freaking out

I have gained inches in my thighs about 1.5. For the past few weeks I have been doing a lot of squats, lunges and etc. But I do them with my ten pounds weight..only one ten pounds weight. I would like to know is this a good or bad thing. It's my goal to lose inches not gain inches.

Thanks...

Muscle weighs more than fat. You should give yourself about 1-1.5 weeks and then re-assess. It will even out by then. You are just building muscle and it is natural to have a sudden increase in what appears to be weight gain. It's not. You are doing the right thing. You go girl!

In what time frame did you gain the 1.5"?  Did you measure only once or did you re-measure to make sure that your hand didn't slip to a wrong number? 

How do your calories look?  Are you eating over maintenance, at maintenance, or consistently have a deficit?

I am eating 1500 to 1600 cal I track my food every day. I just measured this morning and my thighs were not like that last week.

I do squats as well but not with weights and have not had that problem. Maybe do squats with weights only every other week.

Your muscles may be swollen from the exercise.  Lifting 10 lbs is definately not enough for you to bulk up.  I was squating with 80lbs and loosing inches constistantly a few years ago. 

Keep it up and give your muscles some time to adjust to their new activity level.  The swelling with go down shortly.

thanks

2 things

water gain ( totally possible)

muscle gain ( most likely and its good)

but something i need to bring up. its kind silly to make your basis on just measurements. in a situation like this, if you don't have accurate weight measurements or even better a BMI analysis ( with the calipers) you may never know what or why your body is changing like this.