Under Caloric Goals But Weight Loss Feels slow?

Does your calorie goal include exercise calories? If you have it set to 1300 but burn 300 then thats only 1000 calories you are living on. Have you ate low cal before? I have and lost a few stones but it got to the point that when i ate a bit more than what my body was used to i.e 1000 cals, then I put on weight, even if I was under my supposed maintenence cals. I now realise that I have likely ruined my metabolism. When i started again in March after putting on 1.5 stones after my initial loss through low cal, I just didn't seem to drop weight the way I did before. I've upped my cals and gradually seeing a loss. I'm up at 1500 but that includes my exercise. Check out what your bmi and tdee are and have a read at some of the advice points with the little red pins.

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Almost everyone loses weight faster in the beginning. You say it "feels slow" but you've lost over 30 pounds in less than four months. One pound a week is a reasonable amount to lose. Many people have unreasonable expectations about how long weight loss takes.

Sometimes you can reach a sort of plateau.... which is an amount of time when you don't lose as much as before. You might have to lower your calorie intake a little, exercise more, or just stick through it. Slow and steady wins the race!

Similarly I was loosing steadily since feb at 1200 and exercising 5/6 times a week, eating back cals, but have plateaued. Quite frankly got sick of feeling so darn hungry , snappy and tired. Likewise I am scared to increase cals, but have read some interesting articles and FATTO FIT RADIO suggests tips for preventing overcoming and preventing plateau in the first place. Interestingly they suggest upping cals, and mixing up exercise routine as your body has most likely become used to such a low intake and the exercise routine, making you have to increase time and exercise effort to burn the same cals you previously did. This site advocated healthy weight loss and management, increasing cals, NOT DROPPING THEM, according to your tdee (see site), and interval training (which doesn't mean lengthy workouts). I wish I'd started out like this as I would have probably avoided all this frustration and long tedious workouts.

Check it out, there's a lot of arguments about cardio v strength training/ weights etc. I was just sticking to interval training and this worked just fine, but has kind of stalled my weight loss. Now so I'm gonna mix my routine up a bit with interval runs/jogging/ tai bo and strength training and see what happens. Already loosing the inches slowly. Upped my cals yesterday and weight started to drop again so lets see. Good luck

I'm NETTING about 1600 calories a day, which means my goal is 1600 AND I eat back my exercise calories. I'm still losing weight. If you're only eating 1200 and not eating back at least some of your exercise calories you are underfeeding yourself.

What equation are you using for TDEE calculation? If it is not taking body fat into account, then it is probably massively overestimating your BMR. If you are at 40% body fat, you are probably closer to 1300 BMR and 1600-1700 TDEE, which would explain the slow loss. Use the katch-mcardle formula to calculate, as it's much more accurate for people outside of 'average' body fat range (just as true for low body fat as high body fat).