Trouble Losing Weight

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burning anywhere from 750-1000 calories

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There is probably not true. I don't know where you are getting that figure. But you would have to be doing a lot to burn that much. Probably closer to 400-500 if you are working out for an hour plus. Are you using this as an offset?

How long have you been eating <1800 cal? I wouldn’t be surprised if you need to reverse diet and focus on heavier strength training. Skip the cardio or whatever you’re doing to burn 750 calories in an hour - that’s not helping you like you think it is.

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Definitely the heaviest I’ve ever been. I’ve been going to the gym 3-4 times a week for the last month and burning anywhere from 750-1000 calories each time.

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no you are not

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I don’t eat breakfast, just a cup of black coffee each morning, eat lunch at 11, dinner at 6, and don’t snack. I definitely am under the 1800 calories between what I consume and burn.

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you are eating more than 1800 calories and not enough protien

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I’m a 27 year old Male, 5’11” and 215 lbs

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the 1800 calories is fine but you need to be getting 200+ grams protien if possible

If you are spending an hour at the gym, I'd figure you are spending probably 350-450 Calories. At 215, depending on your muscle, you probably spend around 1800 - 1900 Calories a day just to live. Depending on how active you are outside of the gym, I'd say you spend probably 2500 Calories a day. Anything you eat less than that is a deficit and will help you lose weight. Get a scale from Amazon and Macro Factors. If you can't lose weight, you are lying to the app.

What others are saying. You are not burning anywhere near that many calories in the gym. All trackers are very inaccurate and always grossly over estimate. There are studies on this showing their inaccuracy.

Eat the calories you are supposed to eat under your maintenance and consider working out just extra. Coming from someone who lost ~140 lbs or so

OP - I am 5'8", 160lb and I eat a maintenance of ~2800 calories. I run 4ish times a week and lift 3-4 times a week, but I also have spent a lot of time reverse dieting to slowly build my metabolism up.

Right now, due to not being able to run a bunch or lift a lot, I am eating ~2500 calories and have lost 2lbs in the last ~10 days.

You should take some time to build yourself up before jumping to a drastic caloric deficit. I always see people preaching to cut calories, and that's true... but you don't want to have to cut to 1600 calories to lose weight - because you're on your way to needing to do that. Build your metabolism to 3000+ calories so you can cut to 2400-2500 calories and lose weight. I would put money on it that when you reverse diet, you start to lean out. Your body is probably craving it.

First forget about what you burned.. That's so inaccurate it's useless.

Second track calories for a few weeks. If you never did you have no clue what your eating.

If you are using your "burned calories" in your equation, you probably way over what you think you are eating.

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Any suggestions?

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Eat less or healthier. Weight is gained or lost in the kitchen, endurance and muscle are built in the gym.