Have you reduced how much you've been eating since you entered you plateau?
Your body before you lost weight required more calories than your body does now, so if you want to lose weight at a similar rate you have to reduce your caloric intake proportionally. Also, BMR and calorie counting can be pretty accurate compared to any other method, but they (especially BMR) are estimates and yours maybe lower than is normal for someone your weight. Just reduce your food little by little until you start losing weight again.
Are you exercising?
Diet is the most important part of weight loss, but if you exercise it will help a lot. Do you have an exercise routine? If so what is it?
I've plateaued a few time myself and it was always because: 1. I didn't reduce my calories as I got slimmer 2. I'd have a "treat" or "cheat day" more often than I should have and it would erase my progress pretty reliably.
Lincoln Thompson
Look up visual guides to portion control and use a calorie counting app like My Fitness to at least accurately gauge your serving amounts.
Restaurants serve 40% food per meal than they did 50 years ago. You've ingrained the wrong amount as the right amount since you grew up with it. Or something along those lines, I stopped paying attention desu.
Justin Bell
have you re-calculated your TDEE with your weight now?
Zachary Foster
I did decrease my calories, by 280ish as explained above. I can't understand why there hasn't been any change from this.
I do exercise daily. I do 20 minutes of biking indoor, 100 crunches, dumbbell exercises (bicep, triceps, lunges, etc) and I'm starting to use a kettlebell.
Yes
Carter Morales
Lower your calories again then. I assure you you're not breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
Gabriel Cook
Is there any possibility that I'm eating too few calories?
Or is that a myth
Landon Cruz
It's not a myth, it just applies to starving African children over surburanites with diet issues.
Adam Collins
Absolutely 0 possibility. "Starvation mode" doesn't happen till like 72 hours of not eating or eating at a HUGE loss.
If your BMR is 2000 you could safely eat 1300-1500 calories no problem. Would it be the healthiest option? Maybe not. My BMR is ~2300 calories and I'm eating at 1700 calories. I often go below that without trying. I weight ~260lbs, losing about 2lbs a week steadily for 2 months now. Barely any exercise because I lack discipline and I'm a lazy sack of shit.
I even binge drink and go out to eat with friends on the weekends. Probably balances out.
Jack Walker
>I've been losing weight. It had been going great for about 6 months. >Then for the last month I haven't lost anything. This would be an indication that I need to get more serious right? this is an indication of adaptive thermogenesis my friend
it is widely known that if you´re in a deficit for a long time your body adapts to the starving amount you eat and drops your metabolism
Basicly the cure to this is eat at maintenance for some time, maybe a month or two and then cut back again
If you dont wan this to happen ever again eat normal amounts and do more cardio
Austin Gray
>iced tea Are you retarded by any chance? Drink water