Stopped loosing weight

Well done on the 35lbs. This is awesome progress! And it sounds like you've been losing at about 1lb a week! Well done and pls correct the details if needed.

What's your current weight and height? How active/not active are you? Are you counting calories or using other strategies? If you ARE counting calories, how many do you average per week / per month? How often do you weigh yourself? Where/how? (I know that some people who count in stones seem to also weigh themselves at Booth's as opposed to at home, in their birthday suit, after having used the washroom in the morning, hence the weird question!!!😎)

Take care!

That's excellent. Congratulate yourself.

Don't worry about the extra weight. Weight constantly fluctuates, and actually I am surprised you've not encountered this before. This is mainly due to water weight weirdness, poop weight, the time you step on the scale and the clothes you wear. Think of starting a new workout, menstrual cycle variations, eating more salt, eating more carbs, hotter weather, traveling (especially plane): all cause water weight gain. Bit constipated? There's more food waste in your intestines, which obviously has weight. Weight tends to be most consistent when you step on the scale in the morning after going to the loo and before eating and drinking anything, as obviously food and drinks have weight and add to your own temporarily even though you excrete them again eventually. Stepping on the scale naked is most precise as clothes obviously have weight. But if you had an unusually late dinner this might add more to your weight in the morning than an earlier dinner, because digestion might not have progressed quite so far.

Trust the process. As a fellow shortie (5 ft) I promise you can lose weight at 1200 calories. As you get closer to goal weight, it's important to really tighten up on your tracking, and make sure absolutely everything is getting weighed and tracked. Oils, dressings, bites of the kids snacks- everything. And, as you get closer to goal weight, it's common so see a few weeks where you don't appear to lose, and then you'll suddenly start losing again if you stick with it. Frustrating, yes, but you'll get there

I'm getting equally frustrated. I've been at 155.6 for over a week, in spite of a 1200 or less calorie diet and walking 15000 to 20K steps a day, for a average 800 calorie or more a day deficit (in other words 800-1000 calories given to me in exercise calories after the 1200. I don't eat the exercise calories, I just know I should have dropped a pound or two in the past ten days. And zippo. This has happened to me before, I've lost 40 + pounds since October, and it's not my first plateau. But it is really frustrating. I know it's not carb weight, because I am eating 50 or less carbs a day. I know it isn't generally water retention, because i'm on a low salt diet. It's just a frustrating, annoying plateau.

My goal is to reverse my T2. So to that end I am focused on losing weight, exercising and reducing carbs in my diet to generally 50 though on occasional days I go up to 100, but not often. I'm eating around 1200 calories a day, and generally not eating exercise calories. I get from 15 to 20K steps in a day. My cardiac fitness is excellent, and my oxygen saturation is 93%. I have ten pounds to lose before I am no longer in the "overweight" category. However as I said, my main goal is to reverse my T2. The weight doesn't matter all that much to me. I don't want to spend any more time with an elevated blood glucose, so I'm doing what's recommended to reverse that. I'm happy to report that the ice mountain has melted as of a few days ago. So that's nice and I'm doing more of my walking outside. I have a fitbit, which tracks my heart rate, zone points, etc. It's not indicating I'm in any medically non optimal situation, in fact, my fitbit is constantly nagging me (at times) to up my cardio load. I think I am doing fine, except I haven't yet reversed my T2 and of course, it is frustrating to hit occasional plateaus in losing weight. But I think that happens to us all.

There are lots more potential explanations for water retention than just carbs or salt. Really, really lots.

Since you, Patricia, have been here for a while, you've probably read the thread linked below and especially the article linked in the first post of the thread, but I'm sharing it here in case the OP -whose thread this is - hasn't seen it already:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1