Can't lose weight on 1500 calorie diet

[julien]

@crosswise What are you drinking?

If you aren't losing weight, you're either overestimating your daily energy expenditure, or you aren't calculating calories properly.

 

[crosswise]

@julien I do 2 coffees per day with 1 big spoon of 2% milk and 1 flat, little spoon of sugar and then lots of water throughout the day. I always pee clear, never dehydrated.

 

[julien]

@crosswise Urine colour is not what I am concerned about, but thanks, haha.

Are you calculating those calories, too?

 

[crosswise]

@julien Yes, and they're negligible, it's maybe 20 calories tops per coffee.

And sorry about the color detail, but that's how I gauge if I am well hydrated or not. I drink A LOT during workout and post workout. I have a 32oz bottle of water and I'll drink one during lifting, and then down another one like that after workout.

 

[julien]

@crosswise Its all good.

There's gotta be somewhere you are muscalculating, unless your hormones are way out of whack.

But even at that point, there's a caloric number that will make you lose weight.

 

[crosswise]

@julien How could my hormones be out of whack? What would be other symptoms? Is blood draw the way to test for it?

 

[julien]

@crosswise This article can explain it better than me.

 

[curtswill]

@crosswise If you are really tracking everything well then just wait it out. I’ve had to wait for up to two weeks for my weight to drop after starting a cut. I went cold turkey into a 1000 cal deficit and accumulated water like crazy

 

[eriugena]

@crosswise Try drinking half your body weight of water.

 

[eboigbeosayande]

@crosswise 167 at 5’10”? Time to bulk