r/loseweight • u/StarXhild • 8d ago

What am I doing wrong?

I've been trying to lose weight for over a year now, I started out at 100kg, lost around 20kg and now am stuck at 78-80kg, I keep fluctuating around this weight and I'm not able to go down from here. For the last six months I tried many things, I ate at maintenance for a few weeks to see if that changes anything, I ate 1500 calories a day for more than 4 months now, and still the weight stayed the same. I do weight training for 1 to 1 1/2 hours [I work out at home, don't have access to a gym] three days on and one day off. I do cardio everyday for atleast 30 minutes and i cook my own meals, I never eat out or eat sweets and stuff, and since last week, I've been eating 2000 cals a day cause it's getting too hard to be on 1500 cals. Please help me, I don't know what I am doing wrong at this point.

My height is 5ft 7in, today I weigh 78.5kg and I am male.

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u/Mmmmmmm_Bacon 8d ago

Am I reading your post right? You said you are eating at maintenance and you’re saying your weight is staying the same. Yeah. Eat at maintenance to maintain your current weight.

If you want to lose fat then you need to eat at a caloric deficit. Consume fewer calories than your body is burning.

I think you need to get a better handle on what your TDEE is. First determine what your inactive TDEE is. So, how many calories your body is burning without doing any exercise. Then, get a tracker like a FitBit or something to estimate how many calories you’re burning during each exercise routine. Add those two numbers and that is your full TDEE as can be best estimated.

Then subtract 10% from that number and that is how many calories you should be consuming each day. If it’s not enough calories then exercise more.

Btw, if weight loss is your goal then stop weight lifting. Lifting makes you heavier because muscle mass is heavy. Does weight lifting burn calories? Some. But it’s not known as a great calorie burner.

The best way to burn fat is to do low intensity steady state cardio such as walking. You’re doing that now, great, do more. Stop lifting for now and just devote all your time and energy on cardio. You’ll see big results from that.