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Hope you had a great Christmas. Reading your log, I'd like to make a few suggestions. I think the reason for your slow down (other than hormone issues) is that you've been on very low calories for a long time. If I were you I'd take 4 weeks to reset your metabolism. Feed your body, and I believe that after four weeks you should see fat loss even at the higher calories. (I've seen it in the past with many clients). It's a bit of a mind fuck when you gain a pound or two at the beginning, but believe me this won't make you fat. If I were you, I'd structure my diet/cardio this way: Wake up: 20 to 30 minutes cardio, drink a glass of water and go for a fast paced walk outside if you don't have cardio equipment at home. Meal 1: 40g of Oats or 45g Cream of Rice (dry weight) with 1 scoop protein, 1 table spoon (15g) Natural Peanut Butter or Almond Butter, 50g Blueberries Meal 2: 150g Flank Steak (if can't get it then 150g extra lean ground beef) with 1 small or half large Avocado (about 75g without pit/skin) Meal 3: 1 can tuna, 3 chopped celery stalks, half a red Apple diced, 28g walnuts crushed. Mix it all up. Can add some hot sauce or other zero/or low calorie sauce, but the apple and stuff makes it pretty to easy without sauces Meal 4: (about 1.5 to 2 hours pre-workout) 200g lean white fish (Basa, Tilapia, Cod, Haddock etc...) with 150g Cooked White Rice Meal 5: Post Workout : 150g Cooked Rice, 150g Chicken Breast, 75g Red Kidney Beans, 100g pineapple. If extremely hungry (dying) or post workout meal is hours away from sleep (meaning 5 meals don't cover the whole day) you can add in a protein shake post workout and delay your post workout meal a bit. As far as cardio, not sure if you are actually running on the treadmill (as I interpret incline 8 at level 5 meaning 5mph) but that is extremely difficult and if you are hanging on to the handles, you are just wasting your time. I prefer to have people doing a fast paced walk on the treadmill at an incline of 4 to 6 and speed of 3 to 4mph with no hands on the handles at all. This is what I would do post workout for 20 to 30 minutes. Workouts, make sure they are intense. Make your work sets count. Last couple reps should be extremely difficult. The kind of difficult where even if you had a gun to your head, you couldn't do anymore. Try throwing in a couple rest pause, where you go to failure, rack it, rest for 15 seconds and try to do a few more reps, rack it again, rest for 15 seconds and try to do another rep or two. (do this on your last set, do it on machines where it's safe to fail, don't try this on squats lol) Anyways, you don't have to follow my advice but this is how I would approach it. Forget fasting and other diet gimmicks. Feed your body every 2 to 3 hours, let it get used to digesting a good amount of food, keep working out intensely, and I promise the body will start burning fat again. Maybe not the first week, but it will.