Weight just won't budge!!

I looked back through a little over a week of your diary. You aren't eating much. Are you weighing your food? What are your stats? (height, weight, etc)

When you are eating only 800-1200 calories most days (not recommended, you should be eating more) you can't be getting 200 of those calories from dessert type items like lemon bars. Your body needs energy and fuel, vitamins and minerals. It is hard enough to get all you need with a 1200 cal diet, let alone when you are filling some of those with "treat" foods.

You need more veggies and lean meats in your diet. 1200 calories is possible (stats are needed before we can say recommended) with a lot of food but only if you choose those foods wisely.

In a couple weeks time you will feel the effects - irritability, decreased energy, etc

Looked through your diary and I agree with what the people above me said. You need to either eat more to get out of starvation mode, or log more honestly. Some of your calorie counts look really low for what you're eating. It also seems like you're doing a lot of extreme eating -- either it's greens with a couple seeds, or it's pizza and cake. You might do better if you found a more sustainable middle ground.

Hi there. I am also hypothyroid and used to tell myself the same thing. The truth is that erratic eating habits and giving you those days off, can undo most of what you have accomplished during the rest of the week.
I have lost almost 155 pounds and I did it by being completely honest with myself I knew the foods I should not eat, but ate them anyway. Be stricter with yourself, don't touch commercial pizza and make your own with turkey pepperoni and low fat cheese on pita bread. There are ways around the foods you love that will allow you to indulge more safely.

Exercise is key as well. I started doing recumbent bike because I couldn't walk because feet were a mess, but the point is I did something everyday. I now do body pump three times a week. I have twelve pounds to go and then my life changes will remain the same only up the calories to full allotment.

I will ask you this... when you eat bad things do you actually enjoy it? Some of us never really tasted, enjoyed or even remember it tomorrow but our bodies do. Hold fast and know that in the end, the happiness you have in yourself will far outweigh any "sacrifices".

These "special" weekend days are ruining your progress. Consistancy is the key to this. Telling yourself you can't have it M-F and you can have it either Saturday or Sunday you are setting yourself up for sabatoge.

I'm 5'11, eat just under 1600 to lose weight. I plan EVERY day a day ahead and stick to that plan. The moment I verge off plan, I can't get back on. In the past 6 weeks I've lost 6 pounds, which for only having to need to lose 8, 1 lb a week is pretty fast. I have been consistant with in 50 calories EVERY day, even weekends. I want pie, I plan for it. I want a few glasses of wine, I eat less that day. Nothing is off limits, I just need to plan so I don't go over my alloted calories. If I work out, I eat back 3/4 of the calories burned, IF I WANT. Sometimes I'm quite satisfied with what I planned to eat and stick to the 1600, give or take 50.

This is how I lost my last 15 in 2012 and this is how I plan on losing weight into the future. It's pretty fool proof and logical.

You can't exercise away a bad diet.

Oh, and PS. Maintanance sucks if you haven't learned and stuck with new good habits. That weight you take off will come right back on. The moment I loosened the "reighs", BAM +15lbs right back on.