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How long should it take????

flitabout
flitabout Posts: 200 Member
edited January 23 in Health and Weight Loss
To break crappy eating plateau??
What I mean by this is in the last month or so I have been really up and down with my eating. I am both a stress eater and starver. I did both this month.It just depends on the stress ATM. So I went and calculated my TDEE -20% and started really working on it again this week. It's that week before my monthly visitor so when I got on the scale I was not a happy camper but I know that next week it will be gone.
I will not beat myself up for what I have done good bad or otherwise. It's just that moment when I again have to put on my big girl panties and just start again.
So how long should it take before I start to see the scale move down again?

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  • lilpoindexter
    lilpoindexter Posts: 1,122 Member
    No more than two weeks.
  • flitabout
    flitabout Posts: 200 Member
    Thank you so much! I was really hoping I wasn't looking at another month!!!
  • Etienne54
    Etienne54 Posts: 88 Member
    I rarely hit a plateau, I posted this many times on other thread but i'll repeat it anyway. It might help you out as it always did for me.

    I allow myself either a cheat meal/day, on that day, I either try to hit at my maintenance calories or 200-300 above it. Even if i call it a cheat day, I'd still avoid any type of fast food or junks. I just eat a lot more of the good food i was craving that week (Pasta, steaks, homemade turkey burgers..)

    So in my case, instead of eating my 1450 cals, i eat around 2200 cals on sundays. And i usually never fall into a plateau and the few times i did, it lasted only a week.

    Good luck.
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