Why do I keep hitting a Plateau????

As long as you're confident that you are accurately counting your calories consumed and burned, its most likely just water weight that tends to come and go, masking the weight loss.

What are you doing that you are burning 1000 calories per work out? That seems to be very high.

this calculator will tell you how many calories you should be eating to lose weight

Www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm

if you are working out more, you could be putting on muscle, which apparently weighs more than body fat,... but the more muscle mass you have the more calories you burn so its a good thing. (please don't shout me down if I am wrong, this is how it was explained to me! :-) )
Dont lose heart, keep doing what your doing, stay focused. Your doing really well. :-)

hey girly, lets chat...I am so happy to see someone like you on here asking this question...It means you are in it for good and motivated to know WTH is goin on with that body of yours....I have been in your shoes, and I can sympathize personally with your situation and would be happy to offer any help/tips/support that I can. I just started social networking on this site and I love it, it is a postive atmostphere to be open about something that has been so private in our lives for so long...our weight. I started my weight loss journey at 323.75 pounds (15 months ago) and I can now say that I stepped on the scale and read 153.3 last week. No surgery, no gimmicks and no regrets...and I am now feeling more and more like the woman I am meant to be. Lets get there with you, I have reviewed your diary (which by the way, you should not feel funny about having it public...it can only help, whether it helps you or others, a public diary, I feel is one of the best parts of this site, enjoy it and be proud of it...you are doing the right things now) and I am wondering if you are faithful about logging everything or are you kind of forgetting stuff. Just because there was no lunch for sunday and I know you said in your post that you are eating every few hours...Let me know. But if all is accurate there then I offer this....Today all you had for breakfast was coffee, sugar and alm. milk, absolutely no protein...Protein is absolutely essential to weight loss, especially at your size and given the amount of exercise you are doing....ALWAYS think protein first, then plan the meal around that, having said that, make it lean protein, like eggwhites, fat free cottage cheese, greek yogurt (not the regular yogurts, they are a joke-more calories, less protein and most contain high fructose corn syrup which affects some of the bodies hormones that affect weight loss), chicken(but nix the skin, I know its yummy but it is hard to track because a generic listing of chicken with skin does not really tell us how much skin and you can end up eating way more cals than you tracked because your piece had more skin than the sample piece used to estimate the cals, even if slightly off that fat adds up super quick, and the saturated fat is no good for you, maybe ok once in maintenance but not for weight loss and by then, trust me you wont want the skin), protein shakes, we can go over this if you are unsure. But your body will burn through carbs fast in the am because we deplete the stores throughout the night. That will signal our body to release hunger hormones and suppress fat burning hormones soon after those carbs are gone...The protein will stick with you, It is a must for breakfast, and honestly once the protein is there the carbs kindof fall into place, very little planning needed. Although I would definetly switch to whole grain for you, brown rice and no processed carbs (like the boxed stuffing) there are more nutrients, takes the body longer to process and because the whole grain is heartier it actually takes more calories for your body to digest them...so that is easy, burn more calories just by eating whole grain, sign me up!! When snacking be sure to try and get the most nutrients for your calories, not saying to avoid the things you love but ask yourself if this is a great decision for your goal of weight loss. Funyuns are delish, i geuss but straight carbs and lots of cals for very little actual nutrition. Get in some protein and you will heat up that metabolism and feel good knowing you did well. Do not believe that your numbers arent so great because you are gaining muscle, when I was your size I could have big losses and you can too, your losses in fact should be decent even if you are gaining muscle, besides, it takes a while to build the kind of muscle that would actually come through as mass on the scale...I guess the main thing here is make sure you get your protein in, lean protein and careful not to carb load (one carb per meal or something close to that, instead of rice, plaintains and stuffing in one) watch the saturated fats and empty calorie snacks and enjoy the process...I hope we can be friends, and I hope this helps some, keep working and be honest with yourself, you are beautiful and you are worth your own time, energy and effort. You go girl, we can do this!!!

this calculator will tell you how many calories you should be eating to lose weight

Www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm

thank you.. very help full for me! :flowerforyou:

I looked at your diary and you are not eating enough calories. You are slowing your metabolism down even more. Eat all the calories that MFP has suggested plus your exercise calories. Get your metabolism going and the plateaus will stop. Good luck, you don't have to starve yourself!!!!