Somebody calm me down

Did you eat over your calories?

If not it is likely just water fluctuation. We can gain up to 4lbs some days for so many reasons. You are never truly one weight but a weight range.
It can be that the weather got hotter, high salt meal, ovulation or TOM, constipation. Any number of reasons.

Its easy said, weight loss in not linier, it is none the less highly frustrating. Have you been having foods with a higher salt content recently, this contributes to fluid retention. I'm in the UK and as far as I'm concerned its Hot here, I've had to drink more than usual, this has an effect. So much feeds into this weight loss thing.

Your food diary is not open, neither is mine, mostly because my dietary intake because of reactions/intolerances was so poor breadth wise, and would have brought criticism down on me. I wonder if the calories you are consuming are spread across the macros which are also displayed. If they are principally from carbs this can make things more difficult, (I'm probably talking to someone who knows more than me so apologies). Particularly because you know how best how your body works.

Being constantly under your mfp pre-set, as well as your own choice of numbers can work against you. The mfp setting allow for a deficit, taking that deficit lower by not eating up to your number particularly if you are given the 1200 minimum for women can cause you to be deficient in things. Gone are the use under 1000 c's a day. People say there is no such thing as starvation mode but the body can fight back, its used to things being as they were and it wants to stay there.

If you are taking more exercise than previously, you are rewarded with additional calories, some eat all these calories back others a proportion, its all up to you.

Please keep your determination in tact. Fill in your food log as accurately as possible, you have no reason to contemplate misleading or deluding yourself about your actual intake, if you continue to have minimal achievements, .5 of a lb loss in weeks rather than one week, you can print off your food log as evidence, to achieve personal recommendations through your medical professionals. There are long term conditions which can have a great impact on how the body works.

All the very best from someone who's progress has been complicated too. Always, do what is right for you. Keep going, in months, 6 months, and then a year, there will be progress, take the long view and don't become disheartened.

aggiepringle6665 wrote: »

I have been steadily losing since mid may. This week I gained and I can't figure out why! I have had so many false starts in the past, I'm worried that this is just another failure and I don't know if I have the strength to start over yet again

Weight loss isn't linear. You can't just give up every time there's a blip.

aggiepringle6665 wrote: »

I have been steadily losing since mid may. This week I gained and I can't figure out why! I have had so many false starts in the past, I'm worried that this is just another failure and I don't know if I have the strength to start over yet again

It might help you out to know that I've been under my calories every day this week, with a fairly significant deficit, and these have been my weigh-ins through the week:

Monday: 94.9 kg
Tuesday: 95.8 kg (!!!!)
Wednesday: 94.7 kg
Thursday: 95.1 kg
Friday: 95.3 kg
Saturday: 95.4 kg
Sunday: 94.4 kg (new low!)

It's driven me basically nuts all week long, but I know it's just water and my body messing with me. It happens!

Only you know this, how's your tracking?

Tracking is within your control, the scale is not. Trust the process.

Something that helped me when I started, I got this from Albert Ellis- just because I did not succeed at weight loss last time has nothing to do with this time. Because the past does not control the future.

Spend some time thinking of ways to deal with discouragement. If you have much to lose, this won't be the only time. Agree with Fuzzipeg, summon some determination. Agree with everyone else, weight loss is not linear. As a matter of fact I can't think of any human undertaking that tracks on a straight line.