HELP! What is wrong???

Try and eat some of those calories back that you earn during exercise :] your body will thank you :flowerforyou:

You may not be eating enough calories. 1200 is the minimum that you should eat, so you should always strive to eat at least that much. Also, eat back some or all of your exercise calories. You could be putting your body into starvation mode by not eating enough since you are both reducing your calories and burning at the gym.

If you're only trying to lose a few pounds, are they the LAST few pounds? If they are, you will have to eat more and exercise more, restrict alcohol & sodium a bit more and really chug your water.

You are putting on muscle more than likely, which is good. Depends upon your age, I would think 1200 cal. would be very little - especially with exercising. I'd bump that up 200 perhaps. If your body goes into "starvation mode" you won't loose. Did you do any body measurements before starting? Although the scale may not show it - you may be really toning up. You could also try (depends upon what you are doing) munching all day instead of 3 squares.

There are 3 things probably going on here:
1. You're probably putting your body into starvation mode. If you eat under 1100 cal/day no matter what sort of exercise you preformed, you can trigger a starvation response. You can imagine that that was beneficial for our ancient ancestors to have that mechanism during times of famine, but for modern times it's just annoying. Instead of cutting calories, exercise more. You're body will be much happier giving up the weight if you exercise more and eat moderately than just dieting alone. For example, say you only exercise 20 min cardio everyday but you eat 1000 calories then you are in a calorie deficeit of 850 calories and triggering your starvation mechanism. But say you eat 1350 calories and do cardio exercise for an hour you still have the same calorie loss but you'll experience less hunger cravings and more weight loss. Plus exercise curbs your hunger because it stabilizes insulin highs and lows.
2. You may be putting on muscle mass. If you don't exercise a lot regularly you may be building muscle. WHICH IS A GOOD THING!!! You need to assess your body fat % more than your weight. If you weigh 150 lbs and are 30% body fat you actually have 45 pounds of fat hanging off your body, lets say you work out for 2 months like crazy and you still weight 150 lbs but your body fat is now 25% you have 27.5 pounds of fat on you. Technically you lost 17.5 pounds of fat!!! That's pretty significant. You have to remember that muscle weighs way more than fat does because muscle is much more dense. For instance, Michael Phelps is 6'4" and 200 pounds. If that was the stats of a sedetary person they would be considered obese by the BMI scale...Does he look obese to you? Hell no! He's all muscle. Even Apollo Anton Ohno would be considered overweight. So in short even if the scale doesn't look like it's changing, the true test will be your jeans. If you increase your muscle density you will shrink in size even if you weigh the same.
3. You have to mind what you put into your body. Eating healthy is so so so important! If you have a diet of 1100 calories but all you're eating is ****, you're going to gain weight. Sorry, you will. You could have 1 cheese burger from BK and that's all you eat all day and you won't loose as much weight as eating brown rice and vegi stir fry, oatmeal, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whole grains. Your body will work better on long acting fuels. Choose foods with a low glycemic index (GI) to reduce hunger pains. When you eat simple sugars your body floods your system with insulin to uptake into your cells but then leaves you starving. If you eat foods that have a low GI then they have a prolonged and steady release of fuel into your body.

Hope this helps. I know it's long!