Loosing motivation

fatlemongrab
fatlemongrab Posts: 4 Member
edited November 11 in Health and Weight Loss
This is my first post and I was wondering if you guys could give me some tips to gain motivation. I started reducing calories to ~1200 and exercising on 12/4. I started at 220 and by 12/24 I was 206.4. Christmas and New Years were difficult and I mostly maintained the same weight however by 1/5/15 I was 204 and I thought I'd go back to loosing weight. However, I didn't really loose any weight so I decided to cut even more on calories and have stayed at around 1k net calories for the last two weeks (eating avg 1400cals and exercising avg 400cals). I even started using a food scale during this time so I could track calories better. Today I am back up to 200 and while I know maybe a couple are related to water weight, I'm assuming they can't all be water weight. It's just really frustrating to be eating less and exercising more and to be gaining weight. Any advice?

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  • JKQ2
    JKQ2 Posts: 2
    What your doing will back fire on you , you deserve more and sounds like your really trying, you should aim for lifestyle changes that are not promoting muscle loss. Listen to "cut the fat podcast" it will help you a lot, it's very explanatory, very educational. I'm addicted to it, and it really helps me, I also use the calorie tracking app. " my fitness pal " it is awesome for helping track calories and tracking nutrition. Hope you find my tips good!
  • JKQ2
    JKQ2 Posts: 2
    Haha just realized this is the blog community of "my fitness pal" haha this is my first post too! Your post made me want to respond!
  • jodielarms
    jodielarms Posts: 51 Member
    Once you dip below 1200 calories you're depriving you body of the fule and nutrients it needs. It thinks you're going into starvation and starts storing fat. You will just hurt your health. Everyone hits a plateau. Just keep your calorie deficit and eventually you will make progress.
  • fatlemongrab
    fatlemongrab Posts: 4 Member
    JKQ2 - what do you mean by "what your doing will back fire on you"?

    Also just to clear up I'm eating around ~1400 calories but I usually burn around 400 calories per day at the gym so that's why I said "net 1000". I think that is different from eating under 1000 and still healthy right?
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