Is cardio PREVENTING my weight loss? Never had an issue losing before!

Struggling to make any progress! TL;DR at bottom of wall of text.

In my adult life (past 10-12 years), I have always bounced around between 94-106ish lbs. At 5’0”, I know that’s relatively thin but I attribute a lot of it to being socially active, as well as having anxiety and panic disorder and in general being a high-stress, GOGOGO person. There have been periods in my life where I was purposefully restricting (prepping for my wedding, a boxing video shoot, etc) but for the most part, I stayed in the 97-102 range without doing much more than watching my portion sizes. I ate plenty of pizza, Whataburger, beer, french fries, and never had an issue dropping a couple pounds or toning up when I wanted or needed to. Just had to toss in some cardio and stick to a lifting regimen 2-3x a week.

I was 102 pounds in April of 2019. Over the next six months, due to some stressful events, (moving cross country, job insecurity, stepping away from a musical project), I gained 10 lbs. By January, I was at my highest weight of 116 pounds. I felt very uncomfortable in my skin, and set a lofty goal, knowing I had the time to make fitness my priority.

So I had at it! Meticulously tracked EVERY calorie from food & drink, and began a furious cardio regimen. I would camp out on the Cybex ARC Trainer at my gym, and do 1-3 hours of cardio, at least 4 times a week. My calorie goal was 930 per day NET. I would eat over that, and just made sure I was coming in under my weekly goal with all the cardio. There were weeks where I burned 8-10k calories through cardio. The scale didn’t budge much; I lost about 3 pounds.

For March, I started to try something different. I added in weight training 4-5 days a week. I do a general 12-week Beach Body routine of squats, pushups, wall sits, crunches, etc. 5 times a week. In addition, I do separate arm weight training 2-3 days, and a leg session 1-2 days. I continued to do cardio, 3-4 days a week. Each cardio session is always right after I weight train, and usually 2-3 hours.

It’s April now. I had one day where my scale registered me at 109.9 in March, and I finally thought I was breaking a plateau. I sit today at 113.4 lbs. In 4 months, I have not lost even 5 pounds. What am I doing wrong???

Please, any advice would be helpful. I have been tracking my net calories over my goals, and even with being over some weeks, I should be seeing more progress. Since 12/30, with a goal of 930 net calories per day, I am only 4200 calories net over. To put that in perspective, that means my average net calories per day since 12/30 is 976. How have I not lost any weight? I can see some toning progress, but not a lot. Based on CICO, with my BMR at 1291 for my height, age and weight, I should have lost 8.19 lbs by now.

TL;DR: Gained 14lbs last year, 102 in April 2019 to 116 Dec 2019. On 12/30/19, began heavy cardio regimen of 2-3 hrs on ARC Trainer, 4-5x/week. Added weight training in 3/1/20; continued cardio 2-3 hrs 3-4x/week. Not losing weight despite CICO math showing I should have lost 8.19lbs by now. Still not sure what led to initial boom in weight after years of being 97-102 lbs with minimal effort.

F, 30, 5’0” SW: 116 CW: 113 GW: 105

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