Courtney Jenkins
New member
I have something that I don't really understand and I'm wondering if anyone out there has a similar situation/metabolism. Pretty much all year I do Jackie Warner's clean eating plan from her book "This is Why You're Fat" ... and I do the 90 day Revolution videos back to back to back year round.
The only difference is I'll eat around 2500 clean calories a day instead of the dropping weight 1500. It's for maintenance. I clean eat 5 days a week and work out, then I chill for 2 days and usually drink wine. I needed to drop a few pounds for summer and this is the strange part...
When I eat around 1800-2000 calories I lose weight. When I try to cut down to 1500 I plateau? I feel like I eat way too much but any day I'm 100% perfect and on target I wake up the same weight. Any time I feel like I ate too much I wake up anywhere from 1.5-4 pounds lighter in a day. The math of it all doesn't make sense to me. I do know some athletes need more calories like Jackie Warner who personally eats around 4000 a day to maintain her super slim body.
Does anyone else have this issue? Does the typical 500 calorie deficit math do nothing for you? You can eat what you want, cut down a tiny, tiny bit and just drop pounds?
A typical "diet" day for me right now is:
* Large breakfast parfait (Greek yogurt, fruit, granola
* 2 wraps with kale, chicken, salami, real olive oil mayo, whole wheat wrap eaten around 11:00am and again at 3:00pm
* Good dinner like grilled cod over a giant salad or one of my Blue Apron meals
I will not move weight if I go the route of:
* Small breakfast parfait
* Tuna and crackers with small salad
* 1 wrap
* Something really light for dinner like mozzarella caprese
The only difference is I'll eat around 2500 clean calories a day instead of the dropping weight 1500. It's for maintenance. I clean eat 5 days a week and work out, then I chill for 2 days and usually drink wine. I needed to drop a few pounds for summer and this is the strange part...
When I eat around 1800-2000 calories I lose weight. When I try to cut down to 1500 I plateau? I feel like I eat way too much but any day I'm 100% perfect and on target I wake up the same weight. Any time I feel like I ate too much I wake up anywhere from 1.5-4 pounds lighter in a day. The math of it all doesn't make sense to me. I do know some athletes need more calories like Jackie Warner who personally eats around 4000 a day to maintain her super slim body.
Does anyone else have this issue? Does the typical 500 calorie deficit math do nothing for you? You can eat what you want, cut down a tiny, tiny bit and just drop pounds?
A typical "diet" day for me right now is:
* Large breakfast parfait (Greek yogurt, fruit, granola
* 2 wraps with kale, chicken, salami, real olive oil mayo, whole wheat wrap eaten around 11:00am and again at 3:00pm
* Good dinner like grilled cod over a giant salad or one of my Blue Apron meals
I will not move weight if I go the route of:
* Small breakfast parfait
* Tuna and crackers with small salad
* 1 wrap
* Something really light for dinner like mozzarella caprese
