Gaining Weight? Constant Plateaus? What is up with this?

I can handle a plateau or two...but it seems that I am getting into this pattern of losing one or two pounds and then plateauing for 2 or more weeks. It is so disheartening. I don't know if I can cut back on food much more without starving. I am averging about 750-875 calories a day. This morning I got on the scales and actually gained 1.5 pounds! I am so sad. I can't understand how I can gain on so little. I don't think it has to do with water weight or that time of the month since I haven't gained any weight related to that since the surgery 6.5 months ago. I am upping my exercise and water, but I am thinking that this is it for me. I figure I must have a super slow metabolism and will be forced to continue to cut back on food until I am eating virtually nothing to lose more weight or even to maintain for that matter! I could have starved myself WITHOUT the surgery. I am fasting today to try and lose that 1.5 pounds I gained and get back on track. I wish I had tried to eat a whole bunch in the first few months after surgery, so I would have something to cut back on now. I know people in my support group that can eat all day long and still lose. Why not me? What am I doing wrong? The only time I seem to lose is when I am hungry. When I try to increase my calories and protein and eat like everyone else I know who had the surgery....I stop losing and start gaining! Please Help! (open RNY 7/23/03 -112 lbs)

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