i’m a girl and i’m 174.6 (bad ik) and 5’5. i’ve lost around 40 pounds but ive been struggling to get into the 160s and stay there (lowest was 163 last november). i’m trying to track my food and im eating about 1100-1200 cals but not seeing much difference
i’m also working out like 5x a week and actually started lifting weights but i’m not sure if my split is actually good or not and have no idea what to fix
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Anonymous2w
Lifting weight is nice, but you're only losing weight when you eat less calories than you burn. If you're not losing weight, you're probably not tracking calories accurately and need to eat less
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Anonymous2w
Those calories are way too low. That's the amount just to feed your organs and keep you living so when you workout your body is just digesting your muscles instead so you're actually loosing muscle instead
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Anonymous2w
that’s wayyy to low calorie wise. you should prob go to your doc and see if you have any issues that are causing you to hold on to weight like thyroid issues
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Anonymous2w
also 174 and 5’5 is not bad, that’s literally a normal weight if you are eating healthy and working out
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Anonymous2d
Then you're probably not actually eating that many calories
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Anonymous#12w
i try to be as precise as possible but i’m also going off the myfitnesspal app so idk if that impacts anything
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Anonymous#22w
even when i’m consuming like 80g of protein a day? it’s just that if i eat any more i gain weight or stall
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AnonymousOP2w
You're doing the right things, but because the equation of calories in calories out is so simple, if you're not losing weight, you're underestimating your calories
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AnonymousOP2w
you will def not gain weight eating more than 1200. use a tdee calculator and see how many cals you need to eat to be in a deficit by like 300-400 cals