9 week plateau and I'm needing some new ideas!

JulieAnneFIU

Do you wear a heart rate monitor and log your workouts? I know when I logged Jillian as circuit training it gave me more calories than when I used my hrm. I used to bust butt doing that and only ended up burning about 147 calories. I didn't lose a pound. Now I wear a hrm and do the negative calorie adjustment with fitbit and I'm losing exactly what it says I'm supposed to and I eat every calorie back.

PeachyCarol

MeiannaLee wrote: »

A lot of people recommend eating less, but what got me out of my plateau was eating more. I had a refeed day of over 2000 calories (Im 5'1 lol) and then two days later I went from my 3 weeks of being 132 pounds to 129 lbs. And Im pooping a lot more now. Try something like that.

Although everyone's body is different.

That could also just be a coincidence. I happened to have had a day where I had a horrible migraine and only managed about 500 calories. I came out of my three week stall the following day too. I don't chalk it up to the low calorie intake, I think it was just time for the stall to end.

3JinItaly

I do have a hrm and I wear it for every workout. When I log in my exercise, I enter the calories that my hrm says. So if you wear your hrm, do you enter your exercise into fitbit after? Then what do you have your MFP goal set on? It seems that on every level I've set it on, fitbit has still been giving me back a ton of calories, even after I disabled the step calories. Already today, with heavy lifting, kickboxing class and a bike ride in, I've been given an extra 782 calories. And it's only 1pm! Am I seriously supposed to eat all that back? That's what is so darn confusing!!

auddii

mamapeach910 wrote: »

MeiannaLee wrote: »

A lot of people recommend eating less, but what got me out of my plateau was eating more. I had a refeed day of over 2000 calories (Im 5'1 lol) and then two days later I went from my 3 weeks of being 132 pounds to 129 lbs. And Im pooping a lot more now. Try something like that.

Although everyone's body is different.

That could also just be a coincidence. I happened to have had a day where I had a horrible migraine and only managed about 500 calories. I came out of my three week stall the following day too. I don't chalk it up to the low calorie intake, I think it was just time for the stall to end.

I started a gelato/ice cream/sweets cleanse on Saturday. I've lost 4lbs since that day. Clearly, my cleanse works... (or you know, water weight).

ETA: OP, my guess is that you're overestimating your workout calories or underestimating your intake. You say you have a pretty good handle on logging accurately, so just double check that isn't the issue, but the energy expenditure might be the issue.

The other thing I've noticed is you said that you have tried everything, but it's only been 9 weeks. That tells me that you've made several different changes to what you are doing but only waiting a week or two before changing again. I'd make one change at a time and give it 4-6 weeks, then make an additional change if needed.

You've gotten some pretty good advice already, and so I'd agree to try eating 1500-1600 calories per day (gross), and see what happens after a month. If you lose faster than you want, bump up the calories. If you don't see a drop in the scale, either give it another two weeks or lower the calories. And I'd suggest small changes, like 100-200 calories when you do make adjustments.