OK, been sick, better now, weight gain?????
 

I started induction two weeks ago, (AGAIN, fell off the wagon a while ago) and went right into ketosis, saw a pound come off. Got sick earlier this week, (I wrote in regarding severe stomach pains, thought is was a virus, doc said could have been mild food poisoning, not sure) but better now. I couldn't eat much at all for two days, but when I did, I stuck strictly to the plan. Now I'm up 3 pounds??? I understand maybe it's water -retention, does this mean when I stop retaining water (If this is even the case) I'll see pounds off? Where did these 3 pounds come from? Every day the scale creeps up. I know I shouldn't weigh every day, but I'm obsessing now. Whenever I see even a small loss, I am that much more confident and feel so much better about myself. I need thes lifts :) UGH

Can you share some of your menus for the past few days? That's about the only way that anyone can begin to tell you. You may want to create a journal and track what you eat and/or use fitday.com to track.

Let us know...

Dana

I bet it is water... lets see a menu

Breakfast is a combo, of either scrambled eggs and sausage, or bacon....

snack is a few chedder cheese squares (says 0 carbs, count as one)

Lunch, can be tunafish with a bit of mayo, a ground beef patty, grilled chicken, etc....

snack a small salad (lettuce mainly) with blue cheese dressing

dinner, usually a meat entree of some sort, I had wedding soup which had chicken broth, ground beef and parmesean meatballs and a bit of spinach in it this last few days

And If I am hungry later, I try to have a bit more of what's leftover.....

starvation increase?
 

I think this may be the clue - I think your body went into starvation mode so you have lost the metabolic advantage and are using anything you eat very efficiently. I actually just posted about that in this same forum. Just go on normally - we all see a creeping up becuase of TOM temporariliy, and a sickness can cause even more irregularities - just go back to the routine.!

yeah i would say it was because of starvation mode.. same thing happened to me when i was in the hospital here recently