd lost ten pounds since the last time I weighed myself at the gym. The doctor then severely lectured me on the fact that I had gained twenty since my visit last year. FML
Today, stepping on a scale for the first time in years, I had to lift up my stomach to see the number. FML
Today, I stepped on the scale because I'm trying to maintain a good weight. The scale read that I had lost 6 pounds. Feeling really good about myself, I stepped off the scale only to see that the corner of the scale was sitting on the rug, making the scale mess up and tell me the wrong weight. FML
Today, it's my sixth month of working out 5 days a week, watching what I eat while my family eats like kings, and only losing 2lbs. It's also the day husband said he misses my 20 year-old body and no longer finds me attractive, but that's okay because he "loves me anyways and it's good to know where we stand." FML
Today, is the fourth day of my husband's and my new diet and exercise routine. I've already caught him eating junk food 4 times. He has lost 2 lbs and I've gained 3. FML
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imapyro1996 4
Muscle?
structuredchaoz 4
Muscle weighs more than fat. If you are excersizing and building muscle mass. That's why
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every1luvsvag 10
Muscle weighs more than fat.
ukrage 1
Lol how many people think op (who is a girl tryig to lose weight not a bodybuilder) is doing the kind of exercise that would make her gain more than 6lbs if muscle in a month. Even on whey protein and and a high protein 8 meal a day plan it would be extremely hard to gain that without maxing with heavy weights and deliberately trying to gain muscle
ShroomsOnAcid 17
Well they're not saying all of it was muscle. Some of it might have been muscle, but some of it was most likely water retention, or even being "backed up". I literally lost 3 pounds at once after taking a shit when I started eating more fiber, lol.
that_one_guy14 0
If she hasn't been exercising hardly at her whole life it wouldn't be that hard to gain 6 pounds of muscle after a month of exercise
MuchDance90s 0
I gained 4, in a month, and yes it was tested w calipers and an extremely expensive BF% scale.
chicfuzzball 0
lol tht sucks luckily for me I have like the fastest metabolism in the world I tried gaining weight by eating junk food and sitting on a couch for a week and still lost weight
that_one_guy14 0
Same here I tried gaining weight for football but no matter what I do It doesn't work
theghost1309 11
Lol same here
sentinel_233 0
U gain before losing weight keep it up and it will work but it's gonna take more than a month
djmk671 5
I bet he/she starved themselves because once you eat after starving yourself, your body needs to store extra fat, thus causing you to gain.
beccak2012 6
you did lose the weight it is turning into muscule and muscule weighs more than fat so its ok
lollipop77_fml 6
Don't look at the scale - go by how your clothes fit you! Scales are a dieters enemy because you just feel dejected when you don't see the huge numbers of pound loss that you were expecting, and then just "give up"! Keep up the good work and watch those inches whittle away!!!
HomeAl0ne 20
The same thing happened to me! It turned out my scale only goes up to 300lbs and I'd actually dropped from 590 lbs to 296 lbs. Only when I looked close did I realise the needle was doing one less lap around the dial before settling down. I'd check that if I were you.
that_one_guy14 0
You didn't realize that you lost almost 300 pounds??????????????????
ShroomsOnAcid 17
Yeah, clear that up for us please! Did we misunderstand your comment? How do you not notice?
HomeAl0ne 20
Jesus Christ, sarcasm guys, sarcasm!! I swear, there's enough stupidium in FML to last the human race 1000 years.
Battle765 4
Don't give up just weigh your self at the same time every week and wear the same clothes. As long as you are actually eating right and working out there will be results in how you look.
elephantom12 9
All you people saying 'muscle weighs more than fat' are idiots. 1 pound of muscle and 1 pound of fat WEIGH THE SAME, the difference is the 1 pound of muscle is a lot smaller than the 1 pound of fat so someone who is 170 pounds and is muscular will look smaller than someone who is 170 pounds and is fat. Just thought I'd clarify this : P BTW the human body is not capable of building 6 pounds of muscle in a month unless your on steroids. So yeah, better make some adjustments on that diet.
ShroomsOnAcid 17
I get what you're trying to say, but by that logic, stones are not heavier than feathers, because 1 pound of each is still 1 pound. 1 pound of anything will weigh the same as 1 pound of anything. The difference here is weight in relation to volume, and as you said yourself, 1 pound of muscle looks slimmer than 1 pound of fat.
preetaleet 9
They're not idiots. They're comparing it by size. If you have 4 cubic centimeters of fat and muscle, which weighs more? The muscle weighs more. They can be the same size, but muscle will weigh more.
elephantom12 9
I get what your saying, but still, you cannot build 6lbs of muscle in a month.
theghost1309 11
You just proved there point. Not sure what you were trying to do here by reiterating what they just said
theghost1309 11
Sorry the comment above was to preetaleet
nowthenagain10 8
Dipshit allert!
preetaleet 9
69, Sorry, when I typed it there were no comments. I left it for a while, when I came back I posted it. That's why,
jdrcme 0
you contradicted yourself. you said 1 pound of fat is smaller than 1 pound of muscle. Then you went on to saying someone that weighs 170 and is muscular is going to be smaller than someone that is 170 pounds and is fat....thus, you may want to rethink your logic
Daralea 21
theghost1309, the comments were posted at the same time (as least the time stamp for me is the same) so relax yourself