Laboring Towards Labor Day (CLOSED GRP)

Put me down for a maintain. I've hit a plateau. Been about the same for 3 weeks now. I thought maybe I was eating too much so I was extra careful this week and nope, no loss.

I need some suggestions on how to bust this plateau. I run 3-4 days per week, weight train 2 days and bicycle on those days. Saturday is a wild card exercise day. Sometimes I run, others I do zumba. I plan on upping my weight training to 3 days and I'm going to try zig zagging cals since I know that has busted other people's plateaus. What else can I do?.

i sent you a message about the zig zagging...i'll copy and paste it here in case anyone else is interested...i also included a link to the spreadsheet i use on google docs....

__________________________________________________________________________________________________okay here is what i did....i set up the freedieting.com table with 0 exercise and chose the middle column, i think regular fat loss...then i eat most of my exercise cals (i wear a HRM so i know my true burn, i feel like that website obviously has to estimate based on what you tell them you are planning on doing)...anyway for example see below....

it has me set up for a total of 10235 calories over the 7 days divided up like this
mon 1403, tues 1543, wed 1400, thurs 1403, fri 1683, sat 1400, sun 1403
these are the net calories i should end up with by the end of the day....

so for instance: thurs i have 1403 cals to net plus i burned 817 cals at the gym so i had to eat 2220 cals to get the 1403 net...does that make sense???

another example: tues i have 1543 cals to net but i dont have any exercise planned so i just eat the 1543 for that day

i set up on MFP my daily calorie goal as 1462 since that is the daily average of 10,235/7...so at the end of the week i should break even if i hit my days right...but 5 days on MFP will show me over (in the red) and 2 days will show me under (in the green) but by the end of the week it averages all out creating the zig zag over the course of the week to jump start your metabolism....i'm back at it this week full on (less my 2 slip ups when i binged on monday and tuesday nights) but i'm trying to balance out the rest of the week and be a little lower than my net for those days to maybe make the mess at the beginning of week work out.....let me know if you need more info....also here is a link to a sample spreadsheet i keep on google docs to help me track the zig zagging...it helps me "SEE" what i'm doing - i'm a numbers girl....

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmsRzs_p1FWddHVQa3U1SFJDN3dRYmhNdmFPbkFkcEE&hl=en_US