Is it normal to plateau this soon?

wannabefitgirl25
wannabefitgirl25 Posts: 44 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been going at it with clean eating, decreasing and increasing my cal-intake and doing all kinds of different forms of cardio and strength, always mixing it up 5 days a week for the past 3 weeks. I lost 4lbs (of typically water weight) the first week and a half and now my weights been stalling. Is this normal? What else can I do?

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  • stelper
    stelper Posts: 19
    Plateauing usually happens more frequently the lower body fat percentage you are. What are your stats? Plus, I wouldn't really call 1 and a half weeks of no weight change a plateau.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    It's not technically a plateau, but sure, why not? A week without a loss can happen at any time. :)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    a week without a loss isn't a plateau.
  • wannabefitgirl25
    wannabefitgirl25 Posts: 44 Member
    wannabefitgirl25 wrote: »
    I have been going at it with clean eating, decreasing and increasing my cal-intake and doing all kinds of different forms of cardio and strength, always mixing it up 5 days a week for the past 3 weeks. I lost 4lbs (of typically water weight) the first week and a half and now my weights been stalling. Is this normal? What else can I do?


    My body fat is 26.75
  • wannabefitgirl25
    wannabefitgirl25 Posts: 44 Member
    stelper wrote: »
    Plateauing usually happens more frequently the lower body fat percentage you are. What are your stats? Plus, I wouldn't really call 1 and a half weeks of no weight change a plateau.

    26.75
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    8-10 weeks is a plateau.
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    Yep not really a plateau. Just be patient. Weight loss isn't linear, so it won't show up on schedule every week.

    Also, if you are "mixing it up" because you think you have to, and not because you like to, you can relax a bit. Changing your calorie targets to be up and down and changing your exercise constantly will not boost your weight loss. It's just CI<CO. A deficit is a deficit. You don't need to (and can't) trick your body or whatever.
  • krysmuree
    krysmuree Posts: 326 Member
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    8-10 weeks is a plateau.

    This.
  • NikiChicken
    NikiChicken Posts: 576 Member
    KrissyMuree wrote: »
    Liftng4Lis wrote: »
    8-10 weeks is a plateau.

    This.

    + another

    A plateau is not a week or 10 days without a loss. That's very normal. A plateau is 8 weeks or more of ZERO loss.

    Weight loss is not linear. It will dip, dive, climb and stay the same. I've lost 87 pounds and my weight loss graph looks like a roller coaster. That is NORMAL. you didn't gain all the weight you want to lose in 3 weeks and you aren't going to lose it that quickly either.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    You shouldn't think that it is normal to plateau. But it does happen. A "plateau" so early is likely just a sign that you aren't trying hard enough.
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    For nearly two weeks straight I was the same weight (other than 1 day after I was really sick and hardly ate anything). Then the scale went down another pound. And then another the following week.

    10 days isn't anything to be concerned with, especially if you've been accurately logging your food and not eating back too many exercise calories.

    If you don't see a bit of change for 4-6 weeks, then double-checking your logging and eating back fewer exercise calories would be worth trying, since that might mean your calories in is higher than calories out.

    ~Lyssa
  • jenniferinfl
    jenniferinfl Posts: 456 Member
    You don't have that much to lose which means weight is going to come off gradually. Someone like me with 70+ lbs to lose is going to dump weight a lot quicker initially. When you are trying to lose around just the ten lb mark you are going to have slower weight loss.
  • wannabefitgirl25
    wannabefitgirl25 Posts: 44 Member
    jenniferinfl wrote: »
    You don't have that much to lose which means weight is going to come off gradually. Someone like me with 70+ lbs to lose is going to dump weight a lot quicker initially. When you are trying to lose around just the ten lb mark you are going to have slower weight loss.

    Yeah. I heard that happens a lot with people like me that can't lose as fast but still there has to be a way that I can change that?
  • Zedeff
    Zedeff Posts: 651 Member
    TimothyFish wrote: »
    You shouldn't think that it is normal to plateau. But it does happen. A "plateau" so early is likely just a sign that you aren't trying hard enough.

    A plateau is ALWAYS a sign that you aren't trying hard enough.
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