Thanks for your comments. I was VERY down earlier because I had been doing great all week and worked my booty off at the gym and didn't lose anything! I even almost passed out yesterday from a class that I took and was pissed and felt much like the person who's post this is. I am going to try not to be discouraged and do another week of 1200 calories and exercise and hopefully I will see results next week. It's very frustrating!

You are obviously at a crossroad..your frustration is validated. I wish you well on your journey. This s a great application it'll always be here for you whatever decision you decide for you and you alone.

If you nearly passed out in a class yesterday, you may also need to eat more. Food is fuel!

With all these responses, I would say you should now be motivated to stay. Look how everyone cares for you!

My vote is one gaining muscle with all that running.

Amy you need to eat more food you are killing your metabolism, feed yourself.

Bravo to the OP!! I for one am sick and tired of people being rude because they can and then call people whiners or tell them that they need to put their big-girl panties on and suck it up because this is the internet. WHAT???? Since when do people get to be rude, crude and socially unacceptable and expect everyone to like it? If you don't like what the OP has to say, then move on.....geeze people. Where is your compassion for others? Do you treat everyone in your life like that? And if you do, then I bet you don't have many friends. OP: I agree with others about you might not be eating enough for the amount of exercise you are doing. I most definitely wouldn't give up because you will regret it. "If you focus on results, you will never change; if you focus on change, you will get results."

DON'T QUIT:
When you've eaten too much and you can't write it down, And you feel like the biggest failure in town.
When you want to give up just because you gave in, and forget all about being healthy and thin.
So What! You went over your calories a bit, it's your next move that counts...So don't you quit!
It's a moment of truth, it's an attitude change. It's learning the skills to get back in your range.
It's telling yourself, "You've done great up till now. You can take on this challenge and beat it somehow."
It's part of your journey toward reaching your goal. You're still gonna make it, just stay in control.
To stumble and fall is not a disgrace, If you summon the will to get back in the race.
But often the strugglers, when losing their grip, just throw in the towel and continue to slip.
And learn too late when the damage is done, that the race wasn't over...they still could have won.
Lifestyle change can be awkward and slow, but facing each challenge will help you grow.
Success is failure turned inside out, the silver tint in a cloud of doubt.
When you're pushing to the brink, just refuse to submit, If you bite it, you write it....But don't you quit! - Author Unknown

It's really hard to tell someone what changes to make to lose weight. One thing is for sure . . . you must be honest in your diary and open it up for others to see. Also, I suspect that you are wishing you were someone else . . . perhaps that pretty little petite blonde we see in the model arena! Everyone has a different type of body. Your body may be perfectly healthy and happy and beautiful weighing 140 and will never be happy at 120. Just sayin' Pay attention to how healthy you are as opposed to how skinny you want to be.

Well, I see you, from your profile, are not a failure and believe me, a seasoned weight changing person, the body weight fluctuates the whole time you're dieting. I have been disheartened too. But you have to look at the whole picture. Don't get upset with the pounds changing daily. It might take me weeks to lose 3 pounds, but I can cheat one day and gain three! I have learned not to let daily changes matter too much, as long as I know I am doing it right! Look back and tell yourself, "I have lost xxx amount of pounds, so I am not a failure. I won't let daily changes matter, as long as I am not cheating at all." My body does this, too. But believe me, in the big picture of things, you will look back and say, I did it!". Don't get discouraged and quit or you will surely gain it back!

I read a really interesting post on here last week titled "why 1200 doesn't work", and it explains that you cannot reasonably eat only 1200 cals continuously and be healthy. I recommend searching for it and reading it through. I feel your frustration, I want to lose 30lbs in a month and I know I can't reasonably do that. Don't give up, don't ever give up, just educate yourself, and try different things. I know how frustrating it is, I used to weight around 110lbs for the first 22 years of my life, then I put on like 55lbs, and I've hated myself for five years now. Just don't quit!

Could be lots of things.

