GAINED 10 POUNDS???

Your calorie range is close to 1700-1900 every day. That's pretty high! Also, a lot of what you eat isn't "that" great. You seem to get a good amount of nuts and good fats, but hardly any raw veggies. Also there's a ton of things like a 500 calorie coffee or a piece of pie AND a big amount of bread in one meal. I would definitely suggest cutting down your calories and carbs.

If you havent been measuring yourself, I would definately start doing that,,,you can add any body part on here that you want. I measure my chest, waist, hips, upper arms, and thigh.....I had to start doing this cuz it seemed like my scalre wasnt moving, but I thought I was feeling better, although not at a range to really make a difference in my clothes. come to find out, I have lost 7.5 inches with the scale barely budging. I know , so hard to not see that number move, wonder why we are so hooked on numbers,,,anyways, just keep chugging along, you've gotten alot of different ideas of things to tweek, just remember, change something and wait about 3 weeks for your body to catch up,,,,takes time and patience,,Iknow something we dont always want to wait on.

YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!
WE ALL CAN!!!!

Watch out for "eating back" your exercise calories. While the calculations are set up to allow that and still theoretically loss at your selected loss goal, most people will over do it. I never eat back my exercise calories unless I've done a lot - some days hiking I can burn may whole calorie allotment in the exercise - and then I usually only eat 10-20% of them. Absolutely weigh everything you eat until you really know what appropriate portion sizes look like - this is where most people get tripped up, because they really have no idea - and watch the nuts. They may be raw and natural, but they have lots of fat and relatively little other nutritional value. Hang in there. You really are off to a good start and it will get better.

Well, since you said you have a very stressful job it reminded me of something in my own weight loss journey I will share with you. In college I tried losing weight any number of ways and never really had any success. After I graduated I didn't find a job until about six months later, and that is when I started my current and very successful run and losing weight. I originally thought it was just because I had more time to focus on doing it right. Well, in January I got a job and started working. I kept up my good eating habits and though I wasn't exercising quite as much, I was still walking two or three miles each day and still eating at a deficit. I just wasn't losing weight for two or three months.

It finally hit me what the big difference must be. Sleep! In college I barely slept at all, and with work I was going back to my old college sleeping patterns. But at home looking for a job I had nothing to wake up for in the morning so I always slept as much as I needed every night. As soon as I discovered this I retooled my schedule and made myself go to bed at 10 pm a few nights and catch up on sleep, and then now I make myself get 8 hours every night. My weight loss and just clicked back on since then and I have lost another 7 pounds since making the change.

So, my suggestion is that perhaps your body isn't getting enough sleep. I have read a lot of research that indicates that your body does a lot of its weight loss work during sleep hours, and not only that but if you don't sleep enough your body produces even more cortisol (stress hormone) which makes you prone to overeating and tells your body to hold onto the pounds.

Anyway, its worth a try right?

Muscle is not your enemy. I don't know why women believe this myth. I lost 70 pounds 9 years ago and have maintained within a 10 lb range over the years. I usually only fluctuate 5 pounds at most because yes I weigh myself all the time. I even weighed myself everyday when I was 9 months pregnant (of course my husband had to read it for me lol). A pound of muscle weighs the same amount as a pound of fat. The difference is muscle burns fat faster. The more muscle you have the more fat you'll burn and the leaner you'll be. I'm not talking about weight training. I'm talking about strength training with light weights (1 - 5 lbs). You'd be surprised at how fast you can lose weight if you add in strength training. Jillian Michaels 30 day shred is an excellent example of cardio mixed with strength training.

Muscle is not your enemy. I don't know why women believe this myth. I lost 70 pounds 9 years ago and have maintained within a 10 lb range over the years. I usually only fluctuate 5 pounds at most because yes I weigh myself all the time. I even weighed myself everyday when I was 9 months pregnant (of course my husband had to read it for me lol). A pound of muscle weighs the same amount as a pound of fat. The difference is muscle burns fat faster. The more muscle you have the more fat you'll burn and the leaner you'll be. I'm not talking about weight training. I'm talking about strength training with light weights (1 - 5 lbs). You'd be surprised at how fast you can lose weight if you add in strength training. Jillian Michaels 30 day shred is an excellent example of cardio mixed with strength training.

muscle is much leaner and tighter, so while the scale may not necessarily move eventually, you will "look" much better....the only way to get that burn resting burn to last longer is to weight train....

How are you doing, its been a couple of weeks, what have you changed? You should be on the verge of noticing changes within the next week I would imagine.