Weight Loss Plateau after losing 54lbs

clafairy1984

Hi Guys,

Has this happened to anyone else, and do you have any hints and tips about how to get the scale moving again? I'm eating healthily, cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients every day (with the occasional treat). I eat mainly fish and veggie dishes, with white meat only twice a week, and very rarely eat red. I workout for 2 hours 4 times a week, with a variety of gym classes, weights, cardio and core strength, as well as long walks with my dog. I was losing 1lb a week, but now the scales just wont budge, and it's really disheartening. I feel like my efforts are wasted and that I will be stuck at this size, when I still have another 28lbs to lose.

NickDoesFitness

lower your calories by 100, see if that helps.

DemoraFairy

Do you weigh everything you eat? How long has it been since you lost weight?

SezxyStef

well I would start with logging food.

Then get a food scale and use that consistently.

It doesn't matter what you eat it's how much and it doesn't matter if you exercise or not...if you aren't in a deficit you won't lose weight.

Faye_Anderson

weigh and log everything is a good start. your diary is empty

clafairy1984

I weigh carbs, generally allowing 70g cooked rice or pasta or 100-150g potato. I mix pasta with sliced courgette, green beans etc to give the illusion that I'm eating more pasta than I am. I don't weigh green veg, as use it to fill me up. it's been 3 weeks of the scale not moving.

DemoraFairy

clafairy1984 wrote: »

I weigh carbs, generally allowing 70g cooked rice or pasta or 100-150g potato. I mix pasta with sliced courgette, green beans etc to give the illusion that I'm eating more pasta than I am. I don't weigh green veg, as use it to fill me up. it's been 3 weeks of the scale not moving.

Not weighing everything is most likely your problem.

Estimating or not counting vegetables may have left you in a deficit when you weighed more, but as you lose weight you burn less calories in a day, so you may not actually be in a deficit anymore, as you don't know how much you're actually eating.

Weigh everything and carry on for a few weeks sticking to your calories and see how it goes.

clafairy1984

my diary is empty as I had to change my username, I have had to start logging anew.

Sued0nim

clafairy1984 wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Has this happened to anyone else, and do you have any hints and tips about how to get the scale moving again? I'm eating healthily, cooking from scratch with fresh ingredients every day (with the occasional treat). I eat mainly fish and veggie dishes, with white meat only twice a week, and very rarely eat red. I workout for 2 hours 4 times a week, with a variety of gym classes, weights, cardio and core strength, as well as long walks with my dog. I was losing 1lb a week, but now the scales just wont budge, and it's really disheartening. I feel like my efforts are wasted and that I will be stuck at this size, when I still have another 28lbs to lose.

Hi

Congratulations on your loss .. that's a pretty impressive number

How long has your weight been stable for - anything under 6-8 weeks is just a stall which can be natural in weight loss

Sounds like you are eating a good nutritious diet there, but if you really want to know what you're eating you would need to calorie count by weighing your food and logging it accurately

whilst you may just be stalling it does get harder as you get closer to goal and you cannot make as many 'errors' as you might have when you had more to lose.

Try calorie counting for a few weeks and see if you like it .. aim for no more than 1lb a week

good luck

clafairy1984

it's been about 3 weeks of not change, so fingers crossed it's just temporary

TimothyFish

clafairy1984 wrote: »

I weigh carbs, generally allowing 70g cooked rice or pasta or 100-150g potato. I mix pasta with sliced courgette, green beans etc to give the illusion that I'm eating more pasta than I am. I don't weigh green veg, as use it to fill me up. it's been 3 weeks of the scale not moving.

When they talk about weighing your food, what they are talking about is weighing it so you can multiply that by the number of calories per gram (as listed on the package), to give you the number of calories in what you are eating. I seldom weigh food like they do, but you do need to have a good idea of how many calories are in what you are eating. The number of carbs is pretty meaningless for weight loss.