Im not new to this, so where am I going wrong?

Have you made any changes to your workout recently? If not, then your body has probably adapted to it causing you to burn less calories than you did when you first started the routine.

You're already at a healthy weight, so your body isn't in a hurry to shed more. Water weight can mask losses (even just upping your workouts can do that - your body holds on to water for repair and recovery, more noticeable when you increase or change workouts - sounds like that's part of what you're seeing here).

Are you weighing your foods, or just measuring? There can be a significant difference between the two, which has a bigger impact on your bottom line when you're so close to goal.

Are you unhappy with the scale or mirror? If mirror maybe add strength training to help lower body fat %? Lift heavy! Look into New Rules if lifting for women or starting strength.

edit to add- I mainly meant the number on the scale means very little. What you see is much more important.

Are you unhappy with the scale or mirror? If mirror maybe add strength training to help lower body fat %? Lift heavy! Look into New Rules if lifting for women or starting strength.

Both, haha.
I still feel like I look so chunky and theres so much fat left on my body that you can not only see but grab handfuls of.
Ive tried lifting but my gym membership expires soon and I cant renew it & weights are SO expensive.

Maybe you could find a deal on a bench and weights on Craigslist? I've never looked myself but I know there's tons of deals on their on occasion. Maybe dumbell routines or body weight exercises too could help?

Your ticker says you've lost 50 pounds. Now you're having trouble with the last 4 - 8 pounds so you think weight loss isn't for you? I'd say you've been very successful. Those last pounds may take a very long time and maybe never go away. The thing to focus on now is how to eat healthfully in a way that you can maintain. Eat for maintenance for a while, give your body a chance to adjust to the new lower weight, keep working out and if in two months, you're still not happy with where you are, try cutting calories a bit to see if you can get your body to drop some more. This may be your final weight - but strength training can still enhance your shape. Good luck. Don't give up! You've come a long ways.

Yes giving up would be bad. Especially if you have come so close to your goal weight. Ok. I took a look at your diary for today. All I see is some egg whites for breakfast, a lunch and all you did was snack the rest of your calories. Weight loss is more about food than exercise and it's the hardest thing to change. Heck, I'm still working on it myself. I don't know what you did in your day today but here is my advice (no judgment here. Just observations).

1) eat a bigger breakfast. 46 calories for your first meal of the day is diddly squat. It should be near 200-300 calories. The higher the protein count the better. It will keep you fuller longer. I do see you usually eat cereal during the week though, not bad.

2) Eat lunch and eat dinner too. You seem to skip lunch a lot and then snack snack snack.

3) 2 (maybe 3) snacks a day at around 100 calories each. 800 calories (over half) of snacking. That could be spent on bigger meals and will likely keep you satisfied longer.

4) 9.5 cups of popcorn has got to stop.

5) stop eating your workouts. While in the beginning this was ok and some days you may need to eat a few more than the goal they give you, now that you are down to the last stubborn pounds you need the deficit.

6) start strength training, like others have said. Find a good deal on craigslist. There are lots of workouts online on youtube. You can even find everyday people taping themselves doing P90X if you can't afford to buy the program yourself. Or find new cardio routines online.

7) Consider working out more than just 2 days a week. Try putting it back up to losing 1 lb a week. it will still take you 8 weeks to lose those last 8 lbs. Nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes if you keep doing what you always did the body just gets used to it and you plateau. Now it's time to revamp and rework what you were doing. Change it up. Good luck!

I think you should just go to maintenance at your goal weight now. Skip on ahead! You'll be great, and the lbs will slowly, slowly come off to fit that maintenance level. Go on and go off the diet Move on to the part you are waiting for and let your body catch up on its own time. It will.

When you binge, are you weighing and measuring that as well. Most people I know who binge are unaware of the volume of food they ate. It could likely be a combination of unaccounted calories during bingeing and increased water retention from increased activity recently.

As far as why my meals are so small. I suppose it's because I'm trying to not go over at night when I binge. I'm basically trying to save the calories.

There's actually nothing wrong with eating very little during the day and saving your calories for night. Some people actually refrain from eating for a good part of the day and then eat most or all their calories in the evening! IF you can control what you eat at night, there's nothing wrong with that...it's only a problem if your hunger from the day causes you to lose control at night. You wanna eat 1000 calories for dinner and desert? Go for it. Just go easy during the day.

Starting out a year ago losing weight

you need to eat maintenance for a while and then go back to losing weight.

ideally you should have a break every 3-6 months, so I'd say eat maintenance for a month or two and then get back on the deficit and up the workouts a bit.

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thats if you haven't been cheating somehow.....