What causes weight gain - other than the obvious?

[nothing2lose]

I answered in your other thread that puberty and the hormonal changes it brings can cause weight gain.

I have to say, without wanting to offend you, it concerns me you know how much she is putting on each week to the gram. Do you weigh her??? I am not sure that is a good thing for a young teenage girl.

[Pholi]

Hi,

I understand that you're concerned, but I do not think it is normal or healthy to focus on a young girls weight with weekly weigh-ins. Or is it daily, since you say she's gaining over the weekned and losing midweek?

Does she look like a healthy weight? Does she have any other signs or symptoms which suggest there might be something wrong? Please don't allow your own concern to cause her to develop an unhealthy obsession on her weight.