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1200 calories is already quite little, you might have gone into starvation mode as your body panics at the high ammount of energy it needs and the little you give it. I would start eating around 500+1000 calories more every 3-4th day so your body stays out of starvation mode. 1200 calories is way too little with an active life.
If you keep yourself in that low calorie range much longer your body will take EVERY chance it gets to put weight back on when you stop the diet, and you might permanently lower your metabolism forever.
Eat 5 meals a day, make sure you eat alot of protein, the food that needs the highest ammount of energy to digest. And take a day where you eat more than normal.
One of the most important mistakes you do is eating small meals at the start of the day, which sets your metabolic rate for the rest of the day, and then eat bigger meals before you go to bed. When sleeping your body's metabolism is at its lowest and is where you gain the most weight.
Start your day with a big meal then gradually decrease it over the day, and dont eat around 4 hours before you go to bed.
Eat 5 small meals 5 times a day, and try to up your ammount to 1500 calories I would say, if you are not already too late in slowing your metabolism
Also people who mention you've gained musclemass is not possible. To gain weight you will have to eat more than your body needs, to lose weight you need to eat less. There is no way you are gaining any sort of muscle on 1200 cals.
+500 calories = more muscles, -500 of your daily need = weightloss. Never go under -500, then your body shuts down and you'll gain it all back + more when you start eating normally again.
Examples of healthy calorie dense food are nuts and fat fish like salmon.