Very active vs active

If you have plateaued and you are doing 15000-20000 steps a day you have to look at what you are eating and when. When I was at Lindora (the weight loss program) they taught you how to trick your body out of plateau so u continue to loose weight. For three days straight you would eat half a grapefruit for all three meals combined with some really lean white fish or if u don't like fish then chicken (3-4oz) combined with greens and few veggies-watch your carbs too. Another thing to consider is are you over working your muscles without allowing them time to heal-after excercising I always boil 10 oz of water with a quarter lemon skin facing the water for no more than a minute. I would drink it after excercise and in the morning. The antioxidants in the lemon's skin helped my muscle recovery quite a bit. The difference in weight if I drank the lemon water as stated above and if i didn't was 1.5 lbs/day!!! I also start my day with a shot mixed in warm water of organic apple cider vinegar. I think your MFP setting is fine-try the above 1st and see if they make a difference. Good luck!!!

kengrace10 wrote: »

Thank you for the quick response. I don't want to become discouraged. I have always been active but I do know my age (40) is a little scary. I want to meet my goal weight without plateauing and without getting discouraged. Thank you!

Your initial losses include the loss of water bound to glucose and stored as glycogen; the bound water is roughly four times the weight of the glucose stored in the larger glycogen molecules. This is the initial "water weight" loss that usually accompanies fat loss at the beginning of caloric deficits. Your rate of loss will slow down; and the decrease in the rate is not likely a plateau. Stay in a moderate caloric deficit and you will continue to lose weight, just not at the same rate as the first few weeks.