lost around 9 kgs and hit a weight loss plateu

Do you weigh everything you eat? Can you open your dairy? How long have you been stuck for?

Why do you prefer to eat fewer carbs? If you get cravings, maybe you should eat more carbs...

esha09 wrote: »

No i dont exactly have a weighing system at home to weigh the portions but i try to limit within one to two cups. My breakfast usually consists of one cup of watermelon, yoghurt or egg whites and one apple and 4-5 almonds. Lunch I will have tomato and cucumber salad/ boiled lentils/yoghurt and any fruit. Then dinner I eat between 5:30 to 6:30 and I get the craving at that time most. So nowadays I end up eating the biscuit packet and one cup of coffee having milk and sugar. I pack fruits(watermelon/pineapple) or cucumbers for snacks to office but along with them I end up eating biscuits.

Start weighing foods, you may be eating a lot more than you think. Cups aren't a reliable way of measuring calories. Using cups may have worked until now, but as you near your goal weight your deficit will be reducing, and you may need to tighten up your logging. You didn't answer why you try to keep down on carbs?

esha09 wrote: »

because I feel everything like fruits and veggies have little amount of carbs in them. Eating whole carbs again will just add calories. I am trying to get the goal weight as fast as possible.

By the way I tried the way of increasing the food intake and then drastically reducing it also. Like I did cheating for 3-4 days and ate everything i wanted. I gained 1-2 kgs but then when i came back to my diet i lost 3 kgs ....:)

I am planning to do that again. By the way what is your opinion on the lemonade cleansing for 2 days???

I can understand indirectly cutting out carbs if you're just not eating foods that have a lot of carbs in because they happen to be high in calories and you'd rather have foods that you can eat more of for the same amount of calories (I've done that myself), but don't try to cut carbs just for the sake of having carbs. Especially if you find yourself craving then binging on them - incorporate them into your diet.

You could try that, though your problem is that you're not eating in a deficit. Start weighing food and see how it goes.

And I think any sort of cleanse is pretty pointless unless you just really want to drink nothing but lemonade for 2 days. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1159755/looking-for-a-detox-cleanse/p1

Hi Esha,

It could also be because you're not being patient enough. Sometimes clients of mine lose more weight once they start waiting a bit longer between weight loss intervals.

E.g. maybe previously you could lose a pound a week, but now it might take a pound a month.

Have you tried waiting a bit longer?

mops89 wrote: »

Your body needs more carbs! Try to eat more carbs for breakfast and lunch that way you will not crave for it when it's time for dinner. You need to understand that your body needs a certain amount of carbs trough out the day to function. I think that's why you are craving.

This is wrong in so many ways. The body does not "need" carbs.
Look up the Ketogenic Diet of you are interested in goin low carb.
And eating fruits does not equal low carb, not even close. The amount of sugar in most fruits and a lot of certain types of vege's takes you out of any " low carb". The point of low carb is to enter Ketosis ( fat burning for fuel) vs glycogen ( aka carbs).
I didnt see very much protein in your meal plan, we need more than the RDA suggestions especially when in a calorie deficit to preserve LBM.