Plateau..................BUSTED!!!

cedarhurst2006

Hello everyone!
I joined this website just recently and have enjoyed learning and posting to topics of interest. I came here having lost a good deal of weight. I changed my lifestyle completely and then I hit the dreaded.................plateau. I even gained a few pounds. You were all supportive as I asked about eating exercise calories back and so I have made some changes in the last week.

I started "playing" on the mfp website with the minimum 1200 calories and eating back some exercise calories. I was keeping my own food diary on paper (I know, old school). I used to weigh myself everyday, and I will admit it, I would weigh myself at home on the upstairs scale, the downstairs scale and the two scales at the gym. I was making myself crazy that I wasn't losing anything. Then I made the decision to jump right in with both feet into the mfp pool.

I calculated my bmr on the site, calculated losing 2 lbs. per week. My basic calories increased to 1470 without exercise and I started eating some of my exercise calories back. I entered all my meals and all my exercise and even gave myself a weight loss ticker. I stayed away from all the scales (but one) and decided to do one weekly "official" weigh in.

Today was my weigh in day...........1.5 lbs. lost!!!! Yippee! It does work~~~~~~~~~

Makay1

Good for you!!!! Love busting a plateau. Feels good, doesn't it?! :drinker:

ChitownFoodie

Great job!!! I love MFP!

vivie72

WTG!! I know the feeling. I hit a plateau every 10 lbs or so...can be frustrating!

akaChuck

Great job! Congratulations and wishing you the best of luck on your weight loss journey.

triciap79

Awesome job! )

bgredenbaugh

MFP is my total binky anymore. If I forget my phone (with the app) I start to get the shakes - OK not really, but sort of!

It's such a great tool!

Nanadena

Fantastic!

2Bgoddess

good for you!

melissabee31

That's amazing that you're off of diabetes meds now too. If only more of America could have an outlook like that, we would have less health problems.

It's great to bust the plateau! I am busting through mine by adding more exercise. So hard!

meerkat70

Well done! Smart and effective! :-)

hopeful23455

Isn't that awesome how you can actually up your calories and drop more weight?

My mom just had a similar experience. She had been at a plateau for over three months, when I finally got her to try MFP. When the site told her she wasn't eating enough, she was indignant; "How can I possibly lose any weight if I eat 'that many' calories?!?" But, two weeks after upping her calories to the bare 1200 (we think she eating about 700-800 before), she has dropped three pounds, and is so excited.

And, looking at your signature, just wanted to give you a huge congrats on the diabetes management! I'm a Type I diabetic, so I'll be taking insulin for the rest of my life, no matter how 'skinny' I get, lol, but I know that it's a HUGE accomplishment to go from four daily injections down to no meds at all. You should be very proud of that!

Xaspar

WHOOT! SO VERY GLAD FOR YOU!!!!!! :bigsmile:

TommyWR

Woot Woot!!!!

niki1889

Good for you! I am inspired by your success. I am a diabetic too and take insulin injections once a day. I really want to get off all the meds - that 's a big motivator. What have you done to help you on your journey? If you want to add me as a friend, we could encourage each other. I could really relate to your story - you give me hope!!!! Keep going!