Still on a plateau..

Wow! I was just about to cry out for help also. I have been on since Febuary and lost only 4lbs., I was eating too low calories 700-900 but for the past couple of weeks I have been trying to eat at least 1200 cal as well as making sure I get my excercise in . I hope responses to this post help. Congratulations on 26lb lost this past year!!!

Bump since I am going through the same!

Are you eating that much or netting that much? Honestly, eating more has been the one thing to help me lose more!

plateau's are hard, because that's when you need to buckle down and look into the details... Are you eating a lot of processed prepackaged foods, like yogurt, peanut butter, crackers, chips, etc? This can stall weight loss. Also having too many calories at a sitting is said to make your body store some of it as fat to be burned later. Sure it gets burned later in the day, but I think it keeps your body from burning your already stored fat.
Mix up your workouts. Do cardio 2-3x a week, lifting or some other exercise for muscles/toning the rest of the week. Start preworkout 'fueling' with some sort of simple carb or a full calorie gatorade type drink, then after your workout have a protein shake or high protein meal.
Don't stress too much, and don't keep trying new things, just decide you are going to keep at it and your body should adjust.
Make sure you are getting adequate nutrition by eating lots of raw veggies + fruits, and lean protein, and healthy fats. Have green tea a few times a day (I've heard some studies say your body can burn 200 extra cals of fat a day by drinking it), because of a rare component in green tea that activates adispose tissue, which is normally inactive.
Don't eat too close to bedtime, EVEN if you feel it helps you relax/etc. It slows down your body while you sleep... you want it burning FAT while you sleep, not digesting/storing your dinner. I've heard eating no later than 5 hours before bedtime is a good rule to stick to.
These are things I've learned or come across while reading books and articles on the internet. I firmly believe the majority is true, but I can't claim 100% that they work, because everywhere you look you read something that conflicts with something different you had read.
Good luck. I'm working on a plateau myself but strength training is really helping me build muscle in the meantime!

#2 - 1400 cals is THE MOST you can possibly eat? I doubt that.

Well for those of us, like me, who were eating too few calories before for an extened period of time, it is very difficult to eat that much because our bodies got used to having less food.

But anyway, I've been on this plateau for about 2 weeks (staying at 135lbs). I am trying to get my calories up to 1400-1500 because my BMR is around 1450 (I've been increasing my calories by about 100 every 1-2 weeks). I go to the gym 2-5 times a week. I'm hoping if I stick this out for a couple more weeks i'll start losing a little again.

Just calculate your BMR and don't go under that #. If you exercise, make sure you eat back enough calories so you don't have a calorie deficit.

Stick with it! I have been on a plateau since February. I've finally increased my calories enough (I just kept adding 100-200 extra at a time. Went from 1260 to 1800/day plus exercise calories.) till it finally seems like its working. Got on the scale today and seem to have lost 2#. Tomorrow is my official weigh in day, so we'll see. Just don't give up! I can be very discouraging, I know from experience but work a little harder at the gym and increase your calories and it will happen!

Two weeks here also!! I've been actively working on this since January and here I sit at 6 pounds. I hired a personal trainer that I meet with once a month who designs my work out plan. She had me put my cals at 1500. I'm just so confused and lost.

Spike

Take your total calories for the week. Dedcut 200 from each day
Stack them all up on Sunday..Eat all the junk food you can handle on that day

=LOSE WEIGHT

Just google spike diet or look around here. Many ppl do it with great sucess. It got me over a plateau
Time to mix things up

You gotta be real careful with jumping into a spike with a slow metabolism. Depends on how suppressed your diet/exercise made it.

If NETting a big amount under BMR already, that spike day is usually seen as a chance to store up, not speed up.
If barely on the edge or beginning a diet, it can work great. Those are the 2 different comments I've seen on those topics.

But then again, with so many here because of having problems eating correctly, gotta self-examine, does a splurge day help or hinder eating correctly rest the time, like when at maintenance level? If you can really eat out 1 day a week and hold back rest of the week - great. If not, doesn't help prepare you much.

Came across this forum by accident. Would using things like protein shakes and powders be beneficial to both increase calorie intake and aid in muscle support. Just asking.