Disappointing Weigh In Today

figure out what your bmr is and try to net that many cals per day. i'm pretty sure your bmr isn't 1200 cals, and you're not even eating back your exercise cals! however, the "not eating enough" makes more of a difference when you have less weight to lose: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/TrainerRobin/view/myth-or-fact-calories-in-versus-calories-out-3500-calories-one-pound-and-should-i-eat-my-exercise-calories-62012

good luck :]

I definitely think you should be eating more. 1200 cal/day with 110 lbs to lose sounds incredibly low to start with. I'm 5'2" with 18lbs to lose and they have me at 1200/day? And, I used to agree with your husband until I understood weight loss. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as "eating less means losing more". It's not a completely inverse relationship like that. There is a threshold at which your body will say "oh no, she's starving me, I better hang on to every single calorie she puts in my body in case she always eats so little". Of course this level is probably different for everyone based on fitness, age, weight, etc. So on the days that you are doing quite a bit of activity, say your BMR is 1500 (calories you need to just exist in a coma), you're only eating 1200, and then you burn 400. You're giving your body a net of 800 calories to do what requires it 1500 to do. So it's hoarding the calories/weight. If you gave it the extra 400 back, and let it keep 1200, you're still set to lose. Say your TDEE is 2000 (what it would take on a normal day of activities to sustain yourself), and you're eating 1200/day, that's 800 calories a day x 7 days a week = 5600 calories per week which equates to a loss of 1.6/week (3500 cals/pound). The 1200/day already takes into account your loss. You need to eat exercise calories back in order to not set off the alarms in your body to retain what you're giving it. Does that make sense? You should be netting to 1200 every day in order to lose. I know it sounds weird to eat more to lose more. Also, I had to start looking at exercise not as a means to lose more weight, but as a means to be more healthy, fit, happy, and energetic (and a way to eat more!). Once I made that mind shift, it's been easy for me to lose the weight! I ate back all 3,000 of my exercise calories last week and lost 3.7 pounds. trust me, it works!

well what I would do is chane the number to 1400 and do not add exercise becuase it changes the amount of carbs fats sugar protein you can eat in a day

What? It's supposed to do that! If you are burning a ton of calories doing cardio, chances are your body needs more carbs to fuel the workout...and so on. (there are other examples, of course). There is nothing that has calories that doesn't have the other stuff, too....it may be low in fat but still have carbs (fruit / veggies), etc....