I'm stuck at 173 =/

jonfer7
jonfer7 Posts: 8 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I started loosing weight at 194 mainly dieting, I lowered my calorie intake to around 1600 (my daily calories need is 2100). All went well for about 2 months loosing 20 pounds. Suddenly I could not go lower than 173 while still consuming 1600 calories daily. Then I decided to do excercices and since I have a tight schedule I started doing Shaun-T's T25 (high Impact aerobics 25 minutes a day). Ive been doing these for a week, but Im still on 173. My goal is 160, Any Ideas? Thanks to all.

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  • astrampe
    astrampe Posts: 2,169 Member
    You are a young male and try to live on 1600 calories and then do a lot of cardio? Bad recipe.... I am 20 years older than you, female and lose weight on 1600 calories....
    Make sure you weight and measure your food, track accurately, eat lots of protein and more overall calories and stop the cardio and start lifting heavy things....
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I started loosing weight at 194 mainly dieting, I lowered my calorie intake to around 1600 (my daily calories need is 2100). All went well for about 2 months loosing 20 pounds. Suddenly I could not go lower than 173 while still consuming 1600 calories daily. Then I decided to do excercices and since I have a tight schedule I started doing Shaun-T's T25 (high Impact aerobics 25 minutes a day). Ive been doing these for a week, but Im still on 173. My goal is 160, Any Ideas? Thanks to all.

    One week is not enough time to see if your new routine will allow you to lose weight. As a man though I think that 1600 calories a day + exercise is pretty aggressive, you are probably netting something like 1400 calories a day at that rate which is almost definitely below your BMR. It is hard to believe that you would not lose weight if you are accurately logging your intake. In fact that amount of intake might be too low to the point where you will lose muscle as well. I'm not sure how tall you are so can't give a hard number as to what your BMR is but you can look it up.
  • jonfer7
    jonfer7 Posts: 8 Member
    I'm male, 29 years old, 5'9" and I'm 173 lb right now. I'm consuming as when I started in January, which helped me loose 20 lbs in around 3 months.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    I'd echo the above...

    You keep saying you eat "around" 1600 calories:
    1. How close is "around"? (are we talking +/- 50 calories? 150 calories? 500 calories?)
    2. How are you determining that number? If it's not by measuring, weighing & logging everything that goes in your mouth, your "around" is likely more than you think it is if the scale isn't moving.

    Also - try taking measurements - sometimes while the # on the scale doesn't move, your body composition will start to redistribute, resulting in inches off waist, etc.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    I'm male, 29 years old, 5'9" and I'm 173 lb right now. I'm consuming as when I started in January, which helped me loose 20 lbs in around 3 months.

    Using your stats with the following calculator: http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html

    I'm going to assume you are pretty sedentary other than your exercise and that you exercise for 30 minutes every day. I put in that you "rested" 12.5 hours, did very light activity for 11 hours and exercised for 0.5 hours.

    Gives me that your BMR is around 1800 and your TDEE is around 2500. If you ate at 20% deficit from your TDEE that would be eating 2000 calories each day and you could expect to lose 1 pound per week doing that.

    This is assuming these numbers are correct but one thing I'm confident of is 1600 calories is below your BMR and if you aren't eating back your exercise calories then you are probably at like 1400 net which is well below your BMR.

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