Tips for getting over a weight loss plateau

Justkeepswimming2323
Justkeepswimming2323 Posts: 6 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello everyone,
For the past month I've hit a plateau, I'm eating right and exercising several times a week. I even have a new retail job where I'm on my feet and walking around eight hours a day, but I have only lost two pounds. What tips do you have to get over it? Thanks in advance!

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  • eluvscats
    eluvscats Posts: 54 Member
    edited October 2016
    Two pounds is a loss of 0.5lbs per week, so not technically a plateau. Were you expecting to lose more based on your calories in and calories out?
    First thing to do is get really real with yourself on how accurately you've been weighing and logging EVERYTHING, including that exercise. Next, look at whatever your maintenance calories are, your average daily net calories for the month, and subtract to find the difference to determine the actual deficit you had. If your deficit was around 250 calories a day, you're on track. If not, check the weighing and logging of food/exercise.

    My personal technique for busting a plateau (which for me is usually just water retention), when I've been doing EVERYTHING perfectly and haven't seen the scale move is: I eat a bit more (smaller deficit) for a couple days and otherwise relax and chill the *kitten* out. I take a long hot bath, sit on my *kitten*, and chiiiiilll. Cortisol, ze demon stress hormone, is a jerk who thinks I need more water in me than I actually do. YMMV. Science!!!
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    If you're losing, you aren't in a plateau.

    What are your stats? Are you counting calories and logging everything as accurately as possible (i.e. using a food scale)?
  • courtneyfabulous
    courtneyfabulous Posts: 1,863 Member
    If you're still losing it's not a plateau. Also for weight loss "eating healthy" doesn't matter as much as eating in a caloric deficit does.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Justkeepswimming2323 wrote: »
    Hello everyone,
    For the past month I've hit a plateau, I'm eating right and exercising several times a week. I even have a new retail job where I'm on my feet and walking around eight hours a day, but I have only lost two pounds. What tips do you have to get over it? Thanks in advance!

    Plateaus don't exist - if you aren't losing weight, you are eating at maintenance; you ARE losing weight; eating right means nothing; you can't outrun a bad diet.

    As you lose weight, the loss will naturally slow down, as you can only use up a certain percentage of your fatty tissue per day/week. In addition to realistic expectations, patience and consistency are keys to success. Log correctly and honestly, and get enough rest.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited October 2016
    But you are losing weight.

    Is it at the rate according to the projection in your calorie goal (trended over 4 - 6 weeks)? If its not, then this is where you look to see if you are 100% on point with food consumption and logging and how many exercise calories you are eating back...

    I agree that plateaus do not exist. You weight loss may slow or appear to have stopped, but if you are in a calorie deficit and 100% on point with what you consume and what you are logging in your diary, day to day fluctuations are prevalent every day on the body weight scale..

    Trend your losses over 4 - 6 week period, and perhaps trend day to day fluctuations.

    Stay the course, keep following the method and to adhering to your calorie deficit.

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