Diet and Exercise Doesn't work!

If you open your diary people can give more advice.

But in a general sense how are you feeling? Did you take measurements before? How many calories are you eating? How do you know your 25% body fat and have you measured that now to see if the fat has reduced?

What weights are you doing? How much cardio?

How long have you been at it?

Exactly.

I'm a 5'7, 145 lbs, 30 yr old female. I have cut calories, switched to organic, cut out processed foods and chemicals, take supplements (vitamin B, fish oil, black cohosh, multi vitamin), exercise 5 days per week (cardio and weights),and cut carbs... I haven't lost an ounce. I have had my thyroid checked and my levels are normal.
I'm 25% body fat and would like to lose 5% to get rid of the muffin top.
Any advice?

"cut calories" combined with "cut carbs" combined with "exercise 5 days per week".

I sense a common theme about to emerge here.

How many calories do you eat in general every day?
How many calories of exercise do you estimate you burn?
How many carb grams or calories do you do a day?

Let me guess. Pardon if wrong, please correct me.
You selected activity level of Sedentary.
You selected weight loss goal of 2lbs a week.

MFP set your goal to 1200.
You eat 1000 - 1100.
You estimate you burn 400 calories on cardio days, 300 on weight lifting days.
You do not eat back your exercise calories.

Just educated guesses, but if anywhere near the facts, your stall is completely understandable.

Let me know.

Did you know your BMR could be 1410, or if that 25% BF is accurate, BMR could be 1435?

Diet and exercise DO work, as I and a lot of other MFP success stories can tell you.

However, you have to avoid some common traps, like underestimating the amount of food you are eating or overestimating the calorie burn from exercise. Either way, it's a long process. Weight loss happens in fits and starts, and it's not always easy, or fast.

That said, you CAN do it. Start simply. Don't change anything at first, just track (accurately, as in with a food scale) exactly what you take in over a given week. Cut the estimated calorie burn from MFP guesses or the elliptical machines by 50% when you log them, unless you're wearing a heart rate monitor.

Just track those thing for a week, THEN start looking at making cuts to kickstart your fitness efforts. You can totally do this, but you have to know where you're starting from.

If you open up your diary so we can see it, and maybe offer helpful suggestions. You have been on here since 2010?

Ditto

If you're carrying most of your weight around your middle it could be other hormonal problems other than your thyroid. Ask your doctor to do a blood test on your sex hormones, could be PCOS or other similar conditions that tend to pop up around your mid to late twenties.

Sort of in the same boat, can't get the last 10 lbs off, working hard, eating at a deficit - my plateau is most likely (I'm 83% sure on this) caused by overload of cortisol due to ungodly amounts of stress. Which lowers metabolism, lets the fat hang on and mainly centre around the stomach.

Only -you- know both your diary and your personal life, so feedback would be nice to some of the questions asked here.

You only have 10 pounds to lose total and looks like you already lost 5.. so that last 5 is going to come off super slow.

Set your goal for half a pound a week loss, Strength train, do some cardio, follow the MFP recommendations and see what happens.

I don't mean this to sound flippant, but have you thought maybe you don't need to lose weight? It sound like you want to lose fat. That does not equate to number on the scale going down. I don't know how small you're bone structure is but for your height, your weight is fine.

My suggestion to you is to eat to maintain your weight, up the cardio to HIIT cardio, add in full body strength training 3x a week and I bet in six weeks you lose most if not all of the muffin top.

And for the record, I'm living proof as are many other people that diet and exercise does work. However, you cant force your body to lose weight it doesn't need to without an eating disorder. I really don't think weight loss should be your goal.