Why am I not losing weight? Please help.

Also...it doesn't look like your diary is open, so there isn't a lot people will be able to help you with unless you open it.

You need to net 1200 calories on the days you workout.

Sounds like your under estimating your intake. If MFP set your goal to 1,200 it means NET 1,200 not just eat 1,200.

Opening your diary will help us see what's up...but basically you must be consuming more calories than you burn. I found, for me, it was easier to know for sure how much I was eating when I started weighing everything I could on a food scale. It's SO easy to over estimate serving sizes. Using measuring cups doesn't work for some foods, at least not truly accurately. That's a good place to start. Also, the calories your burning at exercise might not be as high as you think, so don't eat all your exercise calories back. Also make sure you count every single bite, and every drink you have, including creamers, etc.

It all boils down to math...Burn more than you consume. If that's not getting you anywhere, you should talk to your Dr.

Just keep at it and keep working hard!

I am a girl who is 5'6, I have been seriously trying to lose weight for about three months now, but I am not losing ANTHING. I have not lost one pound since March of this year, and in fact I have gained a few pounds. I eat no more than 1200 calories a day. I find what I eat to be very healthy considering I eat a vegan meal at least once a week, no fried foods, and lots of vegetables. My water intake could be better (around 40oz a day) but I also exercise at the gym at least three days a week, my workouts consist of elliptical, some biking, and leg training. I burn between 300-600 calories when I am at the gym. I also take raspberry ketones. What am I doing wrong?

Since you don't provide much info here (weight, etc.) all I can tell you is that you are
a.overestimating what you are eating
b. under eating and overexercising
c. or are right on track and the weight gain is due to increase in muscle mass (which would result in a possible higher weight but looser clothing.

What I cannot recommend enough is to take a little bit of advice from bodybuilders. (bear with me for a moment)

Your body needs protein to build and maintain your muscles and organs. You don't need to go crazy with protein and you don't need to start eating meat but try to include more protein in your diet from tofu, beans, ect. A good rule of thumb for how much protein a non-bodybuilder would need to build and maintain a "toned" figure is roughly 1gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight (so if you were 160 I would recommend 80 grams of protein) I would say just based on your height that a range of 60-100 grams would be safe.

Also doing more resistance training will help you shed body fat. By upping protein and doing resistance training you will build some muscle (again you won't look like a bodybuilder without some serious training, you can just get 'toned') and that muscle that you build will raise your metabolism and you will start to burn body fat. Steady state cardio is great for endurance but your body will adapt and make each workout less effective than the previous. Lifting some heavy (you start low and work up) burns fewer calories initially than cardio does but has a longer term effect on your body because it build the muscle that raises your metabolism and helps burn fat.

I know bodybuilding can seem like a crazy thing to take advice from simple because few women want to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but if you do a little research and look up the bikini category of bodybuilding competitions you can see a lot of women that follow a lot of the same methods as the bigger bodybuilders but have really nice 'toned' figures.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975025-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet

Go read. Learn about how much you should eat and why.

Lol starvation mode.

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Doesnt look like you have been weighing and logging. Use a scale and log your intake for a few weeks.

You aren't eating 1200 calories a day. There's something you're not accounting for. You have to track everything. What you eat isn't as important as that calorie total. And you have to give it some time, it doesn't happen overnight. It's taken me two and a half months to lose 15 pounds at 1200-1350 calories per day.

What made the difference for me last year (mind you everyone is different). I started off the morning with carbs and by dinner would only eat protein and vegtables. Fruit and carbs and of course protein are for all meals up to and including lunch. Go to bed slightly hungry and drink lots of water. Stay away from drinking alcohol (beer and wine, all of it), not for good but for now if you do drink. make sure you are working out with weights and doing cardio. Heavy weight lifting def helps, i lift heavy 3x / week and am the tiniest i've every been. I DOES not bulk you up.
Eat at least 5 small meals, this will keep your metobolism working hard for you. Add me and msg me with any questions. I think someone else mentioned it but open your diary so people can view and give you feed back.