Why am I not losing Weight?!!!!

I'm going through the exact same thing. It's frustrating Be prepared for people to say you need a food scale....I did and its still not working lol. I'm not giving up but at the same time I'm going to stop being so hard on myself. I've been obsessing over it. How long have you been at it?

Try avoiding food combinations - really gave me a kick start!

Open up your diaries and we could tell you.

I'm having my own struggles, but just as a word of encouragement, you will see the results of your hard work. Just don't give up. Also, what has helped for me is drinking more water and lowering my carb intake per meal to no more than 35 per meal and no more than 15 carbs for a snack, total no more than 100 carbs per day. There is also a great nutrition website through an organization dedicated to health and wellness called Nutritional Weight and Wellness. They have articles, recipes, and podcast about all kinds of things to help with nutrition, wellness and weightloss. http://www.weightandwellness.com/

No fads, everything is based on extensive research by scientists, nutritionists and doctors.

Hi, I'm same age, same weight, same problem. But I noticed that when I stopped focusing (and stressing!) on the weight and instead just made sure I was eating clean and exercising regularly (and not skimping out on it, I have to feel proud of the work I put in before I'm done) then the weight seems to start coming off. It's not nearly as fast as it was in the beginning, but as long as you don't give up you'll eventually get there.

Well, I've been seriously doing this for a month now. I lost 2 lbs in the beginning and have not been able to lose since. I've been working out ALOT more though, so maybe I'm building more muscle? I still want to lose the weight though. I'm supposed to be 135 for my height and I'm 153 right now. ((

1/2 pound a week is good progress for someone that is close to goal. You are NOT building muscle on 1200 "gross" calories.....retaining water...maybe.

Pounds per week
75+ lbs to lose 2 lb range
Between 40 - 75 lbs to lose 1.5 lb range
Between 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lb range
Between 15-25 lbs to lose 1 -.50 lb range
Less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs range

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/10118-eat-train-progress
Go here ^^^ Read all the info and benefit.

+1. This group has helped me tremendously!

You should take body measurements! Once I didn't lose anything for nearly three weeks, I got so frustrated! When I finally got around to checking my measurements, I had lost over an inch off my waist and an inch off of each thigh.

Your weight isn't the be-all end-all description of your fitness.

Make sure you selected 0.5 lbs or 1.0 lb (at the most) for your weekly weight loss goal. Also, eat about 50% of your exercise calories so that you are not further increasing the deficit beyond your intended goal. Exercise and dieting place stress on the body. And for those with not much to lose, the extra water retention that results from excessive stress can mask fat loss.

As much as your water intake and food choices, it might be your exercise. Again if you open your diary, we can see exactly what you are logging and be better able to offer help.
Regarding keeping the diary up each day, be sure you are committed to 100% honesty and logging everything. If you aren't committed to that, then the diary is worthless.
As far as exercise, you may not be working out hard enough, or you may be working out too hard. Let's say your 1200 is not putting you in starvation mode. Do you exercise enough to sweat hard? does your heart pound and can you maintain that for 20-30 minutes? If these are not happening, you may be overestimating the benefit you think you are going to get from your exercise. It takes work to burn 500 calories in an exercise session. A heart rate monitor would be a good investment, especially if you are new to regular exercise. But even if you are not new to exercise, you need to know when you are in the best fat burning zone for your age/weight. As a general rule, to burn fat calories efficiently, you need to be in that heart rate zone where you can breathe well enough to talk and keep going. If you are breathing so hard you can't talk and you are tiring quickly, you are probably way above the fat burning zone and its not going to contribute to weight loss.
So if you would log your water intake, food, and exercise, I am sure that you will get some good help from this site. Maybe some crap too, but just ignore it. : ) The answers are out there, just keep looking.

PS: just saw that your diary is open. Looks like you are exercising often and good variety, especially lately. Foodwise, you have a really good day on Oct 12 and then really bad between Oct 15-21 and the 24. By bad I mean high carbs 200+ and high sodium 2500+ , a bad combination. Both cause water retention. Sugar intake was bad here and there too. Several days recently there was no food data, so without that its hard to know whether its the food choices or not.
You said you are ready to cut back carbs and increase water intake, and if you do those things and decrease sodium, I think you will start losing. IMHO. Best wishes, and keep working and looking for solutions!

Are you measuring or just weighing yourself? Just because the number on the scale stays the same doesn't mean your inches do.

-You're incorrectly logging food

-You're not in a caloric deficit

-You're not eating the proper foods so that your body wants to burn fat (I'm not say there are fat burning foods, but you can't build a fire with no wood)