How to get rid of a plateau

yogibella

^^^I knew a bit of your story before but you're a definite success story Ian! Thanks for sharing

so...eat at maintenance to stabilize the metabolism....then a 10% - 20% cut?

PercivalHackworth

Great experience Lan - you are doing great.
@ yogi, see after two weeks of maintenance how the weight goes, then 10% during a couple of weeks, 20% MAX after those first weeks in deficit

sweetendeavor

bump!

kelleymonty

bump

Zumbagurl64

bump

PercivalHackworth

thank you Razique:flowerforyou: I've hit that dreaded plateau like everyone and upped calories but still not seeing the results.(well scale-wise. Not complaining about other improvements:)) May up more and will look into this further. In the meanwhile, I too would love to hear from other experiences:)

There is one thing you would try, during 2 or 3 days, eat 2 or 2,5 times more
but don't worry, try out the protocol and let me know how it goes
Being consistent (having roughly the same amount) with the TDEE greatly helps

Bagman12002

bump

nessaryan

bump

PrncessBre

Bump for when it happens to me lol. Thanks for taking the time to post!

Anthonydaman

Really great insight, every MFP member should read this post

EuroReady

Thanks!

boodlelibra

bump and thanks!

yogibella

There is one thing you would try, during 2 or 3 days, eat 2 or 2,5 times more
but don't worry, try out the protocol and let me know how it goes
Being consistent (having roughly the same amount) with the TDEE greatly helps

like having a few big spike days? that seems more doable for me personally:) I've been upping slowly (+100 cals each week), as not to shock my system. but I've been too caught up on hitting my macros that I've been under a few times. So I'll pay more careful attention and eventually try the protocol:)

does it matter what types of exercises you do during that time? ie cardio, weight-train, combo, etc? thanks again

kaji13

Bump....really helpful info. I upped my calories by a few days ago because of informative posts like this

Pea4jjab

bump!

Elibasia

Bump

albayin

Mark for more reading later....

albayin

Now I remember you. Do you have a blog or some sort of place where I can read all your beautiful and sensible thoughts on fitness and weight loss? Thanks!

PercivalHackworth

Hey you :-)
Well I do have one here, but it doesn't contain the infos I'm putting on the board here. I think i'll gather them since there are infos that could be usefull

PercivalHackworth

There is one thing you would try, during 2 or 3 days, eat 2 or 2,5 times more
but don't worry, try out the protocol and let me know how it goes
Being consistent (having roughly the same amount) with the TDEE greatly helps

like having a few big spike days? that seems more doable for me personally:) I've been upping slowly (+100 cals each week), as not to shock my system. but I've been too caught up on hitting my macros that I've been under a few times. So I'll pay more careful attention and eventually try the protocol:)

does it matter what types of exercises you do during that time? ie cardio, weight-train, combo, etc? thanks again

No it doesn't matter at all that that stage. the only thing you would avoid is hitting big deficit (like burning hundreds of calories for days, that would likely blunt the efficiency due to the thermodynamic)

PercivalHackworth

Now I remember you. Do you have a blog or some sort of place where I can read all your beautiful and sensible thoughts on fitness and weight loss? Thanks!

I just gathered the links here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Razique/view/my-posts-on-the-forum-261472

jaysonhijinx

Awesome read! This will come in handy as I'm at a plateau at the moment. Thanks Raz!

PercivalHackworth

anytime

albayin

Now I remember you. Do you have a blog or some sort of place where I can read all your beautiful and sensible thoughts on fitness and weight loss? Thanks!

I just gathered the links here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Razique/view/my-posts-on-the-forum-261472

Thank you. Now I can read them like in libraries.

dtucker3800

I am going to try this and see if it works for me. Thanks for the information.

meshashesha2012

you are becoming one of my favorite posters.

i have a question... my weight loss is stuck scale wise but i'm still seeing lots of changes in measurements and clothes. should this this be considered a plateau? if so should i just wait until the scale catches up, or should i try eating a maintenance for a few weeks?

also for a bit of info, my calorie goals are set anywhere from 500-800 calories below my TDEE, so it isnt too far below.

PercivalHackworth

you are becoming one of my favorite posters.

i have a question... my weight loss is stuck scale wise but i'm still seeing lots of changes in measurements and clothes. should this this be considered a plateau? if so should i just wait until the scale catches up, or should i try eating a maintenance for a few weeks?

also for a bit of info, my calorie goals are set anywhere from 500-800 calories below my TDEE, so it isnt too far below.

Well it depends, the way I see it, it could mean you could keep going that way for a couple of months, until less visual changes would appear ; supposing you are in a plateau (remember our variation margin)
If so, you can from now on already think about what you want to achieve.

If you want to slowly burn fat, but focus on putting muscles instead, enough to update your shape, go for a surplus directly

if you are not interested by the visual changes then consider the maintenance strategy before you hit by yourself the limits of the evolutions you could yourself be able to have

Alkirra

Bump - thanks so much, I'll have to give this a try.

olyrose

bump

PercivalHackworth

Bump - thanks so much, I'll have to give this a try.

sure let me know how it's going. So we could adjust afterwards