When I first started Atkins back in May I went walking every morning. I was losing weight, but it was not as fast as I wanted. I stopped working out about 3 weeks ago and the pounds have been dropping off. I wanted to start working out again. Last week I started on my elliptical machine and this week I gained weight!!! I have been really good with no cheating, proper H2O intake. I am really frustrated. I want to be healthy and thin. I know that some people will say that it is muscle, but how can I be gaining that much muscle in less than a week? When will it click with my body and start losing weight again? Help.

YOU've probably gained muscle which ways more then fat!!!!!!

read this bad boy!
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=123029
this is what happends to me ...during the week days I'm working out and gaining weight up and down , on the weekends i'm resting a losing weight

SMALLER NOT LIGHTER SHOULD BE THE LOW CARB EXERCISERS GOAL!!!!

Weight will eventually slip off but building muscle and looking leaner is the goal of most fit people.

Take measurements and be healthy and watch your body continue to change in healthy and beautiful ways!

I was getting frustrated that I wasn't losing hwile I was doing light weight training. When I took a break from it for a week I started losing again. I don't get ti either. maybe our bodies hold onto water when we work out more???????????????

I agree that it's how you look rather than what the scale says. I set my goal at 125 and have not been able to get below 130. The funny this is, I don't really care how much I weigh now because I know that I look good! I've lost inches (3 pants sizes since Jan) and the hard work really shows. I exercise 5 days a week, no matter what, because I feel so good afterward. Being healthy includes being height/weight proportionate, but you have to take care of your whole body, inside and out.

Water and energy (i.e. fat). If you're eating X amount and you're losing weight w/o exercise then you've found that happy ground where you're taking in enough energy that fat burning can take place. Makes sense, right?

So if you throw exercise into this you'd automatically think "I should lose even more". Often this isn't the case. Why? Because you've just increased the caloric deficit between what you eat and what you burn, and it's likely you increased it too much. A deficit that is too big puts stress on your body. It doesn't matter if the difference between what's going in and what's going out comes from restricted calories or exercise. Too much = too much stress = a ceasation of fat burning.

Try increasing your calories slightly when you increase your activity and see if that doesn't get the fat coming off again.

-Nat