Help! I'm stuck and confused!

Donuts.

You should not feel dizzy and lightheaded. Try upping your calories by 200 or so for a week. If the dizziness dissipates and you manage to lose a little weight, hooray. I suspect that at your weight and your exercise level, you will continue to lose weight.

What time of day do you exercise? When I do exercise, I do it early in the day before breakfast. I follow that with breakfast. I think that my breakfast tricks my body into thinking that I've replenished the calories it just burned.

Is there a possibility that you're diabetic? Or that you have some sort of medical problem (hypo/hyper glycemia, low/high blood pressure, etc. for example)?


As far as maintaining your weight, you are likely eating more than you think you are. At your current height and size that is an acceptable calorie goal and weight loss should be in the 1.9 per week range for you. Considering it is safe to lose 1% of your total body weight per week, 1,200 calories is well within an acceptable range.


I believe some of the fellow users will comment "you're not eating enough! eat more!" or "you can still eat more and lose!". I will go ahead and say that this is not what i would personally recommend to someone in your current situation (where you're maintaining your weight).

"Your BMI is 34.7: or on the high end of Obese Class 1 ranging from 30.0 to 34.9

For your height, a normal weight range would be from 101 to 136 pounds.

People who are overweight or obese are at higher risk for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol."

My opinion? Go to your doctors to get tested and describe the symptoms listed in your OP. Invest in a food scale and tighten up your logging. The likelihood that you are underestimating your calorie intake and overestimating your calorie burns from exercise is high. There is also a high chance that you're dealing with some sort of unresolved medical issue.