Lack of weight loss - please help!!

1. It's hard to say without knowing anything about you. What is your starting weight?
2. What are you eating?
3. Are you getting exercise in?
4. What did you tell MFP you want to lose? I get 1570 a day to lose 1.5 a week, and I have a desk job as well. 1200 seems awfully low for what your page says you have to lose.
5. Your weight fluctuates. For the first month I was doing this I didn't step on a scale because it would've drove me crazy. After a month of diet and exercise, I was down 20 pounds.
If you weigh yourself:
Do it at the same time every day.
Consider if you've had anything high in water or sodium.
Consider if you've relieved yourself recently.
It all factors in.

Thanks for your replies. To clarify I am 5’10” and weighed 14stone 4lb on the onset of my diet. Ideally I think I would like to lose 40lbs. I don’t have a dedicated date to lose this as long as I keep losing each week until I either reach my goal weight or I am happy with my size. I should add that, due to my height, I am lucky in that I can carry my weight quite well. That said I want to be a comfortable size 14 instead of my current tight size 16!!
If I change my goal to lose 1LB per week instead of 2LB my calorie allowance is 260 more! Can’t get my head round that but I will give it a go and see what happens.
Watch this space!!

If you only got an extra 260 going from 2lb to 1lb a week it probably just gave you 1200 as the lowest advisable calorie goal so you were not really eating at a rate to lose 2lbs a week. Just remember, it's much easier to lose slowly by making sustainable changes.

I also can't recommend exercise enough, even if it's just adding 15-30 minutes of walking a day. You may be able to eat a little more and still lose.

Do you have lots of water, fresh fruit and veggies in the 1200 calories?

You haven't been at this very long and the weight "gain" is water. Saturday I weighed 165, Sunday was the Super Bowl so I ate chips and dips and drank Twisted Teas (lots of em). Monday I weighed 171, I don't think I ate enough to gain 6 pounds. I'm drinking lots of water now to flush out the water retained by eating all those sodium based foods and today my weight is 169. This is what happens when you weigh your self everday - Up, then down, then back up... Don't panic at 1200 a day - you will lose. Good luck to ya!:flowerforyou:

I hated exercise too until I just made myself do it. You can lose weight without it, but you will feel better and be able to eat more if you do something active each day. I encourage you to challenge yourself to do something every day for at least 15 minutes. You'll see a difference not only in your body, but your mood and your stress level.

A four pound loss in 3 weeks is 1 1/3 pounds a week. Considering the amount you are trying to lose and the fact that you refuse exercise, I think that's pretty good.

Even if you hate most forms of exercise, couldn't you at least plan in a walk now and then? Its not really necessary to lose weight, but it will help your overall health, and allow you a bit more wiggle room in the area of food.

I would suggest trying a diet that will trick your body into losing weight rather than just running a calorie deficiency... like the 17 day diet. I have issues with weight loss also. I could be training for a marathon and running a calorie deficit each day and the scale will not budge even after several months. I have to really be focused on WHAT I am eating.

I have never heard someone with a bad experience on the 17 day diet. Eat as much lean protein and low glycemic vegetables as you can, but limit yourself to 2 servings of low glycemic fruit, 2 servings of healthy fats and 2 servings of probiotics (I do greek yogurt and sauerkraut). And the only exercise you have to do is go for a 17 minute walk. You should see results within 3 days. After 17 days if you still have more to lose, there's a 2nd and 3rd stage of the diet. Stage 4 is maintenance where you follow the guidelines of phase 3 during the week, but on the weekend you can indulge more. The book is pretty cheap too, I got mine on amazon for 20 bucks.

Good luck!