Weight loss

selenenatalie

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

TeaBea

A few things to consider. When you are close to goal, weight loss will be VERY slow. 1/2 pound a week loss would be good progress. This 1/2 pound can easily be masked with water retention from a variety of sources - time of month, sore muscles, higher sodium days. Your daily bathroom "schedule" can also throw off that 1/2 pound. 3 weeks isn't a long time.

2,300 calories from exercise sounds like an extremely high estimate for someone that's 5'3". Your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)......calories for an entire day could easily be 2,300. But not exercise alone. Google your TDEE (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/) and eat fewer calories than this.

Also "around" 1800 calorie intake. With 1/2 pound a week to lose you are looking at a 250 calorie deficit. That's TDEE (including exercise) less 250 calories. You need to be as exact as you can. If you are not using a digital scale to measure food intake.....start there. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10640205/the-basics-of-accurate-logging

Another great post - https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1161603/so-you-want-a-nice-stomach/p1

apullum

You can’t control where your body burns fat from. There’s no guarantee that you’ll lose it around your stomach. Since you are already in a healthy weight range, I would recommend recomp to build muscle and reduce fat, rather than focusing on weight loss.

emmamcgarity

129 is already a healthy weight for your height. So the last few pounds will definitely come off slowly. It sounds like your goals might be better met by focusing on maintenance and recomp. Recomp takes time so patience will be required. I agree with the previous observation that your calorie burn from exercise sounds high. How much exercise are you doing daily? How are you calculating that calorie burn?

kshama2001

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

TeaBea

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

I thought about this after I posted, it makes more sense.

selenenatalie

Yes 2,300 on days that I excerscie

selenenatalie

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

Yes 2300 on days i exercise

selenenatalie

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

Like at the end of the day my Apple Watch has around that total amount

kshama2001

selenenatalie wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

Like at the end of the day my Apple Watch has around that total amount

Your Total Calories includes the calories you burn just from being alive. If your Apple Watch is like this one, your exercise calories are your Active Calories.



https://mattgemmell.com/losing-weight-with-apple-watch/

...Your total number of burned calories is the sum of resting (just going about your life, fueling your body’s normal needs), and active (when you’re actually exercising). We subtract that total from what you’ve eaten, to figure out where you are for today.

selenenatalie

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

selenenatalie wrote: »

I’m a 5”3 , 20 year old women I workout 5-6 times a week and usually burn 2,300 calories from excersicing daily. To lose the remainder of belly fat im eating around 1,800 calories a day. But for 3 weeks now I haven’t seen my weight move from 129 pounds but I feel my clothes looser. Should I lower my calorie intake?

Did you actually mean 2,300 calories from exercise alone on your workout days? Seems very high for someone your height and weight. How many hours of what activity does that represent?

I'm wondering if you really meant 2300 - 1800 = 500 exercise calories on workout days.

Like at the end of the day my Apple Watch has around that total amount

Your Total Calories includes the calories you burn just from being alive. If your Apple Watch is like this one, your exercise calories are your Active Calories.



https://mattgemmell.com/losing-weight-with-apple-watch/

...Your total number of burned calories is the sum of resting (just going about your life, fueling your body’s normal needs), and active (when you’re actually exercising). We subtract that total from what you’ve eaten, to figure out where you are for today.

kshama2001

Ok, on that day your exercise (Active) calories were 963.