Increase Calories

I've been on this weight loss journey for 18 months now, and it started really well. I felt I needed to lose 70 pounds to get into a healthy range. I dropped my calories to 1200 and lost 40 pounds in about 5 months, but then my weight stalled. I increased my exercise to 90 mins 5 days a week, and still no additional loss. I met with a nutritionist who said I wasn't eating enough and she wanted me to increase my calories to 1500, still no change. I took some time off of tracking over the holidays and gained 10 pounds. Then I got back on track at 1500 calories, and still the pounds didn't budge. My trainer again said to increase my calories, this time to 1800. Didn't gain anything, but still not losing. Had a metabolic test (oxygen consumption) that put my Basal Metabolic Rate (the amount of calories you'd burn if you didn't get out of bed) at 1610 and now my trainer is recommending that I'm still starving my body and need to increase my calories to 2200-2500 so that my body will feel it can afford to drop some additional weight.

I'm nervous about going back to eating 2200-2500 calories, although I know I will make much better choices with how to spend those calories than I used to, but if I'm eating clean, that's an awful lot of food. I've done it the past 2 days and don't even feel good eating that much.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? What worked for you? I appreciate anyone sharing relevant experience/knowledge.

Thanks,
Brenda

Thu. Jul 19, 11:33pm

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