Jornal de abbadabba, 13 jan 24

I often ask the same questions.  

I am !owing weight slowly. It just takes so much longer than it used to. But I am not very active at all right now, and I keep getting older! Did you list 3 things you were going to do in the new year? How's that going? 

@Fritzy 22 The three things were: protein at 50 grams per day, fiber at 20 to 25 grams per day, and the third was a little complicated where I eat what I want and add nutrition while staying within a calorie count of 1000 to 1200 a day. Also just added a fourth which is to eat meals twice a day and spread them out at least 4 hours. 

Your weight loss is probably stalling because you aren’t eating enough calories. 1200 is too low and your body thinks it’s starving. It’ll retain fat. Also, I’d up your protein to 1g per body goal weight. 

Your basal metabolic rate may be lower than you think. The charts and tools to estimate bmr are not 100% accurate. I was told if I keep under 2000 cals a day, based on my height and activity and I would loose weight. Wrong! I need to go 200 cals a day less to drop pounds. 200 cals over the course of a year adds up. I wish it was different, but I actually studied myself and found it to be true. If I keep at 2000, I maintain my weight even though FS app says I should lose at 2000. 

I agree with StormsGirl I am a pretty sedentary person because I have Chronic Fatigue syndrome and homebound most days, bed bound some days. and even at my lowest energy days the program I used to figure calorie needs said I sould be getting 1746 calories a day. I used a combo of https://www.mytecbits.com/tools/medical/bmrcalculator and https://www.mytecbits.com/tools/medical/tdeecalculator to figure out how many calories I should be eating....  

I’m 5’1”, 163 lbs. When I started my most recent weight loss in June, I ate what you’re eating 1000-1200 cal. Hit a plateau pretty quickly. To get out of it, I increased exercise—that didn’t help. So I increased calories by about 100 cal a day, and saw the scale move in the right direction. When I got stuck again—increased cals and the weight loss continued, etc. Now, I eat on average 1500 cal a day. Still losing pounds. So still not at the maintenance level. The weight loss is slower now—I could probably do it more quickly if I dip to 1200-1300 again for a while, but it’s fine with me to slow down. The higher calories allow me to often get 80-90 g of protein in real food (I’m not a fan of protein shakes) and 25-30 g of fiber a day. I don’t know if there is something unusual about what happened with me, but maybe it’s worth upping calories to see if that helps. Also, I eat three regular meals a day, in 400-600 cal range, and I find that meal regularity is critical for controlling cravings. Don’t go hungry! 

I also try to stay at 1000-1200 calories. My body does not think it's starving. I've been doing this for years. I aim for 40-60 grams of protein which my doctor says is fine "unless you have to chop down trees" But then I don't eat much meat. Red meat has way too much saturated fat for me to eat it much. IF really works well for me 

1200 kcal is too low. My weight is 64 kg and I eat 1800 kcal and burn about 800 kcal every day. I lose fat and I am fine. Scientists say that your calorie deficit should be about 300-500 calories per day. It would be very wise to listen to science than to your irrational desire to lose weight too quickly. Remember that you have been gaining it for years and you should have some patience and time to lose it, too 

I do not like to eat too few calories but it is also true that as we get older we need even fewer calories. If some of you do a calorie calculator that include age you can easily see how that works. That is how it goes  

you could be gaining muscle. 

Abbadabba, you have a BMR calculator in your bio that includes age. As Liv points out, age is a factor in this, too. What did you get? I get BMR of 1400 (I’m 54). Having made mistakes before, and knowing what I know now, I would not eat less than the BMR. You want to cover your body’s caloric need for basic functions and repair at rest, which is what the BMR is. 

Although our macros are vastly different we seem to be in the same boat. I'm doing all the right things, have honestly logged all foods, pepped, planned, eating clean, exercising, etc .cannot get my weight off! I definitely feel your frustration!💜 

It’s usually not fat that makes us fat, it’s sugar that makes us fat. I Just try to to eat healthy fats like, high quality olive oil, Avocado’s, nuts. 

Stalls are going to happen. I was also doing CICO deficit, but noticed when stalls occurred, treating myself to a denser, high calorie meal seemed to jump-start the loss again. Getting a good long night's sleep also worked wonders. Good luck staying your course! 

Start eating 1 gram of protein for every pound of body weight/ while also making sure it’s 1 gram of protein per 10 calories, you will start seeing rapid changes. 

I supplement my fiber intake with fiber gummies. Really helps.