5x a week workout/1200 calories a day no change ;/ WTF

For one you should not be eating below your BMR! You should be eating more than your BMR and less than yor TDEE. You were doing fine with the 1800-2000 cal intake.. Now you should be worried about your metabolism. Definitely go back up to where you were.. Obviously you were better off if not better with a higher.. You shouldn't be eating 1200 when your exercising 5x a week either. It has taken me 3 months to lose 8lbs!! But I'm eating 1600-1800 and it's worth it because my body doesn't feel like it's starving!
I'm sure the last week you probably felt like crap considering you pretty much didn't feed it enough with all that exercise.
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I'm glad you posted this, I feel the same way - working out 4-5 times a day and taking in 1200-1300 calories a day and i've only lost 7 pounds in 2 months, which is less then what MFP projected.
I started taking Safslim to up my results.

Suggest other direction, because if you think this through, the direction you are going can only lead to worse problems then less than expected weight loss and eventual stall out.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/599949-tired-plateaud-scale-not-moving-found-my-answer

Hey Guys,

I need some help on this topic because I'm this close to losing my mind over this. I started myfitnesspal over a month ago, it set my calorie intake to 1200 (losing 2lbs a week), I am 138 5'3. I used to be 115 but over years I've slowly gained alot of weight. Before I started this diet, I was easily eating over 2000 calories a day with no exercise (office job so my activity level was zero). Now, I've been eating 1200 and actually alot of times under 1200 and exercising around 4 times a week for atleast an hour. I have literally lost NO weight at all. I dont understand this, I have been working so hard and I see no results I am so frustrated and I just want need advice. I don't have enough time in the day to the whole 4-5 meals a day, I eat breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner. I have totally cut out sodas besides casual happy hour drinks. I dont always eat back exercise calories. My calorie intake varies everyday, I just feel so upset because I'm working so hard and havent seen any results. Please please help me!!!

AHHH, burn 1750 cals a day does that include the amount your body already burns (sleeping etc) or like I have to burn that much through exercise? Yeah I never burn more than 600 cals a day through exercise, I mean I'm not eating that many carbs at all. Its just crazy that I was eating so much and not exercising and yet I wasnt really gaining weight and now I'm eating so healthy and logging in everything and exercising and I've lost nothing. Do you suggest I up my calories? Is there a way for me to share my food logs? So frustrating though

I've made my diary public, so if someone can kinda take a glance over it and see what the hell im doing wrong lol. I would realllly appreciate it!

What you are doing wrong is thinking bigger deficit is better - it isn't.

If it was better, just stop eating - the ultimate deficit, until you reach goal weight.

Too much? Well, what is too much.

So you use to eat over 2000 daily and did NOT exercise.

Now you eat 1200 and exercise.

Huge deficit, huge stress on body, huge problem.

I'm just glad and actually surprised you aren't losing muscle mass and still some weight, body must have been so stressed it just slowed way down.

Eat 2000 and keep exercising, that is eating less than what you burn daily.

Set MFP activity level to correct - Sedentary is 40 hr desk job and sitting on butt all day except exercise. Probably Lightly Active, or more.
Then set 1 lb weekly goal loss.

Log your exercise, and correctly eat it back to maintain ONLY that 1 lb goal loss, don't increase it.

Hope you didn't do too much damage to your body already.

i should have said.... i am adding my excercise calories back into my diet... i am follwing MFP to a T

You follow it to a T yet nothing is tracked for the month of July?

Look at the dates - old thread someone brought back.

Thanks for the suggestion,

I will fix my MFP activity level and do 1lbs a week instead. I think I started off a little too aggressive lol, it really is hard eating over a certain amount of calories when I have started cooking at home/ I do think I sometimes underestimate my calories since I dont measure them every single time.

However, I checked today and have lost 2 inches off my waist. The scale has still not moved, soooo I guess time to up my intake and just continue working out and hope I see some results. I am due for cheat day too I think my body is getting comfortable with this routine.

If you guys have anymore feedback on this I would appreciate it. I am totally new to this and do want to sustain a healthy lifestyle i'm not looking for quick weight loss I just want to tone down and feel healthy.

Ha its def not a joke, I mean it was hard at first but I just dont even feel hungry anymore. Some days I go over 1200 and some days I don't. I am not strict on it being 1200 only, but I try to not go over 1400 or so. Im only going 3-4 times a week to the gym and that too for an hour so I dont consider myself more than lightly active. I just changed my goal 1lb per week and lightly active and MFP still suggests that I eat 1350 cals. I mean I didnt choose this magic number MFP did lol, I dont know what is the magic number to be eating in order to reach my goal and thats why im asking for suggestions from people who actually know their **** unlike me lol.