Weight has plateaued.

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  • ElizabethKalmbach
    ElizabethKalmbach Posts: 1,415 Member
    edited October 2019
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    In some cases, whether changing all the things or changing one thing at a time, weight gets moving again when it would've gotten moving again.

    If loss has been going along somewhat steadily and suddenly stops, in the context of no material change in daily life activity, exercise or logging accuracy, then the likeliest explanation is water retention (which can happen for a dozen different reasons, from sunburn to hormones to stress and beyond), and that stuff is going to drop off when it's going to drop off.

    If our strategy had been sacrificing progressively larger animals inside a pentangle of lighted black candles in the basement (vegans may use progressively larger vegetables), we'd decide that sacrificing the goat (eggplant) was what did it, if that's how the timing worked out. It's how our human brains work.

    Causation? Maybe, maybe not. ;)

    Truth, but if you have to eliminate the eggplant, the cucumber, a rambutan, and the fast food you had when you took your nephew for the afternoon, it's going to take a lot longer to sort out than just trying to eliminate the eggplant next time.

    Additionally, changing things up (ie - trying new types of workouts or macro balances or whatever), may increase the chance of finding mistakes that one was making previously (I usually buy the same type of yogurt, but one week I accidentally bought the low fat variety, and it tasted TERRIBLE. I made it through HALF the bulk container before I noticed that not only had I been logging too many calories per serving, but also NO WONDER THIS TASTES HORRID. I only figured it out when I brought home a fresh container and the two buckets didn't look quite the same... The problem with bulk containers being that they're not terribly high in their individual visual cues.), but also it can help a body identify routines that work better for their lifestyle or that potentially offer them an increased likelihood of compliance or long term sustainability.

    :)
  • xxzenabxx
    xxzenabxx Posts: 935 Member
    LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »
    My period weight can affect the number on the scale for up to 10 days :/

    If you're tracking intake accurately/using a food scale you will see a loss, sometimes it can take a few weeks to show up on the scales.

    Yeah I definitely feel that my body is holding onto water 😒☹️
  • rdthoms
    rdthoms Posts: 61 Member
    I've hit those sorts of plateaus before and it helped me to boost cals a few days a week but keep the weekly average the same. So if you are supposed to be at 1500 cals/day try 1800 cals for a couple of days and 1380 cals the other days. You still are eating the same calories/week but you body is seeing up/down regulation and not getting stuck with the same input/output. Obviously you can also track measurements as well as weight. You can do that in MFP or on myshape.fitness website which builds a 3D avatar and lets you see/track your shape towards a goal.
  • vholley60197
    vholley60197 Posts: 44 Member
    @healthyanav I have plateaued also and tried HIIT and it seemed to really help! I just started and I am enjoying it and changing up my workouts. I guess my body was getting used to my routine. :)
  • xxzenabxx
    xxzenabxx Posts: 935 Member
    ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »
    xxzenabxx wrote: »
    I wasn’t bloated but I do suffer from constipation even when I eat fibre, fats and enough veggies. I also drink plenty of water.

    Have you had that checked out by the doctor? When I was about that age, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and the symptom that clued the doc in was rather extreme constipation despite a very healthy diet.

    I'm not necessarily suggesting that you have a thyroid problem, but constipation is a *symptom* of a variety of things that it's probably best to know the root cause of before putting it aside as something that you tolerate long term.

    By the way, I just googled symptoms of hypothyroidism and I have almost all of them 😳😳😳 this is so scary!
  • xxzenabxx
    xxzenabxx Posts: 935 Member
    ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »
    xxzenabxx wrote: »
    By the way, I just googled symptoms of hypothyroidism and I have almost all of them 😳😳😳 this is so scary!

    DO NOT FALL DOWN THE WEBMD HOLE. YOU WILL END UP WITH NIGHTMARES ABOUT TOE CANCER AND ZOMBIE FUNGUS.

