@CelticGirl
Don't worry about the 0.5lbs weight increase, it can have several factors:
- There can be water retention;
- Not all food from the previous day and/or the day before may have go out the body by going to the toilet, some food can take longer for the body to progress or there may be other factors that the digested food stays in the colon (a doctor is advised for consulting in this case);
- By exercising, the muscles are growing stronger, fat can be lost, but muscle weigh more than fat and you can stay on the same weight or the weight can increase a bit (look if the body fat has decreased, that's most important than getting smaller but having the same body fat percentage);
- When watching weight, and having lost plenty of weight before, the body tries to survive to try prevent a dramatic weight loss in the future, even when listening to hunger, it may be possible that the weight increases back with a few pounds max;
- Are the logged eaten calories a estimate? (not weighing but estimating, having eaten more than actually logged)..;
- Foods can contain more calories than the estimation mentioned on a package;
If really needing to loose some more weight, try increasing the deficit and see if it helps. Tracking activity can also be a estimate but the calories can be a bit off, leading to eating a bit more.
It's also likely that whatever you are trying to do, the body is happy with the weight it wants to be, rather than the weight you want to be. Even when in deficit, the body tries to maintain a certain weight range for survival. When being less hungry on some days, other days it's possible to be more hungry because our bodies are trying to maintain a certain weight range when listening to it.
When being at a healthy weight, try to focus on loosing body fat instead while exercising to grow muscle (to loose fat, stay on same weight but being leaner and getting a flatter tummy).
I also wanted to decrease my body weight with 4 kg more (after dropping the weight with 24kg in several years), but whatever I do, the body always go back to the same weight. It's at a healthy weight, and now focus on lowering the body fat instead.
It's possible to be more lean when weighing a few pounds more (more muscle), and weighing less but being at the same body fat as when weighing more, ending up to be skinny, with the same body fat (not having a flatter tummy) and having no muscle at all (that's what has to be prevented).
Exercising is great to loose body fat (eat under the total calories burned a bit to stimulate the body to use body fat as energy), and with exercising the muscles are growing stronger as well. Eat enough protein since the body needs to repair the muscles (protein can be found in eggs, cheese, lean meat (skinless chicken, fish,..). Having a balance between good and 'bad' fats, at dinner have 50% vegetables, 25% meat, 25% others (potatoes).
I'm feeling very demotivated and frustrated. How on earth did I gain weight by eating less and exercising more?
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