Gopherhead

That fact that after two months you are not, and have infact put on a few lbs, is an indication that it is not working for you. There are a few possibilities from just this information alone.

1) You are eating too little for your body. You are pretty active, this I know from other posts. 900 calories, regardless of your age, size or activity level, is too low. Period. 1,500 calories is too low for me, and I am not exceptionally tall or young. I do cardio 5x a week at 5:30 am for 45 minutes and I lift weights 3x a week for just under an hour and I need to eat 1900 calories to lose. For the record I am 5'6" and 38 years old. There have been times in the past few years (heavy lifting) when eating 2300 calories a day lead to fat loss.

The notion that you need to drastically cut your calories to lose fat is one that is counterproductive to sustained fat loss. The goal of any fat loss program should be permanent fat loss. The very nature of this requires time and behaviour modification. Less of a calorie deficit equals less of a metabolism hit; increased cardio equals increased deficit w/o a metabolism hit and as a double whammy it also increases metabolism in and of itself. Eating only slightly less than you burn and increasing activity is a win / win situation.

2) You are not measuring / calculating what you are eating accurately.

So, how tall are you? Are you male/female? What do you weigh?

Nat

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