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Just water weight, I'm sure it will be gone next time you weigh yourself. Keep it up, sounds like you are doing great!

It's probably just water retention. Do you have your sodium on your tracking page? I did that and it really helps to control water weight. Don't stress, just keep doing what you're doing and you will see results!!

You may need to up your total caloric intake per day as well.

by the way it happens in some weeks that we would gain couple of pounds before it goes down gain so dont worry it depends on lots of factors and it does nt have to be that u gained fat , it can be water or muscles it happens to me and I felt the same way before I know the truth about it it so keep on the good work you r on the right track

So i'm offering no help in the least (sorry), but wanted to tell you you weren't alone in your current misery. and we all know misery loves company. i've been counting calories for the last month, of which the last week was on MFP, exercing faithfully, and generally being very healthy. and nada. nothing. so frustrating. i feel your pain. my immediate reaction, of course, was to want to give up and dive into a box of oreos. mint, of course.

I was losing 1 pound a week consistently for a couple months and then all the sudden I stopped. I had lost like 1 pound over 3 weeks time. So added like 200 hundred calories to my intake and then I started losing again. Also I always eat back my exercise calories. The way fitness pal is set up is, when you start your program they give you an amount of calories to eat to lose weight. That means even if you don't exercise you will lose weight eating that amount. So if you exercise you need to eat those calories back to stay at that amount that they gave you. If you eat too few calories your body will stop losing weight and start storing calories. Good luck and don't be afraid to add those calories. It was hard for me, but it worked.

SAME HERE! AAAHHH! I started 10 days ago and have worked harder than I have in months. It is hard to stay within 1200 calories, but even if I go over it is by a small amount and my food choices are so much better than they were before. I've been working out faithfully all week, but instead of going DOWN, the scale went UP! So so discouraging! I'm trying to remind myself to be patient and that a change won't come overnight and that I need to stick with it, but I could really use seeing the scale move in the right direction!

Same here. I work hard to stick to my goal, and even if I go over the 1200 (plus exercise calories, where necessary) it's unlikely to be more than by 200 extra calories.

And yet, I lost 10lbs in the first three weeks and my scale claims I've gained four back. No idea how that's possible when you've been eating less than your body even requires to get by, and it's damn annoying!

Along with what everyone else said...also don't forget that women tend to retain water during certain times of the month. I know I will see the scale go up a pound or two right before...then the next week it's back down again.