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Plateau

meganef5907
meganef5907 Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I’ve hit a weight loss plateau and I’m not sure what to do about it. I’ve gone from 210 to 180 and now I’m just staying there. Any tips?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,987 Member
    How fast did you go from 210 to 180? And how long have you been stuck at 180?
  • meganef5907
    meganef5907 Posts: 2 Member
    It took about 4 months and I’ve been steady for about 3/4 weeks at 180
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Are you female? How tall are you? How many calories per day are you eating?

    I had the same thing happen at 1200 calories. I raised my calories to 1600 PLUS Exercise calories on top that. . .so about 1900-2000 per day.

    Long-term large calorie deficits cause problems.

    Read through the first page of this thread:https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p1
  • huango
    huango Posts: 1,024 Member
    edited October 2022
    lemonlionheart wrote: »
    Hi everyone!

    I had this idea a little while ago since there are always so many people on here asking why they're having trouble losing weight. I'm working on a flow chart that might help some of these people pinpoint the problem. I was hoping that some of the more knowledgeable MFP-ers could have a look and give me some feedback? I'm sure there are some areas that could be more concise and helpful, or perhaps things I might have missed! Hopefully this could become something of use to people around here, and I haven't seen anything like it made before (though please let me know if something like this already exists, haha).

    It's a bit of a rough draft at the moment. If anyone is keen on collaborating let me know and I can share it on google docs, also if anyone is good at graphics-y stuff and wants to help me make it all pretty that would be cool too! :)

    guue2jpr1xe7.jpg
  • huango
    huango Posts: 1,024 Member
    It feels like I'm stalling in my progress,
    but it's only been 1 week for me.

    I've restarted weight training, and I must remind myself that
    “That stress and micro-tearing damage to the muscle fibers induces water retention in the body,” Dr. Calabrese explains. “There may be a small amount of inflammation around the micro tear, and your body retains fluid there to try to heal it.” These are short lived changes in the muscle.
  • huango
    huango Posts: 1,024 Member
    edited October 2022
    Great job on losing the 30#.

    Recheck your diet/calories.
    You have 30 less pounds of muscles/fat to burn these calories.
    So increase your workouts, and/or reduce your calories.

    My suggestion: weight training:
    create more muscles to burn more calories, so you can eat more.

    (I'm not an expert
    but when I was seriously weight training, I used to eat 1600 calories and still losing weight for a 4'11" shortie).
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,987 Member
    huango wrote: »
    lemonlionheart wrote: »
    Hi everyone!

    I had this idea a little while ago since there are always so many people on here asking why they're having trouble losing weight. I'm working on a flow chart that might help some of these people pinpoint the problem. I was hoping that some of the more knowledgeable MFP-ers could have a look and give me some feedback? I'm sure there are some areas that could be more concise and helpful, or perhaps things I might have missed! Hopefully this could become something of use to people around here, and I haven't seen anything like it made before (though please let me know if something like this already exists, haha).

    It's a bit of a rough draft at the moment. If anyone is keen on collaborating let me know and I can share it on google docs, also if anyone is good at graphics-y stuff and wants to help me make it all pretty that would be cool too! :)

    guue2jpr1xe7.jpg

    There's already this flowchart floating around, not sure where it originally came from:
    v5c9lerehiub.png

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