What should I do?

whoafitspo

I've only been using mfp for about three weeks now. For losing 1 lb/week mfp has me set as 1300 cal + exercise cal. I've been consistently under my calorie goal with the exception of the days in which I have a cheat meal (it's also my rest day, so I'm usually in the red by 1000+ calories).

I just weighed myself for the first time in a month and I've only lost one pound. Previously, I weighed myself once a week and dropped a pound a week. I'm 5'3", my starting weight was 165 and I'm now 151 (want to be 130).

I think this stagnation may have to do with my eating. Now, I haven't been eating all my exercise calories but I used this link today: http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm to get a better assessment of the calories I burn and mfp is dramatically over (about 200 cal over what I actually burned according to this). Usually I'm under my calorie goal by about 200 cal, so in reality I have been netting 1300 cal.

It's worth noting that while I'm not dropping weight I've been slowly losing inches.

My BMR is about 1530 cal; my TDEE accounting for exercise is about 2360 cal-- I've heard that you should never net under your BMR? What should I do:
a. continue my diet as I have it (now with more accurate exercise cal I will probably eat them all and net 1300).
b. set calories to my BMR and try to net
c. something else?

For what it's worth, I work out six days a week; three days I do Insanity (I'm now in month 2), and the other three days I either do Zumba, Kickboxing, Total Body Conditioning classes, or a combination.

Sorry for the novel and I commend anyone who actually reads this.

Ljordan_fitflow

you're doing everything right as far as exercise. what about your food intake? in particular, how often or how much starch, bread, pasta, potatoes, etc do you eat? i had this issue too and it wasn't until i changed my carb intake when the scale finally moved.

I've only been using mfp for about three weeks now. For losing 1 lb/week mfp has me set as 1300 cal + exercise cal. I've been consistently under my calorie goal with the exception of the days in which I have a cheat meal (it's also my rest day, so I'm usually in the red by 1000+ calories).

I just weighed myself for the first time in a month and I've only lost one pound. Previously, I weighed myself once a week and dropped a pound a week. I'm 5'3", my starting weight was 165 and I'm now 151 (want to be 130).

I think this stagnation may have to do with my eating. Now, I haven't been eating all my exercise calories but I used this link today: http://www.braydenwm.com/calburn.htm to get a better assessment of the calories I burn and mfp is dramatically over (about 200 cal over what I actually burned according to this). Usually I'm under my calorie goal by about 200 cal, so in reality I have been netting 1300 cal.

It's worth noting that while I'm not dropping weight I've been slowly losing inches.

My BMR is about 1530 cal; my TDEE accounting for exercise is about 2360 cal-- I've heard that you should never net under your BMR? What should I do:
a. continue my diet as I have it (now with more accurate exercise cal I will probably eat them all and net 1300).
b. set calories to my BMR and try to net
c. something else?

For what it's worth, I work out six days a week; three days I do Insanity (I'm now in month 2), and the other three days I either do Zumba, Kickboxing, Total Body Conditioning classes, or a combination.

Sorry for the novel and I commend anyone who actually reads this.

whoafitspo

you're doing everything right as far as exercise. what about your food intake? in particular, how often or how much starch, bread, pasta, potatoes, etc do you eat? i had this issue too and it wasn't until i changed my carb intake when the scale finally moved.

I am usually under my carbs as far as numbers go but I do eat a lot of them (English muffins at breakfast, tortillas at lunch, etc.) I'll try to scale down. Thank you