Good morning

flower3326

I hit a plateau
For 3 days already
What can I do ?
Help !!!

westrich20940

You will not lose weight every single day, or every week maybe. It goes up/down....you need to focus on the overall long-term trend.

sarabushby

3 days really is not a lot for a plateau and you should expect that sometimes your weight will go up, not down. But … that said, you can check that your scales aren’t trying to give false consistency. Weigh yourself then grab something heavy, weigh again holding the heavy weight then get off and put it down and weigh just yourself again. Some scales will revert to a recent reading which is super annoying.

AnnPT77

3 days? Nope, not a plateau. Three weeks might be, unless you're a female who has menstrual cycles, in which case it's not a true plateau until you have no weight change at the same relative point in at least 2 (or better 3) different monthly cycles. Even without the hormonal water weight weirdness, 4-6 weeks is better, to see a fat loss trend.

Chill.

Patience is your ally. Do you want to succeed long term, i.e., stay at a healthy weight for a long time, ideally the rest of your life? Patience. A little insight. More patience. No, more patience than that! Way more. Habits: Routine patterns of eating and activity. That's boring, but also transformationally revolutionary.

While you're being patient, read this thread, especially the article linked in the first post:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

Elphaba1313

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springlering62

You’ve been a member for a month. Merciful heavens, cut yourself some slack!

Don’t have unrealistic expectations of losing weight every. single. day.

All kinds of stuff affects your weight. Periods, airline or long vehicle trips, salt, carbs, even exercise can cause temporary weight gain as your canny body retains weight to heal soreness.

In a few months, you will laugh at the thought of a “three day plateau”. You’re going to experience gain, loss, lengthy plateaus as your body gets the jist of the changes you’re making.

It’s ok! As long as the overall trend is down, that’s all that matters.

This thread helped me a bunch when I felt I had stalled. I have ready every single one of the posts here- often saving them, so I’d have something to read during the frustrating times.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1275030/whats-your-most-recent-nsv

*NSV means non scale victories. The scale isn’t the only thing that matters!