When I first started off losing weight, I was dropping a fairly consistant 2 lbs per week. That slowed to maybe .5 - 1 lb per week, and sometimes I wasn't losing anything at all.

Like you, I had upped my cardio. I stuck with this for many weeks, happy that I was losing weight but a little frustrated it wasn't coming off as steadily as before.

So, I started tracking my calories more carefully, trying to stay between 1200-1600 per day. Saturdays are my "treat day" when I allow myself to go as high as 3000-4000 calories.

My calorie counts each day are usually pretty different. On Sunday & Monday , I stay down around 1200 calories to make up for Saturday. The rest of the week I bounce around from about 1300 up to 1600.

So I am zig-zagging even though it's not something I planned. And since I started doing that, I have again started losing 2lbs a week consistently.

This is what has worked for me and is just my 2 cents.

Thanks for your input applecheeks. I think i might try that. I find some days i am not very hungry and its a struggle to get in 1600 cals. And other days i feel i could easily eat 2000 without blinking an eye. I gained 5lbs last week on vacation, so maybe that shook things up a bit. Im a little down about it but im just gunn kick things up. I figure i should be getting around 11,000cals a week. *crossing my fingers* I hope this works i want to lose it so badly. Even if it is just small i want this stupid scale to go down!