Hi Makatees! Don't get discouraged, you're doing great. One of the most frustrating things is figuring out your unique numbers. Scooby is just an estimate, so it will take some tweaking and sometimes that takes time...but I totally get your frustration with the increase in measuring. From looking at your exercise level, to me, it looks like you may need to increase your activity level...either that, or decrease your exercise, which may be the better option. It's ideal to have two rest days a week. Some of your exercise isn't too intense, like the yoga and belly dancing, but perhaps they burn more than you think. That's hard for me to guess since I've done neither. What does your daily life look like once you get home from work? Are you sitting all night once you get home, or are you walking around a lot, walking pets, etc.? This can make a difference. You may be at lightly active activity level before even adding exercise, which will push you up another level easily.

Also, you didn't mention and I can't remember...how long did you eat at TDEE? Were you doing a full reset? Sometimes when decreasing calories to the 15% deficit and not seeing progress can mean maybe you needed to eat at TDEE longer to give metabolism more time to heal. But if your weight was stabilized eating at what you thought was TDEE - perhaps you could have gone even higher - if you TDEE was actually higher than you were eating? I think if I were you, I'd maybe cut exercise down by at least one day - be sure to keep the lifting. This may knock you down into true 5-6 hr activity level and keep eating where you're at. You could also decrease a bit more on those Mon, Wed, Fri days. See if this will unstress your body a bit. Over exercising can stress the body, especially when eating too little and it will halt progress. Either that, or try adding some calories.

For me personally, I only work out 3, maybe 4 times a week for only 30 min. I choose the 3-5 hr activity level and eat at 15% which is about 1900 cals daily. Obviously I'm not working out 5 hours a week, but the rest of my daily life adds up to that activity level. If I eat less than 1800 cals daily, I will completely stall and seem to gain inches as well. As soon as I eat more, I drop scale weight. I actually am slowing increasing my calories even more.

I hope this helps!

Great job, Makatees! Way to stick with it! Yes, the water weight gain is completely normal, but so many get discouraged and won't wait long enough to see it leave.