No Weight Loss For a Month :(

Check your food intake. Too much or sometimes too little. Also, your workouts might need a tweeking. If you have been doing the same thing you may need to up it by working harder or changing what you do. Not sure if you've every tried spinning, but that will give you a great workout.

Try doing more weight resistance work to build up your muscle strength. Don't worry you won't get bulky, but it will mean you boost your metabolism and burn more calories after your workout as your muscles repair. A good weight workout (can be body weight and done in your living room, e.g. squats, lunges, sit ups, planks, press ups, etc) done for 20 mins will often burn more calories than an hour jogging on a treadmill.

It'll also help you build your core and leg strength which will make it easier with your running and marathon training!

Hey, yeh you should try doing weights. I do circuit training and weight training with kettlebells and since i have been doing that the weight has been falling off. You burn more calories doing weight i know it sounds silly but really does work!!

Don't give up! I didn't lose for a month, but I was still exercising and I was losing inches during that time...

I don't know if it made a difference, or if after a month my body was ready to start losing weight again anyway, but I changed my goals from a 1lb/wk loss to a 1/2lb/wk loss, which gave me more calories to play with. I also checked my calories allotted for foods and found I was off on some of them (I cook almost everything from scratch, so tend to build a lot of recipes on here! - I wasn't doing this before, just 'guessing'). I really upped my water intake to 10-12 glasses per day and yes, I peed round the clock initially, but then I think my body got used to it. I also drank hot water with a tsp of lemon in it first thing, it's meant to kick start your metabolism.

Anyway, the combination of all of those things lost me another 2.5lbs, which was very welcome! Stick at it!

Up your calories for one day and then take a full week off from exercising.

Up your calories for one day and then take a full week off from exercising.

yeah, this...
your body just needs to rest and repair.

Once you start up your routine again you'll have more energy and the pounds will fall off. But when you DO go back to working out, make sure you eat ENOUGH.
A lot of days your NET is LESS than 1000. This needs to be OVER 1200 EVERY day.
You may be seeing the initial effects of underfeeding and the "survival response".
(I don't like the term starvation mode, but it's true, your body will rebel and hold on to the fat for dear life.)

Try taking the week off from exercise, or at least 3 rest days in a row, and UP your calories. Change your diary to a lower rate of loss (1 lb if it's at 2, .5 lb if its at 1).

This will show your body that you don't mean it any harm and allow it to relax and go back to letting go of the fat.

Up your calories for one day and then take a full week off from exercising.

The thought of this scares me!!

You should try taking a break. I hurt myself and had to stop exercising for about 2 weeks, I was freaked I would gain weight. Well I lost 2 pounds my first week off. Your body needs a break sometimes.

This site is great for tracking and communicating with people but it relies heavily on the assumption that limited your calories will make you lose weight. This assumption has been disproven many times over (read Good Calories, Bad Calories for evidence!).

Umm... actually, calorie intake/burn is *exactly* where it's at! Wanna talk "bad calories" leading to weight loss? See the nutritionist who lost weight on the "twinkie diet"! http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html

(Now, I'm not saying that his diet was healthy, nor that it's the way to go -- but "limiting calories" seems to trump "avoiding bad calories", if you want to stack one up against the other... )

What has likely happened is that because of prolonged caloric deficit your bodies leptin levels have decreased to the point that it is fighting you every step of the way. Have a day eating a lot, and not necessarily "healthy" foods (whatever those are) but stuff like pizza. Don't go crazy, but you want to be at or a bit above your maintenance calories. That one day will boost your leptin levels, and should get your weight loss going again. Adding strength training of some sort would be a very good idea as well. Finally, it looks like you are down to your last 15 or so pounds. I would suggest if your current weight loss goal per day is 2 pounds, drop it to 1 pound. As you get closer to your goal, your body cannot and will not abide a large calorie deficit.

Yes, eating more can be scary, but realize you will still be at a calorie deficit even at 1 pound per week, and your body probably needs the calories desperately right now especially if you have not been eating your exercise calories.

I have a couple things that may help, along with a lot of good advice already shared:

1) focus on the fact that you are in this for the win, no matter how long it takes. Visualize the goal of healthy weight independent of a point in time. it doesn't matter how long it takes, what matters is that you make it to the end.

2) also focus on the process; trust it. Count every single one of your calories, expended and ingested. Be honest with the numbers. You have succeeded when your weekly average comes in below your target (just below). That's success no matter what the scale says. With this view, you will feel the satisfaction of achievement that will take you right into the maintenance phase. The scale becomes the affirmation that your process is working (or not), instead of the measure of success (or failure).

3) exercise matters. a lot. try doubling your workout time for a whole week, but at a reduced intensity.

4) one day per week, increase your exercise intensity beyond your prior biggest effort. Go harder than you thought possible that one day. Push your boundaries.

5) don't worry about going over on calories once in a while. Just make it up the rest of the week. it's the weekly average that counts the most.