What am I doing wrong???

Figuring out the right amount of calories you should be eating is hard. If you don't eat enough, you put your body in starvation mode. It takes what you are eating and storing it as fat and not burning it. It's the burning of calories that makes you loss the weight. First thing I would do is throw the dang pills out. There is no such as a cure in the form of a pill out there. Yes, some do work for some people but the mass majority do not work. If it says take this pill and continue to do what you usually do and you will loss weight....RUN AWAY!!

Next I would look at what you are eating. How is your protein intake? How are your carbs? Take the tools here on MFP and figure out how many calories it says you should eat. Play around a bit. Take a week and eat what it tells you PLUS what you are burning in exercise. You should stay about the same. Then take a week and eat under those same calories by 200 or so. See what your weight is doing then. Once you find where you can eat and loss the weight, stick to it for a while.

I had gastric bypass in August. I had to really play with my calorie, protein and carb intake to find what works for me. If I eat all protein and very few carbs, I won't loss. I have to have blood work done often. My protein levels were low...yet I was eating the amount of protein the dietician reccommended. Once I added some carbs, I was losing weight faster and my protein levels are now normal.

Everyone is different and what works of me may not work for you....so play around with it

Open up your diary and let us take a look. Strength and resistence training is very necessary in losing weight Are you only running? Also, low carb, high protein is the WAY to go.

Give us your height, weight, age etc...

I have spent the last few years really trying to crack down on my weight. I recently started running, and just ran my first 5k last weekend. after 9 weeks of training and running 4 times a week, I was not losing any weight and I was noticing NO differences what so ever. I have been counting calories, exercising. I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I went to complete nutrition and they put me on some pills to try and help me kick start my metabolism to lose weight. But after 4 weeks of pills I am exactly the same weight. They recently told me I was not eating enough calories (because of how much I was burning off running and whatever these pills are suppose to burn off) so they put me on a diet of 1900 calories a day. YIKES. that seems like so many calories to me since I have been trying to keep my calories at 1400-1600. Now I am just confused, I don't know how many calories I really need to be eating a day and/or what I am doing wrong and why I cannot lose weight. I feel like I am trying so hard and its discouraging to not see any results!! Any suggestions? Advice? or just support?? I would greatly appreciate it!!

If your metabolism is suppressed because of undereating for your level of activity, you taking a pill to increase it doesn't do any good, it doesn't have the calories to speed up, or rather, other stuff that burns energy will just not be done too, net effect is nothing.

There are many different levels to your metabolism.

1900 sounds high compared to what? 1600?

What did you used to eat that got you into trouble? Does 1900 sound high to probably closer to 3000? And no exercise then?

So, you know the definition of insane, right. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Ready to do something different for a decent amount of time, like 4 weeks?

Use the spreadsheet linked to in the post. Be honest with activity levels. And read the limited info carefully to understand.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/717858-spreadsheet-bmr-tdee-and-deficit-calcs-macros-hrm

Also be aware that if you are exercising, you must be wanting improvement to your body, that may mean inches lost initially, not weight.

I have been just as discouraged lately. However, I know that my lack of seeing results is because I will splurge from time to time. Even though I will still be under my calorie goal for the day, I'm not seeing the results I want. My weigh in yesterday was a little discouraging, but my husband pointed out that I wasn't as strict with my diet as I was the month before. So today I have decreased my calorie intake and will see how that affects anything. I would recommend you also watch sugar and sodium intake. If you only focus on the calories, you will miss out on tracking the other info that is just as important.