Hello all, (Asking this question for my wife)
About a year or so ago I decided to take control over my health and learn to get into a workout routine and also learn how to manage nutrition. I started with Scott's PPL program in the summer and when winter hit, switch to FBE and have had great results from both.
About 2 weeks into my start, my wife and I had our second daughter and a month or so after that, my wife was seeing my results and decided to work on her health and weight issues.
Over the past year or so, she's lost around 50 pounds while breastfeeding so was able to keep caloric intake higher (research said around 500 above your proper allowance to avoid supply issues) and that worked well.
Fast forward to now, she's been struggling with a plateau for the past month or two and we're having a hard time figuring it out. We adjusted her calories to a little below where the calorie calculator was suggesting (~1800 /day) and she's also decided to start tracking macros instead of just calories. Changing to the ~1800 had a positive result for a couple weeks but then the weight bumped back to where it was and since has jumped but not actually dropping.
We were both intermittent fasting to allow the bigger meal portions and now she's trying to incorporate carb cycling in to see if that helps.
Her workout consists of a dance routine following a youtuber called "The Fitness Marshall" and she's happy doing that. I've suggested potentially adding resistance training with weights but she has no interest in that and is quite adamant in that she won't like it so she won't stick with it.
I'm curious if potentially her body has adjusted to her dance routines and is not burning calories like it used to?
Calorie Calculator suggests around 1900 calories a day for her weight/height so the 1800 or so should be OK I would think? Maybe her body has adapted to that amount so it has to drop a little more?
I should also mention, she has PCOS which tends to mess with insulin and other things, which, from what I understand, make it potentially harder to lose weight so not sure if you've dealt with any women with this issue.
Hopefully that's enough information! Thank you.