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I wasn’t expecting to lose a pound, but I was expecting to see my trend data to decrease after I lowered calories by 100 to go down and it hasn’t. It’s weird. I was leaner when I did barely anything and ate more according to the scale.

The truth is, my lifting wasn’t bad — I still had a lot of strength left in me. But every time I pushed even slightly toward a more intense state, my nervous system would go haywire. I’d get sudden adrenaline rushes, feel like my blood sugar was crashing (even though it wasn’t), and it almost always happened while I was…

Sleep hasn’t been terrible, but it hasn’t been great either. It’s been really up and down. Some nights I fall asleep fine, other nights I either can’t fall asleep or I wake up constantly tossing and turning. Lately it’s felt like it’s been getting worse. Yesterday was actually the first time my body felt completely wiped…

I wanted to share a little more context. I’ve attached my trend graph from Happy Scale — you’ll see that June 30 is when I completely stopped exercising to give my body a true break. The entire month of June was rough; I was extremely fatigued, had several off-plan meals (intentionally), and just felt depleted overall.…

I’ve never used an activity tracker before, so I’m doing my best to estimate my maintenance needs during this short recovery phase. I’m a 30-year-old female, 5’4”, 147 lbs, and I recently increased my calories from 1550 to 1700 because I was feeling depleted and overstressed from training. MyFitnessPal says my sedentary…

Just wanted to share where I’m at and hopefully connect with others who’ve been through something similar. I’m a 30-year-old female, 5’4”, currently 147 lbs. Up until last week, I was doing quite a bit of training—five days a week of both weight lifting and cardio. I was eating around 1550 calories and, despite the effort,…

hi, what’s different this time? Why are you having trouble losing weight? Is it hard to stick to your calorie goal?

honestly, I have been in this deficit for six months. It wasn’t a large deficit for the total six months. I was losing .3 a week. About a month and a half an ago I wanted to push weight loss a little bit more so he went and brought my calories down to 1500 from 1650. I honestly believe that the external factors of my…

I also don’t want to eat back some of the calories because I was eating 1650 losing pretty little so I think 1550 would be a good number at this point

I just programmed my cardio annd strength workouts, i don’t want to eat 1500 yet I’d like to stay at 1550 for a bit before having to drop down to 1500. He did drop me down to 1500 and calorically I was losing, so the plan is working. It’s just not working for my nervous system. So I don’t think it’s calories I think it’s…

no I eat salt straight from the container doesn’t help

I’m wondering if my workout volume is just too much for my body to handle? before this coach I was training 5/6 days a week 5-8 exercises based on the muscle group I was training. And I did cardio three times a week and had one rest day. I would do 3 sets per exercise. now I’m training five days a week, cardio and weights…

I’m curious once you changed your workout routine were you able to start losing weight? I always wondered if my weight training was too high volume and my cardio sessions were too much for me during the week. I was thinking maybe three times a week cardio would be more beneficial instead of doing four sets of heavy lifting…

I don’t really track the caloric burn, but I am training for about an hour to an hour and a half every day and I’m doing 45 minutes of state cardio either on a bike, pre-core or treadmill. My heart rate is usually between 135 and 1 45 bpm

i’m eating very well, my macros are pretty much distributed equally. But there are times when I feel like it’s my blood sugar and I it and my blood sugar is in range.

I’m not eating back any of the calories. I am strictly eating the calories that I mentioned.

that was when I was at my goal lol I’m 38 I weigh 146 and I’m five foot four inches

He would have added five days of cardio as well. I just beat him to it. I just think five pounds in 15 weeks is extremely slow process…

I don’t think your understanding my situation. My body stopped responding to very low calories. The lower calories I went the more swollen, gi issues and hormonal imbalances would occur. I’m at a place where it wouldn’t be healthy to lower my calories to lose more weight. I was currently maintaining at 1400, the only way…

Sometimes you have to go back to move forward

I will gain a bit of fat that I’m aware of but I will also be putting on muscle. I was also maintaining at 1400 too. I need to prime my body for a fat loss phase and unfortunately I’m not even close to that. I gave myself a 5 pound cushion…

We shall see….

I do not eat back my exercise calories. I fired my coach! And now I’m doing this in my own and I’m a bit nervous. I think I’m going to recomp and increase calories, maybe by the end of November/December I’ll start my deficit again. I’d love to get my calories up to 2100-2200 and maintain there for a bit. I’m at 1850 right…

I’m 5”4 and I am 38 years old. I have consistently been eating between 1700-1760. For the past 6 weeks. When I started with this coach he put me right on a meal plan with these calories. I started with him at 146 and since my starting date I stayed with in the the 145 range fluctuating oz ex 145.4, 145.6…

I was 160 last august. I lost weight mainly eating 1600 calories and I ranged between 145-147. I lowered my calories to 1400 to try to lose more and I started to gain weight and my body started to look puffy. That is when I decided to reverse diet and try to hit a higher maintenance calories and stay there for a bit and…

Thank you so much for this! I really appreciate your kindness and support. My goal at the moment is to come out of a fat burning state and get my calories up to maintenance and stay here for a while so my metabolism and body can readjust. During that time I will be lifting so I’d love to put on some more muscle. I am…

What do you mean my weekly average? I would love to build my shoulders a bit. I was at 1400 calories starving and my bowel movements slowed down. I figured it was time to reverse diet a bit and come back into a defecit. In the past 6 weeks I stayed the same weight and I’m eating 1700.

Thank you for helping me out! My Goal is to reverse diet right now, and bring my metabolism back up a bit. I don’t want to gain weight but at the same time I do know that might be part of the process. I have never done a reverse diet so I don’t know when I’m supposed to stop and just maintain there for a bit. And I don’t…

I agree. Do you think finding a new coach is the best thing for me?

I also asked him for the macros and he said if he gives them to me I won’t have noticeable physical changes. Because I was counting macros before and I wasn’t getting anywhere. Well, I hired him because I wanted to restore my metabolism because I was down to 1400 and couldn’t lose anymore. My goal was to bring calories up…