Jurnal JC_suburbangothcatmom, 09 Sep 21

honestly what worked for me was increasing my intake a bit, which led to a short gain then a drop below my original plateau. for context, I was about as active as you described but I was only eating 1k-1.2k calories. increased to 1.4k and that's worked well so far. Not sure if that's your issue but it was pretty counterintuitive to me so I figured I'd share in case you haven't tried it!  

That's exactly my issue Taiwyn! Also I'm pretty sure veery weekend I'm eating 2x the cals I do during the week because we cook breakfast, Mexican, and pizza. I'll try going to 1800 instead of 1300. Thank you! 

It's worth a try! I hope you figure it out, plateaus suck  

Same Challenge AND same goal! Thanks for sharing. If I get a helpful trick, I’ll share it! 

I'm a yo yo too... 

It’s all about calories eaten vs. calories burned. You can’t cardio your way out of eating too many calories. There is a formula to calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR) that is the number of calories where you neither gain weight (fat) or lose fat. To lose fat you need to be in a calorie deficit to your BMR. If you eat 500 calories less than your BMR you should lose about 1 pound a week because 1 pounds is worth 3,500 calories in energy. 500 x 7 days = 3,500 . 

Your building muscle which muscle=weight