Plateau Help?

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  • MamaWannaRun
    MamaWannaRun Posts: 273 Member
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  • MamaWannaRun
    MamaWannaRun Posts: 273 Member
    Ok.. found this topic yesterday...
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/501511-great-read-on-plateau-ing

    I found I had cut back my carido and I also got 'stuck'.. added in some new exercises and while the 'pounds' did not drop much more, the INCHES sure did..

    Long story short, you BODY has no incentive to change and it will work hard to remain the same. Change it up! Shake it up and let us know how it goes!
  • stroken96
    stroken96 Posts: 436 Member
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  • jillthemom
    jillthemom Posts: 31 Member
    I can only tell you my experience......when I started off I was also doing 1200 per day, but I was also eating back my exercise calories . I lost quite a few pounds initially, but then I plateaued. It drove me nuts. I upped my exercise, tried to eat better, tried to est less...but it wasn't working. I then increased my calories to 1500 and continued to eat my exercise calories. I then started losing against slowly. I upper my calories again to 1600 and I started losing like crazy. In fact, I am well past my first couple of goals!
  • kparks2
    kparks2 Posts: 121 Member
    I can only tell you my experience......when I started off I was also doing 1200 per day, but I was also eating back my exercise calories . I lost quite a few pounds initially, but then I plateaued. It drove me nuts. I upped my exercise, tried to eat better, tried to est less...but it wasn't working. I then increased my calories to 1500 and continued to eat my exercise calories. I then started losing against slowly. I upper my calories again to 1600 and I started losing like crazy. In fact, I am well past my first couple of goals!

    I find that so funny and so many people have said that method works. I have decreased my cals (well the site has) and I upped my activity and push myself harder at the gym and I have lost weight better that way. But I do the zig zag method
  • lambertj
    lambertj Posts: 675 Member
    I can only tell you my experience......when I started off I was also doing 1200 per day, but I was also eating back my exercise calories . I lost quite a few pounds initially, but then I plateaued. It drove me nuts. I upped my exercise, tried to eat better, tried to est less...but it wasn't working. I then increased my calories to 1500 and continued to eat my exercise calories. I then started losing against slowly. I upper my calories again to 1600 and I started losing like crazy. In fact, I am well past my first couple of goals!

    I find that so funny and so many people have said that method works. I have decreased my cals (well the site has) and I upped my activity and push myself harder at the gym and I have lost weight better that way. But I do the zig zag method

    You most likely will have an initial gain when you increase your calories because your body has gotten used to eating so few calories and you have slowed your metabolism. But within 6 weeks your body will realize it is not starving and will let go of the weight. I ate at 1200 for months and was stuck losing and gaining the same 3 pounds. it was by accident on vacation that I ate more and came home to first an initial gain of 3 pounds but within 7 days a loss of those 3 pounds plus two more. I then increased again and gained 2 but now on week 6 I have lost those two plus 2 more. We certainly didn't find ourselves over weight because we ate 1700 calories, it is because we ate far more than that and didn't move our bodies.
  • calroseangelo
    calroseangelo Posts: 144
    This is where I've been lately too. I'm so glad to have read this. My goal is 1546 a day which is 20% of my TDEE. My problem is that I have a hard time eating that much! Normally I net around 1200, just because I can't eat more! And if I do I tend to make the wrong choices...in any case I'm going to try to up my calories and hope it works. Getting tired of being around the same few numbers...
  • mazecraze30
    mazecraze30 Posts: 30
    UPDATE:
    This morning my Plateau broke. I was flickering at 143.5. I have come to the conclusion it was because of lack of exercise. I still raised my calorie intake to 1300.
  • Unknown
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    I think this has happened to me.

    I started on 20th January 2012 at 268lbs and set myself a calorie goal of 1800 per day, but would usually come in around 100 - 150 calories under. Everything was going great and I had gotten down to 235lbs by the 22nd April. But since then I haven't lost.

    Just done my weekly weigh-in tonight and again stayed at 235lbs. I don't do lot of exercise as my job is pretty active but I do not eat back the calories I burn.

    I have deceided tonight to go back to basics and look at what I was eating when I started MFP. Going to try that for a couple of weeks and see what happens.
  • kparks2
    kparks2 Posts: 121 Member
    UPDATE:
    This morning my Plateau broke. I was flickering at 143.5. I have come to the conclusion it was because of lack of exercise. I still raised my calorie intake to 1300.

    Sounds awesome! Glad that worked! Keep it up and you can do it! :)

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