Not losing weight

I think the answer may be to tighten your logging. 4 pounds in 2 months is about .5 pound per week, which is not a bad rate, but it's understandable if you want to shoot for 1 pound per week. (You didn't mention height, so I'm not sure how much you want to lose.)

Either way, losing weight is 100% math. So things like eating clean may be beneficial for your overall health, but it has nothing to do with weight loss. You mention that your calorie goal is 1250, how well are you sticking to that? Are you estimating how many calories you burn when you exercise and are you eating those calories back? (If so, you may be overestimating your calorie burn.) What exactly is in your cheat meal? How many calories?

Precision can make a huge difference. One pound per week means you need a deficit of 3500 calories. Let's say your logging isn't perfect and maybe you're eating 10% more calories than you think. Now your deficit is only 2625. Let's assume your cheat meal is a big mac, fries, and a coke. That's another 1090 calories off your deficit, so your deficit is now 1535, or less than half a pound per week.

So if your logging is imprecise or your cheat meal is high enough in calories your deficit could be less than you expect. I suggest doing the math on your cheat meal and checking the rest of your logging.

How do you measure? By weighing or by measuring cups? And what's a typical cheat meal?

It seems that you are often measuring dry foods by cup measurements. Cups and oons should be for liquid measurements only. If you want better accuracy then measure these on a scale for weight. Weigh everything including your banana, apple, almond, veges etc if you aren't already. These weights vary and 7 almonds will not always weigh the same. Check everything against the USDA data base as some things on the database have been entered inaccurately and make sure your entries are for grams or ozs and liquis measures and not cups and per unit with fruit and veg.. I think your slower weight loss is due to inaccuracies in measurement of calories consumed.

You need to use a food scale to weigh all foods that are solids or semi solid. Everything that isn't a liquid needs to be weighed, that means weigh your almond butter, egg whites, butter. Weigh prepackaged foods, too.

You say you measure protien and carbs, but what about fats? Proteins and carbs have 4 calories per gram while fat has 9 calories per gram. Weigh fruit and veg, weigh cereal.

No more cups/spoons for solid foods. Its innacurate. If you've set yourself to lose 1lb per week, your logging is off by 250 cals daily. Weigh food in grams.

Also, make sure the database entries you select are accurate by either double checking them against USDA entries (produce, meat) and/or packaging information.

Log everything including cooking oils/spray, beverages, condiments, milk in cereal. Even bites/tastes/licks. It all adds up.

Edit: what lillymoo said.

just so you know.weigh packaged food too they can be off up to 20%.

if that cheat meal is big enough it can wipe out your entire week deficit. weight and log every single thing you consume for a month and report back. log that cheat meal accurately too.