Why am i not losing!!!!!

OP seems to be a healthy young woman. So, too large of a calorie deficit can backfire. It's not "starvation mode" but a woman's body (if she is at a healthy weight and just looking to lose less then 15 pounds of vanity weight) will hold onto her maternal fat stores if she is at a large calorie deficit. Most people don't realize that a woman's body does not care about the "simple math' of weight loss. Our bodies are a bit more concerned about our ability to sustain another life. OP - I would set your weight loss to .5 to 1 pound a week and eat back most of your exercise calories. Also - since you are running that much be sure to stay well fueled. Training for marathons is not the time to eat low carb!

OK, say that was true. Her body is hanging onto fat stores. The energy has to come from somewhere. Where? If it is her muscles, she would still see a weight loss.

At any rate, someone creeped her and her ticker says she has actually lost 5 lbs. So this seems to be much ado about nothing.

It was less what I think was happening to her (which I do think, but don't really have enough information to really advise), but more explaining to jeffpettis what people actually mean by "eat more to weigh less." He was under the mistaken impression that people are under the mistaken impression that you can net above maintenance and still lose weight. No one thinks that. I was defining the term.

LOL! I'm going to be the odd man out and say you're eating too much... You are not in a deficit. If you are doing that much cardio and not losing weight either you are eating more than you think or burning less than you think.

OP seems to be a healthy young woman. So, too large of a calorie deficit can backfire. It's not "starvation mode" but a woman's body (if she is at a healthy weight and just looking to lose less then 15 pounds of vanity weight) will hold onto her maternal fat stores if she is at a large calorie deficit. Most people don't realize that a woman's body does not care about the "simple math' of weight loss. Our bodies are a bit more concerned about our ability to sustain another life. OP - I would set your weight loss to .5 to 1 pound a week and eat back most of your exercise calories. Also - since you are running that much be sure to stay well fueled. Training for marathons is not the time to eat low carb!

OK, say that was true. Her body is hanging onto fat stores. The energy has to come from somewhere. Where? If it is her muscles, she would still see a weight loss.

At any rate, someone creeped her and her ticker says she has actually lost 5 lbs. So this seems to be much ado about nothing.

Whether this post is fictional or not, I don't know, but your metabolism will slow down to meet energy demands. If you're only putting 1,200 calories in it, it will not burn more than that. There was a recent post from a girl who talked about eating under 1,200 calories, and she said her hair and teeth were literally falling out. Not how I want to lose weight. I eat 1,600-2,000 calories daily, sometimes more, and still lose weight/inches, depending on how much weight lifting I do.

Maybe run less and spend a lot of that time you used for running at the gym lifting heavy weights.

I have been running sooo much I average 100 miles a month training for runs, I have been staying under my calorie count of 1,200 , I cant seem to drop one pound!! I'm feeling frustrated, what could the problem beeeee!!! My mother who really doesn't work out has dropped 10 pounds in two weeks, how is this possible