Is this a weight loss plateau?

kmariedickinson

I can not seem to get out if the 190's. I've been stuck in the 190's since November or 2013. Around the holidays I went off my diet but in January i started back a little and went from 198 to 194 and now I've become obsessed with weight myself. I made it down to 192 about 2 weeks but then it went back up to 194. Today I weighed myself and I'm back to 197. I don't understand how I drastically gain weight in such a short amount of time and why I can't get out of the 190's. When I first started I was 217 and I dropped the weight so fast. I feel like I'm constantly monitoring everything I eat and I stay under my calories. What is going on?

All of this is making me just not want to eat.

I_Will_End_You

A weight loss "plateau" is actually someone eating at maintenance and thinking they're eating less than they burn. If you're eating less than you burn per day (assuming you have no underlying medical conditions) you'd be losing weight. Those ups and downs on the scale? That isn't you losing and gaining fat over and over again, it's normal day to day fluctuations we all have. If you're going to weigh yourself constantly, get used to see that number go up and down constantly. Water retention, waste, everything you ate during the day...that's going to cause your scale weight to go up.

If you aren't using a food scale, try that. Eyeballing portions or using measuring cups, etc... is not accurate. You could be eating a lot more calories a day than you think.