a massive plateau!!!

stuck to eating 1200 calories a day

well, there's your problem.

Try eating more than 1200 Calories. The 1200 calories may have sent your body into starvation mode. Also, read about BMR and TDEE.
Goodluck!

you don't eat enough - you should also open your diary so we can see what your eating because that plays a huge factor imo. once you get your calories up try adding HIIT 3 days a week. Do you do any strength training?

A plateau means you don't lose anything for weeks at a time. You are just seeing your loss slow down. This happens for a couple of reasons.

1) you aren't getting proper nutrition - your body works best when fed a balanced diet that is sufficient for your individual needs. In your case, I doubt that even MFP told you to eat only 1200 a day.

2) our bodies need to adjust - weight loss is not linear. Even if you were burning and eating the proper amounts, few people lose the same amount every single week for weeks on end. You lost an amazing amount in three months, now your body will want some time to consider what is happening to it.

3) our bodies get used to routines. If you are always eating the same amount and doing the same activities, your body figures out how to do that most efficiently and thus burns off fewer calories to do it.

The best way to deal with a stall is:
- verify that you are tracking everything.
- eat healthier foods; not necessarily "health foods," just make sure you are eating lots of veggies, lean protein and healthy fats like nuts, then let everything else fall into place.
- learn about other methods of calculating calorie needs and try one for several weeks
- try a new kind of exercise. If you don't do any, start.

oops new to boards not MFP. Well Welcome anyway. I'll be alright gonna get some coffee

stuck to eating 1200 calories a day

well, there's your problem.

Was gonna say that, then I looked down :bigsmile:

Eat more!

With little to lose, you have narrow margin for error to do things wrong and still lose, otherwise you won't, or you'll lose the wrong weight, like muscle. No good.

Do you really have a 40 hr a week sedentary desk job?
Other than exercise, sitting around the house for rest of the hours? Or up and a lot more active?
That's the difference between MFP Activity level of Sedentary and Lightly Active - most discover they are really Lightly Active if honest.

Did you pick the Recommended 1 lb weight loss weekly? At this point, if within 10 lbs of goal weight, should really be 1/2 lb weekly.

Are you correctly logging your workouts and eating back the calories to actually see improvement? Or not and just creating additional stress that will mess with ability to lose?

You already proved it to yourself, because you held to your diet, but increased your exercise, and the loss slowed way down. Too great a deficit for your body, it got stressed, hormones messed up, less loss.

Though you are also doing great exercise and that would have improvements to it and that is rarely weight loss, but then again you probably aren't eating enough to see great improvements you could have.

Oh, massive plateau are the folks that have had 9-12 months no weight or measurement loss eating way too low and exercising way too much, and they keep doing the same thing wondering why nothing changes.
You got no plateau. But no need to create one either.

my job is fairly active, regularly on site with clients and running to meetings etc - other than that i am at university but walk every where, obviously gym and socialising etc... im not lazy at all! (not any more)

im not with 10 lbs of my goal weight, i have alot more to lose then that! atleast another 3 stone.

i've only started using this app again today as i figured i needed more help and guidance from you guys (thanks so much by the way!) so will start filling it out honestly and properly.

i guess i do need to eat more - however i do have the odd day when i eat and drink what i like so i assumed this would even the whole week out in a way?

thanks again.

At least Lightly Active then, and 1 lb goal loss.

And 1 day doesn't even anything out - it's surplus that day, and unless you have massive glucose stores to refill, and do some great activity while digesting it to use it right then, as excess it's stored as fat.
But then 6 days a week at too big a deficit is what your body is dealing with most and will just slow down.

Some with a good metabolism can make up for too extreme a deficit with a cheat meal, but it's not real extreme in the first place, and their exercise benefits that method.