I forgot how to do this... diet, gaining and few pounds and weight lifting...

Wow, I never thought I would be writing this... but... here I am. I feel so lost and confused. I am 3 years post op sleeve, reached my goal of 140 even got to 135 (for 1 day..lol) and had a tummy tuck 2 years ago. I've always stayed around 142-145. That seemed to be a good weight for me. Sometimes I would creep up to 147-148 and I would get right back on track and get back down below 145. NOW.. its a whole other story... Christmas 2014 I said I'm going to not worry about the scale for a few days..well... the scale jumped to 150!!! holy cow!! Then the next thing I know February comes and I jump on a plane to Vegas with my husband and forget about the scale again! Came home and it jumped to 152!! Whoooaaaa!!! WTH?? Then I go in to have breast augmentation the week we came back (mid Feb). So then of course you go through that stage of retaining water after surgery..blah blah blah. So I said to myself I am going to use the 6 weeks that I can't go to the gym to get back on track and get these pounds off so that come April 1st I can hit it hard. I got back down to 147 for 1 day!!! I can't seem to break 150 and it is driving me NUTS!!!! Then I go back to the gym and start weight lifting (2 days) and of course with the whole water inflamed muscle science the scale jumps to 155!!!! My husband (who is a 6 day hard core muscle builder) took my scale and hid it from me, made me promise to give it 4-6 weeks and he promised the water weight would come off. So then I start trying to remember how I use to eat also, maybe I 'm not eating right... but.. then I realized I forgot how I use to eat to get the weight to come off... URGH!!! And good Lord you can't research anything on Google because 1 thing tells you to eat 2000 cal and 100 carbs while weight training..WHAT??? Can't be right.. someone please help!!! All I want to do is stay a size 6, bulk up some lose skin in my arms and legs and not be a scale nazi! please....

Hi

so sorry that you are worried.  

I can can offer no advice at all as don't do body building but perhaps previous posters have words of wisdom.

All the best.

I'm not a weight lifter. My exercise is daily walking and Pilates Reformer 3x a week.  I've read a lot and there are lots of people who lift without mega carbs.  I was at my goal of 149 for a long time with an occasional bounce to 152.  I decided I wanted to lose more do that I wouldn't bounce up into 150's.   For me that means lower carb.  Lots of solid protein, Greek yogurt, nuts, big salads, half and half in my decaf and an occasional quest bar or berries.  I find that getting simple brings down the occasional 2 pound bounce that I get if I get into sugar or carbs.  If I "need" chocolate, I turn to Lily's Dark sweetened with Stevia.  I do have an occasional glass of red wine.  Simple works best for me.  Now my bounce is in the 141-142 range instead of the 150's.  I'm doing my best to really learn maintenance at 5 years post op.

good luck!  You can do it!