What do you do when you hit a weight loss plateu?

It's only two weeks. Chill out.

I've gone 6-8 weeks with no loss before, just remember this isn't a race.

Open your food journal if you'd like advise

800 calories is not enough and can do damage to your metabolism. It takes longer than 2 weeks for body to respond to changes, and if you have been previously not meeting your nutritional requirements...it may take longer for that scale to move.

Don't give up. You live, you learn!

BUMP!!

You should realize that anything worth having is worth working hard for.....alllllllll the way until you get there. And then you start working toward the next thing and the next thing and the next thing.

I'm not sure what your goals are, whether it is to improve your body, improve your health, take on an event or just weigh less... but....

You can't start working toward something and a month into it say, 'well this is harder than I thought, so I'm probably going to give up.'

You can't aim for a goal haphazardly without a plan and without knowledge and comprehension of what it will take and expect yourself to make consistent progress, much less reach where you are aiming.

You could save yourself some pain, agony and frustration and learn the best way to go about reaching your goals - THEN settle in with the idea that it is going to take a year. Yes a YEAR - if it takes less- awesome! If it takes more - well, you're YOU - you can totally handle it.

If you are doing the correct workouts to reach your goal, and eating within the proper nutrition and calorie window to be able to handle those workouts and your everyday life, and you still see no changes in measurements, body fat or weight after 3-5 months - THEN you have a real plateau and then you can worry about increasing your intensity or shifting some things around to blow past it.

But this is not a plateau - it is a failure to launch correctly, - which is the easiest thing to fix of all the problems you could have stumbled upon.

Learn.
Work hard.
Be patient.
Keep going....
Don't stop unless it is for your victory dance.

Decide today that it is going to take a hell of a lot to stop you. You're no weak pushover and today is the day you're going to start proving it to the world.

Whatever you do, DON'T give up. Why waste a good thing? Even if your not losing lbs, you are gaining muscle, endurance, stamina, GOOD HEALTH! I was at a plateau for three months. I finally broke it by cutting out refined carbs at dinner. It's better to be proud that you figured out how to get past your plateau rather than be depressed you gave up.

I have done the Lindora Diet on my own before and it was successful, I gained 10 pounds so I am trying to go on the diet again but its not working this time I lost very few pounds and now I am stuck. I dont know what to do or what to eat as a good diet menu that will help me lose the weight.
I am 42 years old and 5'1. I need some guidance and help since the Lindora Diet is usually allow you to eat 800 to 900 cal Max a day.
Please help.

Your problem is the "diet" you're on. Stop it. That's the solution.

I have found adding two tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar to 4 ounces of water and chugging it down once or twice a day will break the plateau. I also add a packet of stevia and a splash of cinnamon for flavor. If you are only eating 800 calories that is not near enough! You need to eat more to weigh less. Just make sure the what you are eating is good quality food, not crap.

ACV has not been proven to be a diet aid. You're just giving yourself an extra dose of acetic acid, which can lead to stomach and esophogeal issues. It is more useful as a household cleaner.

Thank you very much everyone for all the advice! I decided to take a day off from working out yesterday and went out to Red Lobster and stuffed my face!! I'm going to try bumping my calories up to around 1400 and zig zagging between that and 1200 and seeing how it works out! Maybe my metabolism just needs a little trick like some of you have said since I was starving myself for so long. I really regret doing that to myself but this was my first time dieting and I didn't really look into anything, I pretty much just jumped into it and said, oh well if I stop eating I'll lose weight and went with that!

Yeah, that was the mistake I did in 2008-2009. Anyways, keep eating at 1200-1400 hundred, the extra calories should be a difference. Include weight training and the first day you do, eat a meal at somewhat of a higher carb/lower protein less fat almost an hour after the workout. The isulin spike may help release some of that water weight you probably are retaining.

Read below: should help set you in the right direction.

http://www.leangains.com/2010/01/how-to-deal-with-water-retention-part.html
http://www.leangains.com/2010/01/how-to-deal-with-water-retention-part_28.html


PS: NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!!

I have been running 5 days a week for 40 min. I keep my calories and salt low but havnt lost weight in like 2 weeks. so I decided to start a dance video as well maybe 2-3 times a week. I am hoping this will help kick some calories off!