I weigh 102.9kg, 179cm, 19 years old.
I've been on CICO for about 9 months now. During the past few months, my weight loss has been slower than expected. I use Lose It for tracking calories and it tells me to eat 1884 calories daily to lose 1kg per week. I eat slightly less than that, yet I've only lost about 0.5kg weekly on average for the past few months - and this week I even gained half a kilo!
Is the app's BMR calculation way off? Is this because I started lifting 2 months ago and I'm gaining muscle? Or is there some other possible explanation?
I weigh my food whenever possible but I don't always count drinks with tiny amounts of calories (I e.g. can't be bothered to log a glass of iced tea with 5 calories).
Not losing as much as I expected to
Cut your carbs down and do some cardio.
1. if you plateaued then eat less than youre currently eating. brainlet
2. drink only water and not that other garbage
Just reduce your calories more retard, I swear you zoomers have to be spoonfed everything.
1. Reduce your calories until you’re losing weight again
2. Yes, BMR calculators are off. When one loses to that weight, you can expect a 20% to 40% lower BMR than someone who has always been that weight. This can equal to around 500 calories. Which, surprisingly is exactly how much your calculations are off by.
Less calories, more workout drink only water.
I know how to lose weight brainlets. I'm asking WHY I'm not losing as much weight as my CICO app says I should.
Thanks.
>When one loses to that weight, you can expect a 20% to 40% lower BMR than someone who has always been that weight.
Why is this?
Theres plenty of reasons, retained water weight if you intake higher amounts of sodium etc.
I bet you're literally eating any old shit to reach your calorie limit, rather than things like chickeb breast, veg, eggs etc.
Eat more protein, min 120g a day
Get more fat
Lift weights
Drink water
Track everything on myfitnesspal
Do cardio sessions on top, after a weights session so 30-45mins of cardio at 60-75% of your max heart rate. On a rest day every so often do HiiT training. The bike machine or row machine are your friends. I used to be a complete fatty at 140kg but now I'm 88kg at 185cm. Avoid eating so much crap. No snacks or chocolate bars.
Nope, I started focusing on eating lots of protein since I started lifting. I eat greek yoghurt or skyr with oats for breakfast, tuna and salad with bread for lunch and something healthy for dinner (e.g. chicken soup with lentils). I occassionally eat popcorn but otherwise I eat healthily.
Did you remember to adjust your BMR as you lost weight?
Every 21 days i do a 100 hour fast to reset my body. Give that a try
Stop fucking eating fatty
i have a feeling you have zero muscle mass left after hard dieting for 9 months
your TDEE is likely equivalent to an underweight woman’s since im assuing you weren’t exactly “builtfat” when you started losing weight
i would highly recommend the snake diet approach to extended fasting. you could get shredded to your bones in 2 months tops and get to building muscle way sooner than if you keep this up
It does that automatically every time I update my weight. In the beginning it told me to eat 2300 cals daily.
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>BROCOLLI
>GREEN BEANS
>CARROTS
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WHEN HUNGRY DRINK HALF A LITER
WHEN REALLY HUNGRY COOK ANOTHER BATCH
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Either do more cardio or lower your calories. Pick one.
Might be insulin resistance, try adjusting your macronutrient ratios, reduce carbs and increase fat.
nice, I make the exact same but with a can of tuna and maybe an egg or two thrown in, though not struggling to cut right now
Your body adapts to lower input, there are several videos on this such as “Why Diets Fail” and the website FitFolk has some nice infographics. For instance in the Minnesota experiment, they got cold all the time because the body generates less heat since it’s not as essential to survival. You move less subconsciously.
You're eating more than you think or you simply need to cut more calories.
It's physically impossible for you to not lose weight if your in a caloric deficit. Increase it.
To add, you've been dieting for 9 months, but are still overweight (assuming you're not at 1/2/3/4 yet); so you've already lost a ton of weight.
Are you SURE you have been loosing weight at that slow of pace?
If you're recomping, it throws the numbers off a little since you're gaining muscle.
Time to OMAD on 500 calories.
TELL HIM HOW EASIER THINGS SHOULD BE
Puss is for fags. And I already eat something similar to what you posted daily (less than 1kg though).
>so you've already lost a ton of weight.
Yeah, I started out at 140.6kg.
Last winter I wore a size 3xl jacket. Right now I'm wearing a size L T-shirt and size M shorts.
>Are you SURE you have been loosing weight at that slow of pace?
Yes. I weighed 106.9kg on the 27th of May.
>If you're recomping, it throws the numbers off a little since you're gaining muscle.
By how much though? Roughly how much muscle mass do beginners gain monthly on 5x5?
Here's a graph showing my weight btw. I've been aiming for a deficit of 1000 calories since December I think.
30kg in 6 months isn't bad
You're not eating enough mate, recalculate what you need with sailrabbit(.)com/bmr/
>Consumes vegetables and onions
>Is a virgin loser
Not surprised
That website says my BMR is 2234, TDEE as a sedentary person 2681. In order to lose 1kg weekly I'd have to eat 1578 calories daily, so I don't get why you say I'm not eating enough? On the contrary, the website says I should eat 300 calories less.
OP got same height, lost 20 kg the last 3,5 months (95 to 75).
- 1500 calories (also watched out with carbs and beer)
- 6 times a week 30 minutes of intensive cardio
Also with your weight I would first start doing cardio and then weightlifting.
My guess is you have a job that doesn't involve a lot of movement and your calorie limit is therefore lower.
Also start measuring your waist etc (if your getting muscles and losing fat at the same time it seems like there is no progress).
God speed