@ambsnic17 The reset begins once you find your TDEE and start eating there. You need to eat at that level for the duration (usually 2-3 months).

I am using the program to loose weight. I eat 15% less than TDEE however, this holiday season I have gained 5+ pounds. Working hard to keep going. However, its already a SLOW weight loss. Feeling discouraged.

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@heybales -activity has been the same. Still working out 6x week and continuing everything usual. Nothing has changed. I weigh everyday to see changes in the scale. EVERY single gain has been a bigger gain (1-2lbs) overnight. If water weight then it just keeps increasing.

Only because you mentioned exercise specifically, I want to make sure you include daily life in that examination.
Going to park with kids as much perhaps, errands, ect.

Since heavy lifting style workout only burns about 3.5 x resting metabolism - same as walking 3.3 mph level - it's not hard to lose non-exercise (NEAT) activity level when winter comes.

In fact I'm contemplating putting a reminder topic up for this fact for all those in northern hemisphere away from the equator and the nice sunny warm days I need to stop thinking about ..... ahhhhh.... anyway.

If you think of it that way for calorie burn, even an hour of weight lifting could easily be offset by missing out on some hour's worth of decent walking through the day, leaving you with smaller or no deficit if the lifting is 3 x weekly but the missing walking is 7 x weekly.

feeling a little "fluffy" after a two week break. Scale jumps between a a 4-7 pound gain in that time. Not letting the numbers bother me. Debating if I should eat 2600/day (as was my previous plan) or eat what MFP tells me is my numbers to eat to not gain/lose and add in fitbit exercise calories. For now I'm just eating and logging with no specific goal in mind. Waiting to see what shakes out on the scale.

This was the first time I have seen any real gain. I started upping my calories REALLY slowly. I won't believe it's a true gain until it stays on me for a few weeks.

I am NOT giving up. I am in this one for the long haul. I really need to find my TDEE. I want to eat like a normal person (once I find my TDEE and then cut and lose these last 20 or so pounds). I have messed around with cutting my calories (too drastically so it seems) for years and years. I can certainly stick this out for as long as it takes. I am just SO tired of the lose weight, gain weight, lose weight, gain weight cycle that I just have to do this.

What are you cutting to @KickboxDiva?

I have your thread saved as a favorite so I can follow!