I (23M) am having trouble breaking a two week plateau when MFP is set to lose 2 lbs per week. I work out about 40 minutes, 6 days per week, getting in four weight lifting sessions and 2 cardio sessions. I averaged my calorie intake and it’s 1554/day. In the first week, I went down from 223.7 to 216.9, and now two full weeks later have been hovering in between 216-218 at each daily weight in.
I realize this is still on track for 2 lbs/week, but worry because of the initial quick loss then *nothing* that it was all water weight and I’m not losing any real fat. My BMR is somewhere around 2500 calories so in theory, I should be losing (1000*7)/3500= 2lbs fat per week. Not even counting that I work out for about 250 extra calories every day.
Am I just impatient and tweaking out? First picture is my weights and my goal weights (calculated via NIDDK) and second is a 7 day average of my weights with the three days prior to each point and the three days following factored in.
by DeliciousSandman