SOMEONE PLEASE HELP

Spend the $100 and get a RMR Test, Its where you lay down or sit while breathing into a tube for about an hour. It is the MOST (Not EXACT) accurate way to see how many calories your body is burning each day. Some people have INCREDIBLY LOW Calorie burn per day.

I have been logging every single day for a year ... i lost 50 pounds so far but only 20 in the past 7 months. I been the doctor in February everything was fine.

you lost 50 lbs in one year? That's awesome progress!! Congratulations!!

So just to save your sanity, let's look at your math. If you've been doing the same kind of run for a long time, you might find that your body is fairly efficient at it. The body adapts well to workouts if you don't alter them. And weightlifting doesn't burn all that much. Some, but not really a lot. And again, your body gets accustomed to the workout and adapts to be more efficient to deliver energy when and where you actually need it.

You may not have noticed, but perhaps outside of your workouts your lifestyle has slowly become a bit more sedentary. I know this happens to me when I work out (I say "I don't feel like biking to work today, I worked out last night, I can just drive today.")

So anyways, (and a lot of these numbers I'm using are just wild guesses, since everything's an estimate) let's say you're eating 1600 every day. At first, when you were heavier, your TDEE was something like 2600. But now that you've lost weight, and you're more efficient at your workouts, maybe your TDEE is closer to 2000 now, even with the exercise. So at first, you were losing 2 lbs per week, but now you're losing closer to .75 lbs per week.

Does that make sense?

But the important thing is that you're still losing! If I was you, I wouldn't change a thing for at least another month. See how many inches you lose, see if you still are slowing down. You've found something that works for your body. I really hate to advise you change things right now. Though, changing your exercise routine might distract you for the next month and give you something new to focus on.

If you are losing inches than you aren't stuck. Weight loss isn't linear and there are times you won't lose the scale # but drop inches/sizes and then drop the scale # and possibly not drop inches for a bit.

Keep doing what you are doing because in the larger scheme of things, do you want the scale # or do you want to be able to fit into smaller clothes?

QFT.



It's hard not to focus on the scale #. I mean from birth we're practically taught that that # is the only way we're making progress in the weight loss battle. If you are losing inches you are making progress. Maybe put the scale away for awhile. My weight has been up and down the same 2-3 lbs since I started lifting 9 weeks ago, but all of my inches are down and clothes are fitting better. I took some progress photos and while it's hard for me to see a big difference, I do see little differences here and there. I've heard that especially since I'm new to lifting my body is holding onto water for muscle repair.

I agree my clothes are fitting a little better but i still want to make sure i am doing everything else right. I also dont want to eat too little for the activity i am doing.

You could try adding 100-200 calories a week - 1700-1800 for 4-6 weeks see what happens?

Do you have a fitbit?

Mine helps me determine my actual TDEE and will tell me how much I should eat a day. I'm 5'5" lift 3x a week and just started adding kickboxing. Today it tells me I can eat 1757. I recently had to take an actual break for a week and the last month it was about 2000 a day.

The closer to goal the smaller the deficit.