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What were you doing that was holding back your weight loss?

Posts: 20 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Just curious if anyone at some point was not seeing a drop on the scale and changed something and started seeing results?? Like drinking more water, eating more, etc?

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  • Posts: 9,166 Member
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  • Posts: 8,488 Member
    Being more sedentary than sedentary.
    Miss Sloth, that was me- especially in winter.
    Just getting off my skinny butt and putting the book down worked wonders.

    Cheers, h.
  • Posts: 876 Member
    I didn't have a food scale.
  • Posts: 1,001 Member
    On top of weighing food accurately and figuring out my burns more accurately with a HRM, logging faithfully on the weekends and treating water weight fluctuations whether it be exaggerated losses, "plateaus" or gains as an unavoidable part of the process (if there was no other explanation why I would gain or lose more one week compared to the next) and to concentrate on long term trends over a month or longer. :) Also exercising more means I can eat more (and being mindful that I weigh a pound or 2 heavier the morning after a HIIT class because of water retention) :)
  • Posts: 11,463 Member
    Eating less seems to help more than anything else.
  • Posts: 98 Member
    Stopped drinking so much beer!
  • Posts: 1,429 Member
    MyFitnessPal's calorie tracking and NEET (NEAT?) method changed my life (eating back exercise calories above BMR). I'll lose the last bit of pudge as soon as I get serious about controlling my appetite. :)
  • Posts: 3,501 Member
    For me, it's being lax with my logging. I tend to be tight for a while, and then slowly start to be less vigilant.
  • Posts: 9,487 Member
    Bad logging. Any time I've not lost weight it was due to sloppy logging or not logging.
  • Posts: 870 Member
    Not logging binges. Self: Where did this gain come from? From the extra thousands of calories you didn't track, duh.

    Opening my diary helped, as did seeing those big red numbers.
  • Posts: 6,771 Member
    I've never unknowingly stopped losing. I might think I've been consistent then I look back at my diary and nope. My bad.
  • Posts: 40 Member
    Food scale. My estimating was WAY off. lol
  • Posts: 210 Member
    I cut calories and increased my workouts.
  • Posts: 908 Member
    Bought a food scale. Starting weighing everything and logging faithfully, staying within my calorie allowance. Boom! Weight loss.

    This ^^
    A thousand times this.

  • Posts: 41,865 Member
    I quickly figured out that I had gotten a little lazy in my logging and whatnot...grabbing little bites here and there that I wasn't before and not logging it 'cuz it's just a little bite, etc...that stuff adds up.
  • Posts: 2,846 Member

    :'( Putting the book down is never the right answer. (JK, but books are one of my favorite things!)

    Ugh, sad but true.

    I'd NEVER put books down if I didn't have to, LOL.

    So I walk, and I work out, and I do all my other stuff, and then I read at night...in the bathtub...while waiting for appointments...it can be done but gosh life stinks when you're forced to put down a good book. :D #unfair
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