Hey, I'm hoping someone can have a look over my current routine and tell me why I am not seeing any progress at all.
I am a man, nearly 31 years old, weighing 286lbs. I lived a mostly sedentary lifestyle, working from home and getting shopping delivered and such, so I don't get out much. I have used one of those calculator websites to work out my maintenance calories, and it comes out to around 2700 calories daily.
Over the last 5 weeks, I have been pretty strict with my diet, and have also been exercising every work day, but am yet to see any real progress on the scale. About 2 months I made a switch to a vegan diet. My current daily diet consists of:
- 12pm - 280g homemade lentil ragu with 75g dry weight wholegrain pasta
- 3pm - apple
- 6pm - 280g homemade 3 bean chilli con carne or homemade chickpea curry with 70g dry weight brown rice
- 7pm - apple and 30g walnuts
This diet has been pretty consistent, with me having had maybe 4 bad days during the last 5 weeks where I got a fast food delivery, but estimated calories put me close or slightly above maintenance, so shouldn't have wiped out any progress.
In the last 5 weeks, I have also added 2 x 30 minute sessions on an indoor exercise bike each weekday. One in the morning, one in the evening, sort of treating it as my commute to work. In the mornings, I maintain a pace that keeps my hear rate around 130bpm+ and the evening 110bpm+.
In these 5 weeks, my weight has been completely static, excepting 2 weeks ago when 5lbs dropped off me in a matter of a couple of days. Since then there has been no more movement. I weigh myself daily, but have a weekly weigh in that I track, and this week, I actually gained 1lb.
I am starting to lose motivation if I am honest. Am I just waiting for my body to catch up with all the changes? I would understand the water weight argument if it was only a couple of weeks, but this is over a month now.
Let me know if there's any additional details that would help figure out what's going on. For now, I am going to stick with the current plan, but I'm not happy about it presently.
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