Hello. I’m 29 years old, 5’8 and weigh 210 lbs. Last year, because of the pandemic, I worked from home (and I still work). As I didn’t have to leave the house and see people other than family, I didn’t take my diet seriously and so I gained weight. Since 4th of this month I started to diet and, for my horror, I haven’t lost any weight (barely 1 lb) and I have no idea why.
Before the pandemic, when I gained weight I used to reduce my daily calorie intake to 1200 and, especially after one week, I would lost a lot more than 1 lb, but now I’m going to the fourth week of diet and nothing (I weigh myself on Monday mornings, right after I wake up and after I go to the bathroom, but this week I couldn’t control myself, so I decided to weigh today, on a Sunday, and my weight is almost the same).
I’ve heard and experienced weight loss plateau before, but it happened several weeks after I started a diet and it only lasted a week before I started to lose weight again (at least 3 lbs), and without exercise.
I’ve also heard that our metabolism decreases with age, but is it really possible that my metabolism went from a “teenager” to an “elderly” when I turned 29?
Anyway, this is what I have been doing for the past three weeks: 1200 daily calories (I’m 100% sure that 1200 calories is currently my daily intake because I count them); For exercise I’ve been doing stair climbing. I started doing for 1 minute, every day and every week I add another minute (I tried to do 5 minutes on day 1, but I almost fainted). My goal is to do at least 75 minutes per week, per WHO recommendation; I have been drinking almost 15 cups of water per day (I use a measurement cup to drink water). I almost only drink water, the only exception is a cup of tea on breakfast.
If anyone has experienced this situation before or is very knowledgeable about weight loss, it would mean the world to me your help about what should I do! (And sorry for any misspelled word. English is not my first language)
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