28F, 5'3"!
July 2024 to Nov 2024, I went from 185lb to 166lb on 1800 calories a day. (2300 was my maintenance.) This was my first weight loss journey, so when I hit a plateau at 166lb and my weight didn't budge, I freaked. I dropped calories to 1750, then to 1650, and followed that very loosely. I went from strength training 2x/week to 3x/week. No budge. So in Feb 2025, I said fuck it, put weight loss on the back burner and tabled it for later.
Looking back now, it's so clear that:
- Lowering my calories primarily didn't work because I wasn't consistent with the 1650 at all 💀
- I just needed a maintenance break! Both physically and mentally
So, from Feb 2025 to July 2025, I took a maintenance break totally on accident, just from being frustrated by my plateau. I even stopped strength training. Thankfully, my eating habits had changed enough that I didn't gain back, and I was shocked to see 160lb on the scale in July 2025. 😳
July 2025, I try a new deficit since I'm smaller: 1550 calories a day. That was 33 weeks ago, and I've only lost 23lbs since then (currently 137!) Why? Well...
- A few vacations sprinkled in there and mini maintenance breaks sprinkled in there (like Thanksgiving week lol)
- I made a few mistakes in my calorie counting along the way. For example, I used Chipotle's calorie counter and thought I was eating fits-within-my-daily calories burrito bowl until I took one home one day, weighed it on my food scale and realized it was 400 cals over what I thought. 😳 Incorrectly guessing cookie calories from the bakery, stuff like that.
Yet, I'm still not stressed! I have a 2-week maintenance break planned from tomorrow to mid-March.
After that, I'll hop back on a 1500/day deficit, lose average 1lb a week for 10 weeks, strength train 3 times a week + 4 mile walks every day, and I'll be at my goal weight of 125lb by June 1st. :)
Let's do this!
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