Started with calories too low? Now what? Help!!?

You're gonna have to open up your diary if you want folks to really be able to help, honey.

You started in January so you are losing at a good rate. 1-2 pounds a week on average is recommended for safe weight loss that is more likely to stay off so you are doing well. Keep doing what you've been doing in general, but start looking at what kinds of foods your eating and see about making healthier substitutes, getting in more veggies and lean proteins. You have a lot of quick add calories, but should start actually listing out what they are so you know what the sodium, sugar, fat and carbs totals truly are for you.

Okay, right off the bat I see a couple of things that could maybe use some tweaking.

The pre-prepped, processed meal options, like the Jimmy Dean and the Marie Calendar Meal? That sort of thing is not your friend. No, not even the "Diet", "Lite", "Healthy" etc options. When they take out calories, they have to replace it with something or it loses flavor. Often the replacement is sodium, which at excessive levels will make you retain water. (Yes, I know there's Yoplait Light on my diary... the Lights were on sale that day. LOL)

Secondly, I see a lot of Quick Calories Added... that's gonna kill you quicker than anything, because it means you're adding in pure calories, without any reference to nutrient values, and very possibly underestimating. If you're using calorie-tracking to lose weight, it really is important to log EVERYTHING specifically because it helps you see where you could make healthier choices.

Try adding salads... it really doesn't take long to throw together a HUGE filling salad on a big dinner plate if you get those big bins of pre-mixed salad greens, baby carrots, snap peas, mushrooms, whatever veggies you like. Raw vegetation is shockingly calorie cheap, so you can really pile it on and fill up and keep the meal very lean. I've found that if I think of it as a big veggie platter and just munch, it doesn't even need dressing! Seriously, it's hard to go wrong with salad.

Try reverse dieting you slowy add more calories to your diet week by week the point being to help fix the metabolic damage caused by being in a long term caloric deficet bobybuilders do it after getting ready for a contest just week by week add like 5-10 carb and 2-4 grams of fat till you shouldn't grain weight by adding the cals slowy and your body will fix its metabloism so you can contuine to loss weight when you cut the cals down again

Here's a thought... today you burned almost 90 calories on half & half and sugar, presumably for coffee? Ya know what you could have had for that 88 calories or a little bit more? A stick of string cheese, a light yogurt, or another cup of mango. If it's the caffeine you're after, try a black tea like Earl Gray, a breakfast blend, or Celestial Seasonings' "Morning Thunder (a roasted maté blend), with Splenda instead of sugar and try to wean off that cream.

I'm not sure why people ask to see the diaries. All that matters is your caloric intake when it comes to lowing weight.

We ask to see diaries, oh gentlemen, because women's bodies work somewhat differently and WHAT we eat matters at least as much as how much of it we consume. Caloric intake vs expenditure IS a primary factor for many people, but it's not the be all and end all for *healthy* weight loss.