WTF?!

How in the bloody hell can I be putting on weight while consistently eating below maintenance calories? I mean, I can deal with only losing a little weight. I can deal with retaining water. I can deal with blaming it on lack of exercise.

But it is beyond frustrating to eat 1200-1500 calories a day for 4 weeks, lose 11.5 lbs, calculate your maintenance calories at 2500, then go up to around 1700 and gain a half pound. Yeah, I know...it's only a half pound. And it may be water, it may be muscle, it may be whatever. But right now, it just pisses me off. All I can see is a future where I'm eating 1800 calories a day for the rest of my life, and putting on weight until I'm roughly the size of an Indian elephant.

Sigh.