Weight training and weight gain?

My fiancee and I have recently started a diet and weight training regimen together. At first, I was losing weight and I was very excited but in the last two days, I've done up nearly two pounds. I know that doesn't sound like much, but when you're dieting every pound counts. I have heard contradictory things about weight training. I have heard that it helps you lose weight because muscle burns more calories than fat. I have also heard that weight training will actually make you gain weight because muscle weighs more than fat. I'm discouraged and thinking about quitting if it's going to keep making me gain weight. I just want straight answers about what it does to your body in relation to dieting (I'm dieting in a healthy way and I am getting enough protein)

Although your WEIGHT may be higher from building muscle, you are losing fat, and muscle takes up less space per pound so you are shrinking.

When I started exercising, my weight loss stalled for the longest time, but during that time lots of people were commenting on how much I was losing because I was getting smaller even without losing a pound.

Now I've started losing weight again.

Keep at it, the exercise will make for a healthier body. It's not ALL about the number on the scale.

Stop thinkking about weight, and think about body composition instead. A woman with some muscle tone might weigh more than a flabby woman, but she will look quite a lot better. it is fat that we find unattractive, and if you gain weight because you gain muscle and lose fat, I see no problem. Stay off the scale, and keep doing what you're doing and have a trainer give you a body-fat analysis. I bet that will make you feel a LOT better.

When you reach the crossover point between body fat and muscle, where you have more muscle than body fat, you will gain weight from then on. Once that happens, weight no longer matters anymore, and the only thing that matters is body shape and body condition. As you become more and more fit, your weight will increase dramatically. A totally fit human weighs about 30% to 40% more than what is listed on the "weight/height" charts. Those charts are only good for joe average on the street that is not fit and not in shape.

The problem is people always focus on weight; and you shouldn't. You should instead focus on your body fat percentage. I think for a woman (depending on your age), you should be under 30% and under 20% if you're an athlete. If you weight train, of course you're going to gain weight because muscle is heavier than fat. As long as your body fat percentage is good, don't worry about your weight. Your weight means nothing........good luck!

Please ditch the scales!! I like you, got completely discouraged when I began weight training. I put on weight according to the scales, ugh never what you want when you are trying to loose. But then contradictory to what the scales were saying all my clothes became to big for me! I'd put on muscle which does weigh more than fat; you must remember the simple equation: more muscle = more fat burning potential.

These days I way myself seldom, but instead the tape measure has become my best friend. It's inches you want to see come off, not weight as such. So don't get discouraged, any muscle you put on will be helping you burn fat.

scales are **** anyway. you can be up two or three pounds depending on how much water is in your body.