I gained five pounds

I know what you're gonna say - "whooppee shit" but for me it's an issue.

My basal weight used to be 137 lb. and I was comfortable with that. A few years ago it went up to 144. I'm 6'0" and naturally skinny. Some of you may remember my thread last week sometime about scarfing down a medium pizza. Didn't gain a pound.

Awhile ago I was on an anti-depressant called Remeron that had a side-effect of weight gain. I ballooned up to 182 pounds and finally went off it. It took a year of hard work at the Y to get down to 150, but I couldn't get any lower than that. I've got slight love handles but other than that am in pretty good shape.

Sometime in the last two days, I've gained 5 pounds.

The only thing that changed was that the weather finally got good enough to start biking to work (a 45 minute hard ride). I don't think my diet has changed any:

Breakfast:

two pop-tarts, coffee (creamer and sugar), vitamins

Lunch:

bowl of spaghetti or one pork chop or one chicken breast, coffee

Supper:

large bowl spaghetti or two pork chops or two chicken breasts or two hamburgers, veggies

Evening snacks:

diet pop
veggies dipped in salad dressing or diet Miracle Whip

My gut (I know, "what gut?") doesn't feel any bigger, nor do my love handles, my legs don't feel much more muscular (I cross-country ski in the winter and jog all season so they're always in fairly good shape) and my ass may have trimmed up a touch.

:wtf: happened?

Ahknaten (partner) pointed out that I may be having body image issues. I certainly not anorexic-appearing (at least to me (others call me overly skinny especially at 1q37 lb)) but I like to look good (why, I'm not sure - it's never managed to attract anybody, people like me for my acerbic wit).

What, exactly, is going on?

Muscle may weigh more than fat, but it's a lot more useful and gives you a leaner appearance than fat weight.

I ride my bike a lot, that's why I say this. It really does build muscle fast. So from what you've said it sounds like this could be the case.

I guess there's a build difference, there.

the is rigorous. it is usually your muscles holding water and should subside in a few days.

Sometimes scales vary - or - if you used one that hasn't been calibrated lately it may be inaccurate.

You've given me an idea. I can calibrate it using barbell weights.

but then if you're biking 45 minutes a day it shouldn't matter. I gotta say that at 6 feet and 137 pounds, that is VERY skinny; you probably could stand to stay at 150 or 160, at least.