Calorie targets
Female, 5ft 3”, CW: 145lbs GW: 119lbs
Hi all, I’ve been successfully losing weight for bit over a year now consecutively- the best I’ve ever done! I’m now in the last leg of my journey I think before maintenance as I only have 26lbs left to lose and could use some advice.
I had about a week ‘off’ for my birthday at the end of September/beginning of October and have gotten back on track but I find myself struggling to hit my calorie target, which is 1200. I’ve been consistently eating between 1250-1300 calories and I’m worried that it’s going to prevent me losing weight. I have been losing since I started again but quite slow and I’m not sure if my body’s only allowing that with the calories I’m eating because I’ve only just started again and it’s adjusting - sorry if I’m not explaining myself well I just mean how you usually lose quicker when starting before it slows down and evens out again.
As for activity I do at least 8000 steps a day but usually it’s between 9000-10000 and I have an exercise routine I do 6x a week.
This is about 45mins-60mins and is:
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set of 4 standing ab exercises each lasts 2 min and are done twice. I also have 2kg ankle weights and 1kg wrist weights on during all of these.
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I then remove the wrist weights but keep the ankle weights on until the last exercise
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3min 45sec plank
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160 sit-ups with a 30sec max water brake in the middle at 80.
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50 beginner ab crunches.
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60 pelvic lifts
-90 squats which I remove the weights for.
Any advice on what a realistic calorie goal is or if I’ve been too lenient on myself would be greatly appreciated :) Especially as I struggle to understand the more technical knowledge/language used sometimes so I don’t know how to calculate an accurate deficit.
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