You most likely have body composition changes you arent noticing. Scale weight isnt the sole indicator. And make sure you weigh same time every time you weight in. Ive had 10lb fluctuations of weight in a day before. Adopting a low carb, high fat diet helps as well at trains your body to utilize fat better. And movent on your scale should be measured in weeks, so 2lb a week may not look like anything if you weigh in daily.Glad to see this thread here! Reading it is inspiring.
Been yo-yo dieting for years. My usual pattern is that I go into something too hard and then burn out too fast. (No meat, no sugar, 1200 calories a day? Brilliant! Can't imagine why THAT failed.) I've been having a little success lately with taking things slower and simpler: eating less than 1800 calories a day (an off-the-cuff calculation, based on me being a ginormous Slav peasant type) and focusing on home-cooked protein. For exercise, I'm walking a few miles three times a week, plus some free weights. I haven't seen much movement on the scale, but each time I go I do a little better and can walk a little bit further.
Plus, it's a great way to burn off some rage. Whenever the news pisses me off too much, I go sweat it out.
ive lost 60 on "keto" so far going from a powerlifter to now trying to be aesthetic. I dont see a strict keto diet good in the long term. Low carb diets will give you good results too. Keep giving it a go, the only failure is quitting. Good motivation you have.
"A marathon, not a sprint" is an attitude I've been working on. I have noticed that focusing on protein and fiber has helped me feel fuller longer. I haven't cut out carbs or sugars completely (doing that was usually a quick road to failure in my previous attempts), but cutting down on them has helped me control my appetite and blood sugar better.
Its a marathon, and marathons start.Thank you for the advice.
Trying to ignore the scale overall, tbh. It's way too easy for me to obsess over it and weigh myself five times a day.
I had this same problem. I dropped 40 lbs last year to get to my ideal weight but got hammered by depression issues in the winter and gained all 40 back. I managed to get 15 down again in the last couple of months. This year though I'm doing way more weight training and less cardio so my weight isn't dropping as rapidly. In fact I've been stuck at 205 for a while now despite my fat still decreasing.
My friend used to be like that and he said working out regularly helped a lot, like jogging and pushups. It sounds like you need to Build up your muscle for toning.
How true is it that your body adjusts to the calories you eat? I guess I'm annoyed because online there are these calorie calculators, "if you eat this much compared to the maintenance calories, you'll lose this much weight", but then I'm not quite losing as quickly as those sites say I should. I dunno
Those sorts of calculators should always be taken with heaps of salt because there's just no way to account for all of the potential variables between Person A and Person B. In a sense it is true that your body "adjusts" to the calories that you eat, but only in the sense that once you've shed a certain amount of weight that you acquired from over-eating, dropping lower than that isn't going to be possible again unless you drop out even more calories, or start burning more calories through exercise.
The start of a low carb diet will have this effect. Starting out your body isn't able to utilize fat as energy efficiently. After a few months on a low-carb/keto diet, your body will more efficiently be able to use fat as energy instead of glycogen stores (i think thats what they are called). I wish I could find the video about this, I'll update it if I can find it.
What is your goal exactly? If you're trying to lose bf% you will have to lose weight. To be tone, I recommend weight lifting. If you just want to be skinny, then just start running.
