When I first started off losing weight, I was dropping a fairly consistant 2 lbs per week. That slowed to maybe .5 - 1 lb per week, and sometimes I wasn't losing anything at all.
Like you, I had upped my cardio. I stuck with this for many weeks, happy that I was losing weight but a little frustrated it wasn't coming off as steadily as before.
So, I started tracking my calories more carefully, trying to stay between 1200-1600 per day. Saturdays are my "treat day" when I allow myself to go as high as 3000-4000 calories.
My calorie counts each day are usually pretty different. On Sunday & Monday , I stay down around 1200 calories to make up for Saturday. The rest of the week I bounce around from about 1300 up to 1600.
So I am zig-zagging even though it's not something I planned. And since I started doing that, I have again started losing 2lbs a week consistently.
This is what has worked for me and is just my 2 cents.
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