the dreaded plateau!

awilkins1930

So I've lost about 26 pounds yay! I'm just waiting for the inevitable plateau to hit. It's kinda stressing me out and it hasn't even happened yet. I just don't want to lose my motivation or get discouraged. Any suggestions or similar situations?

thingeringer

As long as I continued to eat at my set level and get a bit of exercise, I never faced a plateau. When I got complacent and started eating a little more and a little more, that led to a plateau. Having 'dieted' many times in my life, I feared a plateau as well but turns out, in my case at least, that as long as I'm maintaining the right calories, it didn't happen.

malibu927

The way to not hit a plateau is to ensure you're logging everything with as close to 100% accuracy as you can. This may mean using a food scale to weigh your foods, using a heart rate monitor to measure calories burned during steady state cardio, adjusting your calorie goals as you lose, etc.

Golda5775

Don't even think about it, just keep going and working hard. Don't worry about stuff that hasn't happened yet. Not everybody plateaus, and even if your weight loss stalls for a little bit, remember it's about getting fit and healthy, not just a smaller number on the scale! Keep going !!

ninerbuff

Plateaus are rare. In weight loss, it's 6 weeks or more of no weight movement if one has been consistent with diet and exercise. Any inconsistency wouldn't make it a plateau. That would be a stall and those happen all the time. Why? Because weight loss isn't linear. One could do the same exact thing every week and get different results.

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