Plateau? *sigh*

You beat it. Move on and be happy!

You find out how to break out of your plateau (minus starving yourself) - let me know!

So you gained 5lbs in a few days, took you all of last week to get it off. So From Monday - Thursday, you haven't lost any weight and you think you have an issue? You do, it's called "Impatiences"

Ah this is so right and I am SO right there with you! I've only lost 4 lbs in the month of April.......it's still a loss and I am still impatient!!

i don't think there's a plural to "impatience".. but anyway..

make sure you're logging calories accurately. measure everything until you can eye-ball it. are you having too many "cheat" days? are you not challenging yourself during workouts? there's a lot that could be going into a steady-scale. get a heart rate monitor to calculate your burned calories accurately, too.

you do need patience, but i understand your frustrations. keep at it.. getting healthy is a LIFE style adjustment, you have your entire life to perfect it.

you cannot actually gain 5 lbs of fat overnight.
What you gained was the weight of the food, and perhaps the food was high in sodium, so you also retained more water weight.

it can take several days for water weight to be released after a high sodium day.

Doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about *S*

Could be you were drinking alcohol at the wedding??? More late night food and drinks than normal ...extra sodium from processed foods???

I don`t think you will have put on 5lbs overnight...just the same way you would not lose 5lbs overnight.

So just get back on the wagon and carry on as before...you may find that you lose even more over the next week.

I don`t think it is a plateau...just a little binge on the wrong things and now you are paying the prices, which will work itself out if you keep up the good work.

good luck hun x

Not a plateau...Don't use that word now. Too soon to call it that if you lost 5 pounds in a week.

Most likely it is. I keep floating right around 200. I'll dip under it, but I always come back to 200. Such is the roller coaster of weight loss. Going to keep on keeping on though and eventually I will see some movement. I am not going to give up and you shouldn't either.

I've noticed my body will lose several pounds one week, and then nothing for two or three weeks, and then another loss. Just hang on. It'll keep moving if you keep working.

Most likely it is. I keep floating right around 200. I'll dip under it, but I always come back to 200. Such is the roller coaster of weight loss. Going to keep on keeping on though and eventually I will see some movement. I am not going to give up and you shouldn't either.

I just need to take a moment to have a minor freakout and do a happy dance for your dramatic weight loss. YOU LOOK FANTASTIC! My jaw literally dropped.

I took a look at your diary, you NEED to eat more...and I have to assume you do not log your water...if you don't drink water than that is where your extra weight is...for the next week aim to drink 10-12 glasses of water and watch the scale move!!!

Consulting a profession with food intake, and they said for my height/weight to stick with 800 a day & not to eat back exercise calories.

Since they are professionals I've stuck with their advice.

edit: I drink water I just drink a lot of it, so i dont log it

Fair enough, thank you for clearing that up for me. I am 5,7 and currently 225, I am not telling you what to do by all means, I am not a professional I just know what works for me. I would seriously question someone who told me to eat so little. Again, just me.

:happy: I think people use the word platue a lot... true platues are when you are stuck within a few pounds over amonth or more.
wedding food can be hard on the scale for a short term, sodium, fat , alcohol.... keep eating right & as you can see your weight went back down. BTW loosing 5 lbs in a week is fantastic, I slipped up at the begining of the summer and allowed 5 TRUE pounds back on & it takes me 5 weeks to get it back off!
I agree with some of the others that 800 calories seems drastic, Im not a doctor nor do i play one on TV, however from what nutritionists have told me 1000 calories bare minimum (& thats a little low if you are really active) maybe you should seek a second opinion on that point.
Persistance & patience pays off. stay the course!:flowerforyou:

You find out how to break out of your plateau (minus starving yourself) - let me know!

It's easy, MOVE MORE.

So you gained 5lbs in a few days, took you all of last week to get it off. So From Monday - Thursday, you haven't lost any weight and you think you have an issue? You do, it's called "Impatiences"

you may be right... but I'm right back to where I was two weeks ago, so maybe that's why I feel like I'm stuck. I haven't lost weight in two weeks...

I was recently being obsessed with the scale, I lost sight of my big picture. I want to be 60yrs old ripped and lean. How do I achieve this? By the habits I develop now. Sometimes we stress ourselves too much.
Stress is also diet and exercise, if you try to do a radical change in your diet more than likely it won’t last. If we try to do an intense exercise program without preparation we will more than likely give up. So how do we get up to do the diet we want to do, how do we do this intense program we want to do. We “build” to it. I do Intermittent fasting, that’s when you fast for x amount of hours and eat for the rest of the hours. For me it’s a 20hr fast with a 4hr feeding window. I eat like this daily, I don’t eat anything till 5pm. I didn’t just wake up one day and “hey I am going to do this method of eating.” I built up to it, 1 protein shake in the morning, one in the after noon, eventually it turned in to 1 protein shake then 0.

What I am talking about is a gradual slow change, be patient. For me to develop the habits I need to be that 60yr old ripped guy, I need to be patient, consistent. The only way you can be consistent is if you do something you can achieve. Such as “walk a1 mile everyday for 2 months” then build up to 1.5… etc. You don’t just go out and say “I am going to run 10miles.” If you are patient, and develop these things in to habits, when you’re old, you’d run circles around most people in your peer group. It’s not about “quick weight loss” about “how fast can I lose it?” It’s about being healthy for the rest of your life.