Help! weight loss plateau

matt88uk wrote: »

becomefitwith_ty wrote: »

I have been stuck at 297 all freaking week and I have been busting my *kitten* in the gym and of course eating healthy. I also started weight training. Could it be that I am building muscle? Or have I hit a small plateau?

Adjust your calories as you go lower in weight you need to keep adjusting like once every few weeks then the weight loss will move again

That's probably not necessary yet, but it is definitely something to keep in mind if the number isn't moving.

OP -

A plateau is 4-6 weeks with no change in weight or measurements. You are probably retaining water for muscle repair. You might build a very small amount of muscle but not enough to offset fat loss. Water weight can completely mask fat loss thanks to fluctuations, so keep doing what you're doing and the number will change.

Do you weigh your food on a food scale?

~Lyssa

becomefitwith_ty wrote: »

I have been stuck at 297 all freaking week and I have been busting my *kitten* in the gym and of course eating healthy. I also started weight training. Could it be that I am building muscle? Or have I hit a small plateau?

Water weight from the weight training, as your muscles repair. You may gain a tiny bit, but it's not a significant amount and it will halt as you continue on. Be patients, log accurately, and it will fall off. As Lyssa said, a plateau is MUCH longer than a week.

I find for my mental well being it is better to only weigh once a week. It is easy to get hung up on the number on scale but I also try to look at how I feel do I feel like I have lost, what do my pictures show and such. Keep your head up, you got this!

becomefitwith_ty wrote: »

I have been stuck at 297 all freaking week and I have been busting my *kitten* in the gym and of course eating healthy. I also started weight training. Could it be that I am building muscle? Or have I hit a small plateau?

Neither. You certainly aren't building muscle because you haven't been lifting long enough. To be on a pleateau, you weight can't have changed any in at least 4 weeks.

Weight loss isn't linear. If you burned exactly the same number of calories every day and ate exactly the same thing, you would not lose concistently.

Set realtist expectations!

@QuilterInVA is right. It's not muscle or a plateau, there will be some weeks where you will not lose. Keep working at it, manage your expectations and have patience.