is it possible not to lose weight?

Eat more calories. Under 1200 will put you into starvation mode. Go to the goals on here and set it for 1 pound a week. See how many calories it tells you and eat all of them. (or close to them).

Thanks Laura. I wanted to post that but I don't know how.

I 100% agree with u!
I dont understand my body! unless I STARVE it i do not lose ANYTHING!

I just did a search for 700 calories, found the thread I wanted, went to that thread, then copied the link from my address bar into this thread...

OH! Wow, I had no clue it was that easy...thanks so much Laura...I love learning new tricks to help:bigsmile:

I 100% agree with u!
I dont understand my body! unless I STARVE it i do not lose ANYTHING!

ahh well you will lose weight if you starve yourself...but it will not be fat that you're losing:noway: it will eventually be muscle...and we all want to strive to build muscle as the more muscle our bodies contain...the more fat burning is going on within our bodies....:bigsmile:

It's worth a try you can always go back to the old way if you feel after a fair bit of time it's not working..but do give it time.... :drinker:

Take good care of yourself Hon!:flowerforyou:

I agree with the others.

Not only do you need to eat AT LEAST 1200 calories (Don't eat less than that like you said you are)
You need to eat your exercise calories as well!

That's probably your main problem, when i first started, I was barely eating my calories, and sometimes I was under, and I wasn't really losing during the first week... I started eating all of my calories and so far I have been losing my 2 lbs a week.

thanks guys, you are amazing. So although I'm working out I should be eating those calories on top of the calories I already eat??

Yes you are supposed to eat your calories earned from exercise! MFP automatically calculates your calorie deficit, so if you don't eat your exercise calories, you will be adding to the deficit and as a result your body could go into starvation mode.

I 100% agree with u!
I dont understand my body! unless I STARVE it i do not lose ANYTHING!

PAAAATIENCE! Patience is the key word. You are slim, it's not easy to lose the last 5lbs. So don't starve yourself, dear, but rather starve your mind of the bad thoughts about your look that might assault it . You'll get there with perseverance - you have the will to starve yourself, so you must have the will to keep doing the right thing (eat proper, exercise, drink enough watter) until you get rid of those last few pounds annoying you. Good luck :flowerforyou:

i need to lose 40 pounds, not five, i want to go back to my highschool weight, its been 5 years, and 40 pounds later...aghhh..

well college really changed my body. help me guyss!!!!!!!

Not just college has changed your body.
Your body has changed entirely on its own in ways that are unpreventable. In high school, you weren't fully developed. Now you are approaching full development. At 27, you stop growing and start breaking down--losing bone density and muscle mass.
It's not a good idea to strive for a 'high school weight'. Would you try to reach a middle school weight? Of course not, it's impossible. You were still developing.

You're also starving yourself eating less than 1200 calories a day. Your metabolism will slow until it can maintain all normal functions at incredibly low calories. Eat at least 1200 calories, exercise 3+ days per week, and aim for body composition or a weight appropriate for your age and body type.

Yeah! I know it can sound strange--eat more to lose weight, but it's true. It took me a couple of what I considered "naughty girl" nights, where I was eating around 1500 calories, to realize that these ladies weren't crazy and that, holy crap, I was losing weight again.

And it's not hard to add calories. Have a cup of milk at breakfast. Put some avocado on your salad. Nibble on some almonds. I know that it can feel craaazy trying to up your calorie intake. I still struggle with it. I'll be like "Ugggh, so much food!" before I realize I'm well within my calories. But trust me, it works.

What's great about a healthy, veggie filled diet is that you can eat a ton and not add a billion calories. Seriously. You can eat like a king and barely add anything to your calorie intake...which means you get to eat even more! Volumnetrics has a point, at least to me.