How to lose the last 10 lbs.

If the scale hasn't budged in 2 months, you are, by definition, eating at maintenance. Adding Kcals will not help. Usually, you need to tighten up your weighing and logging and subtract 250 Kcals each day from your current total, then give it a couple weeks to see how it goes.

69golfergal wrote: »

I'd love to hear from anyone who has had success losing those sticky last 10 lbs.
After a year of success, losing 40lbs, I'm stuck on a plateau with 10 to go. I'm exercising frequently and don't indulge in cheat days but the scale hasn't budged in two months. After seeing no results for six weeks I increased calories to reflect a goal of 1/2 lb loss per week instead of a pound. Maybe my body has slowed my metabolism. My plan is to wait until fall and hit it again for a month or two. Suggestions?

You are where I am at! Lost 43 lbs and have around 10 to 14 to go. It is slow and frustrating and I was questioning my scales- especially as some of my mfp friends are losing much quicker. My approach is to try and generally up my activity levels and to be rigorous with my weighing and logging. We will get there! Feel free to add me if you need a friend in a similar position.

I'm on a 2 month plateau as well after losing 35lbs previous 5 months. I'm also an experienced MFP user/logger. In my case I'll admit the scale not moving is mildly annoying, but my waistline continues to slowly shrink (same clothing becoming loose) and most of my fitness activities include some level of resistance training. So I'm hoping the scale will eventually start to move again and maybe I'm replacing some fatty tissue with some muscle gains, but I understand where you're coming from.

Guess my two cents would be to take pride in some of your NSV's and wait out the scale changes... that's my current plan.

Good luck, hang in there.

This is what worked for me......

I was 54 mid menopause when I decided to lose 30 lbs. going from a 25 BMI to a 19.5 BMI, 130lbs to a maintenance of 100-105 at 5'1.

Stats given for context.

My calorie goal for 1lbs a week was 1200 I ate that plus 200cals for an hour of exercise on average. I weighed some things, guessed others and went by packaging for others. This worked great until I reached the low 120's. Then it went to 0.5 a week loss on the same cals.
By the time I was in the lower teens my weight was coming off in dribs and drabs.

I buckled down to weighing everything and tightened up my logging by making sure I was using the correct entries, the usda became my best friend.

I also worked on upping my NEAT. My everyday activities became less efficient to get more movement in and I would do squats, push-ups, planks etc while waiting for things to cook or the washing to finish. Switched to a broom for the wood floors, and washed them by hand. You get the drift- moved more in a none exercise way.

I didn't increase my actual exercise. For me that would have been counter productive as more than 60-90 min a day would leave me tired and lower my NEAT. I was better at upping my NEAT

My last few lbs still came off at a slow 1lbs a month, but it was steady.

Keep in mind for my age, height, and goal weight MFP gave me 1200 for maintenance too. I had to be precise to get the result I wanted.

That was 2008/9. I still maintain at 100-105, don't log, and rarely weigh myself.

No one is doubting you logging skills. I think once one get down to the last few lbs one quite often has to become hyper-vigilant and come up with inventive ways to burn off a few extra calories.

Cheers, h.