Nutritionist help please! :(

you need to eat AT least 1200 calories a day. And the days you work out..you need to eat those calories burned. That's probably why your not really loosing. Also try to add some weight training in.

1200 Net is the recommended minimum you should get. So if your goal is 1200 and you burn 300 from exercise you should acutally eat 1500 (1200+300) to net 1200 (1500-300). What you are doing eating 1100 and burning 300 is a net of 800 which is way to low, you need to eat more.

The problem may be that you are coming in under 1200 calories. You need to eat at least 1200 a day or else your body may go into starvation mode and start storing fat. Try to eat healthy calories like a lean protein.

This isn't necessarily true. There's no set floor in terms of energy intake that switches the "starvation mode" on for everyone. But your point remains... from the sound of the original post, she's consuming far too little.

Without being able to see your logs, I can't offer a lot of specifics. But, my opinion is that you probably aren't eating enough. With just a basic calculation that doesn't take anything but weight into account, I get that you should be eating 1350-1700 calories not counting exercise. That's for a sedentary person and eating no less then 80% of BMR and daily activity with No planned exercise.

That is not a high bf% for a female. What are you gauging your judgement on? 24% is in the normal range for a female. And here's the kicker...

Leanness is a function of maximizing muscle mass and minimizing fat mass. The road to leanness isn't the same for everyone. When you have a lot of fat to lose, obviously focusing on reducing fat mass should be a priority with a secondary emphasis on muscle maintenance.

On the other side of the fence though you've people that need to place a greater emphasis on muscle growth/maintenance if they're ever going to reach leanness. Put differently, more and more weight loss won't yield leanness as it's the quality of body composition that matters more than anything else.

Hi. Im a Registered Dietitian and Lic. nutritionist. A few things automatically came to mind when I was reading your post. First, like everyone else is saying your intake is far too low. My guess is you are pretty fit, good muscle mass, etc. That requires more energy than you are consuming. Next, I don't know your BMI or anything but, when people hit a stubborn plateau and they are so close to their ideal weight it sometimes means that you are where you need to be. For example if youbare within the healthy BMI range you should try to maintain this weight and. If you try to get lower and still fail I would say that this weight is what your body has deemed comfortable and resistant to change. Lastly, 4# weight gain is not at all abnormal during menses. Use caution with the pills, the body is very sensative to fluid shifting and electrolyte changes. Those pills could be signaling the body to release the bloating but could also be affecting your electrolytes in a way that makes your body remain in a stressed state. This absolutely ensures any weight loss effort will be much more challenging.

In all I suggest: eat more, reevaluate your goals to ensure you are being realistic, stop the pills.

Good luck. Oh and lastly if you need a nutrition expert in your area always make sure its an RD or licensed at the very least. There are a lot of frauds out there. Go to www.eatright.org and enter your zip code, it will give you a list of professionals in your area.

At 5'8", your ideal body weight is 140 lbs! At 140 lbs, your BMI would be 21.3, still normal. You may be beating yourself up for nothing! 120 lbs might be unrealistic for you, and if you set unrealistic goals, you may be missing very important vitamins and minerals. For example; are you getting enough calcium to avoid osteoporosis in the future? Enough vitamin C? Enough Fiber?