Plateau! Help!

Can you give more information on the timeline of events?

FTheFear2016 wrote: »

This has been going on for 5 weeks. I've done refeeds, cycled my calories, changed my workout routine, started drinking 3 litres of water a day and now I've upped my calories from 1830 to 2100 to see if that causes the scale to budge.

My interpretation of what you have written is you have tried all these in the past 5 weeks, which makes me think you have not given any one tactic enough time to properly guage if it is working.

Also, can you share some information about your stats (sex, age, activity level) and goals.

Thanks!

Be honest.........................how CONSISTENT are you day in and day out? If you're fudging your intake on a regular basis, don't expect results. And you also have to stick to a regimen for at least a month to see if there is enough of an effect. Switching week in and week out is INCONSISTENT.

A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

FTheFear2016 wrote: »

quiksylver296 wrote: »

Everybody says the last 10 pounds are stubborn *kittens*.

Did you ever reset your calorie goal as you lost the first 8.5 kg?

Yeh I did reset it and it gave me 1830 calories to eat but I gained a pound and the scale wouldn't budge. I did some research and Jillian Michaels said I should up calories and shouldn't be in a deficit of more than 500 calories because my body doesn't see these pounds as necessary to lose and it's holding on to it because it's in starvation mode.

Starvation mode isn't a thing. If it were, there wouldn't be anorexia.

If you are truly weighing EVERYTHING, and logging EVERYTHING, with no cheats, slips or forgetting, you are going to have to eat fewer calories.

I agree with the idea of not being in a deficit over 500 calories for your current 10 lb loss goal. I disagree with the theory of starvation mode that is typically presented but I dont think thats something we really need to argue over at this point.

Are you getting your calorie estimates from your fitbit HR? (I assume the HR means its a heart rate model) I have been using a fitbit one for several years and found it to be pretty accurate in calorie estimates. I recently have been trying out a garmin model that contains a hr sensor and was appalled at the rediculously high calorie estimates it gave me. Looking at some of the reviews fitbit hr models seems to be fiving similarly high calorie estimates. This could be part of the problem.