So I posted before about being stuck and decided to try calorie cycling. I've done it for 2 weeks now and I'm still stuck. I went down to 201 for 1 day and then went right back to 202 and thats where I've stayed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. My calorie averages for the end of both weeks were 1,300 which should be making me lose a pound or two a week. I do get exercise, too. I walk to class all the time and have been also using my elliptical a few times a week. I tend to eat a few more calories on the days I use the elliptical so that I'm not falling below 1,200 for the day. The only thing I drink is water and a bit of lemonade that I have to have for health reasons. I thought calorie cycling would push my body out of this rut but it just hasn't. I don't understand why it seems like it's stopped working lately. Doing exactly what I'm doing now is how I lost the 24 pounds I have. It just feels like the past few months I get stuck at a weight for a really long time..lose a single pound and get stuck again.
I've considered seeing my doctor, but I'm sorta resisting. I really hate having to be on any medication. It's also hard for me to believe that I could suddenly have a thyroid issue or something when I was perfectly fine only a few months ago.
I've also considering buying a scale to weigh the foods I'm eating to be absolutely sure of the calories I'm eating. I've heard that the weights of pre packaged foods can be off by enough so that I could be eating a few extra hundred calories a day and not know, but even if i were off buy a couple hundred calories a day I'd be eating 1,600 at most and should still be losing some weight.
I just don't know what to do and could definitely use some advice. To a degree I hate to change what worked for 24 pounds, but it's clearly not working right now so I'm open to trying something different. Thanks for any help!