I wish people were smarter. All the people saying muscle weighs more than fat are morons. That's equivalent to saying a pound of feathers weighs less than a pound of bricks. You put on muscle mass in place of where fat was and you can pack more of it into that same space so it seems like you gained weight by numbers. This explains the weight discrepancy. Don't worry about your lbs. Measure your waist and keep up on your other health numbers. Pounds alone is a bad way to judge a diet's effectiveness because it can be misleading and off-putting to hear you went up.

I really really hope all the people saying "muscle doesn't weight more than fat, it's just denser" are trolls.

Don't give up! Like #180 said, don't base failure or success on pounds alone. Measure, measure, measure! It might be a good idea to take a picture of yourself standing every month, so you can compare changes. :)

well it's actually because when you change your lifestyle and eating habits your body reacts to the chabge by stocking up grease it's a natural reaction designed to lengthen your lifespan in case of starvation, give it an extra week, you'll see a difference in no time!

@181,no,6 pound gain in a month while also dieting is not possible,gains are the same even when you've barely had any exercise before,when you're dieting there is NO way you'd gain so much muscle,exercise along with protein rich foods are used when dieting to MAINTAIN lean muscle mass,gain and especially for a female while on a diet is not possible unless she does many sets and has 100g of protein everyday and even then it'd be a pound tops. OP,weigh yourself once a week when you wake up,weight can vary at different times of the day due to food and water,do a 500 callorie deficit diet and you should be losing weight fast. muscle doesn't burn fat btw,you just require more callories the more lean body mass you have. having second thoughts about writing a huge wall of text when so many "experts" are posting crap and actually insulting the OP while they themselves have the mental capacity of a chicken.

muscle weighs more than fat

Duh, you gain muscle!

Because you're gaining weight in muscle, since muscle weighs more than fat. So, that's really a good thing as long as you've been working out a lot, lol

Might be muscle you gained not fat!

You can't just gain muscle (unless you're on steroids) I swear people are retarded....