Ive lost 25 pounds this year so far by eating clean + counting cals + working out ... My weight is now stuck I've intensified my workout (about 500/700 calories are burned in every workout, about 3-4 times a week) and i'm eating about 1200-1500 calories daily but my weight isnt going down .. :( haaalllp!
To be perfectly honest, I’m not the best with helping out when it comes to weight loss coming to a halt. If anyone has any tips, please chime in.
Sounds to me that this person is on too strict a diet at this point.
Definitely not eating enough. Assuming they eat the high of 1500 and burn the low of 500 that brings the that down to 1000. You’re starving yourself.
Gotta eat more…that’s what I’m gathering from all of this, anon.
Anon, you would be very well advised to calculate your BMR or RMR, then use that as your baseline calories. Meaning that you eat back your exercise calories as well!
For example, my BMR is 1700 but my sedentary burn is around 2000. I also exercise for about 700-800 calories (or more) 5-6 times a week, which means I add approximately that amount to my BMR number to get a calorie range. Currently I eat anywhere from 2400-3000 calories and I am maintaining weight/making strength gains.
For healthy weight loss, take your BMR, add your number of exercise calories to your BMR, and use that number to make your weight loss subtractions. Example: BMR 1600 + 700 calories lost from exercise = 2300, subtract ~500 calories for your food target for a 1lb fat loss per week. Someone with these stats should eat about 1900 calories daily to lose 1lb per week. I'll leave it to you to do your individual calculations.
But yeah tl;dr you need to eat more, you're not giving your body enough to work with to actually let it change. Add a few hundred calories to your day and see what happens.