Help!! i joined the gym to gain weight and muscles. but why am i losing weight?????

Question

i have been going to the gym 3times a week for 5weeks now. on the third week, i decided to start weighing myself weekly to monitor my weight. i am a light person and my height is 5"6"1/2. on the third week, i weighed myself and i was 55.95kg. the next week i was 55.68kg and now this week i am 55.20kg.

i do exercise and eat the stuff my bodybuilder friend has tol me to eat like chicken, fish, protein shakes, etc.

does anyone know why i am losing weight?? should i lessen my cardio from 10mins to 5mins??i can recognise that im starting to build muscles but why am i losing weight?????

Answer 1

Because if you are a little over weight- you lose that before you gain muscle. That might of happened here. Don't worry you'll gain muscle when you've stopped losng weight- when your body it thinks it's at the ideal weight. It could also be that your eating less.

Answer 2

You are losing water weight. This is normal. You will then start to gain muscle weight and then you will see the difference.  It happened to me.  I lost weight and then I gained muscle weight. I went from 130 to 175 lifting weights.  Continue your cardio exercises.

Answer 3

You're sweating dude,

exercise is a good, stop worrying so much about your weight, and focus on how much you lift.

and increase your cardio to 15 minutes.

Answer 4

your losing water weight which makes you muscles show more

Answer 5

because excersicing causes you to lose weight lol.

Cheers!

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