Help, please :) calories.

have a look on the post 'in place of a road map', dan is very good at explaining and there are caluclators to work out your cal goals.

If you are on a plateau, eating at maintenance for a week is a good way to break it :-)

Well you already admit that you dont drink enough water, so thats one place to start. If you are retaining water due to salty food, (ironic as it sounds) drinking more water will help you lose that water weight (the extra water will flush it out).

You're already eating your exercise calories back, so you could try bumping up your intake by just a little (say up to 1300+exer) and see if that helps. When I was not eating mine back I was 700-900 under each day and not losing, once I started eating most of mine back to be like 100 under, I started losing a lot, but of course this doesn't work for everyone. Plateau's are tough because your body gets used to something, so you have to mix it up. A little higher intake for a short period, like a week may help you.

We all hit plataeu's. Really sounds like your just at that point where your losing fat but gaining muscle. If your not starving then don't eat the extra calories. Drink plenty of water and stay active. Try a different exercise maybe, your body does get used to doing the same things. Great and fun investment--a weighted hoola hoop from Danskin (available at WalMart). Hope this helps!!!