lose 2lbs per week vs lose 1lb per week ?

Personally I find it helps every now and then to up my calories for a couple of weeks. Some recommend actually going to a maintenance level of calories for a week or two. I think this helps reset our bodies. Then go back down to a 2 pound per week deficit. That may kick start your weight loss again.

This may not be your issue but I find I tend to start slipping in my tracking and find myself actually consuming more calories than I think I am. If you are not tracking religiously you should.

Sounds great to me 500 additional calories of healthy food should do your body good. Best wishes:drinker:

So you have stalled while eating a reasonable amount of calories, and you are adding calories? Why?

i have not lost anything in 3 months. that is why i think that something needs to change. I have added some weight lifting to my work outs; 3-4 days a week.

Yes, something needs to change, but I'm not sure it is adding calories given that you have not been eating too low (I'm assuming over 1700 isn't too low). You could try it though and see how it goes. If you gain or don't lose, drop back down.

Well, it might not be too low for some people. But we are not all the same size. If you are bigger, (like me) your body needs more calories to function properly. I like to think in analogies. If our metabolism is a fire, then we need two things to make that fire roar. Plenty of good, clean fuel (healthy calories) and plenty of oxygen (exercise). If you don't have enough of either one, it will put your metabolism at a slow burn. What you want to do to lose fat is increase your metabolism. You don't increase your metabolism by starving your body. If you are eating below your BMR, that is exactly what you are doing. For a customized number, because it isn't a one size fits all situation, you can google TDEE and BMR and that will give you a more accurate picture of what your body needs. And like many have said. Subtract 20% and work your way up to that number for slow and sustainable weight loss. I understand your skepticism FullOfWin, this was a mind-blowing revelation to me also. To learn that everything I thought I knew about weightloss was wrong...but then, that may be why I never was able to sustain weightloss before.

It's not a bad idea to change it up like you are doing. That said, since you are adding calories AND strength training (not cardio) it may be a good idea to take some measurements instead of just focusing on the scale. With a new influx of calories and adding strength training you may in fact gain a couple of pounds in the next couple of weeks, but it may be lean muscle as opposed to fat.

If you take some body measurements and you see that they've shrunk...even the smallest amount...but still gained weight, then that is not a bad thing.