Burning 1700 Calories a Day -> Still no Results

Unless you weigh well over 250 pounds, 7 pounds loss in 4 weeks is already maximizing your loss, assuming you'd like to keep reasonable odds of staying healthy, energetic and strong alongside losing some extra fat. Even at 250 and above, 1.75 pounds a week is a good fat loss rate.

Fat loss is all about how your calories eaten compares to your calories burned (in total: Just being alive, the stuff like breathing, digesting, heartbeat; your daily life job and chores and such; plus any intentional exercise). Eat less than you burn, you lose weight. That's true whether what's eaten is junk food, or the most superfood-intensive whole foods clean diet you can imagine.

Just exercising or having a high activity level doesn't cause weight loss, if a person eats as much or more than the total they burn. Strength exercise is great for our health and strength, but it doesn't have any weight loss magic in itself, either (especially in the short run).

You're already losing at a good clip. (It might even be too fast, if you have less than say 50 pounds to lose.) Keep up the good work!

All those tabloid headlines ("Lose 20 pounds in 30 days on the Dr. XYZ magic fasting gluten free keto supplement plan!") and reality TV shows where they lose double digits of pounds per week: Not normal, not healthy, potential long-term health consequences, possible hair loss, possible gallbladder crises, even heart failure at an extreme. Don't believe a word they say. Those tactics aren't compatible with a normal, energetic life alongside.

The big goal here is to lose fat at a sensibly steady rate, in a way that's sustainable, and that helps you learn how to change habits permanently in order to stay at a healthy weight. Fast loss doesn't much accomplish that . . . even if a person can stick with it long enough to reach the goal weight.

7 pounds in 4 weeks is a lot of weight fast.

shockbishop wrote: »

1700 cal in exercise a day…and your here on a calorie counter app? Hell I can hardly eat that much as a hungry overweight man. Something not right here.

She's walking 35,000+ steps (probably 15+ miles, 24+ km), and cycling 15-36km (9-22mi) daily. She's added that 1700 to her BMR (arithmetically ignoring the role of non-step/cycling daily life movement). She's losing at a weight loss rate (1.75 pounds per week) that suggests she's been running as much as an 875 calorie daily deficit.

She says she's eating 2000-2500, losing weight that amounts to 875ish, which would give her an estimated TDEE of 2875-3375 calories. We don't know how tall or heavy or old she is, though her profile pic looks pretty young.

2875-3375 is pretty high for a woman's TDEE, but she's very active.

I'm not sure what you think isn't right here? I maintain in the low 2000s (say 2200) at 5'5", female, age 66, at a weight in the 120s pounds, and I'm not anywhere remotely near as active as she is. Since she's trying to lose weight, my best guess is she's heavier than I am (though she might be shorter and around my weight or less), she looks much younger than I am. We don't have enough information to know for sure, but the numbers don't sound impossible to me, though they do sound unusual.