Has anyone made it through their weight loss journey *without* plateauing?

havronab

bizgirl26 wrote: »

@havronab congrats on your weight loss you look great . I have lost 57 pounds and no plateaus yet but there are weeks where I am hardly down and then the following week I will be down almost 3 pounds. I have been dreading plateauing so I am keeping everything crossed it doesn't happen

@bizgirl26 Thanks! Great job losing 57 lbs!
I also have weeks where I only lose .2 to .8 lbs but then the next week I might lose 3 or more. I have no problem with the non-linear nature of weight loss, but plateaus as I understand them would probably throw me off my game a bit.

stealthq

cwolfman13 wrote: »

In my experience, plateaus are usually one of three things...

1. Impatience...as weight loss progresses, it tends to become more erratic and less linear...many people mistake this for a plateau when in reality it's just impatience and unrealistic expectations

2. Diet fatigue and calorie creep...this can be huge and I'd say probably the biggest issue where plateaus are concerned...particularly as the margin of error shrinks

3. Huge deficits caused by underfeeding and overexercising...it's a massive stress on the body and really messes around with hormones that can stall weight loss/fat loss. This issue is compounded when one is already relatively lean or not tremendously overweight.

Agree.

Number three got me when doing half marathon training, All Pro's Beginner lifting routine and staying at a 250 cal deficit when I was already on the light side of normal weight. First weight didn't drop each month like usual. Then every time my mileage increased, so did my weight, by about 1/2 lb (hello, water retention). Finally, I skipped a cycle which has never happened before and I realized I was being dumb.

Adding more rest days and de-loads took care of everything pretty quickly.

Prior to that, I'd not had a plateau. Plenty of times where an expected 1 lb/mo loss meant 1 mo with no apparent change, and then wake up 1 lb lighter, or an expected 1 lb/wk meant 2 wks with no apparent loss and wake up 2 lbs lighter.

Tacklewasher

I guess it depends on how long you need to be at one weight for it to be called a plateau. A few times now I've hovered around a weight for ~ 2 weeks and then dropped 4 lbs over 2-3 days. So on average I'm doing what I expect, but it does seem to cycle a bit. I hit 243 on April 16th. Went back up to 244.9, down again etc. Was 242.9 2 days ago and 240.8 yesterday (240.9 today). Did the same trying to get under 250 and then past 248.

Francl27

I hit that 3 week stall every month because of my cycle, but I wouldn't call that a plateau, so no (I only lost the week after my period.. up to 6 lbs in a week.. then nothing until the next one was gone).

Purplebunnysarah

cwolfman13 wrote: »

In my experience, plateaus are usually one of three things...

1. Impatience...as weight loss progresses, it tends to become more erratic and less linear...many people mistake this for a plateau when in reality it's just impatience and unrealistic expectations

2. Diet fatigue and calorie creep...this can be huge and I'd say probably the biggest issue where plateaus are concerned...particularly as the margin of error shrinks

3. Huge deficits caused by underfeeding and overexercising...it's a massive stress on the body and really messes around with hormones that can stall weight loss/fat loss. This issue is compounded when one is already relatively lean or not tremendously overweight.

My current 4 month plateau is definitely some variation on #2. I'm not even sure what it is exactly but a specific scale number seems to be some sort of binge trigger.

I put away the scale last week and that seems to be what I need to move past it.

abovethecity

I haven't had a plateau and I've lost around 200 lbs. with 30 lbs. to go over the past 2.5+ years. Any lack of losing for me has been solely my fault: logging lazily and holidays mostly. I do only seem to lose in whooshes though.

Machka9

25 kg lost and no plateaus

rdmitch

Never really happened to me. I have slowed down a bit usually due to my negligence.
Also remember as your weight drops your daily intake should be adjusted to support the reduced caloric need.
So as weight drops you may be actually overeating and the drop may slow down accordingly.