stalled out

Have you done a research about metabolism. So you have basically hit a plateau where what you are doing is not changing anything. I would recommend eat less workout less or eat more workout more. When you research metabolism plenty of places will recommend that.

In my opinion you are not eating nearly enough. You are below 1200 most days, and I saw at least one day where you were below 700. If you are exercising (which most days showed you were), you need to eat back those calories in addition to eating your calorie goal for the day. Don't be afraid to eat!

I stalled for the longest time too, and just recently I took others' advice here and added more calories by changing my MFP goal from "lose 1 pound per week" to "lose 1/2 pound per week". Not only did I start losing again, I'm less tired and cranky. You need to fuel your body or your metabolism will slow down (or whatever the scientific term is).

Eat more! Sounds counter-intuitive but it works.

@eldamiano- Sorry to break it to you but I do. I weigh every single thing that goes into my mouth unless I'm out to eat and in that case I use the nutrition info from the restaurant. I have way too much to do to waste my time asking for advice on here if I wasn't being truthful. There are some days I may forget to log what I ate but I'm ALWAYS under 1200. That is a deficit and I have lost 20 I'm just stalled. If you're not on here to help then why are you wasting my time by replying?

are you positive about your exercise calorie burns because they seem very high to me. i ran 5.5 miles last weekend and only burned 600. one day you have 947 exercise calories burned. also you are eating very little. you're barely above 900 calories most days. you should be NETTING 1200 calories or more. being under all the time will help you drop a few pounds fast but it's not sustainable and you're going to gain them back unless you plan on eating 900 calories a day for the rest of your life.

if you are exercising like your burns show (which to me are very high) then you need to fuel your body and well right now you're not.

there's nothing wrong with having a banana - a SMALL banana is around 100 calories. bananas are good for you.

your body needs fuel and you're not giving it what it wants so it's gonna hold on to whatever it can get to keep you functioning. to fix this you need to eat more good for your body food.

I use a polar HRM to calculate my calorie burn. I don't eat back my exercise calories because I'm not sure how accurate they are.
I'm terrified of going over calories so I try to stay close but always under.

okay so you're not sure how accurate your exercise calories are plus you're afraid to eat over your 1200 so lately you've been eating under 1000 and you're still not loosing. so since you're not loosing anymore what do you do - drop your calories even lower plus CONTINUE exercising at the level your exercising and assume nothing is going to go wrong?

clearly dropping your calories is not working (because you're stalled) why not try the opposite and increase your calories. what's the worst that's gonna happen?

What you're doing isn't working. The only logical thing anyone here can think to suggest is to eat more. What's the harm?

Starvation mode doesn't exist in the way the myth assumes. But the body won't necessarily respond the way you want it to, if you don't properly care for it. You could keep at what you're doing, eventually your weight would continue downward but at the expense of damage to your organs, skin, hair, nails, etc. Not to mention the damage done to your muscles as your body consumes muscle mass in addition to fat for energy stores. So why not try for 2 weeks eating at 1200-1500 total calories.

@eldamiano- Sorry to break it to you but I do. I weigh every single thing that goes into my mouth unless I'm out to eat and in that case I use the nutrition info from the restaurant. I have way too much to do to waste my time asking for advice on here if I wasn't being truthful. There are some days I may forget to log what I ate but I'm ALWAYS under 1200. That is a deficit and I have lost 20 I'm just stalled. If you're not on here to help then why are you wasting my time by replying?

Eating too low will cost you muscle weight. It will lower your metabolism when it does. Eating under 1200, especially while working out, is NOT good for you. You WILL stall out if you starve yourself.

About weighting vs cups. IDK if this is the case here, but I will weight the grams on a food for 1/2 cup according to the package. IE... package says food XYZ is 1/2 cup (74 grams) I will weigh out 74 grams and list it as 1/2 cup if there is no grams listing.

how do you get your exercise burns? Seem a bit high.
Maybe get checked out at the doctor, because eating only 1000 cal you should definately be losing weight. Maybe you have a medical issue.

Please help. I've been stalled for 3 weeks and before I get the same old answers, YES I weigh EVERYTHING and am eating at a deficit. I work out everyday 30 min to an hour circuit training. My diary is open so could someone please give me some advice. Everyone on here says the starvation mode doesn't exist so I shouldn't need to eat more. I'm burning way more than I eat. I've lost 20 lbs since Jan but still have 20 to go. What can I do to give me kick back into gear? Starting to get very frustrated!!!! Let myself eat banana bread this morning:(

Do you log everything you eat? Your diary reflects that you are eating 500-1100 calories a day. 20 pounds list from Jan to 3 weeks ago is about 1.5 to 2 pounds a week, so my guess from that is inaccurate logging. EAting that little it seems you should have lost more.

If you were eating that little now you would be losing weight, so something has changed.

Have you had your thyroid checked? Are you on new meds that can inhibit weight loss.

Make sure you are tracking exercise calories accurately as well.

It's water retention -- some women can retain up to 10 lbs of water, which could easily mask up to 10 weeks of hard work (if she was losing at 1 lb/week).

Weighing food is really important to be sure of your calories, but it looks like you're doing that already. Eating more can help in a specific way -- it can help counter some of the stress responses by the body reacting to a prolonged caloric deficit or overtraining from too much exercise (cortisol being one of the most popular suspects). That is the whole idea behind calorie cycling and refeeds -- to help counter those stress responses that can leave you feeling so tire, run down, cranky, etc. in addition to the frustration of not seeing the scale move.

Here are two good articles on it that I'd recommend:

www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html
leangains.com/2010/01/how-to-deal-with-water-retention-part_28.html

Please help. I've been stalled for 3 weeks and before I get the same old answers, YES I weigh EVERYTHING and am eating at a deficit. I work out everyday 30 min to an hour circuit training. My diary is open so could someone please give me some advice. Everyone on here says the starvation mode doesn't exist so I shouldn't need to eat more. I'm burning way more than I eat. I've lost 20 lbs since Jan but still have 20 to go. What can I do to give me kick back into gear? Starting to get very frustrated!!!! Let myself eat banana bread this morning:(

3 weeks isn't very long, could just be random water retention while your fat loss is actually continuing along just fine. If you were maintaining for months that is one thing, but three weeks isn't very long.

Have you thought about switching to TDEE - % instead of following MFP? Though if it's only been 3 weeks could be fluid masking things?

how do you get your exercise burns? Seem a bit high.
Maybe get checked out at the doctor, because eating only 1000 cal you should definately be losing weight. Maybe you have a medical issue.

I use a HRM that tells me how many calories I burn.

what kind of exercise?