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How many less calories are you eating? How long have you been doing it for? How accurate are you with your calorie counting - do you weigh everything? If you exercise, do you eat back your exercise calories?

1200 is the minimum recommended amount that a woman should eat, so unless you're especially short or old or inactive, you shouldn't eat below 1200. There are very few people for which 1200 would be too much! You don't need to avoid any types of food unless you have a medical condition that requires you to do so. All you…

There are three foods (well, three groups of foods) I won't eat: 1. Foods that put me over my calories allowance. 2. Foods I'm allergic to. 3. Foods I don't like. Even then I don't mind breaking rule 1 once in a while.

4 days may be the smallest amount of time I've ever seen anyone call a plateau :P As everyone else has said, you need to be a lot more patient! You can go weeks without losing while doing everything right, you can't expect to steadily lose weight each day. Weight loss is not linear.

In which case I'd agree with the others saying to lower your calories by 100 or so a day and seeing how that goes. Looking at your diary, do you check what the weighed calories are against the calories for cups and such? You've got a lot of entries like 1 cup of potatoes, 1 spoon of mayonnaise, 1 spoon of sugar, 1 serving…

Do you weigh everything you eat? Do you eat back your exercise calories? Can you open your diary? Bear in mind that fluctuating daily is completely normal - many people find they can be several pounds different one day to the next. You need to watch the trend over several weeks.

That's definitely realistic. A good goal is a pound a week, if you've got a lot to lose you can healthily lose up to 2lbs/week.

No, it's not. It's a myth. Meal timing makes no difference to weight loss. You still burn calories when you sleep. Personally I have small meals and snack a lot most days, then some days I will eat nothing then eat all my calories before going to bed.

On weekdays I tend to plan out my main meals so that I know how many calories are left for snacks, and eat those as I want throughout the day. Though this is quite easy as on weekdays I tend to eat the same thing everyday. On weekends I log as I go along. I usually have no idea what I'm doing for each meal on weekends…

I lost 55lbs and still wear most of the same clothes and don't feel a difference in them, the only clothes I needed to get new ones of were non-stretchy jeans (and even then that was only twice, so about every 25lbs). I then gained nearly 20lbs back (went from 112lbs to 130lbs) and felt no difference at all in clothes, or…

The sexypants thread is always a good read: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

Fair enough. How much weight loss are you aiming for per week? How are you calculating your exercise calories? How often do you weigh yourself?

Macros don't affect weight loss (not saying to not try to eat healthily, just saying that isn't your problem). Looking at your diary, you've got a lot of things that aren't weighed - lots of entries are in things like 1 piece, 1 slice, 1 bun, and lots of cups and tablespoons. Start weighing everything you can, it's a lot…

I've never quite understood this reasoning. How does weighing less often show you the 'actual weight loss'? It doesn't suddenly stop you fluctuating. If you fluctuate one day and are 5lbs higher than the day before and the day after and that happens to be the day you weigh in, that's not your actual weight loss. And…

You have to find what works for you. I find every day works best, that way I can see a loss as soon as it happens, and not just have to hope that I'm weighing in on a day when I'm at a new low (since losses are so easily covered by fluctuations when you're aiming for half a pound a week).

Yes it's normal. It's how bodies work. There happens to be another thread on this going at the moment: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10266235/stuck-on-same-number

What's ridiculous about that? Sounds right to me.

Fluctuating daily is normal, it's how bodies work. You've gotta watch the trend.

Just weigh them out so you know your portions are correct. Much better than only having pasta once a month, I think!

You've seen a 1lb change, which is what you should expect in a week. You'll have a large initial loss because you'll be losing water weight, then it'll settle down. With 32lbs to go (if your profile is correct) you shouldn't be aiming for anything more than 1lb/week. And of course weight loss isn't linear, you won't lose…

Some people do, some don't. I don't track them especially carefully, but if I have a choice of two foods and have no preference between them, I'll go with which one fits my macros more that day. Unless you're specifically going low carb you can still eat pasta if you want.

Why not eat pasta everyday? If I have a 'crazy day' it won't be to eat a specific thing. If I want a specific food, I'll work it into my calories. I use 'crazy days' for things like parties and celebrations, where I don't want the worry of having to try to count or limit what I'm eating.

It's a pretty common approach, lots of people carry calories over across days. I spent most of my diet doing this (never noticed a difference in daily fluctuations between doing this or sticking to my goal each day), I find it much easier.

The way MFP is designed you're supposed to eat back your exercise calories. Your net calories are how many calories you've left your body to live off of after exercise, which is supposed to be your daily calorie goal. So if your goal is 1200 and you burn off 300 at the gym, you should eat 1500 so that your net is 1200. If…

I went from 167lbs to 112lbs, I needed new trousers twice during that (so about every 25lbs), never noticed a difference in tops. I still wear the same t-shirts I always wore.

Do you eat back your exercise calories? If you're weighing everything as you say you are, then maybe the calories out part of the equation is what's going wrong. Do you eat 1200 or net 1200? It's also worth asking where you get the calorie values you're using for counting, do you use the MFP database or go buy the…

Saying something is like something else is just saying it's similar, she was saying it felt like a tiny deficit for her, as if she didn't have one. She wasn't literally saying she would lose a pound a week eating at maintenance. (My comment was meant jokingly anyway, hence the :P) I think if I suddenly got a 500 calorie…

She didn't say it was was nothing, she said it was like nothing :P And if you're used to a deficit of 1000 calories a day, 500 may well feel like nothing.

With 37lbs to go, 1lb/week would be a healthier aim. 0.5lbs/week is good if you have around 20lbs or less to lose.

Do you weigh everything you eat? If you exercise, do you eat back your exercise calories? How much weight are you aiming to lose? Can you open your diary?