How do I get out of a tough spot?

bsdmd6tjmw721

Hii! I've been stuck at 154 lbs for like 3 weeks at this point. I've tried upping my intake, lowering it, and exercising more. Nothing really has worked. Do y'all have any tricks or tips? Thank you.

yirara

Can you give us a bit more information? I assume you're male, and you're currently 154lbs? that's not a lot, unless you're very small. Thus can you provide us with your age, gender, size? what's your goal? What's your weightloss goal and do you exercise? What exercise do you do and how often? How do you measure your food intake?

Also, your profile seems to be only an hour old. What have you been doing over the past three weeks?

Lietchi

You've changed your strategy multiple times in three weeks? I'd suggest stopping that, a stall of only 3 weeks isn't even worth one strategy change yet, let alone multiple: it takes at least 1 month (1 menstrual cycle if applicable) to find out of a strategy works.

Patience is the biggest 'trick' for weight-loss in my book, with adaptability only being in second place: if truly no change in weight after 1 month, then you start thinking about making a change.

It'salways a good idea to also check how accurate your food logging is - weighing everything, using accurate entries etc.

AnnPT77

100% agree with Lietchi.

Stick pretty close to a given calorie goal for 4-6 weeks or at least one menstrual cycle, and stick with about the same activity regimen alongside, logging consistently and carefully. That will give you enough experience-based calorie intake and weight trend data to average and get a personalized estimate of your calorie needs. With that estimate, you can pretty much use arithmetic to dial in any sensible weight loss rate you're looking for. It still won't show up as a consistent loss every single week, but high odds the average loss over several weeks will be pretty predictable.

Pretty much the worst that can happen out of that experiment is getting a good estimate, but no loss. Keep tweaking eating and activity all the time, you may not get either. I know this isn't all you said you tried, but if a person keeps decreasing eating and increasing activity, I think they get higher odds of giving up entirely: Eating even less and exercising even more will eventually be Just. Too. Hard.

I'm not trying to be discouraging. Weight loss is very much worth the effort it takes, and IME very much possible. It's just that jumping around impatiently changing strategies isn't IMO a great way to accomplish weight loss.

tomcustombuilder

Stick with a weekly calorie amount for 4-6 weeks before determining whether it's working or not. After that timeframe if no progress you'll need to lower overall weekly calories.