Op - interestingly my pants feel fine. I don’t know why. Maybe I have just put on a lot of muscle over the past year? |
Hi OP, I would eat more calories. Try eating back 1-200 on exercise days. For perspective I am way shorter than you (5 foot 1, 111 lbs) and I lose steadily on 1370 plus eating back exercise calories (I underestimate these a little). My exercise and activity are similar to yours. Everyone is diffferent but just a thought |
You need to eat a lot more … 1700-1800 calories a day
10 lbs will be gone in a couple of months and the change to maintenance won’t be as hard. If you starve yourself now you’re going to go awol at maintenance and be back here in 3 months at this weight or higher. |
Op - the only day I managed to eat 1800 calories is when I had a cheat meal with two pieces of pizza. Other than that my highest day is 1588 calories. I think my biggest thing I am noticing with tracking my calories is that I need to get at least 100 grams of protein a day. If I do that I am not super hungry. If I don’t and have more carbs then I am hungry all day. Exercise for example yesterday was 18,000 steps and 30 minutes of weight lifting. |
I eat. That’s how. |
I say this with kindness … you must be under counting. There’s just no way you can move that much be that height and weight and not be losing weight |
Use a straw - paper or a reusable metal straw. Best for drinking tea, coffee and wine/soda if you drink them, to preserve your enamel and color. |
Adhering to a very low calorie diet while being very active is going to drive your metabolism into starvation mode and stall weight loss entirely. |
That’s not true You can’t stall you metabolism You can get too hungry and go crazy every 1/2/3 weeks and cancel out all your deficit though |
Op - this is the first week I have actually counted calories. I was probably eating more like 2000 before that. I have lost 1.5 pounds this week. |
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Drinking from a straw causes lines around the mouth though. |
This subforum should be renamed the ED forum, it’s all grotesquely normalized. |
I eat a banana. Filling, delicious, and cheap. What more could you ask for? |
I saw another thread where someone posted you should be at the bottom of
Your height BMI. I looked up 5’7” and BMI of 19 is 121 pounds. Does that seem right?!? That is more what I should be aiming for? Op |