What am I doing wrong?

Have a read of some of these topics, regarding eating your exercise calories etc,

Hope they help.

Maria :-)

sorry I lost my mind and forgot to paste in the link to the articles....

http://shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com/index2.html

I haven't lost in 2 weeks. I changed my calorie intake to 1,200 and followed the guidelines but it slowed my weight loss waaaaaaay down. I would advise you up your intake to around 1,500 calories which is 1lb per week, do short intense workouts every day, MAKE SURE you don't miss out strength training (weights, squats, crunches etc.) and eat back your exercise calories. I know it doesn't sound ideal because you want to believe it's as simple as "eat less, weigh less," but it's not. If you don't eat then your body doesn't have enough energy to burn the calories. So eat a bit more than usual (healthy of course) and make sure you eat back the calories you've earned from exercise. If that doesn't work then I don't know what will!

Hi Modizzle! It's tough trying to figure all this out. I have found out that I was severely underestimating my activities and therefore my calories burned in a day.

I have started to use the spreadsheet and calculator located here:
http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced

and aim for a deficit based off of those numbers. I have also joined a group for support cause it can be hard to wrap your mind around eating more. I invite you to come hang around and see if this fits you!!

The group link is here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17-women-eating-2-000-calories-per-day