If you have a BMF, stop here

Given the fact that you don't have a lot of weight to lose and your burns are that high then yes, I would assume your weight loss has stalled or slowed drastically because you are underfeeding your body and it's hanging on for dear life to everything you put in it.

I have a BMF and I am eating at a very, very small deficit (usually within a couple hundred calories a day). To be honest I'm pretty much at my goal weight, anything else I lose is pretty much for vanity's sake. Eating that close to my daily burn I'm only losing maybe 1/2lb a month.

I would suggest that you continue to up your calories until you can come to within 500/day and even that would set you up for a 1lb/week loss which is a lot for someone who only has a small amount to lose. A 250/day deficit for 1/2lb/week would probably be ideal for you.

I have been increasing my calories since January 1. I had an initial loss, then the scale went up a few pounds, then evened out, then came back down. Do not be afraid to eat more food, your body will thank you for it!

I'm sure this is a dumb question, so I apologize in advance, but what is a BMF?

Depending on how long the underfeeding has been going on, i would taper your calories up. So maybe every week reduce the deficit by 100 calories. Going from 1200 to 2500 quickly will just lead to rebound. Slowly increase your calories. As ebaymommy has done.

Yes, I agree. Take your calories up gradually, a week at a time. I went from 1300-1400 range up to about 1600, then 1750, then 1800-1900 and now am currently eating 2000-2500/day (sometimes more on my long run days) and slloooowwwwllllly losing.

Found out on my workout days I burn more than 4500, today is my first non workout day. Fingers crossed for 4000.

Glad I'm not the only one! According to my BMF, workout days (which is 6 days a week) I burn 3000-3200 calories or more. I too used to eat 1200 (no exercise calories) I strted bumping up my calories. Got to nearly 2000, I was there for 2 months or so, but felt like I was eating to much and wasn't losing anyways. Been eating around 1700 now, but I haven't gotten on the scale in 3 weeks (started doing train to failure with my trainer and she told me not to get on the scale for 5 weeks), but according to the way my clothes feel I highly doubt I've lost, which is going to devastate me next week. At one point I was going to try to get my deficit less than 1000, but I physically can't eat that much without eating junk, and I'm going to feel so lazy if I cut down on my workouts. I'm completely at a loss. I keep seeing the BMF helps people lose weight, well not me.

I've been wearing mine for a little over a month now. On a non-workout day I usually burn about 3200, and on a work out day it can be between 3800-4100.

I've been getting frustrated because I'm usually about 1000-1500 calories under, with the occasional 'blow-up' day here and there, but the scale hasn't really been moving. Actually it has, it doesn't move all week, and then Saturday morning it seems to jump down all at once (usually after I've been 'bad' on Friday night).

Anyway, pulled a report for the last 30 days, and it says I've averaged a 1200 calorie deficit each day. Multiply that by 30 days is 36000 calories, which should be a little bit over 10lbs lost. When I look back at the progress bar - lo and behold- I'm down 10.2 lbs in the last 30 days.

I'm pretty stoked that the math is working exactly the way it should. It feels like things haven't been happening, but when you step back and look at the big picture - it's really is working.

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