My weightless Journey has hit a wall...

ALMIGHTY_THOR

Hello, My name is Chris. My wife and I started our weight loss journey back in September of 2021. so far, I have lost more than 50 pounds (currently 320 Lbs) and she has lost 40 pounds. We accomplished this by eating at a major calorie deficit and intermittent fasting. I, for example, Would eat 1000-1200 calories as a 6'0, 368 pound man and worked out very little during those few months. Her and I are at a point where we are actually working out a lot more and eating maybe 1500 calories a day, but have not been able to make the same progress we used to before. Our meals before used to be veggies and a meat for both lunch and dinner. not many carbs at all with one cheat day a week, still eating more or less within our calorie amount on the cheat day. now that I am a lot more active. I Think I need to start eating more, but I'm not sure how many calories I should be eating in order to start losing more wight again. any advice would help. thanks.

musicfan68

Did you set up MFP with your info? The app will give you the appropriate number of calories to eat for the deficit you choose.

ALMIGHTY_THOR

@musicfan68 IT was saying i need to eat 2500 calories to lose 2 pounds a week. for a 6'0 320 person that's active. does that sound right?

AnnPT77

ALMIGHTY_THOR wrote: »

@musicfan68 IT was saying i need to eat 2500 calories to lose 2 pounds a week. for a 6'0 320 person that's active. does that sound right?

It doesn't sound wrong. It's a reasonable starting point. If you're using MFP as designed, you'd set activity level based on your life excluding intentional exercise, then log and eat back exercise calories when exercise happens (or synch a fitness tracker). If you want to do something other than eat exercise separately, you could get an estimate from a TDEE calculator like this one, that averages in exercise calories:

https://www.sailrabbit.com/bmr/

Either alternative should get you to roughly the same calorie level, on average.

However, all of these things just spit out the average calorie need for people similar to us, based on research. Most people are close to average, but it's possible to be a bit off, high or low.

So, use the estimate as a starting point. Follow it for 4-6 weeks (whole menstrual cycles for adult women not in menopause), look at your average weekly weight change over that time period, and adjust if necessary to dial in a sensibly moderate weight loss rate. Two pounds a week should be OK for you, currently.

That "customized goal based on results" idea will work for most everyone.

asellitti6523

There is no way you could be 320 lbs eating 1500 calories a day and not losing weight. I'm 235 lbs eating between 1800-2000 calories a day and I'm losing on average 1.5 lbs per week and that is just with walking for 30 mins a day as my only consistent form of exercise right now.