I’ve reduced my calorie intake, I’ve maintained my calorie burn; why am I 5 kg heavier ??

spates101

Help me out guys. I’ve been tracking my weight and dietary intake/exercise for over 3 years. I’m 6 kg heavier than I want to but I’m stuck! What do I do??

TavistockToad

You've been eating at maintenance if you haven't list any weight in 3 years.

What are your stats?

spates101

75 kg, 182 cm 32 cm waist

TavistockToad

given your stats you might want to look at recomp instead of weight loss

spates101

What is recomp?

snowflake954

I agree with recomp. There's a great thread running by usmcmp on recomposition. Just do a search.

diannethegeek

spates101 wrote: »

What is recomp?

Recomp is short for recomposition. It means maintaining your weight or eating at a slight deficit while reshaping your body. The best advice for it is here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10177803/recomposition-maintaining-weight-while-losing-fat/p1

spates101

I took the time to review what I was doing when I was 5 kg lighter; I’ve dropped around 300 calories a day off my daily schedule - so that’s where I’ll focus, I suspect I’ll have met my goal within 3 weeks - we’ll see!

slossia

How do you feel? How do you look? Do you have lots of energy? Maybe your at your healthy weight! I would rather go by my waistline size! The scale doesn’t know if it’s fat or lean muscle that’s causing the scale to go up!