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ur not going to like my advice! but im speaking from experiance of my wife and multiple books ive read...

it seems like ur cals are really low already... so u got 2 options... raise ur cals for 2 weeks(ull put on muscle weight if ur lifting weights! which is very good!) then slowly start dropping ur cals again... or u can try to drop ur calls by about 200 right now, though u would be very very low cals which is bad for ur muscle...

other things you can try is have a big cheat day every saturday/sunday... just a good cheat meal n go over ur cals.. everytime i do that the next day i feel leaner and healthier... then u can try to change ur workout routine... if ur alot on cardio or doing regular weights start doing supersets, trisets etc. as they actuly raise ur metabolism...

other thing you can try is supplements.. ECA stack or other.

n if someone tells u ur eating too little "ull go in starvation mode" and u wont burn fat.... its total BS... have u seen poor african kids or Indian kids that get no food for a day or 2... their in starvation mode n they are skinny... but its still not good to be in low cals as its not good for health though u still will loose weight whitch will be muscle weight... and u want to make sure u preserve muscle!!!

I think it depends on how close you are to your goal as well. I can only speak to my own experience. As I got closer to my goal weight, the weight loss slowed a bit...often times only losing a few pounds a month. I had to switch up my workouts to challenge my body instead of doing the same workouts every day. I also don't typically eat my exercise calories unless I'm really hungry. I agree with other posters that you probably need to eat more calories and switch up what you are eating a bit....best of luck!

Here is a helpful guide to calorie deficits http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits

For you specifically it suggest no more than a 1 pound/week weight loss goal. I don't know here yours is set, but you might want to change your goals and see what the calories come out as. I can't give you a success story about how I got out of a plateau by increasing calories, because I have never been in a plateau, but I think I have avoided that using free days where I eat over you calorie budget and do so with foods I love, and I didn't continue a really high deficit for a very long time. For the summer I have pretty much been in maintenance mode since after a year and a half of losing weight I figured my body needed a break. I will go back in caloric deficit mid to late September. One thing you need to consider in terms of raising calories is that eventually you will need to raise them when you get to your goal weight no matter what. You cannot keep eating 1200 (less than that net) forever.

ur not going to like my advice! but im speaking from experiance of my wife and multiple books ive read...

it seems like ur cals are really low already... so u got 2 options... raise ur cals for 2 weeks(ull put on muscle weight if ur lifting weights! which is very good!) then slowly start dropping ur cals again... or u can try to drop ur calls by about 200 right now, though u would be very very low cals which is bad for ur muscle...

other things you can try is have a big cheat day every saturday/sunday... just a good cheat meal n go over ur cals.. everytime i do that the next day i feel leaner and healthier... then u can try to change ur workout routine... if ur alot on cardio or doing regular weights start doing supersets, trisets etc. as they actuly raise ur metabolism...

other thing you can try is supplements.. ECA stack or other.

n if someone tells u ur eating too little "ull go in starvation mode" and u wont burn fat.... its total BS... have u seen poor african kids or Indian kids that get no food for a day or 2... their in starvation mode n they are skinny... but its still not good to be in low cals as its not good for health though u still will loose weight whitch will be muscle weight... and u want to make sure u preserve muscle!!!

I agree, that has worked for me...I raised my calories by about 500 a day and made sure I ate back my exercise cals which I wasn't doing before and I started losing again.

For me I've stalled 3 times now in my weight loss journey. Each time to break the stall I increased my calories. My NET calories. I tried doing 1500 calories for a while but I was miserable. Once I increased to 1800 calories the weight started to drop off again until I had started at a more active job... adjusted my profile to lightly active with the same goals and that put me to 2020 calories... again the weight started to come off. And I increase my cals. I aim for net calories because I don't always get in exercise, but when I do I eat back at least half of them. Losing just fine and yes I've had success increasing my calories to lose more weight more than once on this journey

Scariest part is I'm eating 2000 calories and losing weight... to be putting on weight like I had been I had to have been closer to 3000 or more calories a day just because I didn't track