OP - your diary is private, that would be the first place to look for clues.

As for "starvation mode" and eating more to lose weight.... The first part is a myth and the most likely way to lose weight is eating less not eating more.

What really stands out with the limited information is that it's only 2 weeks! That's nothing frankly and far too soon to call it a plateau. The last 4 pounds I lost took me 3 weeks to lose the first pound and just 2 more days to lose the next 3lbs. Weight loss isn't linear.
With only 4lbs to go to goal your deficit should be small and weight loss should be slow.

As for protein, yes an adequate amount is very important for many reasons (especially in a deficit) but it can't magically make you lose weight by eating more.

So suggestions:
1) Be patient, give it a couple more weeks.
2) If that doesn't work review your logging accuracy. Open your diary if you want advice.
3) Have a read of this regarding appropriate calorie targets and macros....
community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1

From a PC...
My Home / Settings / Diary Settings / Diary Sharing - select the Public radio button.

I agree with everything that sijomial said above. I just was stuck for about 4 weeks. I double-checked and tweeked my weighing & measuring, increased my protein slightly, and increased my activity level a notch. Then all of a sudden last week I dropped 4.5 lbs.

I had trouble getting any weight off from the start, even logging faithfully. But then I stopped using the extra calories from exercise, and that helped. Sometimes I use some or most of them, but I try to not use them.

marsandval wrote: »

I never eat back the calories either. I try to stick to the 1200 it says I should have.

MFP doesn't tell you to eat 1200 calories - you set the calorie target by the information you input.

MFP also intends your goal to be plus exercise calories.

I've been here long enough to spot a very strong correlation between people who use the tool appropriately and succeed.

The flip side is a very strong correlation between people who go for the quickest rate of weight loss (often inappropriate to the individual's circumstances), make the deficit even more extreme by not accounting for their exercise and fail.

That failure is either giving up because it's so hard, or failure through getting to goal and being disappointed that they don't look like they expected they would - a shrunken, baggy version of their former fat selves.

It's really important to retain as much lean mass as possible for us older folks - it's so damn hard to get it back.

I have gone as much as four weeks without losing and then 5-6 pounds drop off in the following two weeks. It is normal.

I am also down to my last four pounds. A week ago I tweaked my settings to 1.5# per week whereas I had been at 1#. As you lose weight your body becomes more efficient and burns less calories so a tweak may be necessary.

I pretty much stay between 1200 and 1400 depending on the day. My doctor put me on the 1200 and told me not to eat back the calories although I admit, sometimes I do. I'm only 5'1" and barely at that so I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that this isn't my "dieting" intake, this is my intake period of I want to continue to lose and later keep it off. If I want to eat more than that then yep, I'm going to have to really up my exercise!