Those last 15lbs...
NotJustADieter
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I'm down 30lbs, and have 15 more to lose. I've stagnated here for some time. Help pushing past this plateau?
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Look into intermittent fasting.0
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NotJustADieter wrote: »I'm down 30lbs, and have 15 more to lose. I've stagnated here for some time. Help pushing past this plateau?
your stats would probably be helpful?0 -
An open diary would help. You also don't indicate how long is "some time." Plus the last 10-15 lb is harder than the rest.0
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take it slow - 0.5lb a week - so your calories should come up
refocus on religiously weighing and logging everything
be a little more active
it will drop
stagnating is just lack of focus really - one gets to a stage where you think you know everything and take your eye off it - none of us can afford to that, after all that's how we got overweight in the first place isn't it?0 -
NotJustADieter wrote: »I'm down 30lbs, and have 15 more to lose. I've stagnated here for some time. Help pushing past this plateau?
What's your height & weight? How many calories are you eating? Do you go over sodium a lot?
What is your deficit? When you only have fifteen pounds to go I would aim to lose 0.5 pounds a week since you don't have a large amount to lose.
If you don't have a food scale I would recommend buying one (you can find a decent one at Wal-Mart & Target) & measure all solids & liquids that have an allotted gram or ounce amount. Cups can be inaccurate, because it's so easy to pack extra ice cream in & cereal.
Do you have HRM to track your calorie burns when you exercise? MFP has been known to be generous with calorie burns. If you don't have one you might be able to pick one up cheap since next Thursday will be Thanksgiving/Dark Thursday sales & you have Cyber Monday also coming up,
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Patience! Which is the hardest thing.
If you've been losing, keep doing what you're doing. Plateaus are normal, everyone gets them, and yes they suck! If you really don't see any movement after a few weeks, up your calories, lower your calories or up your exercise.
As for motivation, remind yourself why you started this weight loss journey in the first place.0 -
dunnodunno wrote: »NotJustADieter wrote: »I'm down 30lbs, and have 15 more to lose. I've stagnated here for some time. Help pushing past this plateau?
What's your height & weight? How many calories are you eating? Do you go over sodium a lot?
What is your deficit? When you only have fifteen pounds to go I would aim to lose 0.5 pounds a week since you don't have a large amount to lose.
Do you have HRM to track your calorie burns when you exercise? MFP has been known to be generous with calorie burns. If you don't have one you might be able to pick one up cheap since next Thursday will be Thanksgiving/Dark Thursday sales & you have Cyber Monday also coming up,
I'm 5'2, 145lbs. I'm eating base1500 a day, more when I exercise. I don't go over much on sodium; sugar tends to be my nemesis. My BMR is 1450, my TDEE ranges between 1700 on inactive days to 2000 on active ones.
I'm not running a high deficit. I have both a HRM and a pedometer I use religiously. I use fitbit to track my calorie burns when I exercise as opposed to MFP and let fitbit adjust my calories.0 -
47Jacqueline wrote: »An open diary would help. You also don't indicate how long is "some time." Plus the last 10-15 lb is harder than the rest.
My diary is open...?
And I've stagnated for about a month.0 -
NotJustADieter wrote: »47Jacqueline wrote: »An open diary would help. You also don't indicate how long is "some time." Plus the last 10-15 lb is harder than the rest.
My diary is open...?
And I've stagnated for about a month.
No, sorry, your diary is not open.0 -
im 5ft 5 and 138lbs and im struggling to lose last 8lbs0
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take it slow - 0.5lb a week - so your calories should come up
refocus on religiously weighing and logging everything
be a little more active
^ This advice squares with my experience. I'm on the last couple of pounds now, and I've had to be a lot more careful with accurate counting than in the beginning when I was running a 500+ calorie deficit a day. Missing 100 calories back then still resulted in progress. Now, it might wipe out half my daily deficit.0 -
I agree your deficit is not too high.NotJustADieter wrote: »dunnodunno wrote: »NotJustADieter wrote: »I'm down 30lbs, and have 15 more to lose. I've stagnated here for some time. Help pushing past this plateau?
What's your height & weight? How many calories are you eating? Do you go over sodium a lot?
What is your deficit? When you only have fifteen pounds to go I would aim to lose 0.5 pounds a week since you don't have a large amount to lose.
Do you have HRM to track your calorie burns when you exercise? MFP has been known to be generous with calorie burns. If you don't have one you might be able to pick one up cheap since next Thursday will be Thanksgiving/Dark Thursday sales & you have Cyber Monday also coming up,
I'm 5'2, 145lbs. I'm eating base1500 a day, more when I exercise. I don't go over much on sodium; sugar tends to be my nemesis. My BMR is 1450, my TDEE ranges between 1700 on inactive days to 2000 on active ones.
I'm not running a high deficit. I have both a HRM and a pedometer I use religiously. I use fitbit to track my calorie burns when I exercise as opposed to MFP and let fitbit adjust my calories.
Since you use Fitbit already maybe consider also using Trendweight and linking it to your Fitbit account. Weigh yourself daily or at least weekly and enter the weights on Fitbit.
I'm toward the end of my loss and losing very slowly and find it helps me a ton to view the Trendweight data. I would think I was 'stagnating' but I'm losing from .2-.5 lbs/week. So I don't need to give up or change anything, just keep on being patient and doing what I'm doing (or run larger deficits if I'd prefer faster losses to being patient).
When it's that slow, it's really hard to see a downward trend on crude charts like MFP's or to tell intuitively that your weight is going down from the spot weights you see on the scale because of the 'noise' level due to natural weight variations we all have.
Good luck!
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Your diary is closed, can you open it?0
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Are you lifting a lot, like 80% of your exercise. If not, the last bit of fat usually won't come off that willingly without it.0
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WalkingAlong wrote: »I would think I was 'stagnating' but I'm losing from .2-.5 lbs/week. So I don't need to give up or change anything, just keep on being patient and doing what I'm doing (or run larger deficits if I'd prefer faster losses to being patient).
When it's that slow, it's really hard to see a downward trend on crude charts like MFP's or to tell intuitively that your weight is going down from the spot weights you see on the scale because of the 'noise' level due to natural weight variations we all have.
This. It's the one thing that makes me nervous about eventually going to a .5/week goal (in theory I'm still aiming for 1 lb), as given fluctuations you have to be really patient as I'm sure it's easy to wonder if you are still losing when it's harder to see. I'm trying already to focus more on fitness goals and just eating well and less on the scale.
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The majority of my exercise is lifting- I really am not a cardio type of girl, though I'm hoping to get into running once it warms up (cold exacerbates my asthma). I'm thinking of picking up kickboxing or something to add in, but right now outside is sort of out.0
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