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I am so frustrated by my weight. I am a certified strength coach and I have a good foundation in basic nutrition. I understand CICO, the impact of hormones, water weight, salt, stress, and sleep. When I wasn't focused on losing weight, my intake was around 2000-2100 calories per day. I am about 60 kg and 160 cm.
I have been tracking my calories for over two months, hitting 1400-1600 every day (non training vs training days) for the past two weeks. Prior to this I had slowly ramped up the deficit. All of my food is weighed. I do heavy weight training for 1.5-2 hours 5 days per week (this is including longer rest between compound lifts, hence the long time). I sleep about 8 hours per night.
I didn't just jump into the deficit I am in. I have increased it over time, becoming more and more strict after my weight hasn't changed. And it still hasn't. I am becoming increasingly stressed out (which doesn't help) and frustrated. This week I am getting my birth control implant removed after near constant periods for about a month. I feel like a part of my stalling progress has to do with this, but I don't imagine that's the entire story.
I feel so demoralized. I am about 30% body fat as a visual and measurement estimate. I don't like how it looks or how it feels to be me right now. But I don't know what else to do. Even if I somehow ate an additional 200 calories per day, I should still be slowly losing weight over the two months. But I haven't. I don't understand, especially because this has worked before really well. I don't know what to do.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/mbael8/i_am_so_frustrated/
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