What can I do to get over losing 1 pound a month?

weight3049

I am about 25 pounds away from my goal. But for the past months I have only been dropping 1 pound or so a month with the same calories (1,500) and exercising (walking 12 miles/week).

Is this normal as I am getting closer to my goal weight or do I need to make a change, maybe increase activity etc?

ANY advice is welcome.

harper16

The closer you get to your goal the harder it seems to get since you have such little room for errors. Have you recalculated your calories to make sure you are still in a calorie deficit? Do you use a food scale and weigh and log everything you eat?

weight3049

harper16 wrote: »

The closer you get to your goal the harder it seems to get since you have such little room for errors. Have you recalculated your calories to make sure you are still in a calorie deficit? Do you use a food scale and weigh and log everything you eat?

My calories for the day never change even when updating my weight, I'm guessing 1,500 is the lowest you can go for a male?. I am doing everything I did before which is weighing with a scale and logging everything.

harper16

weight3049 wrote: »

harper16 wrote: »

The closer you get to your goal the harder it seems to get since you have such little room for errors. Have you recalculated your calories to make sure you are still in a calorie deficit? Do you use a food scale and weigh and log everything you eat?

My calories for the day never change even when updating my weight, I'm guessing 1,500 is the lowest you can go for a male?. I am doing everything I did before which is weighing with a scale and logging everything.

1500 is the lowest you can go for a male. Do you eat back your exercise calories?

weight3049

harper16 wrote: »

weight3049 wrote: »

harper16 wrote: »

The closer you get to your goal the harder it seems to get since you have such little room for errors. Have you recalculated your calories to make sure you are still in a calorie deficit? Do you use a food scale and weigh and log everything you eat?

My calories for the day never change even when updating my weight, I'm guessing 1,500 is the lowest you can go for a male?. I am doing everything I did before which is weighing with a scale and logging everything.

1500 is the lowest you can go for a male. Do you eat back your exercise calories?

I used to last month, tried not to do this but still same exact results.

yirara

The only way to lose faster and at a healthy rate is to gain weight to lose weight. Sorry, the closer you get to normal weight the lest energy your body needs: you need less energy moving around, less energy to keep your organs running and blood circulating, controlling your temperature, supplying oxygen everywhere, etc. So yes, it's normal that weight loss slows down the closer you get to goal weight.

This is me, but I don't want to be too lightweight as my calories to maintain weight would be too low. I enjoy food and want to eat an amount that is satisfying (plus my face looks sick and thing if I'm too low in weight).

cmriverside

What are your stats? Age, current weight, height. You don't say whether you are working in addition to that walk you take.

Walking 12 miles in a week isn't going to give you a lot of calories extra, so I hope you are logging that correctly.

It's possible you are miscalculating somewhere. It's also possible you are trying to get too lean...are you doing any weights/resistance type exercise in addition to your walking? That would give you more definition and maybe change how you "see" that last 20 pounds. The last 15 took me nine months to lose and I was being seriously meticulous about everything. It's just hard at the end.

If you open up your FOOD page for us to view, we may be able to spot some common errors people make, like guessing on sizes, using cups instead of weights, using "medium" etc.

Go to FOOD > Settings, scroll down and click "Public" and save.

Diatonic12

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/want-lose-weight-weigh-your-food-week-ncna772476

'So here I was thinking I’m eating 200 calories, but I’m really eating 600,” he said.

Weighing Food Gives You a More Accurate Understanding of Portion Sizes
Using a small kitchen scale he purchased for $14, Easter weighed all his food, from the cream in his morning coffee to the chicken he ate at dinner. He input the weight into the MyFitnessPal app on his phone, which calculated the exact number of calories in the food. Easter realized he previously didn’t have an accurate understanding of the portion sizes he was eating, especially when it came to calorie-dense foods.

“I thought I was eating like 2,600 or 2,700 calories [a day], and it was a lot more than that,” he explains. “It was definitely above 3,000.”

“A lot of times we make assumptions. For example, if I were to just put banana — generic banana — in a calorie counting app, [the results] could have been more than I actually ate, it could have been less than I actually ate,” says Easter. “Same with nuts. If I took a handful of nuts and I throw them in the shake I could potentially be off by more than 100 calories depending on how many I thought that was.”

He said weighing his food helped him see that the snacks he ate between meals were adding unnecessary calories too.'