Eating 1200 calories, exercising but not loosing weight!

Are you eating only 1200 calories and then exercising on top of it? You don't ever eat back the calories you've earned from exercising? If that's the case, then I would assume that you've slowed your metabolism down by creating too great of a calorie deficit. From reading around the forums, the "cure" is to eat more. If your goal is to eat 1200 calories, but you burn off 300 during exercise, then you should actually eat 1500 that day. (Which would leave your "net" calories still at the 1200 limit.)

hi is it possible you are gaining muscle and losing inches rather than weight. sometimes measurements are a good way to gauge how well you are doing... i am the same as you eating 1400 calories and lost nothing this week. You could also try raising your calories to 1400 and eating regularly...something every 3hours or so to keep your metabolism working for you. Finally make sure you eat something as soon as you get up as it kick starts your metabolism :O)

Just to reinforce a concept that you may or may not believe. Eat more or your body will shut down. As a rule of thumb your calorie deficit should be no more than (BMR + calories burned through activity) * 0.2... i.e. 20% of your total calories burned. A deficit higher than that slows your metabolism so becomes counter productive.

On the other hand, your body can't NOT lose weight if you're putting it under those conditions so i suspect that you actually have lost weight but you're holding water. You may be holding water because your muscles are trying to repair or because you're eating more sodium than usual, I'd imagine that it's your muscles though because you talk about the gym this week. Eat more, especially protein

This is a very interesting thread:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/456067-1200-calories-a-day-pleatues-mfp-is-wrong

its fine keep going.
im at the same point
but when you compian healthy food with exercise and the right amount of food
your burning fat, but you are most likly gaining muscles:) witch should be a very good thing:) and muscle wights more then fat

its fine keep going.
im at the same point
but when you compian healthy food with exercise and the right amount of food
your burning fat, but you are most likly gaining muscles:) witch should be a very good thing:) and muscle wights more then fat

Muscle is denser but it's harder for women to gain especially on a calorie deficit. For a man on a proper routine and diet you can only expect around 24lbs a year which is 2lbs a month... ish. Top thing to remember is that muscles hold onto water when they need to repair, that is often the cause of weight gain when people start a new routine, also the cause of most drop outs. It's definately not an issue and will dissipate naturally over the next week or two

its fine keep going.
im at the same point
but when you compian healthy food with exercise and the right amount of food
your burning fat, but you are most likly gaining muscles:) witch should be a very good thing:) and muscle wights more then fat

You can't gain muscle on a deficit, especially not that large of a deficit. Definitely eat more.