Maybe I'm jumping the gun here but... I'm gaining

How soon after falling off the wagon did you weigh yourself? I'd guess that you were retaining some water after that thanks to increased sodium/carbs on your off day.

When up your calories, it takes up to a month for your body to get used to the intake increase and settle down. If you just jumped from 1200 to almost 1500 (instead of slowly increasing calories each week), you shouldn't be surprised by the gain, just know it will go away soon. Don't worry too much, just trust the process.

What kind of time frame are you looking at? You need to give any change about 3-4 weeks before you evaluate if it's working. A week or two for you body to adjust, then 2-3 weeks to track progress made and determine if it needs to be tweaked.

Most likely sodium and some fat gain. It's not a big deal. Your calories at 1470 sound like a good middle ground. How active are you? It's still sounds less than your maintenance calories at goal weight.

Slow and steady wins the race. Don't be too frustrated. It takes awhile to get to know your body and what it needs, individually.

The scale is the least accurate way of measuring success too. Did you weigh yourself in the morning? Did you drink or eat anything before weighing? When's the last time you pooped? (You don't really have to answer that...lol.)

The point is, there are many variables to what the sale says. When I binge (and I binge 1,000-3,000 calories over my goal), it will take me several days to get rid of the salt, and several more days to get rid of any excess fat.....basically a week or so. A pound weighs approximately 3,500 calories. So, did you really eat over 7,000 calories by falling off the wagon? I seriously doubt it. Which means most of your gain is probably sodium-induced water retention....and possibly poop. Not trying to be disgusting, it's just a fact of life.

Drink more water for a couple of days, learn from your experience, and keep going. Life happens!

I changed to TDEE approx. 3 weeks ago.
Fell off the wagon last Friday and went over my calories by 550.
I didn't realize that uping my calories from 1200 to 1470 should have been a slow process, but I don't think that I was hitting the 1470 every day either.

As a side note - my mother came to visit, for two weeks, so I was drinking about a glass of wine a day (still staying within my calories tho. :bigsmile:

I'll continue to be patient and wait and see. I just can't go back to 1200 - I was too hungry!!! 1200 is even under my BMR

Edit to add: AND I'll go have a poop.

3 weeks is a SHORT time. It might take little longer for things to "settle". And I don't know about you, but if I weigh myself daily (which I do not do now) I noticed that my weight can go up for 3-4 lb sometimes and that is just normal (time of the month/water/salt/whatevers). And it is perfectly okay to drink wine/eat good stuff if it fits calories. Maybe your body is still adjusting to this new system. And it IS a good system. FANTASTIC not to be hungry!!!

Going over calories one day by only 550 is NOT falling off the wagon. That's probably just over maintenance and though you may gain water weight from sodium or even just show a higher weight the next day due to the weight of the food in your stomach but that little bit, when you eat at a deficit every other day, will not make you gain weight and not over 2 pounds. There have been some days where I have eaten close to 3000 calories, though I don't want to do that everyday I'm not gonna freak out about it.