Cutting plateau - please help me break this chit

Yes. Your "1000 calorie deficit" is based of of one calculator online. Those calculators are for giving you a guideline to work with. It might say your TDEE is 2300. Your actual TDEE could easily be 2500, or 2000. It's an estimation. If the scale says you're not losing weight then you need to lower the calories

>>42280993
I'm already eating like 2500 calories though and I feel like that's pretty low for me at 209 lbs is it not?

Id say eat at maintenance for a week let your body reset completely. Then ease back into a deficit. If youve been dieting a while youre likely at the point where as your losing fat your holding water. When you go back to maintenance i wouldnt be surprised if you drop a few pounds.

>>42281694
Waste of time

>>42281157
2500 isn't hugely low. Cut another 250. See how you go. I'd say you can go as low as 1900 in a pinch. You've hit a point of homeostasis. Once you're at your desired bf, you can reverse diet out of it. You'll gain some fat but you'll still be cut.

Layne Norton has some good shit about reverse dieting. Some have argued it as a meme, but it seems pretty legit. Dude seems to know his shit.

I think it's AthleanX but he says a better way to cut while still being happy and maintaining gains is to not go ridiculously drastic on a cut but to work out harder, incorporate more cardio, (jump rope, up downs) in order to hit the necessary caloric deficit.
A podcast about anon posted talked about that at anything above 10%, your body adipose tissue can sustain a large caloric deficit without doing much harm.
In total keep lifting heavy but either add more cardio of some kind or eat less. Like 200-300 less to start out.

>>42281984
>>42282014
Thanks fellas I'll try dropping some carbs and see how it goes a 2 weeks from now. And it's funny you mentioned layne because as I'm typing this I'm listening to a podcast with him on it right now