plateaued weight loss

Do you use a food scale? Do you weigh and log everything you eat/drink, no skipping, cheating, or forgetting?

Measuring cups are imprecise, and eyeballing portions even more so.

Do you eat back your exercise calories? You're supposed to, using MFP.

Using a TDEE calculator (scoobysworkshop.com), you should be able to eat much more and still lose weight. (If you went this route, you wouldn't eat back exercise calories though.) "Goal in step 6" is the number you'd shoot for.

1GWater wrote: »

I track what I eat, I use a scale. don't consume back what I eat. I've thought about taking up my calorie intake bc I'm active all the time. working out. on my feet all day... well not at the moment, due to what's going on.

Did you actually have a question? I guess you never really asked one. Maybe we're trying to answer something you aren't actually asking.

another question would be how long have been at it and what loss rate are you expecting? For females, hormones can be the pits for messing with water weight levels, meaning that if you are right on point in logging everything accurately, you could be losing but just not seeing it on the scale because of water weight. Many here suggest using a trend app to help get above the day to day readings. The recommendation is to get your deficit and routine set up then give it a minimum of 4 weeks and look at the month trend and not the day to day or week to week, especially for us females.

I love this article and use it as a sanity check for myself when the scale isn't cooperating with me:

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/



I can see how 1300 calories would make you feel like crap with that activity going on; your body is begging for fuel.

IF you are going by MFP's deficit calculation you very much should be eating back at least a portion of your exercise calories, the amount counted back depending on if you are using MFP's values for exercise or a fitbit or such device. Many folks start at eating back 50% then adjust from there, others say the calorie values they get are pretty on target. That's because MFP uses the NEAT value in its estimations, which does not include purposeful exercise, therefore using MFP's method requires you eat back purposeful exercise.


A TDEE calculation includes exercise, so if you choose to go this route, you just manually enter your TDEE in as your calorie goal and don't eat any exercise.