Preparing for a plateau

_jayciemarie_

I don't believe I have hit one yet. There are a few weeks when my weight hovers, but eventually it drops. Why does our body reach a plateau? If I do reach a plateau, if I just keep at it will my body eventually drop the weight? Or do I need to trick my body?

Edited to add: I use a food scale and I wear a HRM when exercising.

acogg

I can't help. I have never hit a plateau. My weight loss was pretty the same as you, hover, hover, drop, drop.

eldamiano

I don't believe I have hit one yet. There are a few weeks when my weight hovers, but eventually it drops. Why does our body reach a plateau? If I do reach a plateau, if I just keep at it will my body eventually drop the weight? Or do I need to trick my body?

Edited to add: I use a food scale and I wear a HRM when exercising.

This plateau thing just seems to be an excuse for 'I am not trying hard enough anymore and as a result, not losing any weight'. Calorie intake is not rocket science.

lucan07

I have not hit a plateau since I started 31 Jan 2013 I have gained a few times hovered for a week but then bang a few pounds lost.

If you are logging accurately and eating a deficit the weight does come off, when I get close to my target weight I expect the 2.5lb a week average I have been hitting to become harder.

_Zardoz_

Weight loss isn't linear. Stop worrying about things that may or may not happen. What you're doing is working so keep at it

ShannonMpls

Don't worry about it.

I never hit a plateau. I did vary my exercise regularly, and though it wasn't formal, zig zagged calories (a little high one day, a little low another...it was not to intentionally zig zag, but it's just how things worked out). I don't know if this impacted anything. I was told plateaus are inevitable, but they are not. My weight loss averaged out to 2 pounds a week until I purposely slowed it down (with, of course, some 1-2 week stalling followed by big losses at times...that's not a plateau).