Gaining weight when you've been good

Current Stats
GW: 160
Lost: 12 - up from 10 last week :)
Yet to lose: 73

If you've been good (eating healthy and working out) you very well may gain a couple pounds. Why? Muscle weighs more than fat. But by putting muscle on, which will initially cause your weight to go up, you create more fat burning potential, because the muscles need more fuel than fat.

Other reasons you may have gained weight when you've been good?

• You're wearing clothes (can add up to 6 lbs)
• You just drank a lot of water (add up to 2)
• You just drank alcohol in the past day or had extra coffee (lose 2-4 lbs dehydration)
• You just did a hard work-out (down up to 5 - sweat and burning food)
• You ate really salty foods (adds up to 5 lbs - water retaining)

This isn't to say not to do these things, but I find that if I weight myself every Friday morning as soon as I get up (hypothetically the same situation every week) that it works for me. I'm all for a Monday weigh in though - it scares me because I know that if I'm bad it's on the weekends, but what better way to hold myself to a little higher standard?

Mhray

PS - I added links to SELF, calorie counter and calorie king on the left