Hello lovely losers ! I love this subreddit and am a regular browser here, so I hope you can help a sista out !
I am a 5ft1.5 F/29 y/o ( soon to be 30!) / CW: 126lbs GW:112 - medium and petite frame, endomorph “soft” body type ( big bust , never had a flat tummy but still a shorty blah blah) . I have a really high body fat % for my height, though I’ve never had it measured. I can just see all the fat sitting all over my stomach in particular and I look flabby and out of shape and round.
Anyway! My dilemma is the following : for exactly one month I’ve been trying to lose weight, eating 1200 cals a day RELIGIOUSLY, to the point of being pedantic , using a scale , measuring condiments, milk in my tea etc.
In one month I weigh exactly the same as I did when I started :/ I don’t know wtf is going on ! During this process I’ve been lifting @ gym 4 x p/wk and trying to be as active as I can while working a sedentary , FT job. Basically, pushing myself a lot and , to be perfectly honest, feeling exhausted and crappy on 1200 cals a day.
My Q is - does this mean 1200 is my maintenance amount ? How can this possibly be ?! It’s so low and I feel like shit eating so few calories. Would I be better off trying to increase my calories and doing a body recomp instead ? Even though I do want and need to lose 15 lbs ? I am so scunnered with the whole thing ( to use a Scottish word!) because I thought that eating 1200 would guarantee a loss for my height.
Does anyone have any advice ? Is the lack of loss water weight from starting a gym routine as a newbie ? Could it be to do w my hormones ? Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance kind redditors.
*PS -not sure if this is relevant but around the same time I started dieting I also took a break from the pill, as I ran out of it. I have endometriosis and the pill keeps it under control. I started back on it yesterday.
**PPS - a year ago I was at the same weight I am now and managed to get to my 112 lbs ( yo yo dieter , I know :/) by eating 1500 calories without doing any exercise ! So I am totally bamboozled as to why this isn’t working !
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