As the title says. I think I'm eating at a caloric deficit everyday but my weight is not budging or it increases. I've been on caloric deficit since March-ish and faltered a little bit in June where I pretty much ate whatever I wanted for two weeks but ever since then, I've been watching my calories. I know for sure I'm eating at caloric deficit everyday unless I grossly miscalculate the calories of 75 g of gravy I put on my rice daily which is the only thing in the menu that I'm finding difficult to calculate precisely.
I did a little experiment this week and decided to eat fast food yesterday, my weight the next day jumped up by almost two pounds despite according to my calculations, the entire meal should have only be at 600 caloric surplus. I feel very sluggish everyday but still make the effort to walk 10k steps daily and work out 4 times a week at the gym (mostly weightlifting).
It's pretty demotivating thinking I'm putting in the work but not seeing the weighing scale moving. I've been reading about slow metabolism and how it's affected people on long term caloric deficit, and I'm thinking it might affect me? I've always been a believer of calories in calories out but this new reading had me pretty sold on the concept based on the research done. I'm thinking of taking a diet break myself to 'restore my metabolism'.
For reference: I am male, 29, 5'7 and 162 lbs today, my goal is to get to 140 lbs. Most of my weight are distributed around my belly which gives me a very skinny fat look.
Side question: is there a proven medical way to check your metabolism rate? If so, any Canadians here know to get that checked?
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