What the hell is going on?! Help Please1

tafoyagl

Are you keeping your protein count where it should be? Protein intake is very important.

Rae6503

Just keep at it. The remaining weight loss will be pretty slow and that's okay. Keep on the 30DS. You might be storing extra water weight since you've upped the intensity of your work outs. I bet 1550 would be good. I eat about 1800 net on average (eating all my exercise calories). I weigh 155lbs.

kdiamond

Thank you all for your replies, it helps to see everyone elses views and try and give me some ideas.

My body fat is 24.9% currently, and ideally would like to get it to 20%.

I am going to try and up my calories to 1550, and try not to eat back all my exercise calories and see if this makes a difference. The exercise i do is circuit training but i hadnt thought about upping that as i do it everyday so i am also going to up my exercise each day, try and do maybe 45 minutes a day and see if this helps!

I keep my food diary closed only because i have suffered from bulimia and anorexia in the past and still battle with people seeing me eat/watching me eat/knowing what i eat etc and i just cant quite bring myself to opening my diary up to everyone...sounds lame i know!

Really do appreciate everyone's advice though and going to take some on board and try and bust through this last hurdle!

That being said, do make sure you are eating all 1500+ of your calories per day...weigh everything if you have to. The 30-day Shred should give you about 150-200 extra calorie to eat, make sure you allot for those.

Then, if I were you, I would ditch the scale for an entire month, then reevaluate progress at the end of that month.

tomomatic

Hello, Newb here.

I would move around some of those calories. Add more to Breakfast and less for dinner. That way your body has the fuel it needs during the day and less leftover fuel at bed time to convert and store.

Do you have a heart rate monitor? With your increased level of fitness, it could be that your exercise routine is no longer challenging your body as much. The best way to measure this is to use a heart rate monitor. If it drops below your "fat burn zone" then add resististance or increase your pace.

btw, when you were setting your level of activity, I believe that MFP is trying to gauge how many calories you burn WITHOUT the exercise. So if you're at a desk job, then "sedentary" is about right. If you're a mailman running from dogs, then that should be a little higher. In other words, I think what you're doing is correct.