For once I don't feel fat.. But I am! CRAP!

Sooo, since my wedding (5-15) where I got down to 145 AND was super buff, I've put on like 8 or 9 lbs.  Oddly, though, I don't "feel" fat, like I normally do after any weight gain.  I don't get it.

I haven't been weighing, since I've been training for a half-marathon, so I've been running 6 days a week, and lifting 2-3 (trying to fig yoga in as well).

Well, as I learn EVERY time... I gain weight like wildfire when I don't weigh.

Anyway though, it's just bizarre, as for once, I don't "feel" fat.  Yet, I obviously am (clothes are all tight, scale is up 8.5, etc).  What's up with that?  Is it since I haven't been weighing, I'm not as hard on myself?  Or, what?

Sigh.  Backkk on the scale/calorie counting wagon.

I wouldn't worry about the weight gain.  Obviously, you are aware of it and you have proven you know how to get the pounds off.  It could be connected water/sodium or to several other things.

By the way, your state of mind is equally as important as your state of body--you feel good about yourself; and that is an extremely important feeling!

"I gain weight like wildfire when I don't weigh."  So do I.  And I am also back to logging calories accurately.  Many of the members on this site don't need to weigh daily or to count calories at all--but I need to do both in order to keep weight off.

THanks for the quick response!

Yeah I'm just annoyed that I have to get back to the whole weighing / counting thing.  On the upside, with all the cardio I'm doing now I think the lbs will probably come off more quickly.

We shall seeee...

Thanks too for the note about feeling good about yourself.. It's so true!  Thanks for the pick me up :)

-Dana

Hey,

I am not pretending to know that much but my mom was a marathon runner and heavy into weight lifting does lifting three times a week and runny and yoga not add on some muscle? Just curious because my husband is a weight lifter and he gains weight very quick when doing that.

Have a great day!

It's interesting that you mention the marathon training.  Both my daughters will run the occasional half and full marathons in places like Vancouver, Las Vegas, Virginia Beach, Boston, San Francisco, etc.  My older daughter was amazed that her weight had plateaued even though she was running every day and felt fit.  I just told her that this plateauing happens all the time to many of us.  My opinion is that you are in extremely good health--all your exercising is definitely going to pay dividends.

Hmm, perhaps that is why my weight seems like it's distributed differently... Less in the tummy more in the legs.  Eeeenteresting!

Yeah, right there with you.  I always seem to gain over the summer because I'm working out more outdoors, and it's harder to get to a doctor's scale at a regular time of day.   I feel totally fit, and I might convince myself that the +10 lbs since winter was at least mostly muscle, but the tight fit around the waist suggests otherwise.

since you have been training for a marathon and lifting and stuff maybe your weight gain is not really fat. muscle weighs more than fat.