plateauness

Tried everything, changing up, eating more, eating less, but this week I finally broke through by sticking to good protiens and veggies, and just a little fruit. I found I am full all the time and my cravings are just not there. My stomach has shrunk, probably the fiber in the veggies. It worked for me, but we are all different, good luck.

Bump! I've stalled out for 6 weeks now and feel like I've tried everything. I'm with ya girl and look forward to seeing what others have to say. I fear I've tried it all!

So I think I finally just broke through a plateau I've been at since the end of June this morning. (My scale was FINALLY down a pound, but I try not to "officially" count it until I see it three days in a row). If I have actually broken through, I did it by one week of scaling back on the exercise (I usually burn a lot because I train as an athlete, but that week I probably was only burning 500-700 four times during the week, rather than my usual 1300-1500 6 days) and eating at maintenance, then a second week of eating at maintenance but returning to normal exercise levels. In both weeks I was eating back exercise calories, but I wasn't worrying too much about macronutrient composition. I do generally eat pretty clean in that I try to get fruits or vegetable to be a good percentage of every meal, and I try to include fiber and protein at every meal as well.

I totally hear you on how frustratng it is! Don't be too down on yourself. Maybe try to set fitness goals rather than scale goals, so you can be still happy in your progress even if the scale is not cooperating. Good luck! You will break through!

hi there i will tell you my story....
right i am also a hard core exersicer i eat all the right things ect...never cheat!

last dec i hit the weight of about 230lbs and it would not budge as you i jiggled my exersice around and my diet upped it downed it the lot and by may i gave up! i then gained 20lb!
i started again after my hols this year( july) i have now got to loosing the 20lb i put on before and now have hit a plataux at the same weight again!
so i satrted wavering..
4 weeks later still no loss i decided to try and focus on the fitness(not easy) but i started the p90x a week ago i was also told to eat ONLY 800cals a day(no exersice cals) for a couple of weeks only... so i did i had nothing extra no even a crumb!
so anyways i weighed yesterday and have lost 4.6 lb in less than a week..
what it was i do not know the p90x or the low cal diet but it worked!

Also before anyone moans at me i am having 3 solid meals a day and am still full of energy! please do check my diary!

i know ALOT of people will moan at me for saying this but i'm just telling you my story!

mayb i mite give this 800cals a try :0)

I am certainly no expert but like many of you here I was doing great, finally managed to reach the 100lb lost then the plateau hit. As with everyone else I flew into a panic and tried everything, cutting back upping exercise etc etc but to no avail

My nutritionist then told me to stop messing around with my normal eating and exercise routine and go back to what I had been doing. She gave me a lot of jargon about how the body takes it's time to adjust to the way it is being treated and by changing things it gets confused. blah blah blah!
Well as I wasn't losing any weight anyway, I did as she told me and in the past 3 weeks have lost another 7lbs. I have no idea if what she told me is correct or if I would have lost the weight anyway, cutting back and upping exercise at least made me feel like I was doing something.

The main ting when hitting the plateau is DO NOT GIVE UP!!!! if you are doing everything right the weight Will come off eventually, just hang in there

This is the one thing I've read about Plateau's that I found helpful.

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness_articles.asp?id=516

Yes, I know it's on Sparkpeople. But that's ok

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I feel your pain... I've been on a plateau for about 3 weeks... I'm not giving up... yet... I realized that I'm not eating enough calories... not intentionally, but more 'cause I'm not hungry.... just started making sure I eat my full calorie allotment yesterday... I'll let you know if this works... don't want to start zigzagging... I really don't want to have to think that hard, you know? keep working at it... the weight will come off...