Only a stone to lose....but plateaued so early!

AdLibbb

Tavistock Toad - yes it did! I dropped loads of weight quickly and was so motivated.....just bloody starving!

kimny72

AdLibbb wrote: »

Tavistock Toad - yes it did! I dropped loads of weight quickly and was so motivated.....just bloody starving!

I feel like you aren't really taking on board what everyone is trying to tell you. Maybe one of these threads will help:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10359984/women-menstrual-cycle-weight-and-fitness-matters/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1

These and many others are in the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each board.

Look, you can live and die by the number on the scale every week, feeling like you're cursed, starving yourself to force your body to produce the number you want to see when you want to see it. And you will probably end up yo-yo dieting and feeling deprived forever. Or you can try to learn from all the experience and knowledge here: Even if you do everything right, you will not lose weight every week, and sometimes you will gain. Water weight can fluctuate several lbs per week, Stressing out over the # on the scale is wasted effort.

I am now trying to maintain my weight after losing 20 lbs. My weight fluctuates between 125lbs and 130, and sometimes I can jump from the low end of that range to the high end overnight. And I don't care, because I know it doesn't mean anything. When I was losing weight, sometimes I would see my weight go down and up several lbs every week and then after 6 weeks I would finally be 2 lbs down. The little half lb losses were hiding behind water weight all that time. It didn't bother me, because I understood the process and never defined success or failure by something as random as the number on the scale.

TavistockToad

AdLibbb wrote: »

Tavistock Toad - yes it did! I dropped loads of weight quickly and was so motivated.....just bloody starving!

And yet you need to lose weight again, so.....?

AdLibbb

TavistockToad wrote: »

AdLibbb wrote: »

Tavistock Toad - yes it did! I dropped loads of weight quickly and was so motivated.....just bloody starving!

And yet you need to lose weight again, so.....?

I hear you. I guess I am blaming the weight gain on the fact that I have increased my intake to1400 calories not the painful 1200. I have interpreted that as meaning that unless I am literally starving I can’t lose weight. But I get your point...

AdLibbb

kimny72 wrote: »

AdLibbb wrote: »

Tavistock Toad - yes it did! I dropped loads of weight quickly and was so motivated.....just bloody starving!

I feel like you aren't really taking on board what everyone is trying to tell you. Maybe one of these threads will help:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10359984/women-menstrual-cycle-weight-and-fitness-matters/p1

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1

These and many others are in the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each board.

Look, you can live and die by the number on the scale every week, feeling like you're cursed, starving yourself to force your body to produce the number you want to see when you want to see it. And you will probably end up yo-yo dieting and feeling deprived forever. Or you can try to learn from all the experience and knowledge here: Even if you do everything right, you will not lose weight every week, and sometimes you will gain. Water weight can fluctuate several lbs per week, Stressing out over the # on the scale is wasted effort.

I am now trying to maintain my weight after losing 20 lbs. My weight fluctuates between 125lbs and 130, and sometimes I can jump from the low end of that range to the high end overnight. And I don't care, because I know it doesn't mean anything. When I was losing weight, sometimes I would see my weight go down and up several lbs every week and then after 6 weeks I would finally be 2 lbs down. The little half lb losses were hiding behind water weight all that time. It didn't bother me, because I understood the process and never defined success or failure by something as random as the number on the scale.

I found this totally insightful. Thank you Those articles have helped me understand so much better and I LOVE the Mildred explanation. I feel that I may be eating my calories back too much and also am not creating the deficit I really need to achieve to see results. If I don’t exercise then I can only eat 1619 calories every day. I am so grateful for this information....I am a scientific logical kind of person and this will really help me understand the science of it all and how the cumulative effect will show. Thank you!

veganbaum

AdLibbb wrote: »

Guys I am just so gutted 😢😢😢I have put on 3 pounds! The last few days I have been having my big meal late in the day around 9/9:30pm due to new working hours. But I am still tracking my calories.

Also I guess I am less active because three days a week I am now at a desk job so not walking the dog (don’t worry he goes to my friends the days I work and is with her dogs all day and gets his exercise)! However with it being a real heatwave here for the last month it hasn’t been possible to do our usual daily long walks anyway as dogs can’t cope with the heat.

However the fact is that I am still eating circa 1300-1400 calories a day. How on earth can weight gain be happening? It just is not fair. It’s funny because I felt inside that the long plateau was not good....but I relied on your reassurance and trusted it. And now look what has happened. I don’t understand it as I have been so good! Do I just have a natural fighting weight? Help, advice, encouragement seriously needed please!!!! Thank you 😘

Looks like you have found some answers and maybe you now realize this, but the mere fact that you are eating your last meal later than you were before can make it look like you have gained weight (read: fat). If that's the source of the weight, you have not gained fat, you just have more in your system at the time you weigh. If the last time I eat is later than usual and it's a larger meal or snack, I can guarantee you my weight will be higher the next day than it will if I eat dinner at my normal time. No big deal, there's just more in my system at that point in time, but it's not fat weight.

However, that might not even be the culprit. It could be because of higher sodium, it could be because of the heat, it could be because of where you are in your cycle. Point is, unless you ate enough over maintenance to gain three pounds, you haven't gained fat.