What was your longest plateau?

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  • samchez0
    samchez0 Posts: 364 Member
    Currently in month 2 :( the only person to blame for it is me though. I've been eating horribly, especially on weekends, and not exercising like I should.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    ErinSot wrote: »
    SLLRunner wrote: »
    ErinSot wrote: »
    So far I've been bouncing around 121-122 for almost 4 weeks and it's driving me crazy!! I'm weighing and logging everything and according to my Fitbit my deficits have been where they should be.

    I'm so impatient

    I've had a lot of plateaus in my lifetime, some of them for years. The reason I say this is because a plateau is the same things as eating at maintenance.

    Once I figured out how to create that calorie deficit and stick to it, those plateaus disappeared pretty quickly.

    4 weeks is not a plateau at all, that's just an example of natural weight fluctuation and the fact weight loss is not linear. Just tighten up however you estimate your calorie balance. For many people this means logging everything you eat and drink, weighing food, eating only a portion of your exercise calories back. :)

    Thanks for this post. Very insightful!

    My pleasure, Erin. :)
  • terrinicolefit
    terrinicolefit Posts: 99 Member
    You either need a change in your diet or exercise routine OR you need to stop looking at the scale and measure body fat instead to see if you've really hit a plateau. I've been sitting at the same weight (give or take 5lbs) for the past year but I dropped my body fat from 21% to 13% (was doing a mock comp diet). I looked completely different but the scale never really changed. If you really have hit a plateau, it's because you're body needs changes to your exercise or diet (I reccomend iifym.com to determine how many calories and macros you should be eating). I hope this helps!!!

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