Weight loss has stalled

fjpatten wrote: »

I think the Stay at Home mandate in my state is contributing to my weight loss stalling. Before this I was losing a few pounds a week. I think it's because I'm so sedentary now. I used to commute and take evening walks. Now my only major activity is my home workouts 5-6 times a week. I think I have to drop my calories to below 1200 to keep losing weight. I use a food scale and have not gone over my calories since I began dieting.

I'm 5"1.5 and currently weigh 118 lbs. My TDEE is around 1450 according to online calculators so 1200 calories doesn't give me much of a deficit.

My goal weight is 105 - 108 lbs. Would it be unreasonable to limit myself to 1000 calories per day?

You don't have enough weight to lose a couple of lbs a week without also losing a fair amount of muscle. Especially now that you are sedentary, quick weight loss with a low activity level is a recipe for disaster.

With 10 lbs to lose, you should be expecting to lose @ 0.5lbs per week, which can easily hide behind water weight fluctuations in the scale for weeks at a time. So put on your patient pants, log accurately and consistently, try to be more active however you can. It took me close to a YEAR to lose the last 10 lbs, that's just real life!

With everything going on right now, it's important to be kind to yourself and keep your body strong. Starving yourself to keep losing weight at an aggressive pace is the exact opposite of that. Please take good care of yourself.