Very frustrated....

Could it be possible that you aren't eating enough? Just a thought.

Let me clear this up:

You eat 1200 or LESS calories every day
AND
You exercise, burning 500-1500!!! a day?

Please understand that your body is not losing weight because it believes it is in trouble. The way you are feeding your body, it truly thinks that you are living during a famine, drought, or just plain starving.

I would love it if I could convince you to eat more. What we call it here is 'eating exercise calories' as the simplest explanation. If you burn 1500 today, eat 1500+1200. This may feel backwards, and feel like you are eating a heck of a lot, BUT

Your body needs to understand that you will feed it, that you have no problem feeding it, and if it needs fuel to run and digest, and breathe, and do all the wonderful things that our body does, then you will give it fuel.

TLDR version : Eat MORE please!!

Maybe you aren't eating enough. You can also try adding a lot more water and make sure you cut as much sodium as you can from the foods you are eating.

I agree, you probably aren't eating enough, you should be eating back all ur exercise calories to have a min net count of 1200...WW typically causes ppl to eat less than 1200 net as well...could be why u are seeing the same results between the two approaches

Yup I would agree. You may not be eating enough or not intaking the right healthy things. Look into body typing. Mercola has a typing test on his website. Maybe its called food typing? Hope that helps.

If I'm understanding you correctly you are eating 1200 cal or under each day. Then being what appears to be pretty active and burning an extra 500-1500 calories a day on top of what just living burns. At this rate you are technically eating at most 700 calor. a day and likely being in the negative range. And that doesn't include the amount your body uses if you were just to lay in bed all day. The goal to loose weight is simply to eat a little less then you consume, but not be negative and rarely if ever under 1200 calor. a day. So you need to figure out how many calories your body uses just living, lets say 2000 add your excercise calories (avg of 1000) for a total of 3000 a day burned. Now you simply need to eat under that (for every 1500 calories under you should loose a pound) However, with you being in the negative range your body is in starvation mode and it'll simply store every bit of energy it gets since it doesn't know when it'll be fed again. This starvation mode is very unhealthy and will cause you to not loose and oddly enough even gain weight at times. Hope that makes sense.

Unless you are obese I am starting to think perhaps you should not go more then 20 percent under the calories you need for maintance, including for exercise.

You're starving yourself! You have to eat 1200 + the calories you're burning in exercise. 1200 + 500 = 1700 at least, 1200 +1500 = 2700 per day.

Read:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/SpartanHard/view/question-for-my-trainer-should-i-eat-my-exercise-calories-89423

Hello frustrated (smile). There is one variable in the weight loss formula that we can always control and that is to eat less food. I do 90 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity cardio 4 to 5 times a week, p90X and weight training on large muscle groups. I'm losing 3 to 4 pounds per week since 1 Dec 2010. I work at home and I've just become a certified personnel trainer thru AFAA. There are two main factors in losing weight --more exercise or less food. I had an extreme sedentary lifestyle after two operations and I'm now obsessed with fitness and losing fat. My goal is less than 12% body fat which will change when I actually get my BMI next week. I've lost 51lbs since Dec and when I step on that scale every morning it better not say I gained 1 ounce. Unfortunately Tish, sometimes extreme measures are required in this weight loss game.

You need to exercise because your body requires it to be fit. You need lean muscle and the more muscle you have the more efficient your metabolism, the more calories you burn just being. Although many times we think of exercise as a means to an end (to lose weight) it really is more than that, it's good for you. There are numerous studies that have proven the advantages of exercise.
You need a certain number of calories to exist, (the experts say, for women that number is minimum 1200 without exercise) when you fall below that level your body tries to conserve what you're giving it. True, the idea behind losing weight is calories in/calories out but your system will rebel if you're not giving it adequate fuel to exist. It does seem counter-intuitive to eat more to lose weight but it's a good thing, you can eat more AND lose weight! Give it a try.