hi everyone! i’m a 5’3, 128lb female who has been struggling a little bit with my calorie deficit. over the past two months, i have lost on average .3 lbs per week, while i should be on track to lose .5-1lb per week. here are some things i do:
– i track every calorie (very consistent with my tracking and measure out everything)
– i eat at least 110g of protein everyday and eat lots of vegetables and not a whole lot of carbs
– i do my best to get a good fiber intake in
– i take creatine, fiber supplements, l-carnitine, fish oil, magnesium, and preworkout supplements
– i drink 4-24oz bottles of water everyday
– i get at least 10k steps a day for most days, sometimes more sometimes less but it averages out
– started my calorie deficit july 1 and started out at ~1400 calories and gradually dropped to ~1200 calories
– i lift heavy for 90minutes 4x a week and run 2x per week (run/lifts separate days) (2 upper body, 2 leg days, most sets until failure and 2-3 mins rest per set for legs and 1-2 min rest for upper body)
– i walk in the evenings after dinner around 4 times a week for 45 mins
– im mostly at school sitting (sedentary ish)
-i sleep from 10-6 most days and get 8 hours of good sleep (don’t wake up in the middle of the night and feel well rested in the morning)
-my weight goes up by abt 2lbs when i am abt to be on my period/the week of my period
-i can get pretty stressed with high workload from school, something i can’t avoid
– i do not take any medications
– i do not drink or do anything of the sort
i feel like ~1200 calories is not something i can sustain for a long time and i would like to be in a deficit where i can sustain. im fine with a slower pace of weight loss but i feel like i should be able to lose a little more in such a low calorie diet. what should i be doing differently?
by gare_bear9