If I remember rightly, you were on Lipotrim before you started SW, weren't you?
I have a similar problem in that I switched from Cambridge to SW - and in fact, the last time I tried SW, what you say is happening to you happened to me - I too did the diet 100%, lost 5 pounds the first week then steadily regained it all over the next few weeks, despite following SW to the letter.
It's painful, but somehow, you just need to keep the faith that the diet will start working for you. That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. I tried going back to doing Cambridge but found I just couldn't stick to it any more and kept falling off the wagon.
I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather be on a diet where I can eat plenty and still slowly (all right, painfully slowly
) have the weight come off, than torture myself through another round of Cambridge.
I don't know how many ex-VLCDers there are around (that's Very Low Calorie Diets for those who don't know, like Lighterlife, Cambridge and Lipotrim) but I know there must be some.
I think my poor body needs to trust that I'm going to keep feeding it before it dares let go of any fat, LOL. I can't blame it for clinging on, just in case I start starving it again.
Incidentally, I'd never knock VLCDs - when you're very overweight, as I was (I was almost 18 stones), it feels like a miracle to start losing weight so easily. But the first shot at a VLCD is the golden one - if you fall off the wagon, it's at least twice as hard to climb back aboard as it is to get back to an eating plan like SW or WW. I finally had to accept that I was finding it nigh on impossible to stick to Cambridge and that I was messing up my metabolism big time by being on it one day and off the next...
I'm hoping that the extra exercise I'm doing (now I've got enough calories on board to do it) will help shift things in the right direction - I'm currently in training for a 10 mile Midnight Walk for Sue Ryder Care on 1 May.
But even if all that happens for a while is that I stay at more or less the same weight, I can live with that. I'm not going to give up easily this time - and trust that the plan will starting working as it should, once my body's forgiven me for putting it on a VLCD.
Are you able to up your exercise levels at all?