Is my body rebelling against weight loss?

I've not been logging for long on my diary I'm new to this site and this particular food journal this week was me trying 5:2 since it's only two days of dieting. Those were actually planned foods. I'm talking about like the past month when I've been trying to lose weight. on average I eat a healthy breakfast of muesli and yogurt or cottage cheese. a high carb lunch with protein and veggies and dinner would be something like soya mince, veggies or chicken. Snacks are from dried fruit to beef jerky to protein shakes to cheese and fresh fruit. You're right I hadn't eaten well this week, it was a stressful week, but this has been going on for months not just this week.

I've not been logging for long on my diary I'm new to this site and this particular food journal this week was me trying 5:2 since it's only two days of dieting. Those were actually planned foods. I'm talking about like the past month when I've been trying to lose weight. on average I eat a healthy breakfast of muesli and yogurt or cottage cheese. a high carb lunch with protein and veggies and dinner would be something like soya mince, veggies or chicken. Snacks are from dried fruit to beef jerky to protein shakes to cheese and fresh fruit. You're right I hadn't eaten well this week, it was a stressful week, but this has been going on for months not just this week.

Fasting diets like that are not sustainable in the long run. It does not teach you moderation, and are essentially starvation diets 2, 3, ect days out of the week.

Your body isn't rebelling against weight loss. Food is all about control, and if you are finding yourself eating at a surplus, you need to re-evaluate what it is that is making you do that, what triggers it, and if you are actually hungry while you are doing it.

That's just it I'm not eating at a surplus. I litterally binge...and when I find the courage to count everything I ate, it always for some reason just adds up to maintenance. Not over or under.

It does feel like a binge. Since I can't stop until I feel stuffed. I turn over everything and munch continuously until I'm STUFFED and then when I add it up it's maintenance. This also always happens in the night, on the end of the week, or sometimes in the middle. When you think about it it is a binge because if I ate 250 less for three days I would binge on the fourth and eat 750 back along with the rest for the day. At the end of the week I don't lose anything.

Yeah okay I don't really believe the title myself. But I'd like some advice here. So I want to lose 5lb. But everytime I cut calories I binge uncontrollable and then just eat it all back. Every week i tell myself okay, THIS week I'm going to lose weight, and I just don't. (-.-) However once I eat maintenance for a week, I never binge once. I know it's weird. And I've been maintaining my weight as a result of this and not losing anything. (or gaining which is alright) It even happens when it's a small cut like 250 calories a day. Yelp! > (bad spelling intended)

Do you realize that 5 pounds is natural fluctuation? If you binge one night and step on the scale the next morning and see five extra pounds it's not fat unless you ate 3500 x 5 over your TDEE, and it probably wouldn't show up that fast anyway. It's water retention and probably all the extra food in your system.

A 250 cut is .5 pounds per week, which leaves you little margin for error. Make sure your logging is accurate (I weigh solids and measure liquids and try to record as much as I can in grams, even to the point of entering data into "my foods,"but how you do it is up to you)..

Make sure your exercise calories are accurate as well, including not relying on MFP or the gym machine as being accurate because they are way off. If you get a heart rate monitor and calibrate it correctly, it will be more accurate than MFP and gym machines. I advise eating back around 80% of your MFP/Gym machine calories, but ,my experience with my heart rate monitor is that I can eat 90-100% of them back (this accounts for possible error, as HRM are the most accurate of the three I've mentioned).

As for the bingeing- that's usually a symptom of not eating enough, but if you've calculated your calorie goal correctly for your gender, height, weight, it sounds like you are eating enough. Try to eat food with more fat while staying in your calorie goal because this will help you stay full longer. However,if you're eating out of boredom, go find something else to do instead of eating. If you feel it's more of a compulsion where you can't stop. you need to seek professional help.

Best of luck to you.

ETA: I just read you are fasting during the week and then bingeing on the weekends. It sounds to me like fasting is not working for you, and that you are actually unconsciously setting yourself up to binge on the weekends. Why not just make sure you are accurate with your entries, eat at a moderate calorie deficit each day, and learn moderation and self control with food?

Also, a binge isn't your body rebelling. It isn't even your bodies fault. It is a lack of self control.

Most people with bulimia actually do try to under-eat and then binge due to severe hunger, not just "lack of control".

Also, a binge isn't your body rebelling. It isn't even your bodies fault. It is a lack of self control.

That is not true. Your brain sends signals to your body if you severely under-eat which may help trigger a binge. Most people with bulimia actually do try to under-eat and then binge due to severe hunger, not just "lack of control".

People with bulimia do not binge solely because they undereat. People with bulimia have a mental disorder that, in part, makes them desire to have absolute control over their bodies and the food they put in it or the calories they remove from it. When a person who does not have bulimia refers to a "binge" it typically means that they've eaten lots and lots seemingly despite themselves--which indeed implies a lack of control.