Calories

safetyqueen25

Hi everyone. I have a question about calories if anyone has any similar experiences themselves or can recommend an article/source of information. I have been maintaining my weight for about two years but now want to try and lose some weight and I am really struggling because, stupidly, I have been maintaining my weight at around 1300 a day, plus weekend eating which I haven't been tracking, figuring that the two will cancel each other out and they have but unfortunately my body is so used to this that I have plateaued. I have upped my protein intake and am monitoring my macros closely and will be reducing my weekend calories as well.

The problem is I can't really go any lower on calories, well I could go to 1200 and probably will but I haven't left myself a lot of wiggle room.

My TDEE is 1776 and 1346 for weight loss but I can't imagine I am going to lose weight by increasing my calories, or am I eating too little, should I increase my calories to 1346?

Also, when I eventually want to maintain my weight again, I think I will try increasing my calories back to nearer my TDEE, does anyone have experience of how they did this, did you do it gradually, like one day a week or by slowly increasing the amount by 50, 100 a day each week?

Thank you

janejellyroll

Before I began attempting to set my calorie goal for weight loss, I would figure out what -- exactly -- I was eating on the weekends. Take a couple of weeks to accurately log and see what you're consuming. Then you can figure out what your goal should be from there.

rileysowner

Start logging everything including weekends and see what you are eating.

Talan79

Use a digital scale and weigh everything if you already are not.