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ranmca

So it's been a month and no weight loss, only weight gain. I'm5'4 164lbs, started at 176lbsI should be loosing weight. I excersise daily. Sun-wed I burn close to 300 a day , thur-sat I burn 1500 a day. My calorie intake is 1200 a day and I stick to that quite a bit(unless I feel hungry, which on those high calorie burning days I will eat a bit more, but I've never gone I've 1500). I've been at this for close to 80days and I haven't cheated so far, so why the heck am I gaining weight? I have hopes that one day I'll just drop, like I did when I first started MFP, but I'm finding myself just so frustrated and mad because of this. It makes me want to go indulge in icecream. Has any one else experienced this? What did you do?

Pebble321

I would just back off a bit and take it easy - you are burning huge numbers and eating relatively little, so you body doesn't have much to work with. It may be that you are forcing your body to try to work more efficiently to support all that exercise with very little energy (calorie) input.

Remember that as well as the exercise calories you are burning, your body needs energy just to keep you alive (that's your BMR number). If your BMR is 1500 (just a guess) and you are burning an additional 1500 cals a day in exercise - your body requires 3000 calories to stay at the same weight. If you are only feeding it 1200 then you are creating a huge calorie deficit and putting your body under stress.

Take a break - eat more, exercise less, make sure you have one or two rest days a week.
Change your MFP settings to "lose 1/2 pound a week" and eat the calories it suggests plus those you burn from exercise.
Then give it time. You've lost 14 pounds so far, that's not insignificant. If you want to lose more, you have to look after your body and stay healthy and that's hard to do if you aren't eating enough.

JGT2004

Most are going to respond with you need to eat more. Your body is burning more than 1200 cal on its own a day and if you are burning an extra 1200 and only eatting 1200. It's like your body is getting nothing and is in starvation mode. My body burns about 1800 on it's own and I should eat 1200. But when I exercise I try to eat back at least 75% of what I burn working out. I've been averaging about 1lb a week but I think I've been building muscle doing P90x. Good luck and way to go sticking to the working out!