Stalling weight loss + one major injury - Please Advise

[smackababy]

So after two weeks of droping down on cals, no weight change. Should I go up, perhaps my metabolisim is crawing along? I am freqnetly more hungry through out the day. And it is usually the kiss of death before I go to bed. I often get up at 1 or 2AM and am starving. When I started out this two months ago, my cal intake range was 2200-2400 cals per day. Should I go up to 2500 or more?

Thoughts.

How closely are you counting your calories and exactly how much are you working out. At a sedimentary lifestyle, 2400 calories is your maintenance. So, if even if you are in that range, with working out, you're looking at very little weight loss per week. If you're only 100 calories below your maintenance each day, that is 700 calories per week. One pound of fat is estimated at around 3500 calories, for example. You are only "losing" a 5th of that.

If you're calculating your workout, there is a very good chance it is overestimating it (I had an app that was doing the exact same thing, so I had to tweak how many calories it was saying I burned by altering the time and tendency).

 

[thatsright]

How closely are you counting your calories and exactly how much are you working out. At a sedimentary lifestyle, 2400 calories is your maintenance. So, if even if you are in that range, with working out, you're looking at very little weight loss per week. If you're only 100 calories below your maintenance each day, that is 700 calories per week. One pound of fat is estimated at around 3500 calories, for example. You are only "losing" a 5th of that.

If you're calculating your workout, there is a very good chance it is overestimating it (I had an app that was doing the exact same thing, so I had to tweak how many calories it was saying I burned by altering the time and tendency).

I use the My Plate sit to track calories. See the very first post for a given day while I am at the gym. It has been very accurate. I am fanatic about it.

As for the gym, I sort of realized I just wasn't going hard. I was doing what I thought was ok-good in the gym. But realized a few weeks ago it was just to lite as I never really pushed myself hard at all. So I'm doing a lot more in the gym.

 

[smackababy]

Your pictures aren't entirely evidence of being accurate in what you're consuming. Let's look at your chicken. You have recorded 8 servings. Now, exactly how much is a serving and are you weighing it to be sure?

And, even if that was 100% accurate, you still aren't in a large enough deficit to be seeing short term improvements. You need to cut back more. If you were only 100 calories under your maintenance a day for 2 weeks, you'd have lost a total of about 2/5s of a pound. That is hard to see on a scale.