    Seriously, though. Just make a list of your symptoms and present them to your doctor, and they'll probably run some blood tests to get an actual and more exacting answer to your problems/fears. Thyroid problems require prescription interventions anyway, so putting off going in isn't going to help. Just make an appointment and remove as much anxiety and stress from your life as possible, and don't make any rash changes to your life until you've eliminated the easy answers like "just wait longer" and "get a blood test."

    <3

    And remember to breathe.

    Thank you ❤️ I feel pretty scared because I already have pcos. I guess I don’t know until I go in. Okay I’ll avoid webmd, I don’t want to be even more scared!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,168 Member
    xxzenabxx wrote: »
    ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »
    xxzenabxx wrote: »
    I wasn’t bloated but I do suffer from constipation even when I eat fibre, fats and enough veggies. I also drink plenty of water.

    Have you had that checked out by the doctor? When I was about that age, I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, and the symptom that clued the doc in was rather extreme constipation despite a very healthy diet.

    I'm not necessarily suggesting that you have a thyroid problem, but constipation is a *symptom* of a variety of things that it's probably best to know the root cause of before putting it aside as something that you tolerate long term.
    .

    By the way, I just googled symptoms of hypothyroidism and I have almost all of them 😳😳😳 this is so scary!

    Please don't stress about it! Just get tested.

    For lots of us, the mainstream cases, hypothyroidism and its treatment are no big deal. I've been severely hypothyroid for nearly 20 years now. I take a tiny little pill every morning, with no negative side effects I've ever noticed, get retested (simple blood test) every 6 months for possible need of dosage adjustment (only a couple of times, since initial stabilization), and all is well.

    For me, the worst bits - which are trivial - are the need to take the pill first thing in AM then wait a bit before eating, and the initial process of gradual dosage increases and blood tests to get me to the right stabilization dosage.

    There are unusual cases that are more complicated, but it's really not a huge deal for the majority. And getting it properly treated really improved how I felt!
  • ElizabethKalmbach
    ElizabethKalmbach Posts: 1,415 Member
    edited October 2019
    I am a modestly complicated case and it's still really NBD and still really just a pill at the same time every day, plus routine checks to make sure it's still doing it's job (mine are annual unless I am suspicious.). Just pay attention to your body and report any suspicious activity to your doctor. The more you track, the better diagnostic data you can provide your doctor. I really love how *easy* my fitness tracker and MFP have made all of that in the last 10 years. I don't have to try and figure out when I went to bed each night. I can print out several graphs of the last 90 days with ease. Same for my foods and calories and workouts. It almost feels like cheating.

    You don't have to figure this out yourself. Talk to your doctor about your symptoms and get the people you *pay for exactly this* to figure it out for you. It is entirely possible that "normal" can feel way better than you're used to, so make *that* your goal.
  • lgfrie
    lgfrie Posts: 1,449 Member
    ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »

    DO NOT FALL DOWN THE WEBMD HOLE. YOU WILL END UP WITH NIGHTMARES ABOUT TOE CANCER AND ZOMBIE FUNGUS.

    <3

    And remember to breathe.

    THIS. I have a close relative whose life is a complete hypochondriacal mess after years of reading WebMD. She convinced herself that a swollen ankle on a hot summer day was heart failure, and a mole was cancer, and she had vertigo and a definitive diagnosis for gout, the last one being so absolutely certain that instead of going to the dr to get it checked out she simply called in asking for the gout medication.

    Upon actually going to a doctor, it turned out she had none of those things. Not one.

    The problem with WebMD is that almost every symptom can be an indicator of almost any medical condition, so when you do a search on "stomach pain" you get a list of 200 possible causes, and some of them sound really, really bad. Before the Internet, people would take a chug of Pepto Bismol and see how they felt over the next few days.

    Ironically, the Internet has made it more important than ever to stop self-diagnosing and see an actual doctor if you think there's a problem.

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