Is it possible to gain weight while eating at a deficit of almost 700 calories? Last week I gained 1.75 pounds while maintaining the deficit I mentioned and I was just wondering if it's because I've been hitting the weights.

Are you sure you were at a deficit of 700 cals? Were you actually tracking your calories? How much lifting were you doing? Was it an increase over your current routine?

also was the weight gain consistant, or overnight? It could be just waterweight that got stored from drinking an irregular amount of water or something.

I am not entirely sure it was a 700 cal deficit but am positive it could not have been less than a 400 cal deficit and thats a stretch. The last two weeks I had been increasing my reps and sets while working my biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, chest and abs.

How long have you been training? How many weeks?

I think is fairly safe to assume you really dont know what your deficits were whether 400c or 700c. And when you say these deficits, what MT Line calorie approximation are you basing this deficit from?

Dependent upon how long you were training, it is quite possible, you were experiencing "new to weight training" gains, and "dependent on how large the deficit", a new deficit along with a new bodily experience equals a "strong bodily adaption at first", but this generally does not last that long.


I wish you the extreme best in all that you want to do and desire!

Best regards,


Chillen

Welcome to my world brother-G. The body is a weird thing, I wouldn't worry about it. Stay the course, re-evaluate in a couple weeks. A couple pounds comes & goes in the course of a few drinks & bowel movements.

FWIW, my nutritionist has made reference to a study where some woman were given only 800 calories and they weight-trained: they gained muscle! As for their weight, no idea. Again; the body is weird. So long as you're doing the right thing, the overall direction & effect will be accomplished. If not, just come to the forum and whine & cry like I do.

THat's actually kind of odd to me especially if you held that weight on, if you are new to lifting it makes sense because youll have those newb gains with or w/o adeficit but 700 cals seems like alot as a deficit any way are you doing any kind of carb cycling or are you really burning that many calories in a week, make sure you keep your deficit around 20% or your body will set into starvation mode and hold on to that fat like nothing else. If you have been at this deficit for a while I would say that your body has lowered you MBR so you were actually not at adeficit anymore and thats why you gained but even 1.75lbs is extreme, you gotta give us more info about your training and diet program