Help! I'm stuck!

Have lost 53 lbs. in 4 1/2 months.  Have been logging for about a month now.  But now I'm stuck. This is my food analysis, and for the most part my caloric intake is around 1300-1400 daily. My BMR is 2070 and I burn maybe another 350-700 per day bicycling and swimming.

Why am I stuck?

  2008-05-17 1,359 1,912 36 173 94 A 2008-05-18 1,350 1,317 34 120 102 A- 2008-05-19 1,262 1,539 21 165 107 A- 2008-05-20 1,334 1,480 33 184 82 A- 2008-05-21 1,675 1,658 21 168 81 A 2008-05-22 1,121 1,351 18 180 66 B+ 2008-05-23 2,552 2,698 53 111 319 A 2008-05-24 2,497 673 33 189 30 C- 2008-05-25 1,474 1,521 37 204 91 A 2008-05-26 1,315 1,157 10 153 24 A- 2008-05-27 1,226 1,153 36 142 32 A- 2008-05-28 1,319 1,585 31 182 85 A- 2008-05-29 997 1,279 19 172 42 A- 2008-05-30 1,518 1,585 74 141 82 A 2008-05-31 1,427 1,627 44 196 68 A- 2008-06-01 1,477 1,939 38 163 127 A- 2008-06-02 1,098 1,560 17 141 99 A- 2008-06-03 1,229 1,713 19 201 75 A 2008-06-04 1,539 2,234 35 261 72 A 2008-06-05 1,576 2,130 26 268 81 A- 2008-06-06 1,410 2,038 31 213 78 A 2008-06-07 1,537 1,709 46 194 98 A 2008-06-08 1,300 1,976 36 151 101 A 2008-06-09 1,297 1,526 31 196 71 A 2008-06-10 1,086 1,760 14 160 86 A- 2008-06-11 1,291 1,828 32 212 59 A 2008-06-12 1,141 1,913 17 176 84 A 2008-06-13 1,449 2,005 20 208 88 A

You are under-eating for the calories you are burning.  Increase your calories.

Thank you.

What # of cals do you recommend to get back on track? ( based on the 350-700 cals burned activity level + 2070 BMR = 2400-2700 cals burned total per day)??

I lost 30 pounds in 5 months and was doing cardio 6 days a week with strength training included in 3 of those days and just came to a screeching halt, just like you...I believe the above post is correct...I didn't figure in the amount of calories I was burning so instead of a 500 calorie deficit, I was under 1,000.  Looking at the info provided, you need to take your calories burned (assuming you set it for sedentary) and add in your calories burned through exercise, then drop the total 500 from there.  You can go down lower, but I would not...I learned my lesson...I was a deficit and I don't need to starve myself anymore to do it.  I started upping my calories and the good news is that I only gained 2 pounds and I dropped one day of exercise (I know, doesn't sound smart, but I wanted to go from 6 days to 5 and figured why not really change things up).  This kinda proved to me that I was slowly starving myself...eat up.  Funny, I was weighing food religiously, but never calculated my caloric needs right from the start...as my son would say in a funny voice, "I so stupid!"

I now moved my actual ratio from 55% carbs, 25% protein and 20% fat to 40%, 40% and 20% (very sensitive to gaining if I don't watch my carbs).  I kept those 2 extra pounds for 2 months and now I lost those 2 pounds for the second week, so I think it is real.  Everyone is different, but do check your analysis and adjust if you think things could be changed for the better...my next step will be zig-zagging by keeping a 500 calorie deficit for 3 days, then going to maintenance on the 4th day, then back to 3 with the deficit, just to see if that works.

Don't be afraid to up your calories and good luck!