Hi I'm 17, male, 5'8, 165lb. I've been tracking calories and trying to cut since early April and today is the 49th day. I use an app called Cronometer to track my calories and it says my BMR is 1738, and my energy expenditure from exercise is 652 per day.
On the app it lets you choose your activity level and I chose "Lightly Active" which according to the app means light intensity exercise 1-3 times a week. I go to the gym ~5 times a week and I thought Lightly Active was an underestimation however my progress has been slow so I am a bit confused.
Since I go to the gym nearly daily my body uses energy for the muscles so I know that can slow down weight loss, however I sorta am confused if the slow progress is because of that or because I'm bad at counting calories too. I set my weekly target to -1.75lb per week so that way I could still lose weight at a decent rate even with my body recomping. It leaves me with 1517 calories daily as a target and I usually hit that.
I am a teenager so I live with my parents and my parents cook damn well so eat their food a lot too, and they don't really measure what they put in or anything since they're so used to it so I just tend to estimate the calories for food. They tend to cook while I'm at school so I can't really be there and measure it with them.
Between April 13th and May 17th I had lost 4.6lb. Thursday I ate a lot because it was a school event but I definitely went insanely overboard that day. Yesterday night I ate right before bed and so when I weighed myself this morning I was actually upto 165.7lb. I also went very hard at the gym yesterday, genuinely the hardest I have ever pushed myself and I feel soreness so maybe water retention too because I worked my glutes and they never really tended to get much work before?
I feel lost because there's so many variables and I feel as if I'm not really progressing as well as my lower end estimates. April 28th I was 165.3 and May 17th I was 163.9, that's just a 1.4lb difference in NINETEEN days, while I expected to lose atleast 1 pound per week (this is a low-end estimate bc according to my app I should be losing between 1.75-1.5lb and I went down to 1lb on personal estimations because of body recomp). I've thought about going lower in terms of calories but I feel like it would be insanely difficult to do so because I already have problems with hitting my protein goals. Thank you for any help!
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