Weight loss plateau

RayanaL
RayanaL Posts: 38 Member
edited February 2019 in Health and Weight Loss
So I’ve been eating at 1200 calories I’m 5’1 btw . and my weight loss has stopped for a month now . What do I need to do ? I’m only trying to lose 10 or 15 more lbs . I’ve added more exercise and still stayed the same weight . I’ve been doing research and came across refeed days or upping my calories up to maintenance for some time and then going back into a deficit . Has anyone done this and it worked or what have you done to continue losing weight . Yes I weigh my food

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Do you weigh your food?
  • Teabythesea_
    Teabythesea_ Posts: 559 Member
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  • RayanaL
    RayanaL Posts: 38 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    Do you weigh your food?
    Yes
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Would you be willing to temporarily make your diary public? Unless you are completely sedentary or have an undiagnosed medical condition, there's no reason you shouldn't be losing weight on 1200 cals.
  • Fuzzipeg
    Fuzzipeg Posts: 2,301 Member
    There is a scientific argument for eating at maintenance for a while especially if you have been restricting for some time, it gives your body a change in circumstances which causes it to behave differently. You have increased your exercise lately so are you eating some of the calories you earn in exercise, eating some could help. Depending on how much exercise you are doing now compared to before your muscles might be reacting and retaining fluid to restore/repair muscles from unaccustomed intensity or activity, this could be a temporary thing till your body is comfortable, it could take a month or so. Also with 10 to 15lbs left to loose it is recommended to changing your weekly loss to 0,5 which would allow you more calories. Have you looked at your bmi/weight on a chart lately. You might like to be less but possibly your body is within your good bmi range and is happy where it is. I'm sorry there are so many variables, our bodies are complicated things. I hope you find your answer. Take care
  • emmamcgarity
    emmamcgarity Posts: 1,594 Member
    I work maintenance days into my journey for personal reasons. What is your current weight?
  • RayanaL
    RayanaL Posts: 38 Member
    Current weight is 142
  • BaguetteChaude
    BaguetteChaude Posts: 25 Member
    edited February 2019
    As stated before you should lose at 1200. Also you might want to keep up with you efforts.

    For example during my first months of calories counting and exercicing i felt like i was hitting plateaus every time i didn't loose for a couple weeks. After time and retreiving data I saw a pattern : I don't lose for 3 weeks then drop 1 kg in 1 week.
    If you have enough data i recommend you to have a look at it and try to come up with a trend thats personal to how your body works
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    If you don't want to open your diary, you can probably get the info that will help you from these posts:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1
  • endermako
    endermako Posts: 785 Member
    With not much to lose you really need to be on point with what you eat and your activity level any slip up with only 10lbs to lose can set you back. I've got about 13lbs to go and I can barely get a 1lb a week, i should really switch to half a pound.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    A month at this point is a reasonable amount of time to see no change on the scale. Your deficit is very small and it's very easy to wipe it out with only a few logging errors. Additionally, with your stats, even 0.5 lb/week may be too much to expect, and weight loss at a slow pace is easily masked by normal weight fluctuation. If you just added new exercise, then you're likely retaining additional water, which is a normal part of the muscle repair process.

    I'm just under 5 feet and when I was close to my goal, it was not unusual for me to see no change on the scale for 4-6 weeks at a time. Then I'd go down a pound, and then no change for another month or so.

    Weigh ALL your food. Make sure your exercise calories are not inflated. Be patient and have realistic expectations.

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