Am I doing this right???
 

I started eating healthier on 8 January. I eat 400 cal w/ breakfast, 400 cal w/ lunch, and 800 calories for dinner / afternoon snack. I am currently at 149 - lost ten pounds ... and seemingly stuck. I run a minimum of 3 miles daily and a maximum of seven miles. I do strength training 3-4x weekly. The scale has not budged in two weeks. Granted, before I started this program I was running only 3 times / week and doing strength training 2x a week. Is it all the increased exercise? I'm figuring I should be consuming 2050 calories per day based on my activity level, but if I'm consuming only 1600 and definitely burning 400-500 calories per day doing exercise ... what gives??

P.S. It is definitely not portion control issues as I weigh everything out and consume only the portion serving I intend to consume (ie - if a soup is 110 calories per serving and I eat the container I realize I am consuming 220 calories).

http://exercise.about.com/cs/weightl...htplateaus.htm
The above article might help.

It is actually quite common for your weight to stabilize a bit after a large drop. My weight does the same thing-I might lose 2 pounds one week, 3 the next, 1 the next...and then go for a couple of weeks with no loss. The scale then starts dropping again.

First-weigh only once or twice a week. Give it another week at 1600 calories a day. See what happens. Try to take a look at the QUALITY of food that you are eating. You will get better results the better you eat-because 1600 calories of healthy food is utilized by your body better than 1600 calories of fast food or sweets. Make sense? Think of food as fuel. :)

Give it another week, and see if there is any loss. If you go another week or two without a loss, drop the calories SLIGHTLY to 1500 a day-and improve the quality of foods that you are eating. Let me know how it is going. :)

Thanks ... just trying to stay motivated!!


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