How to deal with plateu question

Blezzed888

What's the longest anyone has stayed at a plateu? I'm going on 3 months now, despite my efforts. Is this normal?

Nony_Mouse

Have you been through the flowchart?

malibu927

3 months in a plateau means you've been eating at maintenance for that long and you need to tighten up your logging. This may include any or all of the following: making sure everything that enters your mouth gets logged, weighing all solids on a food scale and using measuring cups/spoons for all liquids, double-checking that the entries you are using are correct according to the item's nutrition label or the USDA database, utilizing the recipe builder over any "homemade" or "generic" entries in the database, and being mindful of the amount of exercise calories burned/eaten back.

SCoil123

About 4 months was my longest. I had a lot of people telling me I “must be eating more”, “not logging accurately”, or had switched in to “maintenance”. I knew that I had reduced cals though and was logging correctly. After months of bouncing around in the same 4lb range I suddenly started losing again consistently at .25-.5lb a week until hitting goal weight. I don’t know why it happened or why I started losing again because I changed nothing. My only guess is sometimes we get stuck for a little while. People don’t like that answer because it doesn’t give them the power or control to change it.

kommodevaran

Maybe you are asking the wrong questions. If you're at the same weight over time, you're eating at maintenance. That is normal. If you want to continue losing weight, you have to eat less. That is also normal. You may have to set your calorie target again, expect to lose more slowly, and be more accurate with your logging. This is perfectly normal.

LivingtheLeanDream

For me 6 weeks was the longest. It was because I was eating more than I thought.... Once I cut back some cals I lost.