plateau :-(

I plateau'd at around 13stone 2 and sadly, it was just keeping going. Exercised, ate well still, and slowly my progress has started again after about 2 weeks!
Its horrible, and you have my sympathy, but it cold just be your body catching up with itself, or gaining muscle mass?

Hope you get around it soon, the worst feeling!

And youve done so well! Congrats!!!

How long have you been at this weight?
Have you changed anything recently?
It's not unusual to find weight sticking a bit due to water.

While the opposite, this is a good example of the difference 'water weight' can make - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2507184/I-lost-nearly-2-stone-24-HOURS-Sport-scientist-proves-rapid-weight-loss-IS-possible-youre-prepared-exercise-wearing-bin-bags-eat-carbs-drink-nothing.html

When you eat too little, your body goes into starvation mode and will hold onto fat more.

Citation please.
Also, please define 'starvation mode'.

Coffee is fine. I have on average about two cups a day.

Alexanderzama has said that you don't eat enough and I totally agree. You CANNOT consistenly eat under what is your caloric daily goal. I'm sure MFP has already got you on a deficit. You are constantly going under THAT by 1000 calories and sometimes even more than that.

Starvation mode can happen in one of two ways. You don't eat anything for approx 60-72 hours and your body will go into starvation mode and start to conserve fat and eat at muscle. The other way is to eat so little calories for a period of time. This is half your BMR.

http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/weight-loss/truth-starvation-mode
http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debunked.html <-- I do Leangains

I'm not sure how tall and what your weight is, but your diary says eat 2300. Mine says eat 1650, yet I've seen days where you eat only 800 calories and on this same day, you did 800 calories worth of exercise as well.

Weight loss is slow, don't rush it.

Note that a lot of people find that carbs lead to water retention.

That doesn't mean they harm weight loss, just that the figure on the scales may be a bit different.

It SEEMS you shoot up if you have more carbs, then it goes down when you stop. In reality, you've just got a bit more water around your body.

Sorry; to clarify the carbs was mentioned in relation to his comments about avoiding them, rather than this particular incidence.
Ie, just because the scales jump up if you eat carbs, it doesn't mean you've suddenly put on a couple of pounds of fat .

i agree with the others saying that you're eating way too little calories (on some days)...

i know you can open up a can of worms by just mentioning the term "starvation mode" but the way i define it is: when you eat so little food (over an undetermined period of time) that you dont have enough energy to properly support all of your bodily functions at a healthy state, where then your metabolism decides to temporarily re-adjust itself to slow down a bit in order to compensate for the lack of energy available, and thus hindering your weight loss efforts.

dont be afraid to try this... for 3 days in a row eat all the way up to your maintenance calories.. or better yet eat like anywhere between 100 and 400 calories below your maintenance... so if right now your eating at a 1000 calorie deficit, for those 3 days only cut like 300 calories worth of a deficit

on those 3 days of eating all those calories make sure you eat something around every 3 hours or so...those 3 days of consistent intake are gonna help re-assure your metabolism that you're not starving, and hopefully will reset it back to a normal healthy state.

on the 4th day start cutting calories and exercising again. but dont go below 1200, or within a few weeks you'll probably stall out again. that "3 day spike" method has always helped me break through plateaus


edit: just looking through your diary.... you should always eat back the calories you burn from exercise... on quite a few days you're not leaving your body with enough energy.... on some days you're burning more than you're eating

Although this wouldn't make you very healthy, you can eat any food item you like as long as you are eating a calorie deficit. I'd recommend that you get some better nutrition than you have in your food diary though. I wouldn't bother with the shakes either, but thats just me. I'd eat something more substantial, just because I like to eat. The whole starvation thing will start a big argument, but the science and basic facts say its a load of bull (at least in the way that most people comprehend it). If you are weighing each and every gram that goes in your mouth and eat below your maintenance calories i.e a deficit, you WILL lose weight. Eat healthy, eat your calories and the weight will come off. Good luck to you mate. :happy:

Hi
I think there is a problem with some of the food you are eating. The calorie/fat/sodium counts are way off. For example, a happy meal at McDonald's shows no sodium at all. And another entry shows 50 calories for a sandwich, even a small sandwich has more than 50 calories.
The quality of the food you are eating is not very good either. Try lean protein and fresh vegetables. Even if you are eating lo-cal your body needs good fuel, not McDonald's to function.
Also, are you exercising? Even a brisk 20 minute walk a day will help. If you already have an exercise routine try changing it up a bit, add some new things.
Good luck.

try switching up your exercise routines

y take on this is why excercise and use those calories then eat them back again ???

First off - a good reason NOT to exceed a specific deficit is that it can lead to excess catabolism - losing weight from muscle as well as fat.

So, there's two ways to approach this to my mind. Have a smaller deficit and if you do some exercise, accept that day you'll have a bigger deficit.
Or look to have the same deficit everyday, but eat back the calories you are burning. With this method, which I use, I accept that exercising is done both to allow more eating AND to improve cardio fitness.

In the end, if you want a bigger deficit you CAN just eat less.
There's other negatives to regularly being at big deficit - you may find your body burns less calories generally, lethargy and so on.