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Help!! Stuck

roxysrf2121
roxysrf2121 Posts: 10 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise

Help! I'm trying to break through weight loss plateau. I have been losing weight (1-2 lbs a week) since march with no problem. Watching my food and the kinds of foods going in. Going to the gym 5-6 days a week for about an hour. Cardio, machine weights, some resistance, stretching and crunches. The past month I haven't lost anything! I've tried to vary and change up my workouts but nothing is helping. Not sure what to try. Hoping my body hasn't entered a storing mode and my metabolism has dropped.

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Do you own a food scale? If not, buy one. Weigh everything. Log everything. No cheating, skipping or forgetting.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Have you reset your calories since losing weight?
  • Mizz_Mo
    Mizz_Mo Posts: 64 Member
    I just posted about this - so I will just copy and paste ;)

    If you haven't already entered your body measurements I highly recommend that you do. Get a Myotape (https://www.amazon.com/AccuFitness-MT05-MyoTape-Body-Measure/dp/B000G7YW7Y) - it makes it easy. Unlike weight - these you will only want to do once a month or so.

    The scale is a great tool - however, it is only PART of the picture. There will be times you are doing everything right but the scale isn't moving. This is where having a record of your measurements can help keep you on track.

    And trust me when I say - seeing the measurements shrink is even more satisfying than watching your scale move down!

    Here is a great discussion to help remind/emphasize why we shouldn't get hung up on what the scale says:
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10233808/look-different-but-scale-stays-the-same

    Cheers!
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

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  • roxysrf2121
    roxysrf2121 Posts: 10 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know
    I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know
    I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.

    Undereating won't stop you losing weight...
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Food scale and logging everything. Try it. Prove me wrong. ;)
  • roxysrf2121
    roxysrf2121 Posts: 10 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know
    I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.

    Undereating won't stop you losing weight...

    If you don't have enough calories won't it through your body and metabolism into storage/ conservation mode? Therefore you won't be burning your fat stores.
  • roxysrf2121
    roxysrf2121 Posts: 10 Member
    Was supposed to be *throw your body not through
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know
    I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.

    Undereating won't stop you losing weight...

    If you don't have enough calories won't it through your body and metabolism into storage/ conservation mode? Therefore you won't be burning your fat stores.

    Nope... starvation mode is a myth
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    If you aren't logging accurately and consistently, you don't really know you aren't over-eating.

    I would've sworn on a Bible I was eating 1400-1500 cals and was decently active. Got a food scale, got serious about logging, found out I was actually eating 1700-1900 cals. Got a Fitbit, found out I was only taking 4000 steps a day.

    We as human beings are really awful at judging stuff like that accurately. Good luck!
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know
    I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.

    Undereating won't stop you losing weight...

    If you don't have enough calories won't it through your body and metabolism into storage/ conservation mode? Therefore you won't be burning your fat stores.

    If this was the case, everyone in those pesky concentration camps would have been pudgy as hell.
  • Selendraco
    Selendraco Posts: 41 Member
    DopeItUp wrote: »

    If this was the case, everyone in those pesky concentration camps would have been pudgy as hell.

    Well that escalated quickly.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    roxysrf2121 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Multiple posts = multiple charts. :D

    l0lvgbry2kv1.jpg

    I have pcos which is interesting that it's mentioned in this chart. It's possible it has something to do with this. But I also haven't been religiously adding my food on here. But know I'm not overeating. I might be undereating if I'm going to gym 5-6 days a week.

    You've identified problem #1. If you don't know how much you're eating, you don't know whether you've been overeating.

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