Stalled for almost three months- advice?

BluenoserGal

Started dedicated fitness and weight loss in January 2016. Lost 35lbs pretty quickly.

Currently 5.4" 191lbs and am 47. I still have about 50lbs left to lose.

Have a personal trainer I see twice a week, I go to the gym 4 days/week with 5k walks on the off days.

Right now my macros are 40 % protein, 40% fat, 20% carbs -- at 1600 cal/day. I drink 2L water a day. One coffee.

My gym days are HIIT alternating with weight lifting and cardio.

I have stalled since September. Even did a body comp measure at my gym, and gained .5lb fat.

I had three beer and some bday cake after two 10k hikes on the weekend and gained 6lbs. WTF?

I am so discouraged I have taken off my fitbit, which has been on my wrist for three years.

I have a food scale and weigh/measure everything.

I am so frustrated, I can't deal any more -- this is an endless torment. Am I deluding myself into thinking I am doing all the right things? It still should be coming off easily with 50lbs more to lose.

Ruatine

BluenoserGal wrote: »

Started dedicated fitness and weight loss in January 2016. Lost 35lbs pretty quickly.

Have a personal trainer I see twice a week, I go to the gym 4 days/week with 5k walks on the off days.

Right now my macros are 40 % protein, 40% fat, 20% carbs -- at 1600 cal/day. I drink 2L water a day. One coffee.

My gym days are HIIT alternating with weight lifting and cardio.

I have stalled since September. Even did a body comp measure at my gym, and gained .5lb fat.

I had three beer and some bday cake after two 10k hikes on the weekend and gained 6lbs. WTF?

I am so discouraged I have taken off my fitbit, which has been on my wrist for three years.

I have a food scale and weigh/measure everything.

I am so frustrated, I can't deal any more -- this is an endless torment. Am I deluding myself into thinking I am doing all the right things?

The 6 lbs gain after two 10k hikes is water retention - your muscles need water to repair themselves after so much strenuous exercise.

As far as body comp measurements - unless it was a BodPod or DXA scan, those aren't very accurate.

Did you adjust your calorie intake after losing the original 35 lbs?

demonica910

You gotta stay in the game. I keep looking at before and after pics of fat to fit to keep me working out. You've done so great losing all that weight. Find a friend who likes a challenge and challenge them. I have challenged my sister to a jump rope doubleunder contest. She is very competitive! So I've gotten her to get back into working out by my challenge and I keep jumping rope to beat her! 6lbs is a lot when you're trying to lose weight, but compared to what you have lost, that's nothing. That weight change could have been anything. Keep at it and work hard. Look at pics of ppl who have made it. Try BBG or P90x. Change it up. Something to get you motivated. Hire a dude trainer that you totally swoon over! Repeat "I Can & I Will"!!! Good luck!

sbrandt37

Keep at it! Plateaus happen sometimes. I just started losing weight again after stalling for three months myself, after losing 1-2 pounds/month for 6 months before that. Just stay the course.

The weight gain you mentioned is almost certainly water and your gym's body comp measurement is almost certainly NOT accurate to within a half pound, so that is meaningless. Perseverance is the key. Keep plugging away! Every workout, every 5K walk, and every day you hit your calorie targets is a success! The weight loss will come, as long as you keep at it.

The only other thing to consider is your calorie target. If you aren't losing weight, perhaps it is too high given how much you have already lost.

LivingtheLeanDream

3 months is a long time to stall are you accurately tracking your calories and faithfully logging every single thing that you eat?

I would suggest putting your Fitbit back on, it'll make you aware of how much you are moving/not moving in the day and it is accurate at calculating the total calories burned each day. Its a great guideline and as long as you are eating at 20% deficit of the number it gives you at day end then you will lose.

Don't give up ok!

trigden1991

Eat less or move more.

BluenoserGal

Here is my progress pic. Sept 2015 to Oct 2016. Still so far to go....

rileysowner

Ruatine wrote: »

BluenoserGal wrote: »

Started dedicated fitness and weight loss in January 2016. Lost 35lbs pretty quickly.

Have a personal trainer I see twice a week, I go to the gym 4 days/week with 5k walks on the off days.

Right now my macros are 40 % protein, 40% fat, 20% carbs -- at 1600 cal/day. I drink 2L water a day. One coffee.

My gym days are HIIT alternating with weight lifting and cardio.

I have stalled since September. Even did a body comp measure at my gym, and gained .5lb fat.

I had three beer and some bday cake after two 10k hikes on the weekend and gained 6lbs. WTF?

I am so discouraged I have taken off my fitbit, which has been on my wrist for three years.

I have a food scale and weigh/measure everything.

I am so frustrated, I can't deal any more -- this is an endless torment. Am I deluding myself into thinking I am doing all the right things?

The 6 lbs gain after two 10k hikes is water retention - your muscles need water to repair themselves after so much strenuous exercise.

As far as body comp measurements - unless it was a BodPod or DXA scan, those aren't very accurate.

Did you adjust your calorie intake after losing the original 35 lbs?

The margin of error even on the BodPod is like 6% so a .5 pound change with anything less accurate is meaningless as a measurement as the measuring method is not that accurate.

6Lbs gain with the information you are giving is all water weight and will come off.

The bigger question is how are you measuring what you are logging, and how sure are you that the entries you are logging are accurate? In other words do you use a kitchen scale for all solids (including grated and ground ones) and a volume measure (cups, spoons, milliliters) for all liquids, and have you looked at the entries you are using and avoided all generics, homemade, etc. as well as looked at how accurate they are by comparing to nutrition labels and other sites (USDA)?