How to get rid of a plateau

Good info!!:flowerforyou:

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I think I need to try this. I am stuck after upping my cals from a long time on a VLCD.

Doing something is better than feeling stuck, and yet I am irrationally fearful. It is so hard to get over the "less is more" mentality.

Same here. I've been stuck around the same weight for 6 months (now THAT is a plateau) and my first instincts are to eat less and exercise more. During these 6 months I've tried upping my cals, lowering them, upping them again, working out more, working out less, changing my workouts and nothing seems to help. Even when I was training for the half marathon and burning over 4000 cals a week, the weight wasn't moving. Super frustrating.

Saving this to read later.

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Bump, have yet to hit a plateau, but I will keep this in mind for when I do!!!

So I'm new on this app and this is the first time I write on a message board. I have been trying to loose the weight but have been stuck at 186 now for a year. I am using this app now and it does help. But after reading the post and comments maybe I'm hurting myself and doing things wrong. I'm 24 yr old female. I'm 5'4 and work out 3-5 times a week, each time being cardio 5 miles with 700cals burned. And some light weight training...MFP says I should be eating 1500 to loose weight at 2lbs a week. I didn't know the BMR stuff and now I'm wondering I don't know if I'm eating to much or to little. I just recently started working out everyday like this for a month. I hope I can get unstuck. My health worries me I know I'm young but my mom and dad have diabetes so I'm trying to break that cycle. So my question to you guys on here does anyone have advice.? On what calories amount I'm sapose to be eating to lose the weight? With the BMR stuff included because I'm so confused. Thank you so much.

I have twice hit a plateau of 3-4 weeks. I decided to give into the temptation I had for an icecream sundae. Several days later, noticed a drop in weight. I'm actually looking forward to my next plateau.

Thank you so much. This stuff is so confusing. I'm not up with the terms in weight loss lol <=} thank you so I should be consuming 2168 and eventually I'll be out the plateau?

Great experience Lan - you are doing great.
@ yogi, see after two weeks of maintenance how the weight goes, then 10% during a couple of weeks, 20% MAX after those first weeks in deficit

hmmm...it seems I've stumbled upon this a couple of weeks ago, but it's good to hear that it's a reasonable path.

I had changed my weight training program & increased 4# immediately. Thinking it was water weight & assuming it would decrease eventually, but it just didn't really happen.

I wondered if I'd inadvertently slipped into maintenance.

So I ate intuitively just to see what my caloric intake was for about 2 wks (I normally don't track). It turned out that I was eating btw 2000-2300 cal/day. (5' tall, 45 yr old woman, CW 123-127#)

I had decided to aim for 1800 cal/day & hope to break stall.

Awesome, thanks for the info! I'm currently at a plateau so this is very helpful!