Need a new plan, lost 30kg in the last seven months, now struggling to lose the last few, ideally another 7. I'm convinced that routine is the enemy of weight loss, I've tried a few diets and fitness programs and every one of them has worked for a while, then the effect has diminished as my body adapts. Like others, the calorie counting says I should be losing half a kg a week, and I'm not
What next? 5/2 intermittent fasting worked well to kick this off, but daily life is a lot more active at present so not sure I could cope with that, I've tried Keto a couple of times but it didn't suit me, when the gyms re-open I'm thinking of trying some HIT sessions, open to suggestions.
I've lost about half what you have in a similar time frame. I think I'm still losing weight, but it's now very slow. I've been following the Noom programme. I think the basis for it is good, but on the tech side, I found the app to be quite annoying (too small, only available on mobile devices, prone to crash), and the whole thing is is far too American (WTF are "biscuits with gravy"?). The programme finishes for me on 18th April and I've had an email saying that I won't automatically renew.
One of the points made is that as you lose weight, your metabolism changes quite drastically. Our bodies, according to their blurb, go into some kind of defensive mode after we've lost weight, and they cited the example of a pair of identical twins, one of whom had become overweight and the other hadn't. Even when they got back to the same weight, the one whose weight was constant was able to consume a lot more calories for a given exercise regime than his brother, but not put on weight. From memory, and this was a few months ago that I read this, the one who had lost a lot of weight was having to keep his daily intake down to about 1800 calories daily whereas the brother was consuming about 2300.
My plan is to continue to monitor what I eat and not put the weight back on. If I continue to lose weight slowly, then that's fine by me. If it starts to go back on, I will probably sign up for another programme, if not Noom, then the NHS version.