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What were you doing that was holding back your weight loss?
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I haven't experienced an actually mysterious 4-week plateaus of weight stability. I had a 3-week episode last year, not so much of stability but of overeating every time I lost down to a particular weight. I made the change of doubling my cardio workout time and water consumption for a week and duly smashed through that imaginary barrier. Just recently I've had a 2 month stretch of frequently having binge days, but I traced that root cause down to Nutella. After solving that problem I've been able to stay within my calorie deficit and resume losing weight. I've reached the healthy BMI below 25.0 for the second time and this time I haven't rebounded out of it.
I want to add that the 'doubling my cardio workout time and doubling my water consumption' only lasted a week, but the weight loss has continued slowly. Today I'm about 20 lb below my weight when that happened.5 -
Bad logging. Any time I've not lost weight it was due to sloppy logging or not logging.1
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Wine!!!5
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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.3 -
I've never unknowingly stopped losing. I might think I've been consistent then I look back at my diary and nope. My bad.0
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Food scale. My estimating was WAY off. lol1
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I cut calories and increased my workouts.0
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Bought a food scale. Starting weighing everything and logging faithfully, staying within my calorie allowance. Boom! Weight loss.
This ^^
A thousand times this.
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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.1
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quiksylver296 wrote: »middlehaitch wrote: »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.
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. #unfair2 -
tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Flagged for spam?! Really?
People misflag all the time. If you Flag > Report > Other and comment "Misflagged for Spam" a mod should eventually take care of it.1 -
What help me back was blaming various OHs for what I was choosing to eat.0
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Believing somehow it was more than just calories in caloried out. That i had to cut out all yummy foods to lose weight which had me on a restrict and binge cycle my whole life1
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DapperDassie wrote: »Believing somehow it was more than just calories in caloried out. That i had to cut out all yummy foods to lose weight which had me on a restrict and binge cycle my whole life
^^^^^ This was me, too, for a very long time. I also labored under the wrong impression that you could out-work a bad diet, which kept me 20-30 pounds overweight for a long time, until I stopped being so active and it got to more like 50+ pounds. Now, I know better, and I understand there are no short cuts, nothing off is limits, it's all down to CI<CO at the end of the day, and exercise is for fitness and fun, not weight control or to 'earn' food.0 -
I added too many carbs! I am low carb, so am working to find the perfect balance for my body.2
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For me, it was snacking every time I got in the car - and I'm on the road a lot. I didn't eat all that much at meals, so I was under the impression I didn't eat much. It wasn't until I started looking at all those little snacks that I realized where all my calories were coming from.2
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I ate badly. First I spent some time thinking I was eating healthily just because I avoided junk food and fast food, but used so many of my 1300 calories on simple carbs - bread, jelly, sugar, juice. Then I'd eat my mom's cooking, which was none too healthy, and to keep from underestimating what I was eating, I'd get a small portion and estimate it at 500-600 something cals, almost half of all my cals. Then I'd wonder why I was starving, found it hard to stick to my diet, and stuffed my face to maintenance or a bit over twice a week. Then I'd schedule cheat days where Id eat all the junk I'd avoided all week, and not count calories for any of it.
Then I started eating junk all the time. I counted my cals, but didn't make myself eat treats moderately. I'd buy large packages of junk and tell myself I'd only eat XYZ amount, but would end up eating too much of it, being hungry because I'd spent so many cals on garbage, then overeating, then overeating some more.
Thirdly, I hadn't begun to really understand willpower.
Now I make sure to eat my protein and fruits and veggies and have lost 10 of the lbs I'd regained and 10 more. 60 to go.0 -
I guess there could be only one reason: I was eating more calories then I was burning.
Why I was doing that?
I guess because I was lacking knowledge about calories in common foods. I was familiar with every single nutrition subculture from paleo to vegan, low carb, high carb, low protein, high protein, low fat, high fat, you name it, but at the end of the day I didn't have the clue how much I had eaten that day nor how much I have spent.
I think I spent more time last few years researching about nutrition then on my professional fields, and yet somehow it was hard for me to accept that simple CICO(calorie in calorie out).
I am not saying that it's true for every single person. You might have a disease that makes harder to loose weight, but before assuming anything, I would recommend just trying simple old CICO for few weeks.
I know many women with hypothyroidism or PCOS that have successfully lost weight and even improved their symptoms.1 -
Guesstimating my food/portion sizes and calories for way too long. I was swearing every day I was eating only about 1,300 calories a day, but when I weighed everything one day (to prove to myself I was eating fine and it was something else causing the issues) I discovered to my horror I was eating way over 4,000 a day most days. And checking labels too!!! A lot of the low calorie things I was buying were really high in salt which caused me to retain water and made me very bloated.1
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Not logging. I'm horrible at eyeballing portions, so every time I would stop logging for a while, I would put weight back on. The other problem I had, which I didn't realize for a long time is that eating breakfast makes me ravenously hungry all day long. Once I stopped eating breakfast, even without logging, I still consumed less calories in a day because I wasn't as hungry.1
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