Loss is definitely not linear! Nor was it on the way up


manucpa, made an excellent point - more food in, more food to weigh. Also, if you've been eating very low calories and you start to increase it's natural to notice a blip in the scale. The scale shouldn't be your only gauge of your progress. Have you taken measurements so you'll know when you are shrinking?

It may be tempting to eat 1000 calories and see that number go down, but eating that way is not sustainable. A loss achieved by eating below your basal metabolism is not sustainable. Pretty soon you have to eat less and less to keep losing, until it stops. Living on <1000 calories a day is not living nor is it healthy. This is how many of us ended up fatter and fatter after dieting on low fat / low calories. Eventually you need to eat to live and when you do you start to gain weight because your body has a) slowed down and b) stoped burning fat - fat burning will not happen when you have stressed your system to the point that it thinks it's in the midsts of a famine.

Losing slowly by eating adequate calories ensures you do not lower your metabolism too much and it allows you the time necessary to learn how to eat like this for the rest of your life - afterall that is the ultimate goal, right? Permanent fat loss, not quick fat loss.

A suggestion would be to take your weight daily but average it out over the week and use that number. Weight fluctuates hourly, daily, and weekly - the number of things that effect weight are many, water, food, hormones, climate, exercise, medicines, minerals and salts. You'd go crazy trying to figure it out (trust me!)

Keep the fuel coming in, keep the water intake up, follow your plan to the letter, and don't let stress take a hold - stress puts fat burning on hold too!

-Nat