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I often think that type of overnight gain (I have them too) is due to extra water weight if the foods involve more salt and then the extra residue in the digestive system from more food. It disappears in a day or two. Long term yes I believe many of us need less calories than others. My girlfriend and I weight about the same have about the same activity level, do most of our exercise together but she eats about twice what I do. Seems unfair as I see her eat every day but that's life. So has your pound disappeared yet?

@Mountaingal nope, still working off .8 pounds of whatever it was, perhaps water. It's not really a big deal for me, it just makes me think that I probably just have lower calorie needs than I'm being told to eat. I've followed every rule down to the letter but in this case, i think I'm going to need to tailor my diet to my body, and that includes some fats and generally less calories than is expected.

@OutsideMatchInside my nut is telling me to eat between 1000-1200 cals a day, which sounds perfectly reasonable. For one, it's pretty hard for me to get in that much food unless I eat something like peanut butter to get them up there. And then of course this has happened multiple times, I either stop losing abruptly or gain when I go over 700-800 calories. I get the comment about "neo-anorexia" - I've had an eating disorder all my life and it's now a huge struggle for me to know if it's the disorder lying to me or the scale, or myself. Part of the process, I suppose.

I don't bother with my nutritionist anymore... she's affiliated with my bariatric program, but her advice always conflicts with the surgeon's advice and I never lose when I follow her plan. So annoying! I have to constantly tweak my macros until I get to a point of losing - which means VERY low carb (like less than 25 per day). I've also noticed that (and I think I've mentioned this before) I only lose like 10 days out of the month. So I stall for about 3 weeks, then I lose a pound a day for the 10 days before my cycle.

All this to say... I'm not an expert, but I've learned my body and its patterns... what works, and what doesn't. I've been quite diligent about tracking everything so that it's easy to recognize where I am at any given time. I wouldn't worry much about a 1 lb "gain", but keep an eye out for more gains (obviously) and then you'll know if it's really too much.