Frustrated....

Try changing up your workout routine, our bodies get used to the things we do over time and when that happens you hit a wall. Try doing different weight lifting exercises or a different type of cardio and opefully you'll see a change by next week!

Do you have a heart rate monitor? I discovered MFP was overestimating my calorie expenditure during exercise ... by as much as 2x.

I have started losing again by inputting the HRM #s versus MFP guesstimate.

Good luck.

Weight loss isn't linear, you are averaging 3#/week still which is a lot. Be patient.

I know it is frustrating - we have all been your shoes at some point, but you are doing great. You only want to lose about 2 lbs/week that way it stays off. I would suggest changing up your workout routine and calorie intake. If we don't keep our bodies guessing, they get used to the same thing day in and day out. My bf and I call it muscle memory - you need to keep your muscles guessing.

It's only been 4 weeks. You've lost 12 lbs in those 4 weeks. I wouldn't call this being "stuck". Patience and persistence...

This. Keep it up though!

In just under 4 months of working out at least 3 times a week with weights for 60-90 minutes each time, I have only put on 1.5 lbs of muscles. I actually gained about 2 lbs of upper body muscle (pretty even split between my arms and my torso), but I lost about .5 lbs in my legs (I didn't do as much leg weight training as I was doing upper body).

During that same period, I lost 18.5 lbs of fat. Leaving me with about a 17lb net loss from 2/1 until 5/25.

However, in any given week my weight could fluctuate as much as 7 lbs depending upon how much water I drank or how hard I was working out. Your muscles retain a lot of water when you are working them hard with weights.

I highly recommend you get a body composition scan at least once every 6 months or so, I got one that is X-ray based. There are others, but getting it will give you a good base line and allow you to keep track on your progress. I intend to get another in September. I hope to add another 2lbs of muscle by the end of the summer.

You always want to vary your workout and not do the same workout every day or you will plateau like you have. If you keep the same workout every other day and add a different workout to the days in between you will see a difference.

I think you are looking way to much into it. The same thing happenend to me, I lost 15lbs right away, from switching to healthy foods with less sodium, and working out, but gained 5lbs back once I started to see gains in my lifting, you aren't really adding new muscle you are basically just making the muscle you have stronger, and that is going to be a little bit heavier, but mostly just retain a lot more water at first. So just stick with it, because after that it starts to drop off quickly again, around 2 - 3lbs a week. I have also pretty muched peaked with how much stronger I am making the muscle I have, so I added some protien/recovery shake to it, and noticed the first week I started to do that, I also didn't lose as much, because I was retaining more water.

I started pretty close to where you were (230 at 5'8") and lost 3+ pounds for the first month and a half - but I was doing only cardio and no strength training. I am down to 185 and now starting to do strength training (I've been doing crunches for a couple months - trying to work that flab away even though I know you don't spot reduce) - but staring to do pushups and other 'body weight' strength training. I figure I'm going to slow down no - plus I'm getting close to upping my calorie goal so I can transition more smoothly into my goal weight.

Ultimately are you feeling better? Losing size instead of weight? Those are the important things, not the scale number.