Maintaining at 1200/1400 calories. Help!

Amandabelanger614

Could someone give me some helpful advice. I eat 1200 cals a day on rest days and 1400 on workout days. In 44 days i lost 10 pounds. Now i haven't lost in over a week.

Please help!

grimendale

A week does not a plateau make. Weight loss isn't linear - some weeks you'll watch it fall off, some weeks it won't move, some weeks it may even go up. Try to focus on long term trends rather than one week. Also, the scale can lie to you. Your body weight fluctuates daily due to water retention, food in the stomach, waste in the bowels, etc. Take progress pictures and body measurements. These will give you a more accurate and consistent sense of your losses. Most importantly, be patient. It takes time.

mlima14

Don't stress over it, sometimes mother nature likes to mess with us. Our menstrual cycle will make us retain water and just mess with our scale Just give it time, you've made awesome progress, just keep it up and you'll see how that weight keeps coming off.

lawlorka

The past 2 weeks I didn't lose anything. Yesterday morning I weighed in and was down 2lbs...which is 1lb a week for the 2 previous weeks.

Moral of the story is, weight loss is not linear - you need to look at the overall trend and averages. I average 1lb a week, which is what my goal is. Sometimes that means zero loss for a few weeks, sometimes it means a massive loss one week. As long as the trend is going down thats all that matters.

If you stall for 5/6weeks then come back. But its not a plateau, and you are not maintaining after 1 week of no loss.

Greenrun99

1 week.. patience.

_EndGame_

You know, I discovered that my weight loss tends to come when I'm least active.

So I go swimming (usually) 5 times a week, sometimes more (twice a day) sometimes less, and I notice very little weight loss during being active. This week I've had a chest infection, so I've not been swimming (didn't want to infect everyone else) and I just didn't feel up to it. I've not been eating as healthy as I usually do and I've not been logging, but I lost 4LBS this week.

Looking back, apart from the first month I started, my weight loss always works like that. I'll go all week exercising and eating right, for nothing to happen. I take 2 days of exercise off and eat a bit unhealthier, and the weight comes off.

I was told this is due to letting my muscles rest - let them release whatever water they may have been retaining? some people say it's your body acting positively to the increased calories and rest, thus it releases weight? Idk, so many theories out there.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it, at your calorie intake, there's no way you're going to put weight on, so just be patient!

mccindy72

Could someone give me some helpful advice. I eat 1200 cals a day on rest days and 1400 on workout days. In 44 days i lost 10 pounds. Now i haven't lost in over a week.

Please help!

I gained 5 lbs of water weight last week overnight (probably hormonal). It's been 5 days now and I still have one pound of it left. Your weight will fluctuate due to water retention frequently. Keep doing what you are doing and be patient, it will start coming off again.

martyqueen52

after 5-10lbs of weight lost you need to re-plug in your NEW info into MFP.