i know what you mean when you say that you feel as though you are gaining instead of loosing, the reasons why may be because your metabolism has slowed down, it does this if you restrict calories for a while as your body tries to save energy for important bodily functions, you have to try and fool the body by giving it an energy boost sometime, your body responds to the increase in calories by speeding up the metabolism to burn them off, once speeded up the metabolism then takes about 3 days to slow down again, when it does increase calories again to repeat the process, how this works in real life is on day 1 eat what you like but dont go too wild, then the next two days diet really strict and hard, next two days eat just less than your limit, next two days eat at your limit and then repeat, allow yourself your treats on your off day but not too many its not an excuse to binge out, this really works but youve got to stick to be really strict on the 2 days following or it just wont work, also when you loose weight it comes off the arms and legs first and the body last, so even though you might have lost weight it might not look like it at first, so dont get dissapointed just rember that this will happen and stick to the diet, with myself i find that the first 3 weeks nothing seems to happen and then suddenly ive lost loads, some people loose a little at a steady pace and others like me loose in cycles, the important thing is to realise this will happen keep happy and just stick with it as the results make it all worth while.