plateau for 5 months

I had one that lasted 3 once.

If you've lost 60lbs have you recalculated your BMR and adjusted your calorie deficit accordingly? A body that's 60lbs lighter is considerably easier to move around in terms of calories burned.

Did you start on any new meds?

Did you start eating foods higher in sodium?

Have you had your thyroid function checked?

Good luck. I'm sure you'll break through it. Let us know when you succeed!

What is your height/weight? Could be you need to recalculate your numbers. BMR does decrease with age as well as with your reduced weight.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html is a pretty detailed calculator. Just hypothetically throwing in numbers since I don't know your stats, let's go with 48yo F, 150lb, 5'5"

Assuming an hour and a half of exercise six days a week, with half of that being vigorous exercise, 14 hours of rest, aka sleeping, sitting, and other inactivity, and the rest split between "light" and "very light"... that gives a BMR of 1381 and a maintenance level of 2251 calories per day.

You can go punch in your own more accurate numbers to nail it down better. Then work on creating your calorie deficit based on that maintenance number. Or do what heybales recommends and base it on your goal weight, then just use that maintenance number as your current number to lose at.

My suggestion is you reduce your cardio and increase your weights. I've been reading "The New Rules of Lifting for Women" and he has some good information in there about how focusing on cardio, cardio, cardio actually hurts our success in the long run because the muscles get to know what they're supposed to do and get more efficient at doing it, thus burning less than we think they are.


Good luck to you.

I'm having the same problem. I workout 6 days a week. for an hour or more. Train to failure once a week. I think I need to go twice a week. Since Septemper, I've lost about 12 lb. That's it. I've tried upping my calories with eating my exercise calories. I think I'm going to have to try to bump back down. I'm at a loss. With the amount I workout and what my body media fit says I burn I should totally be losing. My thyroid was last checked last July or so. If you figure out what you are doing wrong, let me know. I'm almost to the point of just taking a week off and then restarting, because I went away for a week last month and did not track and did not really workout and lost a lb, and that was the last pound I lost.

thank you for the tips. I am going to see a nutritionist soon, I have thought about less cardio but have not reduce it yet. I am going to stay with what I am doing till I see the nutritionist.

I am in the same boat as you1!!! I started Jan 2011 and lost 30 lbs, 1/2 way to goal, and in July/Aug everything stopped. I went on a trip and gained 10 of that back and have not been able to get any of that off!!! I tried dropping my calories, I tried upping my calories, I tried HARD workouts 5 days a week and NOTHING!!!! I finally went to the nutritionist she said focus on getting food groups and told me how many of what I need to be eating for 1500-1800 calories. I tried it for a good month and NOTHING!!! I went back to her this past week and she was just as baffled as I was! I did the jillian michaels 30 ds and didn't lose anything inches or lbs! nothing!! Well, she said the next step was to take a medabolic test. Come to find out I have a very fast metabolism and even eating 1800 calories my body was in starvation mode! I have not tried it out to test it but she said I need to be eating 2200-2400 calories a day!!! I'm a 28 year old female! 5'6''. She was surprised! Anyway, if you have been building muscle your metabolism might be high?? Ask the nutritionist if she can set you up with a medabolic test!

We will get through this together! You've done amazing! Don't give up!