Please help with stall

Sarauk2sf

What has your weight done in the past two weeks at that intake?

Same as the past 2 months of eating ad lib, generally. I didn't write down exact readings but I had one day I dropped a bit to 167.6 and the rest ~168 with a few 170 days after my higher calorie dinners.

What has it done since you started tracking 2 weeks ago?

gweneddk

Maybe this is clearer? I've been maintaining at ~168 for 2 months. I started tracking again 2 weeks ago to try to lose weight. Weight has stayed about the same for the past 2 weeks.

gweneddk

I spent the last week traveling on business. I estimated calories as best as I could but pretty sure I went well over my "goal" calories pretty much every day. Weighed in this morning at 167.8. It makes no sense whatsoever.

I know I will gain if I maintain 2000+calories per day, but this week did nothing to help me figure out what an actual deficit is for me. Starting to think that calorie counting just won't work for me.

_benjammin

Calorie counting is easy, expenditure estimating not so easy.

donyellemoniquex3

My advice is to try something new to your body, like PiYo, resistance bands, etc.

SideSteel

We will try to take another look today, sorry for the delays.

gweneddk

Thanks, Sidesteel, I'm just frustrated in general, not with you guys. I've had some friends follow Eat to Perform so I am thinking about trying that.... which would put me at:

Training days: 2250, 225 c, 150p, 80f
Rest days (2+/week): 1750, 125c, 150p, 80f

So I will prob try for that for a few weeks, working up to the higher cal days slowly

SideSteel

Ten years later I finally decide to reply to this. Sorry for the delay.

So if I were in your position based on the previous posts and the previous data set, and ASSUMING you still wish to reduce bodyfat/weight, I would not use the macros you've listed above as I think that will put you well into a caloric surplus (unless you've added substantial expenditure -- I'm making the assumption that cals out is roughly maintained).

I would suggest starting at the following calorie and macronutrient intake for 1 to 2 weeks, with accurate logging and food scale usage in that time period to get a good idea what happens on this intake:

1700
145 c
65 f
135 p


From that intake, I would monitor your average weight by looking at a rolling 7 day average and make decisions on intake and/or expenditure based on the results. If you do not lose anything on that intake I would look at either making another reduction or I would consider adding activity depending on where you're at as far as your limits for activity increases.

Also, while you may have been at this intake in the past, I'm basing the above on current data and current weight. The idea being you use this as a starting point and manage the variables based on what results occur from the above starting point and your current average weigh ins.

gweneddk

Thanks for the reply SS! The idea with Eat to Perform as that you eat at maintenance level on training days and a deficit on rest days, so the weight loss is definitely going to be quite a bit slower than if I was eating at a deficit every day.

Surprisingly enough, I've been following close to these recommendations and averaging ~2000 cal/day since I posted on Aug 4th and my weight is trending down... -1.4# but with a possible hormonal contribution so I'm not quite convinced yet.

I'm curious to see if I keep it up if I might be able to sustain a slow loss with this kind of calorie/carb cycling and have fewer "hangry" moments. If my loss over the past 10 days is a fluke and the scale starts going back up again after another week or two at these macros then I will try to drop it down to the levels you've suggested, fair enough?

SideSteel

Thanks for the reply SS! The idea with Eat to Perform as that you eat at maintenance level on training days and a deficit on rest days, so the weight loss is definitely going to be quite a bit slower than if I was eating at a deficit every day.

Surprisingly enough, I've been following close to these recommendations and averaging ~2000 cal/day since I posted on Aug 4th and my weight is trending down... -1.4# but with a possible hormonal contribution so I'm not quite convinced yet.

I'm curious to see if I keep it up if I might be able to sustain a slow loss with this kind of calorie/carb cycling and have fewer "hangry" moments. If my loss over the past 10 days is a fluke and the scale starts going back up again after another week or two at these macros then I will try to drop it down to the levels you've suggested, fair enough?

Of course, I hope it turns out with good results.