How do I get past a plateau?

To break a plateau you usually have to change a habit. You didn't say what type of diabetic you are but I note you eat a lot of carbs in your diary.

So you could try two days a week with less than 100g of carbs for a month and see how that goes. Drop the fruit juice, for example, and replace it with some low sugar berries like raspberries.

I reached a plateau about a month ago and can't seem to get past it. My diet isn't always the best, but most of the time I stay under my calorie goal. I haven't gone to the gym for a while due to having to move my parents out of their house and into an assisted living facility. I live with a lot of stress due to their move and my father having alzheimer's disease.

I am disabled due to a heart attack and open heart surgery. I also have most of the complications due to diabetes.

My name is Kimberlee, 48, and I have been on mfp since December. I do have a lot of friends, but most of them aren't active. Please add me and I will give you encouragement and support, also.

My diet isn't always the best, but most of the time I stay under my calorie goal. I haven't gone to the gym for a while due to having to move my parents out of their house and into an assisted living facility. I live with a lot of stress due to their move and my father having alzheimer's disease.

I am disabled due to a heart attack and open heart surgery. I also have most of the complications due to diabetes.

My diet isn't always the best, but most of the time I stay under my calorie goal. I haven't gone to the gym for a while due to having to move my parents out of their house and into an assisted living facility.

My diet isn't always the best. I haven't gone to the gym for a while.

I agree that you already know why you are on the plateau. Stress, poor eating & no exercise is the key. Speaking from experience ... Once you start taking care of you, you will have an easier time taking care of your parents. It will get harder for you to be successful the longer you wait!

Just adding here that very often a plateau can be caused by not eating ENOUGH, but I don't think that applies here if you are not exercising at all.

Tough love. Dont take it too personal.

First thing. Put a picture on your profile. Its a huge pet peeve of mine. It doesn't have to be your face. It can be anything but to me, Its super important.


-There are some meals logged in your dairy as things like "Pasta and sauce" for 400 cals with no other nutrition info. It never a good idea to go by an estimation or someone else s entries like that. Log the sauce. Log the pasta. Log the meat or make a "recipe" and let it calculated it for you. There are too many variations depending on the products.

-A calorie is not just a calorie. Some of the foods your eating are not "clean" Most of them processed, full of sodium and sugar. They are fine to eat sometimes but not ALL the time. Fruit, veggies and lean meat.

-I know a calorie is not just a calorie BUT the basics tells us that in order to lose a pound of fat you need a deficit of 3500 calories. You can do with food but I highly suggest exercising them off.

-Get an HRM and get your butt to the gym. MFP estimates are usually inaccurate and a lot higher then the actual numbers yo burned.

-Carbs in the monring, medium carbs during lunch, low carbs for dinner and snacks.

-I understand that you have some issues going on in your life BUT everyone does. Your not being singled out. It is a choice how you deal with it and how it impacts your life. You need to take 1-2 hours a day for yourself to go to the gym. If your going to live your life for everyone else then when your their age your going to look back and regret the things you didn't do. Everyone is born alone and dies alone. All you have is your memories. Make it worth it.

Just do it.Even if you dont want to. Once your get into a routine, it gets easier. People are creatures of habit.

You CAN do this

as one WLer to another kick in another 1-2 protein shakes don't do the same exercises if you are working out every day take a day off and if that fails for us do
the 5daypouchtest sometimes it's the kick start that many of us need at times.

Yepp, change a habit. Whether it's food, drink or exercise you need to change something :-) good luck!

I just looked at your food and didn't see any fresh fruits and veggies other than an occasional tomato. Try to eat 5 servings of fresh veggies every day. It really helps. I eat at least 1 to 2 large salads a day with protein on top in the form of either chicken or salmon. Try romaine lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes, cucumbers and then protein on top with a lite salad dressing or a vinegar and oil mixture. Its also very healthy for someone who is diabetic to eat lots of greens.

Plateaus and stalls are common in a weight loss journey, something we all go through various times. When I hit mine, I examine everything I eat with a fine tooth comb... "is there something i can change?" sometimes mindless over portioning happens, or do i log correct amounts?...or somethings what i am eating is not helping. Looking at what i eat may be the solution.... being totally honest with myself and stopping the excuses is the start i find that helps breaking a plateau. if after examining that nothing changes...i look at my activity... and switch things up.

I was super morbidly obese, barely could walk, my knees were bad, had diabetes, on 170 units of insulin a day, on blood pressure meds.... i remember all too well the excuses i used. i lost 170 pounds just on diet alone...no walking/exercise BUT i needed to change it all n did. it was slow starting getting moving, but baby steps got me here and im thankful i stopped makin excuses and put things into action. I am running now, full of energy, healthy, on no bp meds nor insulin...my sugars are great...so is my cholesterol.

Keep working at it...you will get there...plateaus/stalls break.... weight comes off...it's all up to you.....