Okay. I lost 50 pounds over the span of 2021-2022. I maintained all summer and fall, but I struggled to get started losing again over the winter. I am 5'8, weigh 210 pounds, and would like to get down to my next goal of 190 which is seeming to be absolutely impossible?
I calorie count and I use a food scale to weigh and measure everything, which is getting very tiresome, especially when it used to work so well and I got accustomed to seeing progress for all the hard work put in. It was so motivating to put in the effort and see the scale go down. Haven't seen any progress *at all* since last spring.
I am 37 years old and get about 7,500-10,000k steps a day. I have fibromyalgia, which I absolutely can't stand, as I'm often pushing myself into flare ups when I take too many steps. I have two young kids, a puppy, and love to be outside and active despite the pain.
Over the last couple of weeks, I've decided I need to double down on my efforts because 1800 cals is just not doing anything. I have cut down to 1500 calories a day. When I get over 7500 steps I eat back some of my exercise calories. I net about 1200 a day, but my actual intake ranges from 1500-1700.
I have steadily gained weight every day for the past week and a half. After cutting down from 1800 cals a day to 1500, I have gained about 4 pounds. I am in the middle of a flare up from too many steps, so possibly it's water weight... but it's been a week and a half.
What is happening, here? I'm accurately weighing and logging everything. My step counter seems accurate (I even have it on a lower sensitivity so it doesn't overcount). I'm certainly appropriately exhausted and super hungry at the end of every day.
It's not like I'm 150 pounds and looking to get down even further. I am a 5'8" 210 pound woman, here. I'm not eating too few calories because when I go up in calories, I simply maintain.
Anyone with fibromyalgia have problems like this? Or women who are in their late thirties? I don't think I have hypothyroid because I have been tested before and my levels were normal. Getting super tired of this backward effort, here. The harder I work to lose, the more I gain.
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