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1200 calories including exercise? I think you should definitely try to eat some of your exercise calories and see if that helps you. Just a warning though, if you have been eating this low for this long you may see a weight gain for a week or two. That's what happened to me when I was under eating. After the first week though I got back to losing weight, and I'm eating WAY more than before.

If you are struggling with eating enough calories, try to eat more calorie dense foods, like some nuts, meat, full fat yogurt etc.

Good luck, and congratulations on losing so much weight so far!!!!

I took a nutrition class recently and my professor spoke about how these plateaus are natural, but people often give up when they hit the first one. The way our bodies lose weight resembles a bit of a staircase. Just keep up the good work and eventually you will continue to lose weight! I know how discouraging it can be as I have recently hit my first one as well! I did a little reading and found a few sites which recommended eating more calories one day and less the next, thereby not giving your body the chance to get used to your new low calorie diet, while still eating the same amount of calories each week. For example if your daily goal is 1450 calories eat 1250 one day and 1650 the next, though never under 1200. I hope this helped!

Right now I am 85 calories under. That is the best I have done in a while. Should I try to eat some more? I didn't realize I wasnt eating enought!

When it's this close I chok (how do you spell that?!) it up to a toss up - 100 cals over or under is so minimal - how accurately did you log? Did you use the exact nutrition info (ie, sometimes I log something similar, but not necessarily exact - like, a rotisserie chicken, I use an estimate in my logging based on rotisseries in the diary, but it's probably not exact to my chicken, especially since -how much oil did the cook actually put on it?) Or, did you weigh all your food? Oatmeal settles and may actually be more than the 1/2 cup serving. Did you eyeball your 4ox meat portion? Did you ever lick the peanut butter knife (15-20 extra calories right there!)? etc Your counts are probably not exact, so when you get down to less than 100 in either direction, you're probably fine. Just be sure not to always be under (zig zagging is OK and being drastically under or over every once in a while is just fine), to eat at least SOME if not most or all of your exercise calories, and to listen to your body. I was fatigued at 1200 cals and upped to 1500. I lost more and felt much better.

I logged accurately today and came in under 85 calories. I will try to by a HRM. I mostly do Walk away the Llbs dvds , walking around my town or walking on a treadmill, so I think calories burned is pretty accurate. I am trying to eat all my exercise calories now. Hopefully this will help.

Last point - depending on how hard you walk (ie, if I do a 4 mile hour i can burn 700 cals in an hour, which is a pretty intense cardio hour for me, but if I just walk along with my 3 yr old for an hour I burn more like 250 or 300 calories) you don't need to eat back ALL those calories. If I burned 250 calories walking, i would have (based on my burn) burned 100 calories anyway sitting on the couch, so I burned 150 EXTRA and only log 150 to eat. (But if I burn 600 cals in the hour, or 400 or 500, the following hour I have extra burn as my metabolism gets back to normal so you can log all 600 (400... 500...) because the additional burn the hour after you stop exercising (whereas low cardio has no effect on it) makes up for the "double count" as to what you would have burned if you sat on your couch). Hope that makes sense with the different between when to count all of them or just the extra If it doesn't then just always subtract some from your exercise cals to make up for what is already accounted for in your diet for that hour.

I consistently lose 2-4 pounds a week by eating 1000-1400 calories a day and exercising off 1000 calories six times a week. I don't eat my exercise calories at all usually.

You know that's equivalent to eating nothing on several days right? You'd lose a lot of weight fast if you ate nothing too.

I'm not starving.... LOL I'm eating six times a day and I feel awesome.

Try more carbs it might help