stuck!

im pretty new here myself but ill just let you know the response that you are going to get is that you should open your diary so they can give you better advice.

I don't know how to open up the diary, but I can feeel your pain! I am stuck too, but bf keeps dropping. I;m happy for him, but ready for my scales to start dropping again too. All I can say is, keep with it, change will kick back in.

Weight loss isn't linear. A couple of weeks with little to no movement isn't necessarily being stuck. You could actually have losses that are masked by natural weight fluctuations. For example...1 to 2 Lbs per week weight loss is a good, safe and healthy rate (of course, the less you have to lose the slower it needs to be...but for someone with a lot to lose, 2 Lbs is perfectly safe)...now, the average person out there can fluctuate 2-5 Lbs day to day...so, lets say you are losing fat at the rate of 1.5 Lbs per week...but your weight in occurs on a "heavy" day when you're retaining more water than you otherwise do....let's say you're retaining 5 Lbs of water...well, your fat loss isn't going to show up on the scale because it is masked by the water retention.

Two weeks is nothing...it's a drop in the bucket. I've been at this almost a year now with 40 Lbs down. I'm currently maintaining, though I could stand to lose a few more vanity Lbs...but that's all they are at this point. My point is that this is a long process...it isn't about this week or next week...it's about this month, next month...several months from now...next year, and the rest of your life. Like I said, two weeks is a drop in the old bucket.

Just another example because I'm maintaining...and to illustrate the fact that maintenance isn't static (just as loss isn't linear). I weigh myself daily...and if I were to draw a straight line through my graph and take the average, it would be right around 182 Lbs...but this past Sunday I weighed 178 Lbs which was roughly 3 Lbs down from my Saturday morning weigh in. What gives? Did I lose a bunch of fat all of a sudden? Hardly...I had a killer workout Sat morning and then went on a bike and wine tasting tour later that day...I was pretty much on the move all day and I completely depleted my glycogen stores. I spent most of Sunday replenishing this glycogen stores due to the fact that I felt like a truck hit me. Monday morning I awoke to a 6.9 Lbs gain from Sunday. WTF...am I getting fat overnight? No...like I said, I spent most of Sunday replenishing my glycogen stores and carb loading...now at Wednesday I'm back at 181.6 as of this morning.

You really, really have to take a much longer view and track long term trends, not day to day minutia.

Like others have said, weight loss is not linear. I have been tracking every loss and if you look over the last 6 months it literally looks like stairs with every "down" on the stair happening every two to three-ish weeks.

You may also want to do some research on BMR and TDEE. I'm not going to tell you to eat more because that's your decision but if you believe what these are telling you, you should probably be eating 400ish more calories per day for weight loss (do the math though!). Good luck!

If you know you're eating is mostly in check, may I ask what types of exercise you are doing aside from the walking? If you are basically doing the same workout over and over, your body eventually falls into a routine, which results in your body not having to work as hard, which results in fewer calories burned. If you change up your workout frequently ,about every 4-5 workouts, you will always keep that body of your guessing, which means you are always making it work hard and blast those calories! Try to change up/amp up that routine of yours every 5 workouts to keep your body from falling into a routine.

How about adding intervals to your walking routine? Make a game like every time you see a park bench do some incline push ups, 10 lunges and some squats to get some strength in as well. Every time you see a rabbit(or anything else) stop and do 10 jumping jacks. Things like that. It may sound silly, but it keeps things interesting! Mother Natures gym is the best one around!

Good luck!!:flowerforyou:

hang in there! I have been 'stuck' for months and losing (if at all) really, really slowly, but although the scales fluctuate up / down about 2/3lbs for me that's OK, it's the kind of monitoring I will be doing when I hit goal weight and although my weight appears pretty static, actually I am not - check out other factors too, for example a skirt that I couldn't quite do up a month ago is now fine ... as long as the trend is basically downwards I see the good habits I am picking up by being more aware of what I am eating as being fine, it took me a long time to get tubby, it'll take my brain a lot longer to get used to staying smaller but I am getting there which is what really counts, not the daily numbers on those scales - play the long game and good luck!