My body refuses to lose weight. HELP!

Probably eating too little. Why don't you try to increase your calories by 200 every other week. For example, eat 1400 calories daily for 2 weeks and then 1600 the week after. Most women I know lose around 1700-2100 calories. Second, I would add more weight training and less cardio. Cardio burns a ton of calories and will require more food. And then start eating more protein and fats and less carbs.

Also, do you weigh and measure your food?

I feel your pain!!!! Same thing happened with me last year during a "biggest loser contest" at work.... :sad: But I refuse to quit trying...Have some very motivated friends on MFP that have just recently broken through plateaus...So keep doing what you know to do...Our bodies will get the habg of it ....evnetually!lol

are you sure you are even overweight? the phote you attached looks like you're ok. you know your body has its own wisdom as to how much you should weigh. don't think your plan is better than God's plan for your body.

I think you just dropped your calories too fast and now ur metabolic rate has gone to crap. Go on a very slow bulk for a a couple of months and cut back down to 1200. I'd cut down about 150cal a week when ur back on ur cut.

Go with very slow calorie increases each week. When I say slow, I mean SLOW. Add about 50 calories each week (primarily carbs, maybe a gram or two in fats). This way your body will be able to readjust your metabolic rate. You will also notice a minimal weight increase if an increase at all . If you notice a significant weight increase, then slow down the rate at which your adding calories back to your diet.

I'm having the same problem, but at higher calories. I wanted to cut down to about 10-12 %BF, but I only got to 14-15% when I dieted down to 1900. I'm currently on my slow bulk, and I've been getting a good response. I'm currently at 2050cal/day while maintaing more or less the same bodyweight as I had eating 1850-1900cal.

Also take a look at what Layne Norton says on metabolic capacity/damage. I think about of people here on MFP are having a hard time hitting the last few pounds because of the lack of a large metabolic capacity and are cutting too fast (encouraging metabolic dmg).

Let me know how it goes!

Up the calories. Just do it. I know it seems scary, and perhaps counter-intuitive but I was in the same boat as you 1200 calories, working out 4-5 times a week, and I wasn't losing at all. Then I did some reading and asked some questions and decided to up my calories and start lifting heavy. Within a week I started losing again, and although I'm not at my goal weight yet, I don't even care because my body looks better than it did when I weighed less. Seriously, give it a try! Good book to read to start out with: New Rules Of Lifting for Women.

I don't weigh/measure every thing..but I've been food obsessed for sooo long that I know what 3 oz of meat or 1 oz of cheese looks like.

1200 calories is what MFP suggested...I even upped it for a while...nothing changed.

Yeah, up the calories. My BMR is 1205 and I typically eat around 1450 calories per day with my sedentary desk job and I'm still losing around .25 to .5 a pound a week...

You should get a food scale and use it meticulously for at least two weeks before trying to draw conclusions about your metabolism or any hormonal downregulation/etc.

It is probable that you are simply eating more calories than you believe you are eating.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

I wonder if you could focus on just getting stronger? Ignore the exact calorie count for a bit, and make fitness goals. Run a 10K all the way through without stopping for breath is a good goal to train towards. Lifting progressively heavier weights, going longer times on the elliptical; whatever you want your goal to be. In the end you will most likely work off your fat. Even if you still weigh a bit more than you like, you will be healthier.

I am sorry but I am personally not 100% convinced into the eating more calories to lose weight and the bodies adaptation to starvation mode and holding on to its fat ect.
How is it then that peeps go on highly restrictive non heathly diets ie lighter life 600 cals a day and the weight flys off them.
I am sure its true for a limited time but over a prolonged period the weight should literally fall off should it not.
The law of physics energy in = energy out etc.
Less food more exercise we lose.
More food less excercise we gain
Im of the second persuation which is why im typing here at fat class.
Adios

sigh... your ticker says you have only 3 pounds to lose?

It sounds like classic metabolic damage to me. You'll need to eat at a surplus for several weeks to several months to allow your body to heal. If you want more info listen to what this pro body builder/coach/PhD in nutritional sciences has to say about it.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/biolayne-video-log-9-metabolic-damage/

It sounds like classic metabolic damage to me. You'll need to eat at a surplus for several weeks to several months to allow your body to heal. If you want more info listen to what this pro body builder/coach/PhD in nutritional sciences has to say about it.

http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/biolayne-video-log-9-metabolic-damage/

Layne is great but the context in which he's aiming this video is contest bodybuilders who are lean and in a prolonged and severe caloric deficit with high amounts of physical activity. This context doesn't seem to fit the OP.