Gained a stone?!

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I’m just going to spill everything here because my head is a mess.

I started mounjaro last summer. I lost about seven stone.

I had been feeling like it was less effective for me for a while now. But I pressed on, and stayed on it while I was having surgery three months ago. I was 15 stone 8 when I went for my surgery.

Since that, I have been less active than usual. I was still eating at maintenance/a slight deficit.

i started back at the gym three weeks ago. I’ve gone into a full on programme of cardio and muscular exercises.

I’ve weighed myself at the gym tonight and I’m 16 stone 5.

im gutted. I feel like I could cry. I haven’t been 100%, but definitely not at a point to gain that much. I feel like there’s no point continuing to pay for Mounjaro when I’m just failing on it, but also I wouldn’t be able to continue at my current calorie level (1400 a day), without it.

my current stats are

5 foot 4.7

16 stone 5.

what do I do?! I don’t know whether switching to wegovy could be useful?! I’m currently doing a split dose of 10mg every 4 days.

I just feel like throwing in the towel. Maybe this is where I’m meant to end up

I need to do the toilet or ive not chance of a loss this week

So basically you’re 3 lbs up and the rest was different time of day so water and food etc you’d consumed that day.

OP I always get water retention when I do weights or workouts and it put me off at first, but it’s just the muscles repairing. What I do now is accept the gain because once I’m at the end of a workout regime, I see the water retention whoosh off to reveal the true lower weight and defined body.

One day, I wll read a thread about weight loss and no one will claim that someone who has just started the gym and is still extremely overweight and eating in deficit has 'gained muscle', and thats why they've not lost weight or the scales have gone up

I live in hope

I don’t know because I'm 6lbs down from yesterday morning to today. So even that doesn't feel massively accurate. I think it may well be a lot of water retention

However. It is very easy to gain 2-3kg in 2-3 days from eating carbs and water and for it to show ok those “smart scales” as muscle as it’s glycogen and water held in the muscle and it’s neither fat or bone.

And even then, an untrained women (ie someone with no history of lifting) can gain 2-3kg of actual muscle in 6 months with serious lifting and adequate protein (even in a moderate deficit).

Honestly if you weigh yourself at the end of the day v beginning of rhe day it is very normal to have up to half a stone difference,

I weighed myself yesterday morning.

Sorry in confused you said in your op I weighed myself tonight, and I’m saying it’s normal for there to be about half a stone difference between morning and evening, and in the same time frame, ie in the morning, you were inky 3 lbs up, you said previously you weight 15 8 and then it was 15 11.

I’ve bloody confused myself too!😭

Thursday night I weighed at the gym and was 16s5. At home it was 16s3

thwn yesterday morning 16s dead on and this morning 15s11 😭

No but they will gain water retention for the sore muscles, so same result. But you’re right, not muscle gain yet