Oh That Plateau!!!!

Only three months into my journey of weightloss and Ive already hit a plateau!!

As the great Homer simpson once said "DOH!!!!!" I cant even begin to describe how incredibly frustrating this is. Ive managed to get from 180 lbs to about 162, in which i hover between that and 160. And for the last three weeks i have been at this number and NOTHING and i mean NOTHING is making that scale budge. It really gets my mind turning. I ask myself questions like "Am i meant to never be skinny"  or "what am I doing wrong" and in my darkest moments "Maybe I should give up". But then I think about it and I know I am not doing anything wrong. I am working out 5 to 6 days a week. I eat clean. I eat every two hours to keep my metabolism up. So I know I am doing things right and I am not sabatoging myself in any way. Someone recently asked me about my calorie intake, to which i replied I dont keep track. I was very interested to find out that I was consuming daily about 1200-1300 calories a day when infact my body actually required around 1800, so infact I had my body in starvation mode. So now I am stepping up my calorie intake, and Ive also stepped up my workout regimine. I am amping up the weights and trying to include more intervals in my cardio. I am hoping this will work. It is so frustrating to not be able to move down the scale. I see on the internet all these great success stories of women who have been able to lose hundreds of pounds and end up with a slammin body, and i start to question my ability, like why isnt this working for me, maybe I am not meant to have a great body, maybe Its not in the cards for me. On the other hand I know that I must not give up and keep pushing through, because if I dont, change wont happen and I wont be able to show my 6 yr old boy what hard work and determination can do. So I will continue my journey onward and upward, and am crossing my fingers that I will move down to the 50's, which is my next short term goal!!!