Help me get out of the 2 week RUT with no loss!!
Jayco141
Posts: 221 Member
So been hovering close to 2000 calories sometimes swaying either way by 300 calories. Still have 20 LBs to lose. (6'2 - 223lbs)
Was rolling and now it all stopped. I workout and try and eat lean meats and veggies. I have an occasional drink/beer but nothin over the top.
How do I get out of this momentum downer??
Was rolling and now it all stopped. I workout and try and eat lean meats and veggies. I have an occasional drink/beer but nothin over the top.
How do I get out of this momentum downer??
0
Replies
-
Just carry on as normal.1
-
How about switching up your exercise routine for a couple of weeks?1
-
If you want to move past this consider dropping the drink/beer until weight is deceasing
adding a 1/2 hour walk to your day
track everything you eat stay within your allotted calories
low salt foods
drink lots of water
Try these suggestions for a week and your weight should drop
1 -
Drop carbonated beverages and switch to drowning your fat with water. Make sure you are weighing and measuring everything.1
-
Drop carbonated beverages and switch to drowning your fat with water. Make sure you are weighing and measuring everything.
Thank you but there is no way I can weigh everything. Im too impatient!
)
I rarely have carbonated beverages and I have maybe 4-5 beers a week, and they are light beers usually.0 -
It really sucks when you have a bit of a plateau - I stayed the same from January to early May and that nearly made me want to give it all up.
I know you've said you're impatient but weighing out your food really will help you tighten up your nutrition, and maybe try switching up your workout routine as your body can become almost bored of stuff it's being doing over and over again. HIIT can really help with shifting fat and doesn't take up too much time
0 -
I found it annoying to weigh EVERYTHING, and after spending time doing so, I got decent at guessing the weight of many food items, but still under estimated most of the time. I offset this by simply lowering my calorie goal on MFP.
I figured if I am actually eating about 250 calories more per day than I log, then by lowering my goal roughly the same, I should be golden.
Another thing I have found is that exercise calories for me anyway, seem to be vastly over estimated. So I TRY to not eat them all back.
If you're not losing weight, you are at maintenance. Something needs to move. Either burn more or intake less. Provided you don't have some sort of medical condition.4 -
Two weeks = no big deal
Three weeks with no loss = eat less. Doesn't matter if you're weighing your food or not at that point. You're just eating too much to lose at the pace you want.1 -
The best way to get over a plateau is to do carb cycling.0
-
I hate to break it to you but you're eating more than you think you are. I'm a 5'7", perimenopausal female with a bum thyroid and 2000 calories had me losing 1lb/week and we're talking vanity pounds here. As a 6'2" man, if you were truly eating 2000calories/day the fat would be sliding off your body.
You need to tighten up your logging or accept the results that come with guesstimating. It takes me literally seconds per meal to weigh and measure everything.7 -
Drop carbonated beverages and switch to drowning your fat with water. Make sure you are weighing and measuring everything.
Thank you but there is no way I can weigh everything. Im too impatient!)
I rarely have carbonated beverages and I have maybe 4-5 beers a week, and they are light beers usually.
Well, then get yourself comfy with a slow loss! If you're not 100% accurate, you'll constantly wonder if you're eating the right amount. You say 1700-2300 calories a day, but what if you're wrong? What if you're eating 2600 on high days and are over your maintenence? Sure, it could just be a normal stall. But if you're over eating and not weighing it you can never be certain.
Just saying we can't actually help if you don't know how much you're truly eating.9 -
I hate to break it to you but you're eating more than you think you are. I'm a 5'7", perimenopausal female with a bum thyroid and 2000 calories had me losing 1lb/week and we're talking vanity pounds here. As a 6'2" man, if you were truly eating 2000calories/day the fat would be sliding off your body.
You need to tighten up your logging or accept the results that come with guesstimating. It takes me literally seconds per meal to weigh and measure everything.
This. I'm a 42 year old female, 5'3.5" and 122 pounds and I am losing at about 2000 calories a day!1 -
Mouse_Potato wrote: »I hate to break it to you but you're eating more than you think you are. I'm a 5'7", perimenopausal female with a bum thyroid and 2000 calories had me losing 1lb/week and we're talking vanity pounds here. As a 6'2" man, if you were truly eating 2000calories/day the fat would be sliding off your body.
You need to tighten up your logging or accept the results that come with guesstimating. It takes me literally seconds per meal to weigh and measure everything.
