help!!! i'm so confuse?????

you may need to up your caloric intake. If you underfeed yourself your body goes into starvation mode and you won't lose weight.

You aren't eating enough and to keep up with all the exercise your body is hanging on to your body fat. Eat at your BMR and never go under 1200.

Everyone believes that eating at a great deficient will increase the speed of weight loss but that's a myth.

You need to be eating more for health reasons; however, if you haven't lost weight in three weeks I would look for the cause. Either you aren't logging accurately, or perhaps need to see a doctor for thyroid issues. But don't forget about water weight, especially if you are new to exercise. Just because the scale hasn't changed doesn't mean you haven't made progress. Say your maintenance calories (Including exercise) are around 1600, then you are creating a 1 pound deficit per week. 3 weeks is 3 pounds--which is a very easy number for the scale to fluctuate around. I would stick to 1200 and eat back part of the exercise cals. If another month goes by and there still is no change, then see a doctor.

Up your calories, but also check the quality of the foods you are eating. 1000 calories of white bread and sugars is very different than 1000 calories of whole grains, protein, and healthy fats. I know there are a lot of theories on this, but I (being no expert) just know I cannot eat a diet of carbs and lose weight.

This!

You do need to up your claories, but make sure they are nutrient dense foods, like some nuts and keep the carbs at bay and complex.

and while you do want to create a calorie deficit finding that balance is the key.

not everyone needs to eat more, sometimes you just need to change your routine, yes that could be as little as a cheat day where you over eat your calories but sometimes it means changing your exercise. Muscle burns fat so while the treadmill is a great workout what are you doing for your upper body? When I plateau I usually am losing size. My own pattern is drop a pound or three of weight, plateau for weeks while losing an inch or so, gain a half pound, drop a pound or three of weight, plateau etc.... The bottom line is if you eat more and gain like I do don't be discouraged just try switching it up a bit.

Eat your 1336, never under 1200, and keep up the exercise.

you should eat until your at your net calories (1200) Good luck and enjoy

I try to eat mostly chicken and fish, but sometimes have a hamburger (93/7) I eat more carbs then I should so I'm changing breakfast from oatmeal to 45 cal wheat bread and 2 egg whites fried. Hope that's a better choice. I have salads for lunch with chicken or ham and cottage cheese. I always have some form of potato with dinner. Is that a bad choice?? I'm open to any suggestions anyone has for me!!! I do splurge and have that McDonald ice cream come on my way home form work a couple times a week. I checked and it's 170 cal and 4.5 fat and 27 carbs... I'm sure that's a big "no no" I'll do what ever I need to do to get this weight off so I can start feeling better again. Thanks for all the suggestions. Very much appreciated!!! You guys are wonderful!!!!

Oatmeal is fine as long as you don't add too much sugar, but combining it with some kind of protein (Greek yogurt, protein powder, eggs) or ground flax seed for good fat would be good.

Add some onions and/or spinach to your egg whites to add volume and nutrients with low calories.

Have the ice cream cone once a week or so, but make sure it's in your cals AND carbs for the day.

It might not be how much your eating, but what your eating. Make sure to keep everything healthy. Substitute chewy granola bars for a banana, or yogurt. Definitely include fruits and veggies in your diet.. Trust me, it helps. After you work out, you CAN eat after. Keep in mind that your metabolism is high and burning for about 3 hours after working out, so it's okay to eat. Hope I helped, good luck!!

This is a common problem people have that are rather knew to weight losss and fitness. However, MFP is a great community to help you!

First off, heed the advice everyone has stated: "YOU ARE NOT EATING ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Generally speaking, and I mean really really general, it can be said less calories will result in "losing" weight.

However, with proper diet and exercise your body will change and require different calories amounts. I will not go in depth with nutrition cause it may bore you.

If you are exercising daily on the treadmill the result will be an increase in your cardiovascual system which is composed of muscles. You will also have an increase in overall body muscle gain, predominatly the legs/buttocks. One pound of muscle gained will require approximately 50 calories to maintain.

I am sure you have lost fat and gained, to some extent, muscle. You need to feed that muscle to keep burning fat and your metabolism normal.

What you are doing is putting your body into starvation mode when you eat 1200 calories (the bare minimum for women) or less (which is absolutely counter-productive to what you want to accomplish). When you do what you are doing, your body will use muscle for engergy and the engery stores (fat) you want to get rid of. The end result is a loss in muscle (which burns those calories to maintain) and stores fat. So you end up where you are, not seeing gains because you are losing muscle and store above normal amounts of fat or at least trying to maintain it.

Eat your calories, take body measurements (neck, chest, waist, upper arms, forearms, hips, thighs together, thighs individually, and calves). You will see where your hard work is going. You can use the scale once a week, if that.

Monitor your diet closely, and see what you need to modify. Maybe you need more protein, or carbs, or fats (yes fats help burn fats).

Once you get your calories and see how you feel, those pounds will literally fall off because your body will use the stored fat because it knows the calories expended will be replaced.

- p.s. - I tried to look at your journal but it is set to private.

Best regards and keep going!

My brother and I started using myfitnesspal and had very different results. He also said he wasn't losing weight despite following the calorie recommendation. What I found was that if we ate the same food and did the same exercise, he would enter many fewer calories for the food and many more for the exercise. Unless you are eating at restaurants that officially list their calories, you may be underestimating how much you are eating. Get a food scale and use measuring cups. Track your calories VERY closely for a week and see what 1200 calories truly looks like. At the same time, most exercise machines vastly overstate how many calories are burned while using them. My treadmill will claim I've burned 250 calories after doing what most scientific estimates would regard as 100 calories worth of work. I'm not sure what exercise you are doing, but be careful not to take any of those machines' estimates at face value. While human metabolism does vary from individual to individual, the variation is relatively slight. It is a much smaller variation than most people would like to believe. It is almost impossible to eat between 1000 and 1200 calories for three weeks without losing weight.

Oh lordy, no wonder you are confused. Isn't the "eat more" concept a little self serving?

Simple suggestion, google "weight plateau" or something to that effect and check those sites you have heard of, Mayo Clinic and Livestrong both are respected and not just repeating internet nonsense.

A voice of reason.

How overweight are you? For each excess pound, you have... get this... 3500 calories of energy readily available to you to burn! That is why overweight people do not starve, their metabolisms do not grind to a halt, their "fire" does not go out. Yes, there is a small conservation effect with deficit eating. My BMR might drop from 1450/day to 1400. I'm still going to lose twice as much weight by eating say 1200/day and burning 1800 total than eating 1550/day and burning 1850. If you're HAPPIER eating 1550 and losing half as fast, that's fine, too!