What am I missing?

rhall9058

So, I've been very successful (or at least by MY definition of successful), up to this point. I have my HRM to track my calories during exercise, walking the dog, riding my bike, going to the gym, etc. Every thing that I didn't use to do, I now track with my HRM.

It's now been 3 1/2 weeks since I've seen a drop on the scale and I'm starting to get frustrated. I've lost 63lbs up to this point at a successful clip of between 1-3lbs a week. Sure, I had a couple of weeks in that where I had a plateau, but that plateau was self induced by calorie creep. I recognized it and corrected and was right back on track. Now bearing in mind that I realize that calorie creep is the cause of 75% of plateaus, I have been extra cautious this time in ensuring that all my food scale calculations are correct, accounting for EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth, and ensuring that I have measured and remeasured everything.

Now, I've lowered my intake, I'm feeding my workouts......................hell, I'm even extending my workouts to get a higher caloric burn, and this week, I stepped on the scale and it went up. I checked my measurements, and they are still the same as they have been. So I can't take the argument that "the scale doesn't matter if the measurement has changed."

I don't get it...........maybe this is a true plateau, but can somebody confirm that? I'm not sure I've ever experienced a true plateau that has lasted weeks at a time. No matter what I change up, my body is stuck in neutral. I'm losing the motivation. I've followed the boards, I've taken all kinds of the trainers advice. I feel I know what to look for and what to adjust, but DAMN...........I'm stuck!!

djr140

Are you relying too much on the HRM now? Are you taking extra calories for exercise that you wouldn't normally take..like when I walk my dog, it's a daily routine I don't consider it exercise, so I don't include those calories burned into my "exercise". Otherwise, when I have hit plateaus in the past, I find switching up my diet helps to get the metabolism going again? And, as always...water, water, water!

rhall9058

I was thinking about that as well recently. I've changed it to be.........if I just take the dog around the block and just generally being outside, I don't count that (even though I would have in the past). Now , the only way I account for a walk, is if my intent is to be out "power walking" for an extended period of time and I intend to break a sweat doing it. Maybe I shouldn't count those any longer either?

rhall9058

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