Scale at standstill

Walking definitely does not build significant muscle. If you're in a caloric deficit you will lose weight muscle gain or not, if your weight is stable you're just eating maintenance calories for your weight. This probably happened because when you were larger your body was using more calories, then you lost weight and your body now needs less calories so you're in a plateau. The other possibility is that you are starving yourself and your metabolism has slowed down to the point where your body needs less calories as a result of starvation mode, and you're eating those calories keeping your weight the same. Starvation mode usually becomes a concern if you're eating less than 1200 calorie

Probably water weight or something, keep faithful to your diet, this is actually very common. If you are feeling that you really need that sense of progress try measuring you waist instead. Or you can get body fat calipers to actually track your fat.

thorsmom01 wrote: »

If your not losing weight, your not eating at a deficit.

that... all day, every day..... your diary isnt open but i would hazard a guess you are not weighing your food properly and consistently with a scale.

topazgal wrote: »

So another words i shld eat back my calories that I burn?

if youre not losing weight, why would you eat more?

and, once you know your food logging is accurate, yes, you should eat back a portion of your exercise calories (most people eat back arouund 50-75%) of them. calorie burn estimates are overestimated on mfp, so most do not eat back all of them. Your body needs fuel and food is fuel.

If you're getting smaller you're making progress, who cares what the scale says?

topazgal wrote: »

I have a food scale and i measure my food everyday up to no more than 1,200 calories a day and plus i walk 6 days a week and burn 300-500 calories a day. I have lost inches for sure bec im down a size but just dont understand if im getting smaller how is the scale not showing smaller numbers. Just puzzled. I thought if i ate back my calories whats the point of exercising?

It's pretty common for people to lose inches but have the scale stall for a few weeks then woosh, they come off. It happened to me several times when I was losing and there are tons of threads with people having the same thing happen. It can be due to various things: hormonal changes, water retention, waste.

Make sure you're logging your food accurately with a digital scale.

And MFP is designed with your deficit built in to that goal number. When you exercise, it expects you to eat them back. As the other poster said, it's better to just eat a portion of them back too allow for any overestimates of calories burned. On the days you exercise it makes sense that you would need to give your body more fuel. You still get the fitness benefits while adhering to the deficit you set for yourself when you registered.