Should I lower my daily calorie amount?

Eryndil
Eryndil Posts: 32
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
For my first four weeks on MFP I was eating 1200 cal/day. Then I plateau'd at 160lbs for two weeks and was advised to up my daily amount. So I upped it to 1650, and have continued my 160lb stall for a further two weeks.

This last week has been brutal for working out (I'm about four weeks away from graduating university and I'm swamped with work) and so this week's stall makes sense.. but the other weeks' stalls don't!!

Any advice?

(I'm 5'8", 160lbs, seeking to be 145lbs)

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  • StephnElbow
    StephnElbow Posts: 91 Member
    i would try to switch up your workouts. you can lower the calories again if you want but a friend had the same problem, and changed her long daily workouts into two short but intense ones each day, and her plateau ended.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Stick with the 1650 plus exercise calories. With 15 to lose, you probably need to be up around 1800. The initial weight gain is to be expected when you went up from 1200 to 1650. It's generally recommended to bump up no more than 200 at a time and hold there for a month before changing again.

    I maintain at about 2000 cals a day, and I'm older than you, 5'7" and I don't work, and only workout about 3 days a week. . . . so. . . . YMMV.
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