Why won't it ever just come back off again?

Awww, hugs for you girl! I don't know what to tell you though! I've been bumping up and down the same 2 pounds for a while, but I am not letting it get me down! You have lots of muscle so you might just be at the right weight!

I have been doing the same...bumping up and down the same 2lbs since Christmas. I will admit that I am not working out as much with so much other stuff going on. I would hate to see the gain if I quit working out completely! Ugh!

Hang in there, I am sure it will begin to fall off as active as you seem to be!

I hear you! I do 7 - 9 classes as week, body pump twice, legs bums and tums, spinning, some runs in between... and NOTHING. I eat mostly clean, but I cant seem to move weight wise. If anything it goes up. Its so disheartening that after busting your *kitten* in the gym and at classes and watching every calorie and for what!? Nothing. As someone above was saying I'm terrified of what if I do no exercise, what would be the consquences... its like my body is used to the intense exercise every week and thats the norm... what if I didnt do it? I'd be massive???
I really dont know what to suggest but if you do find an answer please share with me... I so get your disappointment and frustration, I'm right there with you! I'm exhausted and not getting anywhere!

A thought...since muscle weighs more than fat, what if you slowed down a bit on the pounding and the grinding and whatever at the gym. Spend some time walking and stretching. You'll still be doing your body good things but maybe it'll give your metabolism a break from thinking it has to store up a ton just to satisfy all those intense workouts. Just a thought....

I hear you! I do 7 - 9 classes as week, body pump twice, legs bums and tums, spinning, some runs in between... and NOTHING. I eat mostly clean, but I cant seem to move weight wise. If anything it goes up. Its so disheartening that after busting your *kitten* in the gym and at classes and watching every calorie and for what!? Nothing. As someone above was saying I'm terrified of what if I do no exercise, what would be the consquences... its like my body is used to the intense exercise every week and thats the norm... what if I didnt do it? I'd be massive???

And you seem to actually have a decent goal calorie, and it appears eating back your exercise calories, if recording them all anyway.

So here is a suggestion that may just apply to many on here.

Several places for inaccuracies that if they all go one direction, could have your calorie goals higher than they should be.
Now, I'm not advocating killing your metabolism by eating 500 under your BMR. Which is the other reason for not seeing advancement.

But it could be your BMR estimate by MFP is wrong.
Which means your calculated maintenance calories based on that is wrong, and if the wrong activity level, even more wrong.
And then your exercise calories could be way off if not using a decent HRM estimate.

So suggestion:
Confirm your BMR using another respected formula, which requires bodyfat % and is more accurate.
Get a better estimate of daily activity for the maintenance calories.
Do your math for weight loss to get your daily calories.
Update MFP.
Figure out if exercise calories is way off.

Here is site for getting your body-fat %. May not be super accurate, but the estimate is good enough for use in calculations.
The plus here is, you record these measurements in MFP as additional things to track and see positive progress.

http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/cbbf/

Take the results over to here after noting them.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html

Change height to BF in the calculator, and the Katch-McArdle formula is used for BMR.
Do NOT include exercise in the levels and time of activity, because you'll still enter that into MFP and it will credit you, but really thing about your normal average daily activity levels and time outside exercise.
Now you have a better BMR figure (keep that in mind because you should not eat below that ever) and more importantly, maintenance calories.

Now do the math from those maintenance calories just like MFP does on it's estimate.
500 cal/day is 1lb week. Add 250 to that figure depending on being realistic. Even 10% of maintenance is recommended sometimes.
So take that calorie figure from the maintenance calories - and there is your goal calories.
This should NOT be below your BMR figure. You should never eat below what your body requires for basic life, unless you just want to slow your metabolism down and make weight loss harder.
If it is lower, your goal calories can be your BMR, but you would be better served sticking to 10% in that case.

Now you can enter that figure in MFP Goals manually. Don't worry about the figures on the right now, but may be interesting to see how it compares to that formula.

Now go to Enter Weight, and Add additional measurements for what you took for the body fat %.

Now eat back those exercise calories, and use a cheap HRM to get some sort of decent estimate.

Do this all over again in a month. And progress beyond the scale can be seen now too.

Example here. (30 yr old female, 180 lbs, desk job - not me)
Body fat% calculated - 32%
8 hrs resting, 15 very light, 1 light
BMR - 1572
Maintenance - 2162
Goal weight loss weekly - 1lb, 3500 calories, 500/day
Goal calories - 2162-500= 1662 daily (just above BMR, so would have been unrealistic to attempt 2lb/weekly).

Any exercise gets logged, and manually corrected by HRM estimate of calorie burn.
Extra food eaten is snack before and after workouts that are balanced carb/protein, with extra protein afterwords.
Want to feed that muscle, since that is what will help it grow, and burn fat 24hrs a day.

Cheers!