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weight plateau

omarkhalifa19
omarkhalifa19 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss

Hi , I have been dieting for 10 weeks now and I lost 9 KG in 8 weeks. I am not losing any weight since 2 weeks. any suggestions ?

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Weight loss is not linear.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Two weeks is a stall, not a plateau and not long enough to gage by.
  • Eire228
    Eire228 Posts: 238 Member
    Try changing up your workout routine, or switching around the types of food that you eat. :)
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Wait it out. If you haven't lost in another 2-3 weeks, then take a look into your logging to see where you're going wrong.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    omarkhalifa19 wrote: »
    Hi , I have been dieting for 10 weeks now and I lost 9 KG in 8 weeks. I am not losing any weight since 2 weeks. any suggestions ?

    After a fast loss like that that can be normal. Stick with your plan. The brain may just be concerned your food supply is running low. :)

  • CA_Underdog
    CA_Underdog Posts: 733 Member
    edited December 2014
    Patience. It sounds like you're on the right track, and sometimes weight loss stalls for short periods of time before resuming. It's annoying but expected and normal.
  • HildieMe
    HildieMe Posts: 41 Member
    Congratulations! That's really great - and fast.... Nine kg - that's 20 pounds for my American friends - is a lot for eight weeks! Let your body adjust and keep doing what you are doing. "Nature can not be rushed, yet everything is being accomplished" - Lao Tsu
  • omarkhalifa19
    omarkhalifa19 Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you very much guys . Truely appreciate all your comments :-)
  • omarkhalifa19
    omarkhalifa19 Posts: 4 Member
    Now I only lost 2 more Kg in a month while I am cutting 8000 cal per week. I read that I might need to shock my body for a couple of days with high cal. Did anyone try this
  • kyta32
    kyta32 Posts: 670 Member
    You don't have much to lose, so 2kg in a month may be realistic for you. You may want to try increasing your deficit. Try going down by about 100 calories a day, and see what happens. Take it out of your carbs, not protein.

    Many will say this has nothing to do with weight loss, but your fiber is really low. You should be aiming for close to 30 g of fiber a day. The first day I viewed had 0 grams of fiber. The second had 6. Eating more green leafies can help with this, without adding a lot of calories. Beans have a lot of fiber. If you chose to increase fiber, try for about 5 grams at first, give your body a chance to adapt, then 5 grams more. For the sake of your long-term health, you really want to be getting enough fiber. Also, fiber can make it harder for your body to digest food, so you get fewer usable calories in the food you eat when you increase your fiber intake.

    Good luck :)
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    kyta32 wrote: »
    You don't have much to lose, so 2kg in a month may be realistic for you. You may want to try increasing your deficit. Try going down by about 100 calories a day, and see what happens. Take it out of your carbs, not protein.

    Many will say this has nothing to do with weight loss, but your fiber is really low. You should be aiming for close to 30 g of fiber a day. The first day I viewed had 0 grams of fiber. The second had 6. Eating more green leafies can help with this, without adding a lot of calories. Beans have a lot of fiber. If you chose to increase fiber, try for about 5 grams at first, give your body a chance to adapt, then 5 grams more. For the sake of your long-term health, you really want to be getting enough fiber. Also, fiber can make it harder for your body to digest food, so you get fewer usable calories in the food you eat when you increase your fiber intake.

    Good luck :)

    His goal is already lower than the minimum intake for men should be, so dropping calories will not be good.

    OP, you're eating more than you think. 1kg a week is too aggressive a goal going by your ticker anyway. Change your deficit to somewhere between .25 and .5 kg per week, invest in a food scale, and start weighing and logging your food more accurately.
  • omarkhalifa19
    omarkhalifa19 Posts: 4 Member
    Thank you guys very much , this has been very helpful to me

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