Do you get enough sleep?
Is your daily regimen or job highly stressful?
Is the environment you're around normal, smogging, noisy etc.
Genetics
Hormone imbalance


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I think 1200 is too low for most. Check out the TDEE threads and follow that strategy. Also, weighing yourself is the worst measurement ever! You can put on muscle and lose fat and the scale won't show you that. You should take body fat measurement (most can't do that) or measure yourself, that's a better way of seeing progress!

Keep at it, it was prolly just water weight or a big turd.

There is no way you can gain weight on your plan.

Keep at it friend.

Water retention, recovering from previous dehydration, muscle gain, lack of sleep, not enough fiber, the moon, can all cause weight gain.

You've lost a lot. Don't give up!

(I've been at about the same weight for three months now. It's okay to take a break.)

So you're going to give up? Then what will you do? Eat your way back to 30 plus pounds? Just keep trying, you did NOT gain fat!!

Three words - zig zag diet.
Another great thing to use if you feel like you have hit a plateau. Do some research, and try it out. But I agree with those that say eat more. I can't imagine 1200 calories is fueling your body enough, and possibly causing you to go into starvation mode, where your body will store more fat.

Focus on being healthy.

Well said.

Thanks to everyone who had kind words and support and great advice. I'm not going to quit, Ijust sometimes feel like I can't take it anymore but I've recieved a lot of really helpful messages with some good tips which I am going to try. First and foremost, I'm upping my calories because the general consensus is that I'm not eating enough to maintain my current rate of exercise and I don't want to be starving myself...that's counterproductive to my goals. Secondly, I'm not getting back on a scale anytime soon.. it brings me nothing but tears and depression and being a slave to the number on it, is also counterproductive to my goals.

Going forward, I'm going to try and retrain my thought process to concentrate on what I really want out of this... I want to be fit and look fit. I want that bikini-apprpriate body (I say approriate because I'm not fooling myself, I can look fine in one with just a flat stomach and without looking like a victoria's secret angel lol). A lot of people messaged me with the message of "love yourself the way you are today or you won't love yourself tomorrow no matter how you look". This really resonated with me and I'm taking it to heart. From now on, I'm going to eat enough to keep my body fuelled, follow the advice of a particular few people who really seem to know their stuff, and gauge my results by how I look and feel, not by what a scale tells me. I have a lot of goals that I want to reach with my health and fitness, and they don't revolve around a number... I'm training for my first 10km 'marathon' this spring... and further in the future, I'll work myself up to a real half marathon... I want to do 10 pull-ups, I want to be able to wear clothes that show off more skin and actually feel comfortable in them. So that's where I'm at now. Hopefully a different mindset and approach will be what I need to start succeeding the way I want to.

Look at the TDEE calcs...it will help you. I totally get your frustration, wait til you get to my age :)

Woohoo! Sounds like a good plan!

You are absolutely beautiful, and you can do this. If you listen to one thing. Listen to that. Look at all these people who care about you? I care about you and I've never even met or spoken to you. Don't quit, because you have made so much progress already. Smile, walk away from the scale, and resume being amazing. =]

^This^

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I've hit a bit of a plateau myself . I had actually started dieting before I got to the MFP website, and had lost 8 pounds, from 268 to 260. In the last seven weeks, I've lost 11 pounds, but all of that was before about two weeks ago. So total loss is about 19 pounds so far. On the other hand, my waist size has gone down by three inches, and my clothes are all fitting me better now. I understand that these plateaus come, and that if one keeps on with the diet and keeps exercising, the weight will start going down again. So I'm not giving up. You've done much better than I, almost half again better, and if that picture's any indication, you weren't nearly as overweight than I to start. So don't lose heart! You've done great. Keep it up, and you'll get to your target weight.

Search for Roadmap 2.0 in the community and read, read, read. Educate yourself in BMR and TDEE. Don't be afraid to change up what you are doing and continue tweaking as you go. Good luck!