If your weight has been unchanged for 4 weeks, it's time to change things up.
Since 1200 is probably the minimum number of calories you can safely eat, I don't recommend going any lower. In fact if you eat too few, your body could be holding onto the fat and burning muscle. My wife has lost 25 lbs. And the only thing she's done differently is eat more. She was always very active, but ate once a day around 800 calories. She gain a lot of weight. So be careful with eating less than 1200. She eats around 1300-1500.
Since you can lower your calorie intake, then you need to increase your calories out. You might have to workout 6-7 days a week. You might have to increase your daily cardio time to 60-90 minutes. Most people do only 30. You might have to change up your exercise pattern. Do something different every day. Walking, running, swimming, cycling, hiking, etc. It could be your body is so used to the exercise you are doing, that your fitibit says you burn 600 calories, but you really burn 250. So changing things up will help avoid that.
Since you are only trying to lose a few lbs, and want to get tone, then you should eat more protein. And you will probably need to eat more calories to do that. Weight loss, and muscle strength toning, are hard to do at the same time. Not impossible, but hard. I'd first concentrate on losing weight first, and then up the protein and calories and hit the weights to tone up. You can still do the weights to maintain your muscle strength, but adding strength and toning require a surplus of protein to build the muscle. In a caloric deficit diet, you usually don't have enough protein to do that.
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