Help! Frustrated and making no progress

Are you eating back your exercise calories? You could be overestimating your calorie burn and eating too much.

It could be the pill. Honestly I'd wait a couple more weeks - you just started a new workout regimen and sometimes it can lead to water gains at first. Your pill might not have caused weight gain, but it could impact weight loss too. When is your period due? I'd wait for it then see if you lose then.

Bump. I'm interested in your progress with this. I'm in the same boat, basically, as you are; although, I have been able to lose weight, it just stopped coming off and i'ts been about 3 weeks since I've seen a loss. In fact, I've gained. I workout 8-10 times a week and am also eating TDEE of 1594. I am also on Nutrisystem...I read so many conflicting things about not eating enough calories...Anyway, I'll be checking in to see your progress. Good luck!

I get stalls every month before my period - up to 3 weeks at a time. It's not unusual. That's why I asked the OP when her period is due... Most women retain water and gain a bit of weight before that time.

Just had a flick through the last couple of weeks of your diary and you seem to be eating a lot of takeaways, convenience food etc. If you're within your calorie goal then this shouldn't really be a problem for weight loss, but the high salt content of these foods may cause water retention. Your macros aren't showing that you're consistently over your sodium (salt) goal, but I don't think some of the entries are correct (this is a common problem on MFP where people input their own foods - they tend to put the calories into the database but not any of the other macros..) For example, you had a KFC for dinner on 28th March and this apparently has no sodium!? I'd VERY much doubt that!!

hormonal treatments actually can make a difference as stupid as it sounds. before i was on the depo i insisted that people who get fat off them are just giving in to increased appetite, and they just need to stop putting hand to mouth, and i still think this is true and it doesn't make you gain, but losing is significantly harder for me since i got it and i have no idea why. just carry on doing what you're doing and it will start coming off eventually, unless you're grossly overestimating your tdee which is possible

The math seems to be a bit suspect. I'm no expert on TDEE ( I workout differently every day, so I "budget" differently every day).

But there's no way a 40 minute workout adds up to 500 calories (in case your daily life has little physical activity, like many of us keyboard surfers). With 2 hours of exercise a week, I'd be tempted to just remove those from the calculation and see how they weight (and mood, appetite, etc.) behave.

Weight gain is a numbers game (allowing for fluctuations, it's not linear): if you're consistently gaining, you're consuming more than you're burning. If you're losing, you're burning more than you're consuming. Tracking down the causes for the discrepancies is the tricky part (is my BMR lower than I thought? [it depends on the amount of muscle you have, not so much on total mass!], are my workouts overestimated? Is some medical condition lowering my metabolism? And so on).

For reference, an elite cyclist of your height, giving her all, can probably burn 1200 on a hard one hour workout. Averaging it out to 4 days/week, it seems like your exercise calorie burn is overstated. MFP and may other places unfortunately inflate their workout calorie expenditures, sometimes bad math, sometimes they add the basal calorie burn, etc.

i'm not a serial killer just a serial comfort eater (oops)