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Need Help! Have been on a plateau for over 6 months
deevatude
Posts: 322 Member
Provide your stats (height/weight/age/bodyfat% if you know it/etc)
5'7
160
25
What's your current gross intake of calories, on average?
I'd say around 1800...maybe
I was doing eat more to weigh less before that and I stalled after some success with that,which was last year and how I made it down to 160.
What's your current average intake of protein, carbs, and fats, in grams? (GRAMS, not percent!)
carbs: 271
fats:43
protein:42
Do you use a food scale and measure everything?
no
Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?)
majority of the time
Do you take cheat days or days off?
on the days i barely tracked, I cheated
How much weight have you lost so far and over what time period?
since the beginning of my journey (3 years ago): 56lbs to date
Describe your activity (exercise and non exercise) and did you change that activity withing the last couple of months?
I went from doing cardio exercise for 30 minutes a day with no weight training to only doing cardio for 20 minutes a day with 10 minutes of resistance exercises.
How long have you been stalled and if it is not a complete stall please be very specific as to how much you have lost over the stalled period.
I have been 160 pounds since May of last year, i lost 2 pound somewhere but I think that was just water weight
Are you breastfeeding?
no
Do you have thyroid issues/risks or PCOS?
no
Please help, it will be much appreciated.
5'7
160
25
What's your current gross intake of calories, on average?
I'd say around 1800...maybe
I was doing eat more to weigh less before that and I stalled after some success with that,which was last year and how I made it down to 160.
What's your current average intake of protein, carbs, and fats, in grams? (GRAMS, not percent!)
carbs: 271
fats:43
protein:42
Do you use a food scale and measure everything?
no
Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?)
majority of the time
Do you take cheat days or days off?
on the days i barely tracked, I cheated
How much weight have you lost so far and over what time period?
since the beginning of my journey (3 years ago): 56lbs to date
Describe your activity (exercise and non exercise) and did you change that activity withing the last couple of months?
I went from doing cardio exercise for 30 minutes a day with no weight training to only doing cardio for 20 minutes a day with 10 minutes of resistance exercises.
How long have you been stalled and if it is not a complete stall please be very specific as to how much you have lost over the stalled period.
I have been 160 pounds since May of last year, i lost 2 pound somewhere but I think that was just water weight
Are you breastfeeding?
no
Do you have thyroid issues/risks or PCOS?
no
Please help, it will be much appreciated.
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I'd say around 1800...maybe
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Do you use a food scale and measure everything?
no
Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?)
majority of the time
Do you take cheat days or days off?
on the days i barely tracked, I cheated
This. It sucks, but if you aren't weighing and logging you really have no idea what you're consuming. More than likely, it's much higher than 1800.0 -
I'd say around 1800...maybe
I
Do you use a food scale and measure everything?
no
Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?)
majority of the time
Do you take cheat days or days off?
on the days i barely tracked, I cheated
This. It sucks, but if you aren't weighing and logging you really have no idea what you're consuming. More than likely, it's much higher than 1800.
^ and this would be correct.
OP: The first thing you should give consideration to would be to get a food scale and use it diligently for about two weeks. I am not asking you to permanently weigh everything for the rest of your life -- but you should do this as a next step and see what happens over the course of the next couple of weeks.
Once you have done that, come back here and re-post in this thread and we can then take a look at that two weeks of data and any results that come of it.
The worst case scenario here is that you end up re-calibrating your previously held ideas of portion sizes and you'll get a more realistic idea of how to estimate.0 -
will do0
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Tagging for follow up.0
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Locking for admin purposes. Please PM either myself or SideSteel when you are ready to give an update, including a link to this thread, and we will unlock so you can do so.0
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Unlocked at OPs request0
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My update.
I did my best, weighed, measured and logged everything I ate. I did cardio for 30 minutes a day, and 10 minutes of resistance training. During the week of 3/9 to 3/15, I was on my monthly, when I weighed myself after that was over, I weighed 158 lbs. I continued to follow routine and as of today, I weigh 160 lbs.
I dont know what to do at this point. I am still stuck.0 -
Hi!
On looking at your macros, your protein is very very low.
Can you focus for the next 2 weeks on getting as close as possible to:
Calories: 1,500
Protein: 100g (which is still a bit low, but going higher will probably be too much of a jump in one go).
Fats: 50g
with the balance going to carbs as much as possible.
Re the resistance training - what are you doing?0 -
For the resistance training, i just watch youtube videos with the butterfly band.0
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For the resistance training, i just watch youtube videos with the butterfly band.
Are you referring to one of the thick rubber bands you can use for resistance (as ooppsed to the tubing with handles?)0
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