Not losing weight can someone check my diary

First off all: what does 'massive plateau' mean? No weight-loss since when? And how quickly were you losing before?

If you didn't adjust your intake as you lost weight, you might just be at maintenance calories now (a lighter body needs fewer calories). In that case your weight loss would have slowed down gradually before stopping.

Your diary:
- it has a lot of 'perfect' rounded numbers - you say you're weighing everything?
- I also see some foods in units instead of weight (slices, number of eggs...)

'Walking like a duck' is textbook for water retention, by the way, that would be my first thought!

Having now looked up your previous threads,I see suggestions like I mentioned above and extremely defensive response to them.

The answers aren't likely to be different now so not sure why you asking again.

equidivine wrote: »

Last 2 weeks I been climbing mountains like pen y fan and Brecon several times a week I cannot understand why I can’t lose anymore weight. I worked so hard last week my calves were killing me for 4 days walking like a duck.

You haven't said how long this plateau is. What you describe there sounds like a perfect recipe for water weight retention to aid recovery.

Have you redone your Goals here on MFP so the maintenance estimate is in line with your current weight? After losing 40 pounds your maintenance will be quite a bit lower than it originally was.

P.S. You're losing a pound a week, that's great. And with all that exercise you're doing, you've probably added some pounds of muscle too, i.e. recomp'd.

equidivine wrote: »

Last 2 weeks I been climbing mountains like pen y fan and Brecon several times a week I cannot understand why I can’t lose anymore weight. I worked so hard last week my calves were killing me for 4 days walking like a duck.

Retroguy2000 wrote: »

You haven't said how long this plateau is. What you describe there sounds like a perfect recipe for water weight retention to aid recovery.

Have you redone your Goals here on MFP so the maintenance estimate is in line with your current weight? After losing 40 pounds your maintenance will be quite a bit lower than it originally was.

P.S. You're losing a pound a week, that's great. And with all that exercise you're doing, you've probably added some pounds of muscle too, i.e. recomp'd.

Congrats on losing the 3 stone! What's your current weight?

I also think you are likely retaining water from the hiking.

Are you using a weight trending app such as Happy Scale (iphone) or Libra (Android)? Focus on the trend, not the individual weigh-ins.

If you have a menstrual cycle, only compare yourself with the same point in as last cycle.

Sounds like water weight. Exercise for health not just for weight management. Doing the second opens you up to pitfalls you can avoid.

Also both congratulations and a stark warning.

Your weight loss to date has been quite fast given the timeline you describe. I.e. you have been running a substantial deficit.

This is awesome if you have a lot of weight available to lose.

But now you have less extra energy reserves on you.

Also your body is entering the prime time to lead a nice revolution against the continuing pressure you're applying (look at weight loss and regain graphs).

You've put the effort to buy the ticket to the "maintain your loss lottery/raffle"

You really need to take a moment.

Appreciate the progress you've accomplished. You've done simply awesome so far and accomplished something many (most even?) of the people who are starting out here are *dreaming* to accomplish.

But having seen many of your past posts you need to appreciate it and take a deep breath and start thinking on protecting your accomplished losses.

Yes, you should push to continue on your path to your goals. But protecting what you've already done should come first.

Your health is already benefiting from your loss. Could you imagine being able to scamper up and down hills for hours till you waddle like a duck a year ago? You would have died out half way through and never been able to accomplish the exercise! So your health is awesomely improved.

And this should be protected more so than the speed of pursuing the rest of your weight loss.

You really need to think three to five years down the road not three months.

I would review volume of exercise and targetted deficit and would try to bring the two closer to what I can see myself doing long term.

The next year is where you fight to not give back the loss you've accomplished. Make things easy enough that you're enjoying the fight.

Feeling strong and accomplishing hikes should be celebrated and you should be moving, in my opinion of course, where you're happy to accept much slower lowering of your overall weight level.

A reminder, especially for females, that losing 1lb a month means that you often can weigh more at the end of the month than in the beginning.

Because 1lb of loss is just 1lb. But daily weight variation can easily be 2, 3 even 5 or 7lbs if you throw in hormonal cycles.

See advice above on how to work around that.

Again honest to goodness congratulations on having lost so much the last 9 months. Keep at it, but do start to take the time to smell the roses as opposed to rushing down the street!

@equidivine After reading all your discussions and the feedback I don’t have much wisdom to bestow, but I wanted to say great work on the progress. What advice have you found most useful so far? I noticed you’ve been here for 7 years, what solid tips and tricks would you recommend to others just starting?

I’m truly sorry about your friend. Please take care of yourself and your little ones 💕