Weight loss has come to a stop after 71lbs lost.

Try eating about 300 calories more a day. Your body may be used to what you are doing!

I read a post from Jillian Michaels on facebook and she said if your loss has come to a stop you might be eating to few calories or you might have reached a healthy weight...

Try eating about 300 calories more a day. Your body may be used to what you are doing!

Agreed. I read that the closer you get to your goal, the smaller the deficit needs to be. I would try it for a few weeks and see what happens. I was at 1200 for 2.5 months with 23 pounds lost, then came to a stop for about 6 weeks. I increased my cals to 1350-1400 and lost 5 more pounds in a weeks time.

Eat more? I find that after I have a day where I've gone off diet and eaten more than usual my body decides its ready to let some weight go. For example, Wed I ate very little, worked out and lost no weight. Yesterday I had two meals out at work where I didn't control portion size (just took guesses) and ate a normal dinner. Today I weighed myself to see what I had gained and found I had actually lost a pound and a half since yesterday morning. My metabolism would be great if I was a starving peasant in Russia like my ancestors were.

From what I read on here regularly...1200 is intended for starting weith loss and the number that WOMEN should not go under. I've seen a ton of men saying that 1600 is the minimum for an average man to take in. You have done great so pat yourself on the back, eat a few hundred calories more a day while still excercising and I bet you start dropping that weight again! Good job man!

Are you telling me that if I burn 700 cal. during my work out, I should eat 700 cal more each day?
That would bring my total cal. count to 1900 per day. I always thought that if you burn more cal. than
you take in you will lose weight.

Yes that is exactly what they recommend and it is just the opposite of what we, as people trying to lose weight, would probably think. I had a very hard time doing this but after 5 weeks of only losing 1 pound per week, I gave in and decided to eat HALF of my exercise cals back and it worked! I reported a BIG loss the following week. 1200 calories is the minimum number of calories you are to eat each day. If you eat 1200 calories then burn 700 calories - you've only consumed 500 calories which is not enough calories for normal body function. Remember you burn calories when you are breathing, sitting, talking, laughing etc. If you eat 1200 calories and burn half that off, you've not consumed enough calories for normal body function and as a result your body is going to try and hang on to that weigh for survival. Hope this makes sense.

Hi
I think you are trying to overcomplicate things
the basic gist is we all have a daily food intake we need to keep a weight stasis
as an example:- for me this is 2400cals based on my lifestyle, job etc etc
i aim to reduce this intake to 1400cals - the 1000cals not consumed is my weight loss

If i exercise and burn 400 cals I need to consume 400cals on top of my 1400 or else my body will shut down and go into starvation mode and not shed the calories (yes initially i will drop weight and then it will stop - the thing that causes most people to stop their weight reduction plans, me included.....)

I am watching what I eat as well so healthy calories not sugary fat loaded foods
hang in there and you will get to your goals