help me understand.....

Stop weighing yourself every day. The scale should not be how you meause your success. It will only discourage you.

Take your measurements, judge your success on how your clothes feel.
Eat more. You wouldnt go on a road trip with no gas in the tank would you?
Add some strenggth training to your routine.
Cut back on the processed sugar.

Be patient. Rome wasnt built in a day.

You are doing great, Keep going!

You did not eat enough to gain fat but what you did do was increase your exercise so you probably retained water. It will go away in a a few days.

BUT...MFP is designed to work with you eating your exercise calories back or at least most unless you have a HRM to know exactly what you are burning..You are creating too large of a deficit by eating too little and burning that much. And pay no mind to losing 2lbs a week, some weeks it won't be any, some will be more. Weight loss is not linear n butlease eat more...

Definitely STOP weighing every day!! Once a week at most....and weigh in the am. Your weight can fluctuate a lot daily just over a bowel movement or lack thereof! So stop!

Also. You are not eating enough! I was eating at 1000 cals and exercising daly and not losing a pound! I brought my cals up to 1200 AND eat back all my exercise cals and am fairly consistent in my weight loss.

Figure your tdee and EAT! And look at what you eat. I won't waste a single cal on junk...fuel that body! Trust me it works!

You can't expect to keep the car moving if you don't put gas in the tank.

Feed your body.

If you are running on vapors, you'll mess up the engine, and as hard as you jam on the pedal, you WILL NOT GO ANYWHERE.

Please... Just try
- taking a deep breath.
- feeding your body
- get enough rest
- remember that quick losses often result in quick gains
- slow losses are a result of a lifestyle adjustment and are more likely to stick around.

And read those links!

You can do this... we just want you to enjoy the trip too.

Why am I the first person in here to mention TOM????

I thought it... but figured I'd worry more about the fuel.

Wk 1-217
Wk2-213
Wk3-210
This week I've increased my cardio, still eating 1200 cals a day burning 600-700 cals a day

Sunday 211
Monday 210
Tuesday 211
Just now I'm 213??????

I don't get it....my goal is 2 lbs a week. I was doing good untill this week. By next week I should be at 211. I'm eating right but gaining. I am not lifting weights just a hour on the elliptical.

Can someone explain?

When you change your workout you stress your body. Your body responds to stress by swelling. Swelling causes higher numbers on the scale. NOT WEIGHT GAIN :-) Try try try not to weigh everyday (I do... can't help it). Keep on keeping on!

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weight loss is not linear. my weights flectutes +/- 7 lbs daily

Why am I the first person in here to mention TOM????

Because you are disgusting.

I, like many women of child-bearing age, bleed every month, it is a perfectly natural occurance that has an effect on the amount of water you retain. It is not "disgusting" and neither is the gentleman who brought it up.

I would agree with the other posters and say you should probably be eating more. Fuel yourself. If you're liking working out, that's great, but you don't need such huge burns every day to see results.

I'm being dead serious. My quickmath, almost no woman I know voluntarily begins a new workout routine during TOM. I don't know the OP, but I'd give it a 90% chance that Week 1 was immediately post-TOM. Sheds a lot of weight that week, a steady amount during weeks 2 and 3, and then lo and behold, it's Week 4, where nothing has changed but magically weight is starting to return. If my guess was that Week 1 was immediately post-TOM, then week 4 would be the beginning of TOM.

*note: I do agree with the other posters stating that the 1200 cals with a possible 600 cal net (it's unclear if exercise cals are being eaten) is much too low for a woman with her body stats. It's just that all my math points to this other culprit.

**But I don't know much about much, so always, I could be way the hell off.

I weigh daily, first thing in the morning, and sometimes for fun when I go to bed.

In the morning I am anywhere from 160 - 164
At night, I am anywhere from 163 - 167

I track my weight by trending... I will note when I hit a new low, but only after I've recorded it a few times. My weight will spike over that regularly, but on average it's trending downward.

If the numbers bother you that much, then put the scale away, and instead take out the tape measure. Measure thighs, calves, hips, butt, waist, chest, arms, record it in a book, and come back to it in a couple of weeks.

Weight loss isn't as tricky as it seems... you need a deficit to lose weight, but too much of one is not good for your body.
You'll get there, if you are patient, consistent, and remember this is not a race to your end goal, but rather a marathon. Pace yourself.

Your totally not eating enough and you will remain plateau forever. Seek ye out helloitsdan and find " the road map to life" link on his page. Stop starving yourself. You cannot run your car without gas right? Then how do you expect your body to preform without fuel.....

Also remember that weight loss isn't linear. The body doesn't know the difference from one Sunday to the next - so that tidy "2 pounds a week" thing will fluctuate. Some weeks you'll lose a lot. Some weeks you'll lose nothing. It's about how it averages out, usually monthly.