Frustrated *pouts*

You have to feed your body the calories it needs. Go into tools and calculate your BMR. Let MFP set your calories and then EAT them. This is such a great site - and you will learn soooo much here about being healthy!:happy: Are you logging your food? Drinking your water?

Welcome! Good luck with your journey:flowerforyou:

Why are you on a crash diet? :huh: It seems that you've already identified the problem.

If you are not eating and also working out, you body will burn up you muscle. You need to eat, crash diets are not going to work.

Your body is going to hold on to every calorie you ingest if you eat that way, especially if you are working out for an hour a day. A yogurt is not a meal, but it is a good before bed snack as the casein in dairy products is a slowly absorbed protein source that fuels your body as you sleep, when normally your body would be in starvation mode during the 8 to 12 hour fast you experience until you refuel at breakfast. Go back to your full lunch and if you can, try breaking the same amount of food into a small meal w/ a snack a few hours later. Dinner at 7pm is too long after lunch to eat nothing at all. Every time you eat carbs, try having a little protein w/ it to slow the digestion of the carbs and keep you feeling full longer. Drink water throughout the day too.

Eat more food. You should be eating enough to create a ten percent calorie deficit. Go too much into deficit it becomes harder to loose fat. But, you will loose muscle which means you will burn less calories at rest and create an internal biological environment ideal for EASY weight gain. So perhaps thats why you gained a pound. Eat more, and eat frequent smaller meals throughout the course of the day. At night focus on meat and veggies rather than carbohydrates. Exercise about two to three hours after you last eat something. My advice is ideal for a normal healthy adult without diabetes or any thyroid issues. I hope it helps.