Upped Cals & feeling terrible

Week beginning: Average Cals per day: Weight

March 25th: 1234 Calories per day: 141 pounds
April 1st: 1305 calories per day: 141.9 pounds
April 8th: 1023 calories per day: 140.4 pounds
April 15th: 1216 calories per day: 140.2 pounds
April 22nd: 1383 calories per day: 139.7 pounds
April 29th: 1111 calories per day: 138 pounds

Up to this point everything looks good.

May 6th: 1221 calories per day: 138.8 pounds
May 13th: 991 calories per day: 138 pounds
May 20th: 1221 calories per day: 138 pounds
May 27th: 1300 calories per day: 138.4 pounds

4 week stall. It's a little bit long but, I've had stalls lasting for 3 weeks even though I was in a calorie deficit.
It gets discouraging I know. Might wanna read up on the Whoosh effect:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.htmlI

Also, would I be correct to assume that it the TOM toward the end May that might contribute to the water weigh gain.?

June 3rd: 1460 calories per day: 141 pounds
June 10th: 1500 cals per day so far 142.6 pounds as of June 12th

I'm going to have to blame this one on the BCP and not your increase in calories. No ways in hell are you gaining 4lbs of fat on 1500 calories a week. I am 99% sure this is ALL water weight due to the BCP.

Looks like you are doing everything right. Sometime the the scale doesn't show it but, you got to trust the calorie in vs calories out system. I'm pretty sure the scale will reflect it soon.

Weight increased because of increased glycogen stores. Probably the birth control is messing with your hormones as well.

^^^ this

you will always see weight gain after raising your calories because of glycogen. More glycogen = water weight gain, and this is a good thing as you're supposed to have plenty of glycogen in your system. You see this weight gain even if you're still eating at a deficit. It's only when your glycogen stores are totally full that you will start to see weight loss again (if you're eating at a deficit) or your weight will stabilise (if you're eating at TDEE)

the human body simply does not store fat that quickly.

if your birth control is causing you to feel hungry all the time, or is otherwise interfering with your weight loss, see your doctor and see if there's a different one you could be on that might not have that side effect

Also, I'd recommend not focusing so much on the scale. Exercise, stick with a healthy amount of calories, i.e. a small deficit that's easy to stick to long term, and focus on the tape measure, how your clothes fit and what you look like in the mirror. You've listed a whole bunch of decimal points up there, really the amount of water weight fluctuations you get in the human body means any fraction of a lb is irrelevent. Plus the scales are not that accurate. My barbell lost 0.2lb overnight once. Well, obviously it didn't, but the scale just does not measure point anything of a lb accurately. Your data could be explained entirely by changes in water weight.

You lose fat slowly, and eating the calorie numbers you are, I don't think any of the gains were fat gains. some of the losses were probably fat loss, but also some would be loss of water weight due to normal fluctuations (or more specifically, a combination of fat loss and water loss). And I'd say all the gains were water weight gains, as I don't think you've eaten enough to gain any fat.

I had the same exact problem! Everyone was saying it wasnt fat but it totally was. My BF% stayed the same (went up at one point by .6%) but my LBS were going up. I started at 175, then got to 161, then slowly by increasing just like you did I weighted today at 168. Ef that! I have been doing this for 6 months. I gave hgiehr calories a good shot of atleast 3 months, maybe 4. It did not work for me. What sucks though is 1500 should at least be maintinance but it isnt! I gain at 1600. It is so fricken discouraging.

Your changing your calories every single week and expecting to see the change. You need to go longer than a week for you to create an accurate account of what your body will be doing on a certain number of calories. You havent changed much in weight from when you started to now so clearly you can eat more calories. Try to do it for longer than a week and don't freak out and drop your calories as soon as you see a bit of a bump on the scale.

Be patient at the 1500-1600 level. I know so many people that upped their calories and had great success but only after about 3-4 weeks of the higher calories.

My sister is one of them. Stuck for 5 months @ 1200. I talked her into trying 1600. 3 1/2 weeks and no change then BAM she started losing again and has been since.

Your changing your calories every single week and expecting to see the change. You need to go longer than a week for you to create an accurate account of what your body will be doing on a certain number of calories. You havent changed much in weight from when you started to now so clearly you can eat more calories. Try to do it for longer than a week and don't freak out and drop your calories as soon as you see a bit of a bump on the scale.

Yes!

Quit overthinking it. You're going to give yourself an ulcer fretting about it. Change takes a looooooooooong time. I've been steadily recompositioning over two years with a net loss of only about 15 lbs over that time. It's frustrating, sure, but nothing happens overnight and what happens is rarely linear.

Do you exercise?

it seems that every four weeks your weight goes up, but then comes back down.

truly, a mystery that will remain unsolved!!

I'm glad I'm not the only one freaking out about trying to go up in calories! I have been at 1200 calories for months and have not really gained or lost any amount...from what I can find I'm not eating enough...though that's a hard one to understand for a fat person trying to lose weight! Anyhow, I'm upping to 1500 calories to see if this will help me, its very frustrating to get on the scale after hard work and not see anything positive! I'm gonna have my husband hide the scale for a while, up the calories, keep exercising and see what happens! I feel better physically, but emotionally, this stuff can wear a person out!!

Think of your weight as being a range. You don't weigh 141. You weigh between 138-148. When you were on severly low calories, your body was riding towards the bottom. Now that you have raised them, your body is moving more towards midline. If you binge, you will move towards the top. The range will move as you continue to lose weight.

My advice would be, since you are eating a different calorie level, use the 141 figure as your new measurement. The 138 was a mirage because your calories were too low. Eat the 1500 calories a day, and see if that number is lower in four weeks. If it is, then you can be confident it is working. And you will be a thinner 138 at 1500 calories then you were at 900 calories.