Exercise + calorie count but no weight loss, suggestions?

Are you weighing your food? Tracking absolutely EVERYTHING? Milk in your tea & coffee? Oils used for cooking?

It's basically scientifically impossible to eat at a deficit and not lose weight.

Do you own a food scale?

It's hard to tell when your diary is closed?

In my experience, it doesn't really matter what you eat as long as you're eating at a deficit. Fruit and veggies will be more filling than chocolate so if you can substitute some lean protein, fruit, and veggies for some of the candy/cookies you'll stay fuller.

Also, looking at your food diary, you may want to cut back on the sugar intake! Even though you're under calories, the overage in your sugar intake can still cause you to retain weight!

This will help you figure out your THR ~> http://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Your-Target-Heart-Rate .

Also, make sure when you're eating less that you don't under eat and cause your body to go into 'starvation mode'. Also, it's best to workout before you've eaten, that way your body burns the stored fat instead of using the food you just ate for fuel during your workout.

Substrate utilization during the training bout is really not important. She can eat when she wants provided total intake is appropriate and performance needs are met.

Hi, I've just looked at your food diary, do you ever eat breakfast? If not I suggest you eat breakfast and try and cut dwn in the sweets.
A lot of my calories are made up of sweet things which is probably why I haven't lost weight for 6 weeks so let's cut out the sweets together and watch our weight disappear.

Well you really aren't eating healthy.
1) You aren't eating breakfast. Eat some fruit, eggs, or at least drink some milk.
2) You're eating chips and fried food. NO! No wonder you aren't losing weight. You should be eating fruits,veggies, lean meats (turkey, fish, chicken.) And no not fry, broil, or grill. and stay away from sweets and junk.

I notice 3 eating tendancies that if changed could help.
1 - eat a more balanced diet. For you that appears to mean more protein & less sugar. Read about glycemic index & the difference between your high glycemic value foods & a low glycemic diet.
2 - don't skip breakfast. This may seem counter intuitive, but waking up your metabolism in the morning starts the day burning calories. Your body is probably staying in a "starvation mode" where it is trying to conserve the few calories you are giving it. This too is something you can google to find info on.
3 - drink more water. I don't know if you just aren't listing it in your journal or not, but this too is a topic you may want to read up on.

You may also find one other tip helpful...
4 - try interval eating. This last idea is the quirkiest & not something I've personally tried but I know some who swear by it. , It is a variation of the starvation mode mentioned in #2 above. It involves keeping your same caloric intake for the week, (i.e. 1200 x 7 for you), but changing the timing for eating them. To do this on 2 approximately equally spaced days reduce your calorie intake to @ 500, but on the other 5 days increase it to 1480 which would be the offsetting balance. The theory is that if spaced out over the 3 meals the 500 cal intake is still enough to keep your body from going into starvation mode, while it is acclimated to burning your normal 1480 which causes the weight loss on those 2 days.

Best wishes & God bless.

What exercise are you doing? Duration, intensity etc?

What has your sodium intake been like? It's not important, but can cause fluctuations on the scale. Edit: Now I see your diary is open, your sodium intake is usually quite low but it does fluctuate quite a bit. Than can cause scale weight fluctuations.

You're not that overweight so insulin resistance is an unlikely culprit, thusly your sugar intake is rather irrelevant to weightloss. Drinking more water has no bearing on weightloss. Thyroid is Dr. only territory. Calorie intake could be a culprit - do you weigh your food? How are you calculating exercise calories, do you eat them back?

@SideSteel. I disagree.. Fried foods and too much sugar will wreak havoc on any weight loss goals therefore the TYPE of fuel used is as important as the AMOUNT.

I've lost 57 lbs. eating fried food and sweets sometimes by dieting alone. Wasn't able to exercise much until recently due to medical reasons. If I feel the urge to have a treat and have the calories and other macros available, I eat what I want. It has worked so far.

Check out the book "Wheat Belly". I have been stuck at the same weight for months even with counting calories and exercising 5 times per week. Nothing has worked. Last week I read this book and decided to cut out wheat and gluten, and most sugars - eating only meat, dairy, and vegetables. I lost 2 lbs in a week. Definitely sticking with it!

@SideSteel. I disagree.. Fried foods and too much sugar will wreak havoc on any weight loss goals therefore the TYPE of fuel used is as important as the AMOUNT.

I've lost 57 lbs. eating fried food and sweets sometimes by dieting alone. Wasn't able to exercise much until recently due to medical reasons. If I feel the urge to have a treat and have the calories and other macros available, I eat what I want. It has worked so far.

It has worked for me too as long is within my calories goal. About sugar intake I dont mind to go over if they come mostly from fruit.
Strict diets never work for the long run

@SideSteel. I disagree.. Fried foods and too much sugar will wreak havoc on any weight loss goals therefore the TYPE of fuel used is as important as the AMOUNT.

How exactly does that happen, unless you are referring to the fact that they are calorie dense and therefore more likely to put you over your calorie goal?