SW: 242 CW: 213? 26M
Hopefully this isn’t too long-winded, but if you’re reading this I hope you know I truly appreciate your time and advice because I am very frustrated.
A couple years ago, I weighed about 240 and had pre-hypertension. I had been powerlifting and working out for 3 years at that point, but I let the “bulk” get ahead of me and needed to lose weight.
Counting calories and cardio and logging them in LoseIt helped me drop to 220. I never felt better; BP was normal, stomach issues were gone, and I felt good. From 2020 to May 2021, I maintained that weight; sometimes tracking and sometimes not. I never gained more than a few pounds but this year I decided that I would be 200 and that was that.
In May I started tracking and doing cardio again, dropping from ~217 to 207. However, my birthday was at the end of July and I needed to focus on my mental health for a bit, so I stopped tracking, and started intuitively eating. At this point, I am very aware of portion sizes and what small things (oil, nuts, etc) can do to my intake. On top of that, I also did significant cardio 3-4 times a week.
So when I weighed in at 214 only 2 months later, it blew my mind. There is physically no way I gained 7 pounds back. There were no factors I could think of that could possibly make me gain 7 pounds in 2 months.
So October 1 st I started tracking again. I net my calories burned (from cardio only, I don’t track my weight lifting, sort of as a tiny buffer of extra burned calories just in case) with what I took in and stayed at 1900 for the whole month.
Zero change. I think at one point I weighed in at 212.8 or something like that, but I haven’t seen the 212s since that weigh-in.
Blood work and urine analysis at my physical just a few weeks ago showed I was in a very healthy range for everything. Saw a dietician a couple weeks ago who said I was eating TOO little so I bumped up to 2200 and have weighed myself multiple times a day for the past 2 weeks and nothing has changed.
What the hell am I doing wrong? CICO and tracking has ALWAYS worked for me and even when I go a couple weeks with little change, eventually I see the drop. How can I see no drop for 6 weeks?
I drink tons of water, I don’t overtrain/over-exert myself, I eat a balanced diet and track EVERYTHING. I could really use some motivation because the past few months make no sense and I really want to quit trying, not because it’s hard, but because the lack of progress is destroying me mentally.
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