First of all, only weight yourself once a day at most and at the same time each day. Morning when you are first awake before eating is when many enjoy doing it. If you weigh yourself in the middle of the day, you are also weighing all the foods, water, fluid retention, and so on from the day.
You might also want to cut out the dairy. You seem to eat quite a bit of it. For some people (like mea) dairy means no loss at all.
The sugar free jello and other asperteme products can also stall some people. Since you are having trouble losing it would be a good idea to cut those out completely for a while.
You are also not doing induction. Since you've added nuts and other foods in, it becomes OWL at 20g a day instead of induction
You might try doing KISS as suggested. Basically that's meats, veggies, and fats for a while. It can get a tad boring, but it could jump start your loss. Then add back in some of the other foods slowly and see how you react to them to try and figure out the trigger. Also you might want to get an account at
www.fitday.com to be sure you are eating a high percentage of fat and to see how many calories you actually are getting a day.
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I can't say I entirely understand why having more calories can increase weight loss.
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Remember that our bodies still think we are cavemen. Occasionaly havign too few claories won't be a problem, and having too many all the time can cause a gain. Consistantly having too few calories though will signal your body that there is a famine going on. Your body will hang on to its energy stores (ie fat) to insure it's survivial. Yes you can get skinny starving, but it may take a while to deplete those stores. (I'm not suggesting your starving, just meaning the very skinny anorexics). At the same time your body will slow down all functions it doesn't deem nessecary for survival (your metabolism slowing.
How many calories is too few or too many though is an extreamly personal thing based on your unique body and it's needs.