Stuck at this weight

alexisstoops
alexisstoops Posts: 6 Member
edited December 1 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm 5'9, 165, been tracking calories for 3 weeks now, and lost 10 pounds within the first two weeks. This past week I have lost nothing and I feel like I'm stuck at this weight. I've been eating within or at my 1,400 calorie limit, not including the calories I've burned throughout the day. I'm not sure what to do to fix this.

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  • tiffanylacourse
    tiffanylacourse Posts: 2,986 Member
    One week is not a plateau. Weight loss is NEVER linear. You'll have ups and downs... You'll gain, maintain, and lose. Unless/until you're stuck at the same weight for 6-8 weeks, that's when it's time to attempt to change your routine. 10 lbs in 2 weeks is an amazing loss - especially since you're not that overweight to begin with. Take your time and aim for 1-2 lbs per week on AVERAGE. Not every week. As long as the trend is going downward over time, you're doing it right.

    Best of luck! :flowerforyou:
  • maidengirl_
    maidengirl_ Posts: 283 Member
    One week is not a plateau. Weight loss is NEVER linear. You'll have ups and downs... You'll gain, maintain, and lose. Unless/until you're stuck at the same weight for 6-8 weeks, that's when it's time to attempt to change your routine. 10 lbs in 2 weeks is an amazing loss - especially since you're not that overweight to begin with. Take your time and aim for 1-2 lbs per week on AVERAGE. Not every week. As long as the trend is going downward over time, you're doing it right.

    Best of luck! :flowerforyou:

    This! Follow this! You've only not lost anything for a week. And you've only been tracking for 3 weeks. Give it time. I went through periods where I did not lose any weight at all for a few weeks but then the following week I would lose a pound or a few ounces. Weight loss isn't liner and you are not going to lose every week.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    You've lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks? Congratulations! That's a fast rate of loss.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
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    Ba-boom! The chart. Take a second to look this over, it's shared often when someone isn't losing weight to help figure where they might be stuck at.
    Thankfully it's only been a week, though a very frustrating week (I gave my scale the bird this morning for not moving) I know. Don't let it get to you, it happens to us all!
  • benevempress
    benevempress Posts: 136 Member
    In addition to the above posts, which are correct,

    The 10 pounds you lost in the first two weeks was not 10 pounds of fat unless you somehow ate 35,000 less calories than you normally would have. Much of it was water and the amount of water in our bodies varies daily, but typically decreases rapidly when starting to eat at a calorie deficit as our cells release the glycogen that was stored for the energy that we aren't eating. Possible reasons you didn't show a loss this week: some portion of that initial 10 pounds of water might have actually translated to a fat loss and you are holding more water, so the scale shows the same but you actually lost some fat. And/Or you could have more waste in your colon this time than a week ago. And/Or you could be retaining water because of exercise or the TOM or eating salty foods. If you are only weighing once per week, you are getting a snapshot of that day, but not the whole picture of your progress. If you weigh every day, you see ups and downs that are affected by the factors I listed above. I've also seen many people say that as they got thinner, their rate of loss slowed, so prepare for that in case it is true for you.

    If several more weeks go by and the scale doesn't move, make sure that you are weighing yourself using the same scale at the same time of day under the same conditions, and follow the flow chart above.
  • alexisstoops
    alexisstoops Posts: 6 Member
    Thank you!
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