Why am I not losing weight??!

I didn't even read the other responses, but I can just bet everyone is telling you that it's because you're not eating enough. I'm having the same problem! I was doing the same thing, working out like my life depended on it and eating 1200 or under. I didn't realize I was in starvation mode. I just upped my calories to help out my metabolism yesterday. And I did a little research:

With my height and weight, my metabolism will naturally burn 1548 calories a day, even if all I did was just lie in bed all day. And if I get enough water, it may even burn 2000 calories. So, to keep my metabolism burning ALL THE TIME, I raised my MFP calories to 1540. That way, all day long, my metabolism will have something it can burn so it won't burn out. It's like a fire... if you don't throw something on the fire to fuel it, it goes out and you have to work to get it started up again, which can really slow down progress. You can go to this website and figure out how many calories your own body burns naturally :http://health.discovery.com/centers/heart/basal/basal.html

3500 = one pound. If I can keep up with the calories I burn during my workouts and remember this, I will almost be able to track when I will lose my next pound! If I can burn at least 279 calories each day for a week, I'll loose a pound a week. Double that number, and I'll loose TWO pounds per week. But I would have to consider raising my calorie intake a little higher if I were to work out that much, just to take care of my metabolism.

I hope that helped you.

It seems no matter what I do I can't lose the weight. Drinking tons of water, eating 1200 calories or more. I recently started taking my measurements and they haven't changed much, only in my arms and thighs really. I gain most of my weight in my stomach and haven't lost anything there. I'm just so frustrated, feel like giving up.

Again, youre not eating enough. If you are burning 1000 calories a day you should be eating closer to 2000 calories a day. Also, it's impossible to gain 3 1/2lbs of fat over night. IMPOSSIBLE. So it's most likely that you are bloated (either from your foods, drinks, lack of enough water or the most common reason.....that "time of the month.")

Eat more, eat healthy and keep up the workouts. If you do that for a month and are still not losing anything, talk to a doctor.

Agreed. You should eat moar phood. Healthy, of course, but moaruvit.

If you're burning that many calories, and keeping your caloric intake that low, you could always be converting fat to muscle based upon what your workout consists of. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that would explain why you're not losing weight. A good way to check yourself is to include your measurements in your weekly checks. That way, if you do go up a pound (not uncommon), but you lose an inch or two, you know that your gain is a postive gain and not a negative one.

There is more to nutrition and fitness than losing weight!

converting fat in to muscle? TROLL, I hope....

If you're burning that many calories, and keeping your caloric intake that low, you could always be converting fat to muscle based upon what your workout consists of. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that would explain why you're not losing weight. A good way to check yourself is to include your measurements in your weekly checks. That way, if you do go up a pound (not uncommon), but you lose an inch or two, you know that your gain is a postive gain and not a negative one.

There is more to nutrition and fitness than losing weight!

converting fat in to muscle? TROLL, I hope....