Any tips on how to get the scale moving again?

You might need to mix up your routine a bit. Your body has become accustom to walking and its probably bored. Try strength training and HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). This should keep things moving.

I just broke out of a 5 week plateau so I feel you!!!

First of all, are you drinking half your weight in ounces of water?
Second of all, MIX IT UP .. I got off the treadmill and started doing insanity and lost a lb overnight! no seriously.

Try also mixing up the things you eat as well - keep your body guessing!!!

Throw it out of the window of a moving car...that'll learn it.

If what you are doing isn't working, change something. Cut back salt, carbs, cholesterol, what have you. Remember, MFP is fairly generic, but each user is an individual. What may work for one will not always work for everyone.

Ok... so I think this is my first post... and I hate to put myself all "out on the internet with my problems"... but I'm gonna do it anyways Looking for any wise advise that people can give me that may have been in a similar situation...

I started on MFP 4 months ago. I love it. I log in everyday. First month and a half - the weight MELTED off. Like, 12 lbs in a month, something like that. I was loseing pretty steady and strong... and now I feel it's nearly come to a crawl.

I work 4 - 10 hr days during the Summer. But I still get up an hour early every morning and walk/jog for about 3 miles with my dog. This was enough in the beginning, I guess I need more (?). I'm exhausted by the end of the day, so I tend to not do another round of exercising at night... I *thought* the morning stuff, which I do about 6 days a week, would be sufficient.

I guess I need to give my body a jump start? Maybe I'm eating too much and don't realize it? What have others done to get that stinkin scale moving again?

Thanks for any help

The same for me, when I first started, the pounds and inches were falling off of me like CRAZY...it was miraculous and fantastic Then in late March (I started in Jan.) BAM---no scale movement AT ALL. I tried eating more, nothing. Then I hurt my foot and wasn't working out as much, then the pounds started climbing back up The beginning of this month, I discovered thru experimentation and watching myself--that I need to MOVE more. My eating and drinking has always been terrific--very very healthy--but nothing was happening. Now that I've pumped up my exercising, daily outside walking and activities (joined a Tae Kwon class and bowling league--keeping my eating and drinking the same--BAM, the weight is starting to drop again.

It's rare that I see a pound or two per week as my weight fell off before and again now, it's small changes...0.2 pounds here, 0.9 pounds there--but it's moving and so for me, it's a matter of being more active--not mere exercising active, but everyday stuff like long walking a couple or more times per day and getting involved in activities and gardening and mowing lawns too!

Hope this helps...remember, we didn't get here overnight and it's going to take some time and experimentation to figure out what your body wants and needs to drop kick those pounds and inches to the place where the sun don't shine. Blessings and permanent weight loss to you:flowerforyou:

I would suggest lowering your sodium & carbs and raising your protein

I have this problem periodically...I'd love to hear ideas.
When the scale finally does drop it's after a really bad food day, followed by "food recovery", meaning I went back to eating like I should. but then I go right back to stuck stuck stuck. I just stick with it and eventually weight still comes off, but I would LOVE to have more than the every-other-week-I-drop-One-lousy-pound scenario. I was really busing my butt for a bit there and nothing budged.

I looked at your diary and it seems like it might be time to "refine" your eatting habits. Summer is the perfect season for that! Give your body quality fuel; lean protien, whole grains, fresh fruits and veg. Try and move away from processed foods and refined carbs. Nobody is perfect, but perhaps a change in diet will improve how you feel, and re-start the weight loss!