Weight loss stall

lifesatwitch13
lifesatwitch13 Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I’ve hit a stall in my weight loss journey. Is there something I can do to jumpstart it again?

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  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,310 Member
    How long have you stalled and what is your height and weight
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,218 Member
    If your stall has been less than a month, and happened quite suddenly when you'd been losing at a satisfying rate on the same calorie/activity routine, then patience is probably the best answer. Water retention can mask fat loss on the scale for a surprisingly long time, and the reason(s) may not be obvious. **

    On the other hand, if your weight loss tapered off gradually over weeks/months with the same routine, then stalled, the answer is probably that it's time to decrease your calorie goal or increase your activity level (exercise or daily life stuff).

    People will tell you to "confuse your body" by eating different foods or switching up your exercise, recommend you start fasting or some other tactic, suggest more more water or something, etc. Some of those interventions affect water weight, so can look like progress. Mostly, I think those are just ways to pass the time until your body drops random water weight, registers increased activity or reduced calories, or whatever the underlying issue is.

    People do stuff trying to break their plateau, then it breaks . . . it's normal human behavior to credit the last tactic applied, whether it was actually the cause or not. Yeah, I'm a cynic.

    ** If you haven't, 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

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