What do you do when you plateau?

SezxyStef

Adrienneburrows1 wrote: »

So weight all of my food and put the weight amounts in my diary?

check my diary if you wish to see the use of a scale.

95% of my items are weighed...

Hornsby

Wait... I thought you said the ItWorks Cleans worked in your other thread? Now I'm confused.

Mavrick_RN

eveandqsmom wrote: »

Mavrick_RN wrote: »

What's the point of logging if it's not accurate? Logging that you ate 1200 calories doesn't mean you actually ate 1200 calories. You don't really know how much you are eating until you accurately weigh it.

As you get closer to a normal/healthy body weight those extra unmeasured calories will make the difference. Your body is telling you that the number of calories you are eating now is what it takes to maintain your present weight.

I ballpark log. I overestimate my CI and underestimate my CO. According to my weight loss so far it's been pretty accurate. Just because you need to weigh doesn't mean everybody does or should. If I had to weigh every morsel I put on my lips I would quit pdq.

When you stop losing weight you will change that behavior pdq.

kimny72

eveandqsmom wrote: »

Mavrick_RN wrote: »

What's the point of logging if it's not accurate? Logging that you ate 1200 calories doesn't mean you actually ate 1200 calories. You don't really know how much you are eating until you accurately weigh it.

As you get closer to a normal/healthy body weight those extra unmeasured calories will make the difference. Your body is telling you that the number of calories you are eating now is what it takes to maintain your present weight.

I ballpark log. I overestimate my CI and underestimate my CO. According to my weight loss so far it's been pretty accurate. Just because you need to weigh doesn't mean everybody does or should. If I had to weigh every morsel I put on my lips I would quit pdq.

That's great if it works for you. But since OP has stopped losing weight, I guess it doesn't work for her.

I used to estimate too, until I found myself stuck at the same weight for months. Then I got a food scale, used it to discover where my estimating was going wrong, and started losing weight again. I've been weighing/logging for almost two years now and it's second nature. Takes me literally seconds and ensures my tiny little deficit is on point.

rangasvaram

whenever I plateau, I drink a lot of water to get things moving

cityruss

Create a calorie deficit.

Don't eat at maintainance.

Simple.

Adrienneburrows1

Thanks for the info. I will have to get a scale.