ITS OFFICIAL IM GIVING UP!!!

Thanks everyone 1. YES my diary is open 2. I have actually been trying and nothing is happening i dont eat the way I used to I dont eat fast food at all anymore. And I try to grill rather than frying everything I know its a slow process but when you log on everyday and see people that say they lost 30 lbs in 3 months it gets discouraging. I intially set a goal of 20 lbs I cant even get to that, Plus I exercise every single day I feel like im doing all that sweating and work for nothing. Somethings wrong with this picture I know I cant be at a plateu for these many months geesh It would be nice to see 1lb loss but I got NOTHING!!!!

You are ridiculously overestimating calorie burns from circuit training and cardio, and your logging appears inconsistent. You appear not to be weighing foods, and you are using a lot of generic equivalents for homemade items like sloppy joes and chicken. Your diary is filled with "quick add calories" for things that are obviously ballpark estimations. You are either skipping a great many meals or simply not logging the things you ate at those meals.

In other words, it's no wonder you're not seeing any progress since you're doing everything wrong. You honestly have no idea how many calories you're eating.

Plus I exercise every single day I feel like im doing all that sweating and work for nothing. Somethings wrong with this picture

Let me put it a different way:

You can't outrun a poor diet, and your diet is extremely poor.

Your logging is terrible and you have no idea how many calories you eat. You obviously eat way more than you think you do.

If you want it to work, you need to actually start logging accurately. Or you can just give up.

I am planning to leave MFP. All the MFP numbers, and calculations are wrong.

Which is why you need to figure out your TDEE and what Macros will help you hit your goals and adjust MFP accordingly.

Have you had your thyroid checked? An abnormal thyroid is troublesome with losing weight. That is what was wrong with me and now that it's been regulated with the right meds, I'm losing weight and feeling better all around.

My experience is the same. I'm making other changes, too, obviously - but especially the initial success that I saw was not at all what I experienced before getting that in balance. Also, skin, hair, menstruation, energy level.....In any case, it's a simple blood test.

But regardless of whether this is an issue for you or not, my advice would certainly be not to give up on doing things that are beneficial to your health when the answer surely lies in making some (probably relatively minor) adjustments. Hang in there....let people help you to help yourself. It's not official until the fat lady sings and I haven't made a peep.

Well, since I haven't seen her responses, I'm assuming I'm only talking to others that might be going through the same thing. (I only read through a sampling of the posts, so sorry if I'm going over well-trod ground!)
1) Over 25% of dieters lie to themselves. They don't count a nibble here, a cookie at the office. They measure a cup by "sight", and a teaspoon is very heaping. They miss a few workouts a week, but say they exercise every day. They walk 2 miles an hour, then take off calories based on "vigorous walking". If there's a small chance that's you, have someone else measure out your meal. No snacking allowed, and your whole meal must be on the plate when you start eating. Exercise only on equipment that times you exactly, use the calories the machine tells you minus about 50. (Between optimistic estimates & basal metabolism, it's at least that much over.)
2) Don't assess your progress yourself. You may be comparing your water-retaining self now to your post-exercise weight of 2 months ago. Ask people who know you to honestly tell you if they noticed any change. Also, are there a couple of people who haven't seen you in a few months who say you look thinner, better or healthier?
3) Women are more likely to plateau, then break through, plateau, then break through. So bide your time. Change things up, but don't freak!
4) Tweak your diet. Especially if you're eating fast food as one or two respondents claimed, your body is more likely to grab the extra fat & try to hold on to it to prevent "starvation". Maybe go "Atkins" for 2 weeks, or SlimFast for 2 weeks - long enough to stimulate fat loss but not long enough to cause possible kidney issues. Maybe go down 100 calories a day, which will make a 10-pound difference over a year. If she didn't have people to whom her diary is open say they were surprised at how high her calorie goal was, I might've recommended raising her eating by 100 calories in case she's in "starvation mode" as far as her body is concerned.
5) Lower the fat. If you're from one of those groups or families (like some Eskimos, for example) whose bodies adapted to conditions where there wasn't enough food for months out of the year, your body will metabolize fat very, very efficiently. You will simply have to work harder than the next girl to lose weight, and then to keep it off.
6) Move more. Just because you exercise for an hour, doesn't mean you can sit like a lump in front of the TV or computer for hours. You may tell MFP that you're "moderately active" because of your exercise hour, but you're actually effectively "sedentary".
7) If you're just giving up because you miss your favorite foods, build a cheat meal in each week, or a cheat day every other week, & save up your calories for it.

