Looking for support

Hi everyone, I'm doing well on my weight loss journey. However, I get to 109.3 kilos or 241 pounds and I cannot get past it. I do a lot of walking daily and I go to the gym twice a week. To date I've lost 16.2 kilos or 37.1 pounds.

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  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,241 Member
    Are you weighing all your food on a digital food scale? Also may want to double check the accuracy of the MFP entries you choose for each item. They can vary wildly for identical foods!
  • tomcustombuilder
    tomcustombuilder Posts: 2,309 Member
    Hi everyone, I'm doing well on my weight loss journey. However, I get to 109.3 kilos or 241 pounds and I cannot get past it. I do a lot of walking daily and I go to the gym twice a week. To date I've lost 16.2 kilos or 37.1 pounds.
    if the loss stopped all of a sudden it may just be holding water but if you’ve been that way for a month or more, you’re at maintenance calories now you’re gonna need to lower them.

    After losing weight, especially close to 40 pounds your maintenance calories are going to be lower. An easy way to illustrate that is to put on a 40 pound weight vest and walk around for a day and you’re gonna see how much more energy you actually require to move that weight around so when you’re lighter, you just don’t need that much energy

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,214 Member
    You don't mentions specific timelines, i.e. over what time period you lost that weight, how long you've been stuck at that weight, how fast you were losing in the week or few before the stall. That limits our ability to offer specific advice. You also don't say how tall or old you are, or how many calories you've been logging, so we could consider a reality test. You don't tell us anything about your eating habits or logging habits (eyeball, cups, food scale, etc.), nor anything about your daily life activity level outside of the walking and couple of gym days (doing what?), nor whether you're estimating the exercise calories (or how) and eating them back. So, we can just say generalities, for reasons I'm sure you can understand.

    You got good advice above.

    I'd add this:

    If you were losing at a good rate, and loss stopped suddenly, that tilts the probability more toward some kind of water retention effect masking continuing fat loss on the scale, especially if the stall has been less than 4-6 weeks. In that scenario, the best advice IMO would be to wait it out patiently for at least the 4-6 weeks.

    If you were losing, and loss rate gradually tapered loss, averaging less loss week by week, then finally stalled, that increases the odds that you've found your current weight-maintenance calories. If that's true, you'd need to cut calories on the eating side, or add activity - more exercise or increased daily life non-exercise activity.

    Best wishes!