Stalled on 68 pounds

mix things up..i was stalled for about a month and after i stopped hitting the gym and doing the classes and switched into longer walks and hiking did the weight start moving in the right direction again

we often get into a rut and need to shake things up, try doing your workout routine in a different order or throw in 10 mins of cardio into the middle of doing weight training....

when i started exercising more, i hit a plateau.
Only way i was able to break it was to eat all my exercise calories back... and keep eating them.
The weeks where i eat more of my exercise calories are the weeks i have a bigger loss *S*

Oliver, try this. No more than 9 carbs per hour. Eat ever hour to hour and a half. Your insulin will not kick in, you will not store fat. Any calories you exercise will come off right away, not after you run through the carb sugar in your blood stream. Let me know if this helped you.

you're not really plateuaing - you're reaching what I personally refer to as the crossover point. Where your weight loss as fat begins to converge with your lean gains of muscle. Muscle by volume is more dense than fat and weighs more. You have been making lean gains at the same time as you have been losing fat.

To give you an example - in my first 9 months i lost 80 lbs of fat very quickly and very noticeably on the weigh scales and with measuring tape major differences also.

However since ramping up the calories a few months back to a more healthy level ( i was at a 1000 deficit daily now at 400-500 deficit) and increasing my weight training schedule and cycling schedule, and ensuring that for the most part i ate all my exercise calories earned for the day things changed. For most part in general people would have said that i had hit a plateau.

However at the start of my programme I aqcuired a set of harpenden skinfold calipers - got trained in their use - set up spreadsheets and measured my bodyfat percentage every two weeks.

my datasheets showed that in the last two months despite having only lost 1 pound on the scales and my tape measurements changing very little - my bodyfat readings indicated that I had lost 16 pounds of fat and gained 15 pounds of lean mass. And the mirror and my clothes testified to this also

I fully expect it to carry on like this for a good while with the lean mass gains eventually plateauing at my chosen muscle development level at which time the scales should start noticing a decrease again as all that lean new mass will help burn up the calories - and by doing it slowly I give my skin a chance to recover and shrink back at the same time.

I would suggest that far from plateuing you are more than likely experiencing the same thing more or less