On the 22nd of June I decided I want to get leaner and lose weight. I am a 171cm male and currently weight 70kg. At the start of my diet I weighed 69.2 kg, so I've gone up.
I started by restricting my diet to 1700 calories a day. My TDEE is apparantly around 2k calories, but I cannot eat sustainably at 1500 to make a 500 calorie deficit because I feel awful - brain fog, headaches, weakness etc.
I tried this until a few days ago and my weight wasn't budging and remained the same every day. Someone told me I'm restricting too much and damaging my metabolism, so I increased to 2k calories a day and decided to be more active to make a deficit that way.
According to my Fitbit, I'm burning 3000 calories a day and eating 2000 calories a day. Despite this, my weight increased to 70kg this morning. I just don't understand. Even if fitbits aren't totally accurate, it surely can't be off by over 1000 calories?
For exercise, I do resistance training 4 times a week and since I upped to 2k calories I've been doing 20 minutes - 50 minutes a day of cardio on my cross trainer on top of the weightlifting.
Calories in is accurate. I track absolutely everything - butter, sauce etc. Only thing I don't is a cup of tea with the odd bit of milk but that's not going to be significant.
Should I go back down to 1700 calories with the increased cardio? I cannot do 1500 calories because I stop functions.
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