I'm going to agree with Bobbie and suggest calorie tracking. I've been where you are. I've lost 50# in the last year and a half and had several long plateaus (8 weeks or more). When I would track calories and portion sizes I would find that I was eating more calories (unintentionally) than I figured I burned. Even if you feel like you're eating things that are good for you a calorie deficit is necessary for weight loss. I don't track calories all the time but I do when I hit a plateau and it really gets me over that hump. Good luck!

I use My Fitness Pal in the iPhone. I think they have a droid app too and it's free :). I use it to track calories in and it'll also let you track calories burned. It even has a bar code scanner.

I had move to 60-20-20 fat/protein/carb I was eating so much protein and Backing off really helped me.

I would recommend IF with one meal a day in the evening, also cut out the fruit and switch to low glycemic veggies with your protein of choice. No alcohol, cut back on caffeine. Try it for a week and see what happens.

I was just reading Marc' Daily Apple blog and he recommends to have more carbs one day per week to re-start a stalled weight loss (or at least this is what I understood from the article).

For more info, here is the source. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-should-i-increase-carb-intake-for-weight-loss/#axzz26WY7ZQop

My personal advice - no fruit and no nuts (with no grains, of course). That usually does it for me. But I never tried it for a long time, one month was the longest.

I see IF has already been mentioned...Here's what's been effective for my wife and I.

Eat earlier in the evening 6-7pm and stop, no more calories. I like working out in a fasted state in the AM... I don't have my first meal till around 2 PM (we eat 2 large meals) No sugar, including most fruit (for some people, including my wife, fructose is not your friend) We started eating starchy carbs again...1-2 times daily..seems to work better than VLC. Cycling calories (not tracking) Just eat more some days and less others. Absolutely no snacking. Mixing up training...Intervals one day, longer endurance training the next and some days doing 2 short training sessions.

You say you have not lost any weight, but has your body composition changed? Is added muscle from your workouts balancing out your fat loss? Remember that the number on the scale can be a bit misleading, and the more fat you lose, the more likely this is to happen. But if you are sure this is not the case, then do what others have suggested, and make sure your calorie consumption has not crept upwards. If it hasn't, I would suggest possibly cycling your calories, going a couple of days eating more followed by a couple of days eating less. That may help to change up your metabolic rate.

I'm in the same place as you, only I have not lost weight in about 8 months or so. I have tracked my calories and even with a deficit I don't lose any weight. I think my issue is overtraining. I'm going to back off a bit and see what happens.

I am in the same situation as PaleoMama.

However, I track my calories faithfully, weighing all my food. I don't cheat either. It would be good to track but it won't necessarily help a woman get over a stall.

For women, fat loss seems to be first and foremost a hormonal equation, so lets try to give suggestions on that paradigm, not the usual diet bs.

The real question I think is: how do I hack my leptin?

If you want to burn fat you have to train your body to do so. That means following a very low carb, moderate protein, high fat diet. Depending on your lifestyle it could be difficult to follow, but you should get the results you're looking for.

I don't agree with people recommending increasing carb intake. IMHO they are not following the science. For example I see people here telling others to cook rice in bone broth and lather sweet potatoes with butter. It may be very tasty, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's optimal nutrition.

Skip the protein shake, eat more whole eggs and good quality fats instead - or fast intermittently some days. Protein shakes are insulogenic, so they'll make you gain fat.

Limit carbs to post workout meals - but wait an hour or so, and work out fasted. This will raise your insulin sensitivity. This way your muscle (and liver) glycogen is depleted, and the carb consumption will act as a refeed instead of as a signal to store fats.

Make sure you get plenty of carlories from fat, and enough protein for muscle repair.

Yes, going higher carb can get you out of fat stalls, but don't go too far.

Going paleo is not calorie counting/fat counting/points counting. Going paleo is about what is the genetic best for our bodies. So I used to be hung up on weight/size/exercise. Lots of plateaus, lots of binge mentality. So Here is what I do. Eat more fat, don't eat baked goods even if they are deemed paleo (because I have found that you will snack more when you eat baked goods and frankly paleo did not bake as a staple). My order of importance to get off the plateau - Vegetables (no potato family), animal protein, fruit, seeds, nuts. So my plate looks like 1/2 plate vegies, 1/4 protein, 1/4 plate combo of fruit seeds nuts. I miss one meal every other day. This last one makes the body jump around a bit confusing it and causing it to start the fat release. I don't overdo the exercise as with full time work and family to look after I can't sustain more than 1.5hrs x 3 per week. so I cycle for 45 mins on 80% of max training level and 30mins weight training on 2 days a week and walk for 1.5 hours one other day and on non consecutive days so that I always have 1-2 rest days between bouts of exercise. I maintain the exercise level but chop and change the food. I love it. Cheers Laura

I was in the same boat until about 3 weeks ago. I kept thinking that because I only cheated on the weekend and my meals weren't gluttonous that it probably wasn't affecting my progress. I was so wrong. I would eat 100% paleo throughout the week, then my husband and I would go out on Friday nights and this is what I'd eat: 3 beers (IPAs, not bud light), we'd split a turkey burger and fries. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but when you figure that 3 IPAs are at least 300 calories each, the 1/2 burger and fries are probably between 700-1000 calories, that's a lot. I was working out like crazy, but basically just spinning my wheels. My dinner lately has been about 400 cals, saving me around 900 calories for that meal. I highly recommend you track closely for a few days at minimum to get an idea of what you're eating, including weekends. In the last few weeks I've cut out my hour long cardio workouts and cut calories and I've lost 8 pounds.