Help Ive Hit A Plateau

Ive hit a plateau and stopped losing weight for the past three weeks now. I havent gained any weight ive stayed the same. Ive tried lowering my calories, upping them, keeping them the same. upping my exercise lowering my exercise keeping it the same. eating different things. ughhhhh Ive lost 47 pounds in the last 5 months and now i just kinda hit a huge brick wall.. Does anyone know what I can do to keep losing weight? are there any good things to take for a detox or something..PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you

If you've tried all of those things to get rid of your three week plateau, you haven't tried anything to fix it. Any time you change your calorie intake, you need to stick with it for a few weeks. If you're not sure which way to go (up or down in calories), I'd try calculating your TDEE and subtract 10-15% depending on how much you have left to lose. If that's more than what you've been eating, try increasing, if it's less, try decreasing. Stick with it for a few weeks (read 3-6 weeks). If that doesn't work try changing your calories the other direction.

Three weeks isn't really a plateau, it's a stall. It happens, and it likely is occurring because you've been losing weight so quickly. Try for a slow and steady weight loss, which is usually more like a pound a week, not the 2.5lbs you've been losing.

the same thing has happened to me for the past 4 weeks its driving me insane.

I just busted through a plateau that lasted for almost two months. I was technically still losing, but by a half a pound every ten days or so. You've come this far, don't turn around and go back now - The plateaus will fall away and you will look back on it as "the character building funny part"

I'm going to borrow a line for dory.. Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming...

I hit a plateau once and I decided to eat at maintenance for a week and then go back to my deficit and that seemed to do the trick. Congrats on your loss to date!

Ive hit a plateau and stopped losing weight for the past three weeks now. I havent gained any weight ive stayed the same. Ive tried lowering my calories, upping them, keeping them the same. upping my exercise lowering my exercise keeping it the same. eating different things. ughhhhh Ive lost 47 pounds in the last 5 months and now i just kinda hit a huge brick wall.. Does anyone know what I can do to keep losing weight? are there any good things to take for a detox or something..PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you

You may not want to hear this, but if you've done ALL of this in the past 3 weeks (since I'm assuming while you were losing weight you didn't change anything) you haven't really given yourself time to see if any of those changes worked (or even if they were needed in the first place). My advice to you is to go back to what you were doing when you were losing weight comfortably and stick with that for 2 weeks. Then if you haven't lost weight make ONE change (like increase exercise or eat slightly less) and stick with it for two weeks, repeat as much as necessary. This isn't a fast process and results aren't immediate.

Just wanted to add I am now doing Tabata High Intensity Intervals and I notice inches but my scale is really really stubborn!!

Just wanted to add I am now doing Tabata High Intensity Intervals and I notice inches but my scale is really really stubborn!!

It may not be a plateau if you are still losing weight. Have you changed to Tabata HIIT recently? After you start a new exercise programme and the muscles are sore, the body protects the tissue by fluid retention. This temporary retention of fluid can result in a 3- to 4-pound weight gain within a few weeks of a new program. I would not worry if you are losing inches.