Just Another Plateau and Weigh-In Thread
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Fine. I guess I'll be the lone voice to say how arrogant you seem to dictate what others can post. You could have posted a very helpful thread about plateaus and avoided the insults and looked like a great guy.
Just don't read any threads with plateau in it if it irritates you so much.9 -
Fine. I guess I'll be the lone voice to say how arrogant you seem to dictate what others can post. You could have posted a very helpful thread about plateaus and avoided the insults and looked like a great guy.
Just don't read any threads with plateau in it if it irritates you so much.
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I find this extremely interesting! Im a daily weigher and i always thought id hate weighing weekly or less, because what if it happened to be a day i was up, appearing as if id lost nothing.ncboiler89 wrote: »To delve into this just a little bit further (sorry
), I have 118 data points for my weight. Because Excel allows a person to rule the world I asked myself the question; If I weighed myself only once per week how often would I show a gain and how often would I show a loss? So what I did was subtract two data points that were eight days apart (simulating weighing myself on the same day of the week once per week). I ended up with 111 data points. Eighty-six times I would have shown a loss, twenty times I would have shown a gain and five times it would have been the same as the previous week. About 22% of the time I would have been heartbroken and thus a plateau thread.
Kudos to you for doing all the math though!
And best of luck lol. You're probably going to be extra infuriated in like 30seconds when someone makes a new post asking if theyre in a plateau.
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Bumping this thread until it's a sticky.0
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Great thread. Yes the initial post is lengthy, but I don't think there is a really concise way to convey that information.
It drives me nuts when someone starts a thread with "I lost X pounds in March and then barely lost anything in April, OMG plateau!!!". Weight fluctuates a lot, you probably lost <X in March (maybe you had a super light day at the end of the month compared with a super heavy day at the beginning of the month) and you probably lost more than you think in April.
Then when things eventually work themselves out you get the thread that they broke their plateau by eating more or cutting carbs or shocking their body or toxin cleanse or whatever other random thing they just happened to do right before they lost some water weight.2 -
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ncboiler89 wrote: »MonsoonStorm wrote: »Actually this thread needs stickied... how do we achieve that?
Thanks for reading! There is a 'nominate posts for a sticky' sticky.
Me thinks you think too highly of this thread.0 -
TimothyFish wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »MonsoonStorm wrote: »Actually this thread needs stickied... how do we achieve that?
Thanks for reading! There is a 'nominate posts for a sticky' sticky.
Me thinks you think too highly of this thread.
Someone asked @ncboiler89 if there was a way to get the thread stickied. He responded. He wasn't saying "Hey everyone go nominate my thread"
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TimothyFish wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »MonsoonStorm wrote: »Actually this thread needs stickied... how do we achieve that?
Thanks for reading! There is a 'nominate posts for a sticky' sticky.
Me thinks you think too highly of this thread.
I think the popularity of this thread has hit a plateau...possibly even popularity starvation mode. The OP should increase his posting to shock the website and get the thread popularity moving again.4 -
To the OP thanks. That was very interesting.0
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Not the threads that makes me tired.
But the arguing and unbelief of an OP when they post their question and you try to explain what happened and how to get in deficit again.
They never ever changed anything ( what is the point already) they aren't wrong and they do it right!!!! Only they dont lose weight.
So all posters are wrong ( who lose weight just fine) and OP is right.
Like i have losing my weight with magic ...right
And yes this should be a sticky0 -
But . . . but . . . but you mean my plateau is non-existent? That just because I became lackadaisical in my logging and exercising and stopped losing weight it is MY fault? Cannot be! It HAS to be a plateau!!!! (pssst kudos, NCBoiler, what a great and well thought out and executed post)3
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Personally I find this post quite patronizing. Sure, there are a lot of people out there who think staying the same for 2 weeks is a "plateau". And there are those who think staying the same weight for 2 weeks despite the fact they haven't logged everything and got a little lazy is a "plateau".
