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So many factors to concider. First off, congrats on your new lifestyle
change. You may want to try and log your food for a week if you don't
already. You are working out more and may be eating more too. ((You can
still gain weight eating only healthy foods. It's a bummer but all
true))
Are you weighing everyday? If you obtained your starting numbers in the
morning and them obtained your ending number 2 weeks later in the after
noon you may have also weighed your food and water intake for that day.
My weight is always more in the afternoon. Sometimes by a bit more
indeed. Some may say it's muscle gain,but you just dont gain 6 pounds
of muscle in 2 weeks. If you are logging your food carefully and
honestly, it may just be water weight. If you are weighing everyday and
still gaining slowly you may want to concider backing your calorie
intake down a few hundred cals for a week or so and see how you do. Now
ask yourself how you feel? Are your clothes fitting better? The scales
are a good tool for people who have a lot to lose. Say 40+ lbs. The
scale may not be too good a tool if you only have to lose 15 or so
pounds. ((just my opinion)) Get yourself a good cloth measuring tape
and take measurments from various spots over your body and then take
them again in a few weeks.((while logging your food everyday...make it
a habit))

Hi Kitznegari,

 I too just started going to the gym about a week or two ago.  Now I have a
handicap with my left leg and right foot, but I manage to walk 4 miles a day
and spend a hour on the elliptical machine at least five times a week.  This
week I walked 24 miles and spent 6 hours on the elliptical machine.  I
started at 300 pounds last August and am now 207.  I attribute my loss to
eating healthy, proper portions, and exercise.

 If I were you I would weight yourself the same time everyday, either in
the morning after peeing or after you workout.  If you weight yourself once
in the morning and then the next day at night, you could see an easy 6 to 9
pound difference.  I love pizza too and treat myself once every 2 to 3
weeks, and we order a thin crust, Pizza Hut veggie pizza and I eat 3 to 5
slices and it really doesn't affect me at all, except for a little guilt.
Since I've changed my daily dieting to healthy foods though, I don't crave
junk food.

 I've never used a ski machine and am curious if it is a good exercise
machine.  When I say good I mean does it make you sweat, get your heart
beating?  If so keep it up, if not you might want to get on an elliptical or
stairclimber.  You definitely won't gain 6 pounds of muscle in 2.5 weeks and
I doubt you'll gain that much fat if your eating good and exercising, so I'd
say you just have water weight now.

 Don't get unmotivated that's the last thing you need to do.  We all get to
sticking points, plateaus, and such.  I've even noticed the gains like you,
but I quickly realized this was due to weighing in at different times of the
day or after drinking a lot of fluids.

 I'm glad your exercising and eating healthy.  Try to stick to thin crust
veggie pizza if you can on your Fridays and limit the quantity too.

Take care,

Paul
300/207/175

When a low carber starts a new exercise plan, the muscles try to hoard
carbs for the next workout.  Carbs are stored in water.  Bingo instant
water retention.  Do NOT play hurtfull self inflicted mind games with
yourself calling this fat.  It is not.  In time the muscles get used to
the load, stop hoarding carbs, and release the water.  Diufferent
people, different length of time.

No anti-smileys.  What you experienced is expected, common, and
successfull.