I give up!!

Eat more, move more. Look up a post called "In place of a roadmap" if you want to know more about how to work out your total daily expenditure and how to eat a bit more and lose weight. Your body will be struggling on 1200 especially if you're exercising -- this seems to happen to a lot of people. I eat between 1500-2000 depending what I am doing that day and I have lost 7lbs in about 3 months. At first it stayed the same for ages, went down a bit, went up, then slowly down. Water weight and all that does play a factor, especially when you're only trying to lose a little it becomes more noticeable. It seems like all kinds of changes to what you do with the body can cause it to do weird things with water!

Very much this^^^^

Here is the link for road map. I've brought the water, it's up to you if you drink it or not. Hope you do cause it tastes wonderous

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

LOL!

Eat more, move more. Look up a post called "In place of a roadmap" if you want to know more about how to work out your total daily expenditure and how to eat a bit more and lose weight. Your body will be struggling on 1200 especially if you're exercising -- this seems to happen to a lot of people. I eat between 1500-2000 depending what I am doing that day and I have lost 7lbs in about 3 months. At first it stayed the same for ages, went down a bit, went up, then slowly down. Water weight and all that does play a factor, especially when you're only trying to lose a little it becomes more noticeable. It seems like all kinds of changes to what you do with the body can cause it to do weird things with water!

Very much this^^^^

Here is the link for road map. I've brought the water, it's up to you if you drink it or not. Hope you do cause it tastes wonderous

Also to the OP: I used to have an eating disorder too. It's really important not to fall into the trap of thinking you need to eat less -- your body will slow down the metabolism more and will start using stuff you don't want to lose (muscle!) for energy. Really restrictive dieting *can damage your heart and bones* without immediately obvious symptoms. Please be careful. Do some reading and maybe find ways of logging your running about after the little one as exercise -- it will increase your cal allowance! I set my MFP to sedentary because that's my job described, but add *all* my exercise in on top (even the 10 minute walk to work) and eat back most of them. Bodies are weird, but wonderful -- look after yours!

I found some links for you to make it easier to find what I mentioned:

The roadmap thread (a lot of this is people asking questions after the main post): http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

The thread continued: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/682138-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

Another thread for people following the approach (think the idea is to only post in this if you're doing it - the other ones for questions): http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/715450-followers-of-in-place-of-a-road-map2-0

Good luck. You can do it -- please do it safely!

Don't give up! If you are eating right and getting exercise you are doing something that is good for you whether you lose weight or not. I've been stuck for a loooooonnnnnggggg time at about the same weight after losing some but I refuse to give up because I know that no matter what the scale says today, my body is fitter and healthier and will serve me better for the rest of my life.

But if I am starting to put on weight does this mean its not going to work?

No, because weight loss isn't linear, and the scale is the least effective way to track your progress.

Think about it. The scale is not only measuring your bones and muscle and fat and all that stuff, but also water you've drunk and not sweated or peed out yet, food you've eaten that you're still digesting, with a zillion and one factors that affect how those numbers are affected. Exercise, hormones and sodium can contribute to fluid retention, which can mask a weight loss.

For instance, I had a sodium heavy dinner last night, plus I did an hour of weight lifting, and I'm "up" two and a half pounds from Saturday. I know damn well I didn't eat an extra 8750 calories above my maintenance in the past week.

And that's assuming the scale itself is accurate. Move the scale to a different spot, and you'll get a different reading. Plus, many digital scales have a two pound "memory." If your weight is within two pounds of your last weigh in, it will show the last displayed number. Apparently, it does that so people don't freak out over minor fluctuations, but it seems to make more people freak out when the scale doesn't move. I have to weigh myself holding something that weighs about 5 pounds to "reset" the scale, then weigh myself again.

Edited to add: Track your progress through other, more satisfying methods. Fitness goals (Woohoo! I can run further! Lift heavier! I exercised five times this week! etc.), measurements (compared every few weeks or every month, because it's hard to tell if you've lost 1/8 of an inch), how clothes fit, and photos. Take a whole pile of photos that really show your body, and no matter how much you hate them, don't delete them. Take more pictures in a month and compare. You'll be surprised!

When I was in weight watchers and that happened it was usually because I wasn't eating enough and my body was going into starvation mold. Try a few more calories next week and see what happens. Don't give up, just try different things until you figure out what your body is telling you.

Hi, are you working out? how much water are you drinking? how much of the 1200 calories contains fat? Switch up your order of food intake. Also, put your scale AWAY....tape measure your body and record it on here. I've know you heard that and this plenty of times....but it takes more than 2 weeks to lose and only a day to gain... give yourself some time, just don't quit beucase you will end of starting all over and that is the depressing part. It took me years to see that but until I've invested a lot of cash out to give my head in the game I won't win. But now that I have done that, I'm doing Insanity and doing the shakeolgey from beach body and I clothes have already started being baggy on me. Just don't give up.