But it's patronizing to suggest there can't be people out there who need legitimate advice with a weight stall. I weigh every day and keep trend lines etc. And I ran into a period (long time ago now) where I maintained weight for several months. It wasn't until I finally read enough info about how I was likely eating TOO LITTLE at my current weight and exercise level, that I finally gained the courage to up my calories by 200 a day--and I busted through that "plateau" immediately.
So yes, of course there are people who will complain about a plateau and not really understand what that is or what's going on with their body. But it's incredibly condescending to act like those "don't exist" while in the same breath admitting that they do, just not for the reasons people think.8 -
Personally I find this post quite patronizing. Sure, there are a lot of people out there who think staying the same for 2 weeks is a "plateau". And there are those who think staying the same weight for 2 weeks despite the fact they haven't logged everything and got a little lazy is a "plateau".
But it's patronizing to suggest there can't be people out there who need legitimate advice with a weight stall. I weigh every day and keep trend lines etc. And I ran into a period (long time ago now) where I maintained weight for several months. It wasn't until I finally read enough info about how I was likely eating TOO LITTLE at my current weight and exercise level, that I finally gained the courage to up my calories by 200 a day--and I busted through that "plateau" immediately.
So yes, of course there are people who will complain about a plateau and not really understand what that is or what's going on with their body. But it's incredibly condescending to act like those "don't exist" while in the same breath admitting that they do, just not for the reasons people think.
Most of the time people who do this start weighing their food vigorously because it is scary to up it.
Without knowing they get more accurate than they were and yeps they start losing again because they created a deficit...( not because the ate more).
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"Excuse me, I was told there would be no math..."5
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Great thread! Helps to put things in perspective...
I'm having one of those "plateaus" right now; not my first.
But I know it will work itself out eventually...and this thread is a great reminder of that.
Question: Does anybody know the android version of the app that charts the weight like in the OPs opening post?
TIA!
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Bump, for more visibility. I just found this thread off of another one.
There is a website that shows the trending
www.trendweight.com
If you use a wifi scale or have a fitbit account that you put your weigh ins into, it does all the graphing for you.
Libra is an android app that also does the trending graphs for you.0 -
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Personally I find this post quite patronizing....It wasn't until I finally read enough info about how I was likely eating TOO LITTLE
You find it patronizing because you believe an impossibility. If you really upped your intake by 200 kcals, you would not suddenly lose weight because of it.
I understand that you believe it, but it's like believing that your car runs out of gas quicker if you put more into it.
I do believe that you changed up what you were eating and then lost weight either because (a) you suddenly also logged more accurately because you were anxious not to accidentally add more than 200 kcals; or (b) you suddenly were eating differently and less than you realized, and so realized the deficit your body was waiting for.
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Plateaus are real. To suggest otherwise is, to put it flatly, ignorant.
Some people seem to enjoy being on a plateau:
Others, not so much:
Either way, just beware that some are inhabited by dinosaurs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(Conan_Doyle_novel)
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I just went on a 'rampage' on my personal newsfeed about experiencing a plateau (without actually saying that icky word). I was looking up other info and came across this thread. Now, I feel like an uninformed brat. Thanks for the info, OP!
Now, to apologize to my 'friends' who had to endure that rant...
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I live on the Plateau. So yeah, they're real.
http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/Discover-montreal/Neighbourhoods/Plateau-Mont-Royal
Totally unrelated to weight loss though.1 -
I love this thread! Who has a link to the nominate for a stickie thread?0
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OsricTheKnight wrote: »You find it patronizing because you believe an impossibility. If you really upped your intake by 200 kcals, you would not suddenly lose weight because of it.
It's possible to boost calories and see increased weight loss (there is an important distinction between weight loss and fat loss). In fact it was seen in Ancel Keys' starvation research, which was carefully controlled. Fat was burned at a more or less constant rate, but for reasons still not really understood, fat cells can retain water as they lose their triglycerides, maintaining their weight in spite of a loss of fats, until something triggers an efflux of water out of the cells, causing shrinkage and rapid weight loss. Some data suggests a caloric increase can trigger this efflux. Some people experience this, others don't.6 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I love this thread! Who has a link to the nominate for a stickie thread?
It was added to the stickies when they rebuilt the list a couple of weeks ago!0 -
Hooray!0
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