Longest plateau you've had?

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  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    KelseyHargis wrote: »
    What’s your advice during a lengthy plateau? I’ve been tracking and exercising regularly and I gained weight today!!! What gives?!

    The National Weight Control Registry is a self-reporting registry of people who have lost at least 30 lb. and kept it off. According to those who have registered, the secret is persistence. Here are some of their suggestions (I bolded the ones I found most effective)
    • Exercise: Look for ways to work more activity into your life instead of trying to fit in unrealistically long workouts.
    • Start strength training a few times a week. Muscle tissue is more metabolically active than fat and helps burn more calories.
    • Check your portion sizes. Maybe it’s time to get out your measuring cups and scale again. Most dieters routinely underestimate portion sizes.
    • Keeping up with your journal/logging is a great motivator and helps you be aware of exactly what and how much you are eating.
    • Weigh yourself once a week or less. Doing it more often can be counterproductive.
    • Make sure your weight-loss goals are realistic. It may be time to shift into weight maintenance instead of striving for more weight loss.
    • Curb-late night munching, which can sabotage your calorie intake.
    • Focus on the health benefits of the weight you have already lost. Put a picture of your old self in a spot where you’ll see it often, to help you stay motivated. Delight in how far you’ve come, and how good you look and feel.
    • Shake things up in your diet. Treat yourself to a new cookbook, or a subscription to a healthy cooking magazine, to keep novelty and variety in your meals.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,699 Member
    I've never plateaued.
  • Wendyanneroberts
    Wendyanneroberts Posts: 270 Member
    10 weeks, 4 times in a row!

    Personally, I lost my final 20lb in this way. Was aiming for 0.5lb a week. I would go 10 weeks, no change, then lose 5lb. Another 10 weeks, nothing. Then drop 5lb. Once or twice overnight, or within a couple of days.

    So 40 weeks and 20lb. Bang on target weight loss. But long periods, throughout when nothing showed on my scale. Trusting the science works, hang in there.

    Throughout I weighed & logged everything I ate or drank. I knew I was on target, I had to trust the maths. In time, the scale always caught up.
  • scarleth99
    scarleth99 Posts: 4 Member
    Im stuck in one right now. My birth control implant expired, and I have not lost a single lb in 2 weeks. Still logging, still keeping steady with the food, not the healthiest but within my calorie budget. I think the hormones are playing havoc with my body right now. Hoping it can be corrected once I get my implant back in.
  • ang82much
    ang82much Posts: 30 Member
    KelseyHargis wrote: »
    What’s your advice during a lengthy plateau? I’ve been tracking and exercising regularly and I gained weight today!!! What gives?!

    same as others, i sometimes get a plateau of about 2 weeks, then the whoosh. I have a set of scales that measures weight and body fat % and whilst i'm sure the body fat % is not at all accurate at least its useful as a trend, and i tend to find that if my weight is stuck then i'm making progress with the body fat bit, and vice verca, so it's a bit more motivating to see one of the numbers move even if it's not the weight one :)
  • Cleak3991
    Cleak3991 Posts: 3 Member
    7 months. I've been hovering around 170 lbs since July.
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