Why am I not losing?

I don't get it? I track EVERYTHING I eat on CC and it says I eat around 1600-1700 calories a day. I work out at least 6 (if not 7) days a week for 2 hours (doing mostly cardio and some days add in 30 minutes of weights). Without exercise, I burn around 1450 calories a day (very sed. job). My HRM says when I workout I burn around 1000 calories, which would put me at a total of 2450 calories burned/day. If I'm only eating 1700 max, my deficit is 750/day. I have been doing this for at least 3 months now and have not lost a single pound (acually gained some) and it's NOT muscle mass. HELP ME!

Probably it's 'cause once you account for all the exercise you do, your daily total of caloric intake is around 600-700 calories.  2 hours is a LOT of exercise.  I'm not sure but I'd guess you're in starvation mode and should eat a lot more to balance out your exercise.

The reason is homeostasis.

The solution, at least for me, was carb cycling.

What is carb cycling and why did that help?

i was in the same boat as you. You need to up your calories and also take 1-2 days off of workouts.

I was stuck for 2 weeks, found out that I was in starvation mode. Starvation mode doesn't do anything for you. You are just surviving off of 600-800 calories a day.

Eating more helps and you will most likely see the numbers drop. I see toning but have not weighed myself at the gym yet so I am not sure. I feel like I have lost though and my jeans are looser than 2 weeks. ago.

try taking a easy week. I am taking one this week. only wokring out 3 days instead of 6 and I feel much better.

Good luck.

bump...want advice!!

You probably need to eat more. I see from your other thread that you're 5'7 and 145ish. I doubt that you burn only 1450 a day before exercise. I'm 5'2 and 122 pounds and my sedentary burn is 1640. So really, you're probably burning closer to 2700-2800 a day.

Also, if you aren't overweight (which you're not), it's very hard to drop weight with a large deficit because your body doesn't have a lot of extra fat it's willing to give up. I would decrease the exercise (two hours a day, seven days a week is a bit excessive, maybe cut down to forty-five minutes to an hour five days a week instead?), up the calories to maybe around 2000, and see if that makes any difference.

Good luck!