# Weight loss recommendations

**URL:** <https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183>\
**Category:** Nutrition Q&A \[Moderated\]\
**Created:** [July 26, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183 "2020-07-26T21:27:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Priest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/1 "2020-07-26T21:27:53Z")

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Currently I weigh in at 74.9kg, with a waist of 89cm and a neck of around 37-38cm, these gives me a BF% of around 21%. I’ve been dieting down from 83kg and right now I’ve hit a plateau with not much progress as I would expect recently. My diet has been a fairly “hard” cut eating around -800 from maintenance (1500) calories and even with that my weight in the past few weeks has been going up and down. Should I try a more reasonable calorie intake? I noticed in the TBAB article the numbers would have me eating about 400 calories more per day than I am now, and more the double the fat intake. Seems strange to eat more but not sure what the next step is rather than just doing the same.

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**Author:** ![Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/jordan_feigenbaum/32/1315_2.png) [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/2 "2020-07-27T15:34:57Z")

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What was your weight 1 month ago?

I don’t think it’s likely that you’re eating too few calories to lose weight, as this legitimately never happens.

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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Priest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/3 "2020-07-27T18:32:10Z")

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My last four weigh ins  
74.9  
76.05  
75.45  
76.85  
I weight every monday morning

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**Author:** ![Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/jordan_feigenbaum/32/1315_2.png) [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/4 "2020-07-28T02:27:09Z")

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Looks like you’ve lost ~ 2kg in the last month. That’s pretty good, though I would recommend weighing in daily and taking an average weight week-to-week.

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**Author:** ![Dylan\_Priest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@Dylan\_Priest](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Dylan_Priest)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/5 "2020-07-31T10:53:21Z")

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Do you think a diet break may be appropriate? I had a mock meet today and my PR attempts all went quite terribly

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**Author:** ![Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/jordan_feigenbaum/32/1315_2.png) [@Jordan\_Feigenbaum](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Jordan_Feigenbaum)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/weight-loss-recommendations/9183/6 "2020-07-31T16:38:07Z")

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> [@Dylan\_Priest](#):
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> Do you think a diet break may be appropriate? I had a mock meet today and my PR attempts all went quite terribly

Not necessarily. In general, I think that performance is more related to programming, motivation, and environment rather than calorie intake. What do you think?