You’re not losing weight. Does this sound familiar?
You are 100% invested. On track during the week, sticking to the meal plan religiously and smashing your workouts.
Then the weekend begins and you feel as though you deserve to let your hair down a little and indulge because you have been strict all week. One small bite of bad food can turn into a complete binge. Then you have to spend the whole of next week burning off the food you had.
You repeat this week after week and have no idea why you aren’t seeing progress and reaching your goals. Many people who diet this way live in this cycle of eating “clean” most of the week and then letting loose for 1 or 2 days and undoing all of their hard work.
“I am eating in a calorie deficit but can’t lose weight”. One thing is certain if you aren’t losing weight you are not in a deficit. One major reason is underreporting food intake or consuming more calories than you think. This may be due to a lack of education and knowledge about calories, what is in foods in combination with not weighing foods accurately. Or the most common one is eating in a deficit Monday-Friday and then over the weekend eating way over your maintenance calories.
