Plateau Help After Large Weight Loss

AndreaLouLou
AndreaLouLou Posts: 16 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
So I've been on a long journey, purely doing myfitnesspal 1200 calories. I've lost 5 stone 9 lbs over 2 years. Which is 79 pounds. I'm at the higher end of a healthy BMI. I still need to lose at least another 14 pounds to be at a healthy comfortable weight, which is far from being underweight for my height. For 3 weeks now, I've maintained, then today I've gained 1 pound. I've never not lost 3 weeks in a row. My average daily intake is 1100 calories. It's never changed throughout. I'm sedentary, I cannot exercise, and never have throughout any of my weight loss, due to having M.E and fibromyalgia, I cannot physically exercise and if I did, I would end up bed bound for weeks.

So I don't know how to break this plateau. I'm not dropping my calories to below 1000, because that is unhealthy and incredibly silly, especially when I suffer chronic fatigue anyway.
Aside from exercise, how else can you push through a plateau?

I'm also recently in perimenopause, which I doubt is helping matters. I really don't fancy doing a very low carb diet either!

I'm 5 foot 6, female, and weigh 10 stone 9, which is 149 pounds or 69 kilo with some belly flab.

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  • seat151
    seat151 Posts: 172 Member
    I wish I knew the answer, but wanted to let you know that I am in a similar situation as I have gone from 96kgs to 78kgs and struggle to get any lower.
    I now vary between 78 and 80 and have guessed thats my body telling me I am at the weight I should be.
    If you do find a solution, please let me know
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
    You're close to your goal, so it's going to take longer to lose. You've done incredibly so far. I would just suggest extreme patience at this point.
  • AndreaLouLou
    AndreaLouLou Posts: 16 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Patience. Weight trend app. Weighing food and being super strict...

    Diet break. Resumption of deficit after break plus all the above.

    Your fluctuation is probably normal since you're at the level where water weight changes will influence your weight level faster and more often than the changes to your underlying fat level.

    I do vigorously weigh all of my food. I also recently had a diet break, and gained 11 pounds, so I'm not going to do that 7 weeks back in. But I understand the method of what you are saying.

    It's just frustrating, as I've got to this exact weight so many times, and it won't hop over that precise figure on the scale. It upset me so much previously, that I went on a binge 😂 Which I do not recommend to anyone, because then you really don't feel happy with yourself.

    Thank you for your insightful comments.
  • AndreaLouLou
    AndreaLouLou Posts: 16 Member
    seat151 wrote: »
    I wish I knew the answer, but wanted to let you know that I am in a similar situation as I have gone from 96kgs to 78kgs and struggle to get any lower.
    I now vary between 78 and 80 and have guessed thats my body telling me I am at the weight I should be.
    If you do find a solution, please let me know


    I've hit the exact same figure on the scale 3 times now, at 3 different periods over the past year. I can never go beyond those digits. But I will persevere! I wondered the same thing about myself. Maybe this is the weight I'm meant to be. If it is still after perseverance, I will accept that. 78 sounds healthy for a Male.
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