Assistance please?!

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MyOwnNBF.

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Hi guys,

I'd like some advice if it's possible!

For weeks now I've been dieting and it seems like it's just coming off very slow!! I'm losing about 0.5-1 lbs a week.
The past two weeks I didn't eat any chocolate, jellies, biscuits etc etc, didn't drink any alcohol, and exercised 5 times a week, inculding running 18-10 miles. So WHY amn't I losing more weight??

Now, I know weight can fluctuate, and I should be measuring myself by how my clothes fit and tape measures, but there's no big changes there either.

I eat three meals a day, with an evening snack, keeping below 1,500 approx usually.

Can anyone suggest what I could do to try speed up my weight loss???

Thank you!!!
xxx
 
I'm 165 lbs, 5" 8'

Breakfast is usually cereal and yoghurt, with a mid-afternoon apple.

Lunch is a piece of fruit+sandwich.

Dinner is meat (not fried), veg, small amount of rice/pottao (if any). Bowl of veg soup most days.

Usually 2 slices of toast/small bowl of cereal in the evening---I'd be hungry by then!

I drink mainly water, with the occasional diet coke.

I guess the most obvious change would be to cut out my evening snack... Maybe I could try that this week? But then I get hungry+grumpy, and wake up in the morning ravenous...breakfast doesn't fill me up+ I therefore have a bigger mid morning snack...so it works out the same either way!

If anyone has some good advice, I'd be v.appreciative!!!!

xx
 
if you look at the nutrition guideliness thread - you'll see a link for the harris benedict formula which will give you a calorie range you should be shooting for...

Unless you're miscalculating the calories - which happens to a lot of people -they aren't accurately measuring and recording all they are eating...

your bmr is probably about 1500ish calories a day (that's what you'd need to eat if you never got your butt out of bed)

since you're clearly moving your butt to get to your base calories you'd multiply that by 1.55 for someone who's moderately active (and you're probably more than moderately active)

which brings you to about 2300 calories a day to maintain your weight - now that's an approximation.. and based on a whole lot of things that number could be low or high..

subtract 500 calories a day from that and you're at 1800 calories a day -that will have you losing about 1 lb a week - which is close to the suggested 1 percent of your body weight a week...

if I were you - and I'm not.. I'd up your calories a bit - maybe 100-200 calories a week - so you're getting closer to your maintenance - and eat at maintenance for a few weeks - then cut back to the 1800 calories and you should see losses again...

But the 1500 calories day is probably too low and causing the stall..
 
That sounds like good advice, thanks guys.

I think I need to take a step back and look at exactly what I'm eating. Have I cut down too much or am I sneaking in little bites here and there that are all adding up etc etc

xxx
 
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