Crazy plateaus

can you open your diary to public please

Well i am no expert for sure, but i looked back through your diary a few days and i think it looks good. The pizza days your were probably really hungry only eating a couple pieces of pizza! but good that you stayed in your calorie goal. All i can say is that if you just keep at it exactly like you are and make sure you are getting your heart rate up for an hour a day then the weight will come off. It has no other choice. Thats just what will happen. I have felt frustrated many times so far with my weight loss, but in the end as long as i stick with it, changes do happen. I have weighed myself everyday since i started and there is definately alot of up and down patterns in the graph. Just try not to get frustrated. Measuring yourself once a week will help your mindset also, because you will notice that you start losing inches even if you are not losing the pounds super fast. good luck, im just a late night rambler lol

Go into "Tools" and add sodium to your tracker, as too much will cause you to retain water. I try to keep mine under 1700-1800mg daily.

I conquered my first plateau by going back to basics, i.e., measuring and weighing EVERYTHING and tracking religiously. That fixed it.

A few weeks ago I came off my second plateau. I'm an RN, and work with dietitians. I asked one of them to look at my diary, and she said I wasn't eating enough. She said to never eat less than my BMR (you can calculate yours under "Tools" here in MFP). She said if you eat less than that, you slow your metabolism.

Also, please don't just rely on the scale. Take your measurements once a month so that you can really see if you're getting smaller. That kept me sane during my plateaus.

Good luck!

Do you weigh and measure your food? My week away from home I pretty much never lose weight and sometimes I gain a bit. My diary still looks good, but I don't have my food scale so it is all guesses and I am not really good at guessing. Things like coffee creamer and salad dressing are easy to guess wrong on and all those 30 or 50 extra cals can add up.

Go into "Tools" and add sodium to your tracker, as too much will cause you to retain water. I try to keep mine under 1700-1800mg daily.

I conquered my first plateau by going back to basics, i.e., measuring and weighing EVERYTHING and tracking religiously. That fixed it.

A few weeks ago I came off my second plateau. I'm an RN, and work with dietitians. I asked one of them to look at my diary, and she said I wasn't eating enough. She said to never eat less than my BMR (you can calculate yours under "Tools" here in MFP). She said if you eat less than that, you slow your metabolism.

Also, please don't just rely on the scale. Take your measurements once a month so that you can really see if you're getting smaller. That kept me sane during my plateaus.

Good luck!

Is that before or after exercising per day?

i agree, there is a bit of a phenomenon of getting to a weight that your body "likes", like a notch in your biology.

this is often when your body stops or plateaus, its trying to stay there.

if you keep eating at a deficit, 15% or so below your TDEE (bmr x activity level, include your workouts in this, then DONT eat back exercise cals)

it is physically impossible to not lose fat, weight is not important, its fat loss (measurable with inches lost etc) that matters,

eat too little, exercise too much and dont net enough cals and your body will begin to catabolize lean mass (muscle!)

I just came out of a 6 week "plateau"
I was going from 130-134 for days and days... so I took a break from weighing myself, and then got the bright idea that I should check my measurements. Sure enough, I lost 1.5" in my waist, 1" off my hips and 1/2" everywhere else! I slip up all the time, practically everyday - not bad, but for me, not good enough. Main thing I try to meet are my macros (except on my off days, I stay under my calories. I get most of my carbs from sweet potatoes, veggies, lentils and beans. On occasion I eat oats, brown rice or brown rice tortilla.