Plateau for over a year

mkculs13 wrote: »

Hey, I hope you have taken time to celebrate the loss--and maintenance--of that much weight, especially as the mother of 6 kids. So many reasons to fall off the wagon--although certainly you have 6 very good reasons to be healthy.

As the others have said, you are eating more than you think. Maybe all you really need to do is change weekend behavior--if you are more careful then, you should see the scale start to change. How much is anyone's guess because we don't know how much you might be cutting into any weekday deficit you've created. I'd start there b/c that sounds like the place you are most likely to be significantly off in your "estimates." Good luck, and good job.

lorrpb wrote: »

Consider opening up your diary do the wise experienced folks here can give you some concrete feedback. A 200 lb person cannot eat 1000-1300 per day for a year and lost no weight 🤔

PAV8888 wrote: »

Hello!
I grabbed your January 1 to March 8 logging.
This ought to be a total of 68 days.

I threw out a 410 Cal, a 360 Cal, a 650 Cal day, and a 770 Cal day. I've reluctantly kept a couple of 800 and 900 Cal days. I would usually throw out anything under 1K cal.

The assumption is that these were incomplete days. If they're not, please start by trying to make sure, as a 200lb woman, that none of your days are under 1200 Cal. If you don't you WILL impact your well being as you're unlikely to be taking in enough nutrients.

A quick comment on your logging? While it is quite likely that you would be able to tighten it considerably, I, also don't see WHEN YOU LOG that tighter logging of the logged days would yield much more than 2-300 Cal extra. Even if I don't believe the 50Cal for an XL double milk at Tim's

This left us with 40 days logged out of 68. OR LESS THAN 60%. Conversely: you're not logging 40% of the time.

On the days you've logged we have some entries where the macros and calories don't fully match.
You are showing 1133 Cal intake. Your macros multiply out to 1109 to 1073 Cal.

If you're truly eating that low, as a 200lb woman, you're under-fuelling and making yourself lethargic and unwilling to move around. When was the last time you found yourself tapping your foot to the music? Do you feel cold most of the time?

Anyway. Your protein at 69g a day is low, though not below RDI. Your fat intake at 29g is well below the 0.35g to 0.45g per lb of weight in the healthy weight level range. Heck, 29g don't even go as high as a minimal for a male 0.25g level of fat per lb. Your levels of fat, as logged, could affect your hormones. Furthermore, your fibre at 18g is fairly low for a woman who should probably be aiming for close to 10g more than that a day.

Of course... 40% of your logging doesn't exist.

So <big shrug> if you only know what you do 60% of the time... who knows what's going on?

If the current picture is representative of reality I would start a reverse diet that would ensure I was taking in sufficient nutrients (1g of protein per lb of goal weight in the healthy weight range, 0.45g of fat per same, 27+g fiber) and try to see if I could do this with minimal or no weight gain. After eating more normally for a number of weeks (at least 4-6), then I would evaluate again where I was and decide on how to continue with my weight loss journey.

But, again, I don't know that the current picture is representative of any reality because at a minimum it is missing 40% of your days since January 1.

Look. I get diet fatigue. It is real. You are already enjoying an immense health benefit from your original drop. Given how few people get to the one year mark and then to the three year mark, protecting this initial loss is way more important than pushing further. There is nothing wrong with taking a break. Honestly and truly.

But, as with most other people responding to you, I fully believe that your self-protection circuits are in full avoidance mode and avoiding to religiously logging everything.

It really is NOT A CRIME to be eating more than you think. It is EXTREMELY GOOD, not bad, to be maintaining the loss you've achieved. As mentioned you might even be able to even achieve this maintenance while eating a bit more without a significant weight change from your current level.

Yes, I am waiting for my little disagree button friends; but, long term you can have weight maintenance while pushing your calories up or pushing your calories down to the bottom of a narrow range. What changes, within that narrow caloric range, is your Non Exercise Activity level. Things such as your average body temperature, things such as your unconscious movement, things such as the speed of some of your cellular activity!

If you're truly eating as you've logged, then you need more nutrients before you get sick. But you will only know your true situation if EVERY SINGLE SPOONFUL, SAMPLE, TASTE, anything that goes in your mouth gets logged BEFORE IT MAKES IT IN THERE!

I truly TRY to keep as accurate a log as possible. And yet I've gone back two days later to add things to the log that I had forgotten to log. Because the phone rang. Because I didn't write it down. Because when the cookie jar emptied I had logged 250g less in total than the 1kg the cookie jar came into the house with!

How often have you gone back to your log to add things that you had forgotten to add? What about cooking oils? Condiments? Spices?

BTW: congrats of going into Tim's and making it out without donuts, scones/tea biscuits, soups or chili... I sort of often lose that battle!

--first log the other 40% of your days.
--then look into logging things before you start consuming them
--then look at your levels and realistically evaluate whether you're eating all the nutrients you should be eating
--then decide how to move forward, or post again!