Plateau!

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What are your stats?
How long have you been at this and how much have you lost?
How long has it been since you lost weight?
How are you measuring your food intake?
How are you determining your calories burned through exercise, and how much of those do you eat back?

It's not a plateau if it's not been 6 weeks or more of no weight movement WHILE being consistent with diet and exercise. If any diet gets disrupted by inconsistency, it's more of a stall. And the usual culprits are less attention to counting of calories and eating more than you're thinking, less physical activity than usual, or the body adapting to current physical activity. Easiest changes are being honest with yourself about your intake and increasing intensity of your physical activity.

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Switch it up. If you exercise in the morning, try doing it at night instead. If you usually have a big breakfast, try having a big dinner or lunch and a small breakfast instead. There are little tweaks you can do, that don't really require you changing your routine all that much- just moving around your current routine

LizzT77 wrote: »

I stopped losing weight about 10 months ago and starting gaining and have been stuck at 145 since October. Actually I went up in weight about 15 pounds when I completey gave up running and switched to crossfit. Trust me, it's not muscle, it's fat! I can show you pictures. So now I started running again about 1 month ago and still not seeing a difference. I weighed 175, was down at 123 beginning of last year, and now I'm at 145 since October and just staying there.

You're not burning as much as you think CFing then. Dependent on how much/long you ran vs CF, the difference could be substantial. So it sounds like you're eating more than you need to.

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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

LizzT77 wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing about eating more than I need to. They had me switch to paleo/clean eating and I think that's what did it. They said if I eat clean I don't need to count calories.

That's not true, unfortunately you had to find out the hard way.

LizzT77 wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing about eating more than I need to. They had me switch to paleo/clean eating and I think that's what did it. They said if I eat clean I don't need to count calories.

LOL! I don't know who "they" are but apparently "they" are confused. It doesn't matter what you eat, if you eat more than your body requires to maintain your current weight you will gain weight. Doesn't matter if it is all twinkies or lettuce. Eat what you want but track it and eat in a calorie deficit and you will lose weight.

...and don't listen to nutrition advice from "they" anymore.

If you lost 50 pounds already I would say you have it pretty much figured out, just keep doing what worked.

LizzT77 wrote: »

The very hard way!

Oh honey, go back to what you were doing before, as you had it down!