What were you doing that was holding back your weight loss?

brishaw18

Just curious if anyone at some point was not seeing a drop on the scale and changed something and started seeing results?? Like drinking more water, eating more, etc?

tinkerbellang83

quiksylver296

Bought a food scale. Starting weighing everything and logging faithfully, staying within my calorie allowance. Boom! Weight loss.

HappyGrape

I kept believing that keeping fit is hard and dieting is hard. I lost it few times but I regaining it. I guess in the past I always believed that I am someone who will always find it hard

I turned out, it doesn't have to be hard at all. Wonderful discovery! I stopped holding on to this belief and it became easy for me

LAWoman72

Just overeating. I always knew it. Then I'd try eat all of you want of just category whatever foods - more overeating.

I wasted a lot of time being resentful that my very overweight husband continuously gorged in front of me and acted as though I were fat and ugly and it was just my problem. I'd resentfully gorge as if I were punishing him but I was only hurting myself.

Need2Exerc1se

Not exercising in Winter when outside work was not required but eating as if it were.

cmriverside

@LAWoman72 That's not okay that your husband treated you like that and ((hug)).

cmriverside

Once again I didn't even answer the question. When I hit a plateau, I upped my calories from 1200 to 1600. It made a huge difference in how I felt, my ability to exercise, and my sleep and stress level. I started losing again.

Seattleovercast

What I was doing that was holding my weight loss back was waking up with no plans about my eating. Once I started doing a weekly meal prep to at least cover breakfast, lunch, and snacks, the guess work was taken away. I stopped the drifting feeling I was getting and started making my calorie goals. My binges also slowly reduced.

Running_and_Coffee

Eating just a hundred or so calories more than I did when I started to drop more than a few ounces a week. Those hundred=bites of my kids grilled cheese sandwich, a single goldfish here and a raisin or two there. Things I didn't count, but should have.

middlehaitch

Being more sedentary than sedentary.
Miss Sloth, that was me- especially in winter.
Just getting off my skinny butt and putting the book down worked wonders.

Cheers, h.

gamerbabe14

I didn't have a food scale.

animatorswearbras

On top of weighing food accurately and figuring out my burns more accurately with a HRM, logging faithfully on the weekends and treating water weight fluctuations whether it be exaggerated losses, "plateaus" or gains as an unavoidable part of the process (if there was no other explanation why I would gain or lose more one week compared to the next) and to concentrate on long term trends over a month or longer. Also exercising more means I can eat more (and being mindful that I weigh a pound or 2 heavier the morning after a HIIT class because of water retention)

PhilipByrne

Beer.

julielh72

Not logging 100%. Derailing myself at the weekends. Not being honest with myself. Making it more complicated than it needs to be. Not consistently sticking to any plan. Being lazy all winter. The result of all that has been gaining weight steadily. Had to give myself a hard talking to 4 weeks ago.

lorrpb

Eating less seems to help more than anything else.

quiksylver296

middlehaitch wrote: »

Being more sedentary than sedentary.
Miss Sloth, that was me- especially in winter.
Just getting off my skinny butt and putting the book down worked wonders.

Cheers, h.

Putting the book down is never the right answer. (JK, but books are one of my favorite things!)

YOLO145

Stopped drinking so much beer!

middlehaitch

Hahaha @quiksylver296 they are for me too. That is why I just have to walk away from the book sometimes.

A really good one and it is an overnight binge with a thermos of coffee, oranges, and protein bars stacked on the table for sustenance and a cat keeping my feet warm.

Cheers, h.

Geocitiesuser

MyFitnessPal's calorie tracking and NEET (NEAT?) method changed my life (eating back exercise calories above BMR). I'll lose the last bit of pudge as soon as I get serious about controlling my appetite.

Jruzer

For me, it's being lax with my logging. I tend to be tight for a while, and then slowly start to be less vigilant.

JeromeBarry1

I haven't experienced an actually mysterious 4-week plateaus of weight stability. I had a 3-week episode last year, not so much of stability but of overeating every time I lost down to a particular weight. I made the change of doubling my cardio workout time and water consumption for a week and duly smashed through that imaginary barrier. Just recently I've had a 2 month stretch of frequently having binge days, but I traced that root cause down to Nutella. After solving that problem I've been able to stay within my calorie deficit and resume losing weight. I've reached the healthy BMI below 25.0 for the second time and this time I haven't rebounded out of it.

I want to add that the 'doubling my cardio workout time and doubling my water consumption' only lasted a week, but the weight loss has continued slowly. Today I'm about 20 lb below my weight when that happened.

Ready2Rock206

Bad logging. Any time I've not lost weight it was due to sloppy logging or not logging.

teebone168

Wine!!!

newheavensearth

Not logging binges. Self: Where did this gain come from? From the extra thousands of calories you didn't track, duh.

Opening my diary helped, as did seeing those big red numbers.

VintageFeline

I've never unknowingly stopped losing. I might think I've been consistent then I look back at my diary and nope. My bad.

nicholerohrer

Food scale. My estimating was WAY off. lol

moonstroller

I cut calories and increased my workouts.

Heather4448

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Bought a food scale. Starting weighing everything and logging faithfully, staying within my calorie allowance. Boom! Weight loss.

This ^^
A thousand times this.

cwolfman13

I quickly figured out that I had gotten a little lazy in my logging and whatnot...grabbing little bites here and there that I wasn't before and not logging it 'cuz it's just a little bite, etc...that stuff adds up.

LAWoman72

quiksylver296 wrote: »

middlehaitch wrote: »

Being more sedentary than sedentary.
Miss Sloth, that was me- especially in winter.
Just getting off my skinny butt and putting the book down worked wonders.

Cheers, h.

Putting the book down is never the right answer. (JK, but books are one of my favorite things!)

Ugh, sad but true.

I'd NEVER put books down if I didn't have to, LOL.

So I walk, and I work out, and I do all my other stuff, and then I read at night...in the bathtub...while waiting for appointments...it can be done but gosh life stinks when you're forced to put down a good book. #unfair