Weight Loss Plateau!!

Once you get to a healthy weight, your weight loss can be hidden behind water-weight fluctuations. If you are losing .5 lbs a week, you won’t see it moving down on the scale every week. To get a truer picture of your actual weight trend, use Happy Scale or a similar weight-trend-smoothing app.

If you look at your weight trend over four weeks and you actually are not losing at all, then it might be time to look at how you log your food. Do you weigh all solids with a food scale, and measure all liquids? Do you log your cooking oils? Do you eat out a lot? (I ask because sometimes those posted calorie amounts are often off by a lot).

When you get this close to goal, you have to start to shift to a maintenance mindset and practice your ability to be patient with the scale. It’s going to come off very very slowly, and you might even find that in order to keep losing, you have to eat such a low-calorie limit that it impedes your ability to enjoy life! If that’s the case, you might want to look into recomp (eating at a small deficit and doing a progressive lifting program) so that you can look leaner/tighter without having to lose any more weight. Or you could also look at shifting to maintenance a little early, and seeing if you feel happy and healthy and your current weight. How you feel is way more important than an arbitrary scale number.