Still gaining weight

What are your stats?
Are you eat your all o fyour exercise calories, MFP does tend to give over generous cal burn. Try only eating a percentage of them.
Also how big is your cheat day, you could be undoing all your good work with that one day

Water weight, sodium, stress, clothes, muscle, bodily wastes, carbohydrate intake, time of day and, if you are a woman, those times when Mother Nature asks you when you're going to give her grandchildren already. Those things can affect the weight you see on the scale. Try using a tracking site like Happy Scale or TrendWeight to see how you're really doing.

And, whatever you do, weigh yourself as regularly in intervals as possible with all conditions consistent. That ensures as much accuracy as possible.

kswllms wrote: »

Lydilod, I'm not sure what you mean by stats. Cheat day isn't bad. I am still mindful of what I'm eating. I usually refrain from eating out during the week. I only eat out (mindfully) once a week on Sunday's. Just going to keep at it until I get it right. Thanks for your response.

If you set your diary to public, people can help you troubleshoot. Can you define "isn't bad" as far as your cheat day is concerned?

kswllms wrote: »

Shrinking scientist I use a scale and measuring cups, and spoons to measure my food b

Measuring cups can be wildly inaccurate. Try measuring out two TBSP of peanut butter, then weighing it, and compare to the nutrition info on the back of the jar.

It's hard to say without seeing your actual numbers, but the "cheat day" is a likely culprit.

Mindfulness is very well and good, but depending on the size of the deficit you achieve on your plan days and the number of excess calories you're eating on your cheat day, it's totally possible to wipe out and even exceed your weekly deficit in one day. Really, much more easily than you think. This goes double if your logging on plan days isn't as tight as you think.

Let's say your'e aiming for a 250 calorie deficit eat day (the half-pound a week option) and believe you're achieving it on M-S. Assuming you're correct, you've managed a 1500 calorie deficit (slightly less than half a pound). Sunday, you're feeling good about your efforts all week and craving a treat, so after a day of eating moderately and near your calorie goal, you stop at McDonald's and grab a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal with fries and a Coke.

Boom, deficit wiped out in that one meal.

Now let's be realistic and say that you aren't actually achieving a 250 calorie deficit/day- you're doing some of your measuring by volume, which can easily be off by 20% or more when it comes to calorie counts. Or you're not logging a taste of something here and a piece of candy there. You could easily not even be achieving that projected 1500 calorie deficit with those small inaccuracies adding up here and there.

The proof is in the pudding. If you're logging and hitting your calorie goals and not losing or actually gaining, either you're *not* really hitting your calorie goals, your calorie goals are wrong, or you're doing more harm than you believe on the "cheat" days. Or a little of each.

kswllms wrote: »

So I've been thing to lose about 1-2 pounds a week. I exercise three to four times a week on a good week. I've been using the app to track my calories and I do well with staying below or right on my calorie intake during the week. Once the weekend come I allow myself a cheat day. Instead of losing I am gaining. I am so frustrated and don't know what to do. Any words of wisdom will help.

The answer? It is very SIMPLE!