Any tips on fat loss plateus?

[screename8000]

My weight loss is going really slow and I am really frustrated about it.

I want to get this fat gone as fast as possible, so then I can bulk and get to my real goals which is to look intimidating.....

But the scale is not moving the past 2 months so yeah....

[Serpentarius]

Its a big mistake to want to get fat loss over with so you can just get fat again (which WILL happen). Most of your lifting will be done in a deficit. There is no such thing as a plateau, you just need to eat less.


Which is true?

-my weight loss is going down too slow
-my weight has not gone down in two months

[screename8000]

Its a big mistake to want to get fat loss over with so you can just get fat again (which WILL happen). Most of your lifting will be done in a deficit. There is no such thing as a plateau, you just need to eat less.


Which is true?

-my weight loss is going down too slow
-my weight has not gone down in two months

I feel like it is "my weight has not gone down in two months"...if that answers anything. I eat 1700-1900 calories a day. Some days I am now trying to eat only 1000 calories just because the scale doesn;t go down and its ****ing annoying

my lifts have not decreased at all.

[screename8000]

Its a big mistake to want to get fat loss over with so you can just get fat again (which WILL happen). Most of your lifting will be done in a deficit. There is no such thing as a plateau, you just need to eat less.


Which is true?

-my weight loss is going down too slow
-my weight has not gone down in two months

My goal is to be muscular and big....but that aint going to happen if this fat doesn't go away. Its also kind of the reason I don't enjoy losing weight, but it kinda has to be done so yeah

I am doing stairmaster 20-30 minutes 4 times a week now. Lifting is 4 times a week, and weights haven't gone down at all...actually I try to go up still and its works. So I know the gym isn't an issue right now.

I'll now plan my foods now and check if that is the problem....I'll try 1600 calories and see if that does the job I want.

Basically what happened is I started skinny fat and bulked to the 200s(fat as ****), and have been trying to lose weight since. I think I am cathcing that it is easy for me to gain weight and gain strength, but hard for me to lose weight.

[Serpentarius]

Well its one or the other, either the scale NUMERICALLY is going down which means you are in a deficit, or "doesnt feel" that branches off into TWO further things:

-not satisfied with results
-not actually weighing themselves

Either the scale is going down or it isnt. You have to eat less regardless, but perception of reality doesnt match reality means weight isnt being measured.

[Tommy W.]

Plateau for a month= too many calories

[Heat1992]

Plateau for a month= too many calories

This

Get myfitnesspal and a foodscale

If your doing all that cardio and weightlifting you eating too much

[Tomzazo]

Hey man! During my first cut I also hit a plateau. I was sitting at the same weight for about three weeks and I didn't know what was causing it. I started doing cardio which only helped a tiny bit. After that I looked at my diet and that's (as always) is were the problem was. I was weighing my cooked foods the wrong way, and I overestimated my lifestyle. I thought I was pretty active, going to the gym four days a week, but besides that I just sat behind a desk or on my couch. Did you perhaps overestimate your activity level and are you measuring your food correctly?

[screename8000]

Hey man! During my first cut I also hit a plateau. I was sitting at the same weight for about three weeks and I didn't know what was causing it. I started doing cardio which only helped a tiny bit. After that I looked at my diet and that's (as always) is were the problem was. I was weighing my cooked foods the wrong way, and I overestimated my lifestyle. I thought I was pretty active, going to the gym four days a week, but besides that I just sat behind a desk or on my couch. Did you perhaps overestimate your activity level and are you measuring your food correctly?

Yeah I think I might be overestimating....I am checking through my diet(calories wise)

[screename8000]

This

Get myfitnesspal and a foodscale

If your doing all that cardio and weightlifting you eating too much

Yeah I think that might be the case.