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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP - I hope that was a typo that you burn 2000+ calories day. You would have to be running ultra marathons for that :-D

Have you considered giving intermittent fasting a try?

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OP Here. I meant total for the entire day - as in my TDEE is somewhere around there, not just exercise calories.

Answers to other questions... I track very closely. I use a food scale, and eat pretty simply as I'm not a great cook so everything is basic. I don't track every single day but only because if I prepare a meal that I'm going to eat 2-3x, and I've already put it into My Fitness Pal and I know it's 400 calories per serving, I just count it that way. I don't snack much, because it makes me hungrier - I typically just eat lunch and dinner, with usually a "dessert" after like a greek yogurt or something like that. Meals are usually some kind of meat, a ton of vegetables, and sometimes a starch/carb. Last night for dinner, I had turkey meatloaf, green beans, and a sweet potato. I find that sort of breakdown for meals is pretty ingrained in me.

I already do intermittent fasting, but only because I'm not hungry in the mornings. And it truly comes down to calories, which is what I'm really tracking. I've done Whole30 before, hated it and didn't experience any amazing results, scale or non-scale.

And while I don't exercise for an hour every single day, I use the Madeline app which is 45-60 mins, 5 days/week. Sometimes I will workout 6 and add in something else fun, depending on schedule, etc.[/quote]

OP the truth of the matter is, you are eating too many calories.  Forget how much you work out, it really does not matter. Exercise is great but fat loss comes down to calories consumed. If have you honestly been eating 1500-1600 cal/day 7 days a week for a month or more and not lost any weight then you need to reduce your calories. You are already eating at the top of where you should be eating. Which mean that even if you are in a deficit, it is a small deficit and will take even longer to show up on the scale and lose weight. Aim for a range of closer to 1400 cal/day. Track for a month and see where you are at.  Losing weight involves being a little uncomfortable. You shouldn't' be starving all the time, but you will be hungry at times.

I also always recommend weighing yourself daily to track the trend. Weighing less often can hide progress because weight fluctuates every single day and the slower you are losing weight the easier it is for these fluctuations to be hidden if you only weight yourself once a week. [/quote]

THIS +1000000

The truth of the matter is, OP what you are doing isn't working so if you want something to change you have to change what you're doing.  You need to weigh and log every single thing every single time.   Simple as that.  I don't understand why other posters will reply "that's crazy" or "that's so extreme". But in reality, people way overestimate the amount of calories they burn and way underestimate the amount of calories they consume.  I am totally guilty of this myself.  I am shocked to see how many calories of something may be, and how little they may be of something else.  You can't use the cup, tablespoon, etc method. You have to weigh it.  Weight doesn't lie.

I would give myself at least 3 months of being honestly consistent with my what I am consuming to see a real change.  Consistency is key.  Giving yourself time is key.  Some people (like me) have bodies that take a few weeks to actually respond to a change.  I can change my diet and it will take about a month for my body to finally show progress, even just a little.  You can't expect to drop 5 pounds in a month, not in a safe way.

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