Tired of this

That sounds like a miserable amount of food, and I'm a 5'2" female.

The first suggestion on this sort of question is that you may be eating more than you think. The suggested solution is to use a food scale (as opposed to measuring cups, which many people use/start off with) to get a more accurate idea of intake.

A second common suggestion is that if you recently increased your activity level significantly, your muscles may be holding onto water.

I presume that you're exaggerating when you say that you think you should look like a stick figure after three weeks of the aforementioned diet, but if you aren't, that's an unrealistic expectation. Visible differences can easily take longer than three weeks.

Don't start fasting for a week. I don't think you're serious about that either, but it can do wonky things to your metabolism and make it harder to lose weight. Plus you'll be miserable.

You can eat a wider variety of food, and probably more food (I don't know the exact calorie counts of what you're eating, but my guess is that it's less than 1500 calories). I know it's very easy to get into a rut of eating the same food--you can look at my diary for the past week; I could probably recite the entries and calorie counts without even looking for some days--but it feels better to change things up.

5'10" male. My diet for the last three weeks my diet has been:
Breakfast - 1 package of oatmeal and an orange.
Lunch - small steak, two steamed vegatable portions, 2 cup each.
Dinner - 2 cup chefs salad. Lettuce, cheddar cheese, ham, onion, low cal salad dressing.
Snack - 5 chicken nuggets.
Walk 2 miles a night at 3.8 mph. (16 minute miles weather does not matter, the walks are done)
Twice a week an hour on a stationary bike along with strength training with low weight and high reps. 3 sets of 15 at 20 pounds.

Weekends add more exercise (mountain and/or road biking for an hour plus with little more food intake, eating a meal instead of the Chef salad)

I have managed to go from 252 to 261. I should look like a freaking stick figure but instead I am getting fatter. All blood work came back normal at last check up 3 months ago.

Answers before I start fasting for a week? This is ridiculous.

I don't need ads for personal trainers, etc. I need some solid ideas on why I am not losing weight.

Open your diary to obtain an honest opinion.

Um...i'm not exactly an expert but even I know you're not eating enough. Your BMR is like 2100 according to scooby...your body is holding onto everything cause its afraid you won't give it any more. Just saying....like I said, i'm not an expert nor do I play one on tv.

Dude, I'm 5'10" too and ate that before lunch when I was actively losing weight. Open your diary if you want advice.

Your not eating enough calories, Im 5'3 123lbs and that doesnt even seem like enough for me your body is probably holding on to every ounce of fat bc of it.