Check out my diary? Need advice for weight loss

isalo1300

Recently have been feeling like I've let myself get too soft. Been more or less maintaining my current weight for the past 2 years but want a change! Trying to follow the guidelines with a 1500 calorie deficit. But also lifting 3-4 times a week and also dancing twice a week.
I try not to weight myself much because I become obsessed with it. But still it doesn't feel like I've made much progress when I weighed in yesterday with no changes.
Am I eating too much of my calories back from exercise? Any tips on how to get enough protein without breaking a deficit?
Pescatarian/ vegetarian. I don't really like dairy tbh, but I've been trying to eat lots of fish and eggs recently.

AnnPT77

I took a quick look at your diary, and nothing jumped out at me as off the wall.

I did wonder about the activity adjustment/exercise. I see that you have a synch from Sam,sung (I think it was). That should be the difference between how much MFP expects you to burn based on the activity level setting in your profile, and the calorie burn that your device sees.

Assume the device is 24/7 (or close), that should reflect some exercise calories, I think. Did it bring across the running calories line items, or did you add those manually? If added manually, whether that's a double count or not depends on the specific device, and sometimes on how the exercise was added.

Depending on how you're doing that, it may or may not be overstated. 800-some is a big-ish add, but if you have your MFP activity level set low (like sedentary/not very active) and you have an active job or home life plus exercise, it's possible. You haven't really given enough info in your post to guesstimate. I know running is a good burn, but it looks like your runs are fairly short, and it's hard to assess without knowing the distance and your current weight.

Maybe compare the net calories for your distance here:
https://exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs

Do make sure you're setting that on "net" not gross, to get a comparison number.

Not losing is a sign of being at maintenance calories . . . but only after you have enough data to iron out random fluctuations. That would tend to be 4-6 weeks minimum, or at least one and more ideally two full menstrual cycles (comparing weight at the same relative point in each cycle) if you're female, adult, premenopausal (as I'd guess from your photo).

Neckita

Lets be friends and I'll check in. Its a process!