Why can't I lose weight?

You are either a) not accurately counting and measuring and weighing your food b) eating back your calories c) not getting the proper nutrition or d) not eating enough.

Use www.iifym.com specifically the IIFYM calculator to help you calculate your TDEE and then eat at a 20-25% deficit from that. Example TDEE is 2760 and I eat at 25% of that which is 2000 and some change for a 1.5lb/week loss.

I agree with TDEE - 25%

I ate 1200 - 1400 cals when i first started and wound up plateauing after about 5 pounds lost. I eat 1700 ish per day now and lose consistently.

Your first step should be using a food scale and being really really anal about controlling everything that goes in your mouth for 2-3 weeks, no cheat.

You might be eating more than you think.

If that is not the problem, I would see what upping your calories would do.

The main thing is to try just one thing at a time and for long enought to see if it work or not.

Lastly, take pictures every few weeks and also measurements, the scale does not tell the whole story.

Good luck

I use a polar f6. It's great. Just enough features for me. You said you haven't lost weight, but do your clothes fit differently at all? Could your body composition be changing even though the scale stays the same?

I'm really frustrated... I have been working out regularly the last couple of months (at least 4-6 hours a week) and I am eating about 1,400 calories a day. I have pretty much cut out soda and the fast food. I don't eat a whole lot junk food, other than a bit of dark chocolate and the occasional treat. Honestly, I've worked really hard to cut back on the crap food. I also do weight training now. I'm not losing ANY weight though. I haven't lost weight in over a year. I weighed 155 eating nothing but fast food, binging on diet coke like there was not tomorrow and doing zumba 6 times per week. Now, on average I weigh 168, work out almost as much, eat healthy food mostly at home and almost no soda. What is going on? Oh, and I got my blood checked earlier this year and there are no hormone issues holding me back from losing weight either.

With all due respect I am not surprised that you don't lose weight, because your eating regimen is not very good. You seem to live of waffle fries, curly fries ( sometimes for two meals a day ), salmon patties " which I wonder if they are fried ) nacho chips, French Vanilla Coffee creamer, American cheese and chocolate chips. I went back two weeks and apart from skipped meals I could only find one occasion when you had any fruit or vegetable at all....that was half a cucumber under snacks. I am not saying you need to eat super clean, but in order to lose weight you need to eat better than that, especially healthful protein instead of empty carbs. You also need to be more conscious. You say you eat the occasional treat. As far as I could see you eat several treats a day almost every day. You do ok most of the time with your calories ( even though you don't eat as little as you say ) , but the quality of what you eat imo is really bad.

1) Majority of your food is not food that you prepared at home. Calorie counts at restaurants are often inaccurate and inconsistent from place to place, particularly if it's not a large chain like McDonalds or something like that.

2) You have a lot of blank entries. Are you skipping meals or just not logging?

3) A lot of your entries seems wonky to me. What exactly is "0.5" of a grilled chicken club sandwich from Jack 'N the Box with no bun? Half of a piece of chicken? How do you measure 0.75 of Jack 'N the Box curly fries? How do you measure "0.8" or "0.6" of a salmon patty from Costco? How do you measure how many sweet potato fries you're eating? Inaccurate logging on a regular basis means you easily can be consuming more than you think.

If you're not losing weight, you are either underestimating your consumption, overestimating your exercise/output, or both. Given your diary, I'm going to guess your issue is mostly just underestimating your consumption.

You don't have to eat clean or perfectly healthy or anything like that, but really the majority of your diet seems to be soda, creamer, fries, Baker's nachos, and hershey's chocolate. Buy a food scale. Weigh all your food. Quit eating out so often. Be 100% honest with your diary.