Weight loss plateau

tjsims8

My weight loss has slowed down. I started at 180lbs I’m currently at 162. I started my journey 2 months ago and have consistently lost 2lbs a week. The past couple weeks it’s been 1 pound loss and now Its going up and down between 161 and 162. I think I’m in a plateau. My calorie goal is 1200 but most days I eat between 900-1100 cals. I am sendentary most of the day. I don’t exercise. Should I start exercising to break through this plateau?

Panini911

Weight loss SHOULD slow down asyou get closer to goal. a rate of loss of 2lb/week is only appropriate/recommended for those who are quite obese. the less you have to lose, the slower you should lose.

how are you measuring your food intake? Are you using a food scale for all foods? carefully selecting database entries?

1200 is the bare minimum recommended for a very short VERY sedentary woman to get enough nutrients to survive. How did you select this goal?

How long has your weight not moved at all? (or is it still trending just slower)?

How tall are you?

18lbs in two months is still a little over 2lb/week. so you're still losing aggressively the numbers just moved more at first.

tjsims8

Panini911 wrote: »

Weight loss SHOULD slow down asyou get closer to goal. a rate of loss of 2lb/week is only appropriate/recommended for those who are quite obese. the less you have to lose, the slower you should lose.

how are you measuring your food intake? Are you using a food scale for all foods? carefully selecting database entries?

1200 is the bare minimum recommended for a very short VERY sedentary woman to get enough nutrients to survive. How did you select this goal?

How long has your weight not moved at all? (or is it still trending just slower)?

How tall are you?

18lbs in two months is still a little over 2lb/week. so you're still losing aggressively the numbers just moved more at first.

1200 was recommended my MFP to lose 2lbs a week. I am 5’5 and my day usually consist of working from home and maybe doing a few errands which I consider is sedentary

My weight loss started slowing down 3 weeks ago. I was weighing myself every Saturday and one Saturday I didn’t lose anything. Then the next week I lost 1.5 lbs. this past Saturday. I didn’t lose anything. I’ve started back weighing my self everyday this week and the scale is going back and forth between losing and gaining a pound

Panini911

ok sounds like just normal water fluctuations. your weight will often move daily (and even change up to 3-4-5lbs within a given day). If you are weighing daily, use a weight trending app and look at the TREND over a few weeks not the individual data points (the daily weights).
Weight loss is not linear. It can go up and down and then suddenly drop. You won't see a steady decline daily/weekly. Heck our weight isn't even one single number even in maintenance it's a small range.
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

but 2lb/a week is not recommended being so close to normal weight range. I'd recommend selecting a rate of loss of 1lb/week and carefully weighing all your food and carefully logging.

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

PAV8888

Yes, it will slow down. Yes, it was aggressive. No, you don't have room to eat less.


Some options I see in random order:

Two week diet break at maintenance and resume with a slower weight loss. Watch it that you stay at maintenance and don't stray too far above.

Add 500+ Cal to your intake and proceed with whatever loss that ends up averaging at after a number of weeks.

Keep pushing at this rate and increasing your deficit and increase your chances of rebound regain when done.

And you should start exercising to exercise because it's good for you and you enjoy-not to create a larger deficit!

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Strudders67

If you're only eating 900-1100 calories a day you are also seriously under-eating and run the risk of serious health problems. If MFP gave you 1200 calories, you need to eat that many.

Redordeadhead

You were told on your thread in May that 2lbs per week was unrealistic for your stats and you should be aiming for no more than 1lb. Why are you still expecting 2lbs?