So who's upped their calories to lose?

So what you all going to do when you stop losing weight again, increase them even more to lose more weight lol.
The truth is if you, had lowered your calories gradually to begin with and not had such an agressive deficit then this problem could have been avoided, lesson learnt i think

Lowered? mine were set at 1200 calories.. and my BMR is 1507. I was tired and hungry...

I don't think going down from 1200 would have been dumb.

I was eating 1500 calories for so long, lost 60 lbs. Then it stopped.

Upped to 1750-2000 and I've lost an additional 20 lbs.

I've gone from 2,050 calories up to 3,100-3,300 (varies on day to day basis, depending on rest, training or dance day). Losing around 2-3lbs per week at the moment.

i upped my calories cos i decided am now happy with my weight. Got such a surge of evergy that I started moving more, upped my yoga difficulty even started shyly with lifting not-so-heavy-yet things and the weight still is droping I dont eat back all my excercise calories cos I hate feeling of overstuffed belly, so prolly thats why i keep loosing dem lbs.

I was at 1400 until mid January. I always eat back my workout calories. I had hit a solid wall of going nowhere no matter how hard I pushed at the gym. I decided to take the plunge and checkout the BMR/TDEE calcs saw that my BMR should be more like 1700 and upped my cals to 1600 (ya I am a wimp.) My weight dropped within the first 2 weeks, broke the plateau but then stalled again at the "new low" but rather than give it up, I stuck with it. About 5 weeks after bumping myself up by 200 cals I have not only broken my wall, I have lost 9lbs once the numbers started moving again. Id call that a victory I am going to stick with it for a bit longer, and maybe come the end of March inch it up to the 1700 mark where I should be. Yep. Coward, but giving myself room for improvement!

In short: Increased by 200, after stalling for 3 weeks, saw the weight jump around for 2 weeks, then it dropped off. Total invested time to see results: 5 weeks +/- Good luck to anyone who has doubts. It is a trying period to watch and wait and nail bite. :flowerforyou:

I know what you mean. I have been on a plateau since December. I increased my work out, but MFP had me eating only 1250 calories. I still have 70 lbs. to go. If 1200 is the lowest I can go, then I don't see how I will EVER make my goal eating almost the minimum now and not losing. What I did was change my goals from 2 lbs. per week to 1.5 lbs. per week... this gave me over 1500 calories to eat and I lost 3 lbs. this week alone. Sometimes, our bodies seem like they need a change in order to work for us... Good Luck to you.

I started at 1200 in December, upped it to 1300 2 weeks ago, now upped it to 1508, based on my TDEE-30%.

I'm upping mine.

I was on 1200, plateaud, went up to 1400 and still nothing. I am doing Insanity 3 times a week.

How much more should I up it by do you think and is there another reason why I might not be losing?

Just upped mine from 1200 to 1723 last week, which is TDEE-20%. I couldn't really stick to the 1,200, I was hungry all the time and ususally ended up going over anyway. I was all over the place. Tried WW and found I was hungry as well. Now that I'm working out five times a week, there's no way I'm living on 1200 cals. I can't wait to see the results. And I'm not starving!

I just upped mine this week - I agree it is scary! I never thought I would be stressed about needing to eat more food while trying to lose weight!! We'll see what happens but I think it was the right thing for me.