According to your diary you are eating 1200 or less, and skipping logging days.

If you don't want to exercise every day, don't.

Set your goal to a pound or half pound a week. Exercise 3 days a week. Log EVERYTHING. MEASURE everything. No guesses. No skipping days.

Try this for 4 weeks. Report back on your progress.

Based on the fact that you opened your diary, I'm guessing you are open to suggestions and you ARENT ready or willing to give up, so YAY.

Your solution (and I would be willing to be the farm here) is to weigh your food and log as accurately as you can. No quick adds, no guessing... a solid effort on your part. If you gave that 3 weeks I'm sure you'd see a loss. And 1200 calories is inhumane, do yourself a favour and calculate your TDEE based on your activity level and apply a modest cut, MFP overestimates activity calories notoriously. I'd love to hear a positive update from you in a few weeks

Amen sista!! Once I got into powerlifting and eating only 1200 calories...i knew this wasnt enough food to help me lose, or even help me gain my muscle!! I did find a site with a TDEE calculator and this is way much better than 1200. Sometimes I feel like I can go up to more!

Yesss be more positive! We are all trying to help! Remember I was on a plateau for a whole year! My weight didnt start moving until a few months ago!

...MFP overestimates activity calories notoriously...

It overestimates my cardio calories, but gives me 0 for my weights workout. I always figure my workout with weights as 200-300 calories, so I just leave MFP's cardio estimates as is.
Why can't MFP count a set of resistance training as 10 calories? At least they'd be in the ballpark!

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I joined in February 2013, and in 8 months I've lost a whopping 8 pounds!!! My "weight progress" shows a straight line for 90 days! Frustrating? Hell, yeah! My poor daughter who made me join has to listen to me complain, but I'm still chugging along. Just came back from lifting weights at the gym. I figure, if I give up and do nothing, I'll only stay where I am or gain. Plus, I like the idea of getting healthier and feeling stronger. I'm considering taking a sledgehammer to the damned scale!! Hang in there!

I've started replying to posts I really like so I can refer back to them and I really like this one.

Why havent you deactivated yet?

2 things I notice.
1. Your profile picture does not appear to be that of an overweight person, your body will resist losing weight if it doesn't need to.
2. On many days you eat fewer than 1000 calories... that isn't healthy, and will hurt your progress in the long term.

Watch this:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJVjWPclrWVY

I can guarantee you aren't properly weighing and measuring your food.

Seriously don't listen to anything about over eating... If you are eating only 1200 calories a day and excercising 6 days a week, More than likely you are under-eating. It may be a hard concept to grasp but you can only cut calories for so long before you start affecting your metabolism... But I don't have enough info to be able to help you completely. You can email me if you'd like

justinrhoads.fitness@gmail.com

I was working my butt off, doing P90X on Tuesday and Thursdays and crossfitt on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, this was back in May and I wasn't losing at all, actually I was gaining and I know it wasn't muscles at the time. However, I was eating fairly healthy M - Th, then come Friday evening I was ordering either pizza, or Chinese for dinner, thengo on the road on Saturdays and have lunch on the mall, and drink wine throughout the weekend, because I felt I was good and what was a dinner here and lunch there and couple glasses of wine going to do. I was frustrated because I wasn't losing

Then my gym had a Paleo challenge (not saying to do this), however once I cleaned up my eating, man the pounds started melting off. I eat approximately 1700 calories a day and I have been losing since July 1st. My point is, how honest are you with your eating. are you weighing and measuring everything. What are your weekend eating looking like, because that is the hardest part for some people

A lot of people on here can eat however they like in moderation and drink alcohol and still lose, then there are those like me, that cant do that on a weekly basis. You need to figure out which one you are and make changes if needs be. Sodium makes your body retain water, and a weekend of high sodium food can take days to flush out, also based on how much you are working out, you may need to increase your water

Quitting helps nothing. I lost weight in 2010 and was near my goal weight, then got comfortable and felt I could eat whatever and still workout, slowly but surely the weight came back on. I actually weigh more now than I did when I joined MFP. Have been fighting to lose it since. I never gave up and neither should you.

Good luck