Plateaus ... Booooo.

Try eating more for a week...not a ton, but add in 500 or so calories and it may help break the cycle.

I calorie cycle and haven't had a plateau in 3 months.

I'm currently trying to break a plaueau as well. I've read posts from others who said zigzaging their calories worked to help break their plateau, so I'm going to try that for a few weeks and see what happens. Good luck!!

I am loving the "eat more" advice I could kill for toast and biscuits hahaha! I've seen some people mention calorie cycling before, how does that work? If I do one day at 1200, one day at 1500, one at 1800 - have I understood this correctly?

Consider your daily caloric needs ... and calculate your weekly needs based on this number. Ensure you hit your total weekly needs, but split the calories up differently on a day by day basis.

I've been doing Weight Watchers for a year and I've been at a plateau since last February! What I did was stop exercising and eat more for a few weeks! It worked! I'd tried everything to break this plateau but nothing worked! i was walking 3-4 miles a day and following ww but nothing was working! I've now lost 2 weeks in a row! Also this website helped me to see how many calories I should be eating each day to lose weight! I realized all this time I wasn't eating enough so my weight loss stalled! How I wish I could have found this website last February! Cathy

Mix it up,change your exercise program and shock your body.I find if i shock it to the point of actually doing a workout that makes me sore does the trick.I do it every time I get stuck.I forgot what being sore was,like I know my workouts hurt but im not sore after doing them for a few weeks or months.Once I reach the point of not being sore,I change to a new routine that makes me sore again.

I really don't think the solution is to change your exercise routine or add more exercise.

Eating only 1200 calories is usually the more likely cause.

I encourage you to read the posts from the women in this group:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17-women-eating-2-000-calories-per-day

On a side note when I change my exercise I change my calories too.I eat my exercise regardless of calories burned.I find 1200 for me isnt enough,I cant stay around that mark,lowest I think Ive ever had is around 1400,add my exercise somedays and the number is significant.

I have been on a plateau for two years.

TWO YEARS

trust me, you can just "change up" now but if you don't look deeper into what you are doing and how you are doing it you will run into this problem again. You can eat whatever calorie level you want, but if it's not the "right" stuff, you will get stuck.

Just my two eurocents.

you can certainly try and I hope that works for you! I truly do!

I'm only saying that if toast may be the culprit, or other carbs, then you have to be willing to cut them OR accept that this is where your body may want to be.

And by the way, I don't advocate cutting anything at all. I would say eat the BEST carbs you can - complex, no refined sugars, no processed carbs. If you have white flour toast you may want to switch to whole wheat or other complex grains.

Your diary is not public so I couldn't say either way what you could try to change or not. But you know yourself better than anyone. And you just have to be honest, open and WILLING to try anything and decide that you CAN sustain certain things if it means that you ultimate have better health, fitness and optimum weight level.