This. I'm a 42 year old female, 5'3.5" and 122 pounds and I am losing at about 2000 calories a day!
How active are you to be able to lose at 2000 calories at your height and weight?
Same question for you @cavia
1 -
0Christine_72 wrote: »Mouse_Potato wrote: »I hate to break it to you but you're eating more than you think you are. I'm a 5'7", perimenopausal female with a bum thyroid and 2000 calories had me losing 1lb/week and we're talking vanity pounds here. As a 6'2" man, if you were truly eating 2000calories/day the fat would be sliding off your body.
You need to tighten up your logging or accept the results that come with guesstimating. It takes me literally seconds per meal to weigh and measure everything.
This. I'm a 42 year old female, 5'3.5" and 122 pounds and I am losing at about 2000 calories a day!
How active are you to be able to lose at 2000 calories at your height and weight?
Same question for you @cavia
I did several bulk and cut cycles to build muscle after my initial 40-something pound weight loss. My weight gain would always stall at some point in each bulk and I'd have to raise my calories. Rinse, repeat. Muscle is your body's engine. More muscle means you get to eat more calories. It also means when it comes to dieting you can lose on higher calories.
As to how active I am, this last cut which I just finished a week ago I was not active at all. I've been sidelined with an injury.
1 -
Weighing things is quick and easy, once you learn some tricks. A couple are:- For things where you take a portion out of a jar/carton (yogurt, peanut butter, pre-shredded cheese, etc.), put the whole jar/container/bag on the scale, zero (tare) it, take out some, and read the negative value on the scale to get the amount to log. You can take out an amount that matches the serving size on the container, if you prefer.
- For things like salad ingredients (or soup/casserole/etc ingredients you're assembling in a pan or baking dish, put the dish or pan on the scale, zero it, add an ingredient to the dish, note the amount, zero again, add the next ingredient, zero, etc., until everything's in the dish or pan.
It takes only seconds, and is much more accurate, plus the scale only costs about $20. Even weighing the more calorie-laden items would be a help. Up to you, though.1 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Mouse_Potato wrote: »I hate to break it to you but you're eating more than you think you are. I'm a 5'7", perimenopausal female with a bum thyroid and 2000 calories had me losing 1lb/week and we're talking vanity pounds here. As a 6'2" man, if you were truly eating 2000calories/day the fat would be sliding off your body.
You need to tighten up your logging or accept the results that come with guesstimating. It takes me literally seconds per meal to weigh and measure everything.
This. I'm a 42 year old female, 5'3.5" and 122 pounds and I am losing at about 2000 calories a day!
How active are you to be able to lose at 2000 calories at your height and weight?
Same question for you @cavia
I am pretty active. I work a desk job, but I still get 16-20,000 steps a day. I lift heavy 3 times a week, take an aerial silks class twice a week, pole fitness once a week, and ride my horse 1-2 times a week. On rest days I can burn as little as 1850, but when I am active my TDEE ranges from 2200 to 2600.1 -
2011rocket3touring wrote: »How about switching up your exercise routine for a couple of weeks?
That would most likely be a very bad idea. Since changing exercise tends to make you retain more water, he'd likely keep maintaining or gain weight. Water weight, to be sure, but the scale probably won't go down.1 -
I went 8 weeks maybe a little longer with no weight loss following a 1lb loss per wk goal. I kept at my calories mfp set and did my work out 4-5 times a week and eventually the weight started melting off. I participated in my works health assessment and weighed in at 142lbs back in mid April. Im down to toggling between 136-138lbs now. Just keep working at it and log accurately! Dont let a two week stall discourage you.1
This discussion has been closed.
Categories
- All Categories
- 1.4M Health, Wellness and Goals
- 393.7K Introduce Yourself
- 43.8K Getting Started
- 260.3K Health and Weight Loss
- 176K Food and Nutrition
- 47.5K Recipes
- 232.6K Fitness and Exercise
- 431 Sleep, Mindfulness and Overall Wellness
- 6.5K Goal: Maintaining Weight
- 8.6K Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
- 153K Motivation and Support
- 8.1K Challenges
- 1.3K Debate Club
- 96.4K Chit-Chat
- 2.5K Fun and Games
- 3.8K MyFitnessPal Information
- 23 News and Announcements
- 1.2K Feature Suggestions and Ideas
- 2.6K MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions